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June 21, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 21, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Well, darn it.
No, no, I'm waiting for a new beta version to be released.
Last couple of days hasn't happened.
Anyway, great to have you back here, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network.
I'll tell you, the time has gone by so fast.
I don't know.
There's just too much.
I can't possibly get it all in.
to squeeze it all in here.
I mean, I haven't even gotten to audio sound by number one yet.
I didn't mean to spend this much time on immigration, but I've, you know, we do improv here.
Whatever happens that needs to be said, that's what we do.
Oh.
And I just have a couple more things on this, soundbite-wise.
But remember, when we go to the phones open line Friday, pick whatever you want to talk about.
Up to you.
Doesn't have to be anything that I care about.
You can disagree.
You can ask a question.
I mean, you want to sneak in a recipe for carrot cake for the holidays.
I mean, go for it.
800-282-2882, the email address, illrushbo at eibnet.com.
What is this?
Anthony Weiner apologizes after voter makes gay slur.
New York City Mayor will hopeful Anthony Weiner, the husband of Huma Weiner, apologized yesterday after an encounter with a woman that was picked up by a reporter in which the voter called his openly gay opponent a not going to say the word.
It's what you normally put your finger in.
Non-normally, I know, not normally, I know.
Anyway, homophobia is vile and destructive and something I've fought against for the entirety of my career, including being a vocal supporter of gay marriage since 1998 and standing up on the floor of Congress for transgender Americans, said Weiner in a statement.
I admonished the woman amid a large crowd on a street corner, by no means believe that anything about her comment was appropriate.
If the impression is that I did, I apologize.
This guy can't get out of trouble.
He just can't get out of it.
Now he's apologizing after a voter makes a gay slur.
Registered Democrat scolded for using a slur.
Weiner gets her signature on a petition first and then admonishes her.
And says it's not her fault that she's a victim of stuff.
So he took her signature.
He took her support.
And then after she signed his stupid little petition, then he raked her over to Kohl's for her supposed homophobia.
Jay Carney, they went to the White House today, the press briefing, and a reporter said, Senator Graham said that the agreement that they've reached in the Senate that guarantees some extra Republican votes, this is the Hovind-Corker Amendment.
Some Republican votes, this virtually militarizes the border here, Jay.
Are you kidding me?
So they want us to believe that 20,000 more Border Patrol agents and the increase in technology and so forth, the biometric stuff, militarizes the border.
It adds 20,000 new agents, 18 drones, surveillance drones, 350 miles in fencing at a cost of more than $30 billion.
The president support this, Jay?
Is the president in favor of this amendment, Jay?
This agreement would constitute a breakthrough on the bipartisan effort, and we applaud the tireless work that has gone into it and the broader effort.
You know, I don't have specifics.
The amendment hasn't been filed.
But remember that the president insisted now two years ago when he put forward his principles for comprehensive immigration reform that border security, enhance border security be part of it.
His commitment to border security has been demonstrated by his record on this issue since he took office by the increase already and the substantial increase in the number of borders.
Okay, look, I can't stop it.
There isn't any border.
They haven't done anything to secure the border.
This isn't going to secure the border.
This is another one of these supposed stopgap measures.
Now we're militarizing the border, and now we're going to pull these agents in place, and they can't get their green card till all this happens and so forth.
But it's they, if they're going to sit there and twiddle their thumbs.
See, the fact is, I think, folks, that we are suspicious.
We don't trust that they're going to do what they say.
We don't think they want to secure the border.
In fact, we know they don't.
We know that Washington does not want to secure the border.
And there isn't any trust with this.
So they claim they've got their 60 or 61 votes now.
And I think if they had them, they'd be doing the vote.
They'd get this lockdown.
And McCain says, that's not right.
We've got our 61 votes.
So we need to get the business community out there soliciting other people, the religious people.
Why?
If you've got your 61 vote, because we want to win it in the House, Limbaugh.
We want to win it in the House.
I don't know, folks.
It's the same old, same old.
We had, I never, I didn't get to this earlier this week, and I really wanted to, because it, this, if not the biggest see I told you so in the history of this show, it's close.
There was a Gallup poll back on the 19th, two days ago.
Obama's job approval easily outpaces U.S. satisfaction.
In fact, this Gallup poll, without it saying so, was a poll of the Limbaugh Theorem.
Obama's job approval rating thus far in 2013 has averaged 24%, percentage points higher than American satisfaction with the direction in which the country's going.
And Gallup is flummoxed.
Here's a pull quote from the story: All of this suggests that Obama does not receive the full brunt of Americans' blame for the nation's economy and other factors that may be contributing to the general dissatisfaction with the country's direction.
Obama's job approval rating so far in 2013 is 24 percentage points higher than the public satisfaction with the direction the country's going.
There you have it.
That is the Limbaugh theorem.
Whatever is happening is not attached to him.
And the Gallup poll has just made my point.
Now, there's a story here in the New York Times.
Obama secretly helps Republicans push amnesty.
This is another.
This is the Limbaugh Theorem Plus.
White House offers a stealth campaign to support immigration bill.
The hideout has no sign on the door, but inside Dirksen 201 is a spare suite of offices the White House has transformed into its covert immigration war room on Capitol Hill.
Strategically located down the hall from the Senate Judiciary Committee in one of the city's massive congressional office buildings.
The workspace normally reserved for the vice president is now the hub of a stealthy legislative operation run by Obama's staff.
And their goal is to quietly secure passage of the first immigration overhaul in 25 years.
Now, two days ago, just shared it with you, two days ago, Gallup embraced and explained and illustrated the Limbaugh theorem.
And now, even the New York Times is embracing it too, since this article reports how the White House is using a secret operation on Capitol Hill to ram through Amnesty.
But it turns out, if you read this story, things are even worse than we thought because even some Republicans are helping to shield Obama's involvement.
And in fact, even the New York Times says that these Republicans, quote, do not want to be seen by their constituents as carrying out the will of Mr. Obama.
That's why today I have begun saying we don't trust Washington.
This is not a Democrat-specific problem, folks.
This is a ruling class Washington versus us in the country class situation.
And the ruling class does not want to secure the borders and they want as many people crossing them as can be managed and managed as they define it.
This New York Times story says that lawmakers from both parties are privately relying on the White House and its agencies to provide technical information to draft scores of amendments to the immigration bill.
But the Republicans don't want to admit it.
Now, again, it's the New York Times who have take that under advisement, but the New York Times says Republicans are deeply involved, but they don't want you to know it.
They don't want to admit it because they want to prove the White House is not pulling the strings.
But the White House is.
This is a stealth White House operation.
The Hovind-Corker Amendment could well be an Obama administration idea submitted in this war room, and then two senators were cherry-picked to put their names on it.
I don't know that that's the case, but this story in the New York Times makes it entirely possible.
The New York Times story says that some Republicans, quote, are so eager to prove that the White House is not pulling the strings that their aides say the administration isn't playing any role at all.
And they point to a spokesman for Marco Rubio.
And a spokesman for Rubio has denied that the president's involved in this at all.
So look, I can only tell you what the New York Times is saying.
It's up, you know, whether you want to believe it or not, but the New York Times essentially is saying here that Obama and the White House are pulling Rubio strings.
Remember that story we had?
I asked Rubio about this on the phone.
It wasn't on the air, but we had a story that it was the White House.
No, it was a story that Schumer was playing Rubio.
And then the New York Times story hit.
No, no, no, the White House is doing this, not Schumer.
And now this New York Times story seems to add impetus to that.
Or wait.
They're what?
Translate that for me.
The New York Times.
Well, oh, yeah, if Rubio is involved, the White House is blowing his cover, or the New York Times is.
And the New York Times points to Rubio's spokesman as one of the Republican spokesmen denying Obama's involvement here.
So it would appear that the Republicans don't want you to know that Obama's involved in this, but the New York Times has just taken care of that.
The New York Times is now saying that Obama's running this show in the Senate, that it isn't Schumer, that it isn't Dingy Harry, that it isn't any Republicans.
It's not even the gang of eight.
It's Obama running this immigration show, which is kind of interesting because it, well, the fact that Obama is running it and nobody knew about it, that's Limbaugh theorem.
But the Times has come along now and blown that out of the water and said that Obama is running it, which tells me that they think they're on the verge of it happening.
And it tells me that for some reason they do want Obama getting credit for this.
The New York Times does.
Which that's a puzzlement because the American people don't want this.
And Obama's success has been his detachment from things happening the American people don't want.
And they don't want this.
So we'll just have to keep a sharp eye as we have been doing it.
The Washington Examiner has a story.
President Obama was behind the effort to table John Cornyn's border security amendment.
This is from the Politico.
Actually, the Washington Examiner just repeating what the Politico has sourced.
According to the report, Schumer came up with his idea of a border surge after Obama refused to accept the idea of a 90% trigger, which was a component of Cornyn's amendment blocking citizenship unless a 90% apprehension rate of potential border crossers was reached.
And Schumer was prepared to try to make that happen in a watered-down way.
And Obama heard about it.
There ain't no way that that Cornyn bill, that amendment's getting anywhere.
And Obama told Schumer, you shelve it, table it, get rid of it, and that's what happened.
So the media is making it clear that this is Obama's baby.
He's running it.
And by Obama, the administration.
And by the administration, it's Obama.
He's not maybe on the phone personally, but people who know what he wants are on the phone and they're running this bill.
Then there is this story.
13 female senators in favor of comprehensive immigration reform introduced a so-called female amendment Wednesday to the Gang of Eight bill in an attempt to garner the support of more women voters.
Their amendment would create a Tier 3 T I E R, a Tier 3 point system that would add 30,000 more visas without reducing the number of visas in other merit-based tiers.
Senators Maisie Hirono, Democrat Hawaii, Patty Murray, Democrat Washington, teamed up with 10 other Democrats and one Republican, Lisa Murkowski, to sponsor the bill.
They claim that employment-based visas favor men over women by nearly four to one margin, as they place a premium on male-dominated fields like engineering and computer science.
So what these women want is language that doesn't ace women immigrants out of the green card process.
And then, of course, I shared with you Maisie Hirono's bill that we can't let 13 years go by here without granting them welfare benefits.
We can't let 13 years go by.
We can't do that.
That's unfair to make them wait 13 years.
It's going to be the same thing for voting.
You wait and see.
By the way, not a big deal, but Senator Schumer has just announced a gang of eight has accepted the Hover-Corker Amendment, which is the Obama-Carney Amendment.
Gang of Eight just accepted the Hover-Corker Amendment, and so we're off to the races.
And to the phones, we return.
Travis in Boston, welcome, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Meghadidos Rush from the People's Republic in Massachusetts.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
I wanted to talk about something you touched upon yesterday because I feel like people don't understand the true magnitude of this benefit, and that's the free college tuition we're giving to illegal immigrants.
As a recent college grad myself, I'm 27 now.
It's not unusual to come out of school, particularly private institutions, with 20, 30, 40, upwards to $50,000 in federal student loan debt.
And what that does is two things.
First, it limits your ability to pursue a job in a field which you're truly interested because you need income coming in to make these payments.
And second, with the economy being how it is, if you find yourself unable to make these high payments and you fall into a default status, student loans are unique in that the interest starts to come.
Wait a second.
Everybody's going to have students.
Even the tuition is not free for the children of illegals, is it?
It certainly is in Massachusetts.
That's been a policy.
Free tuition or state cost tuition?
Well, free tuition for state cost tuition.
That's correct.
But for a lot of public institutions, for example, I went to the University of Michigan.
The tuition there can be substantially high for people who are out of state.
Right.
So, I mean, if you find yourself unable to make these high payments for whatever the case may be, if you do reach a default status.
Well, we have to extend these benefits to the Hispanics because we've offended them so much over the years.
That's why.
You know, look, folks, according to the New York Times, it's not even a gang of eight.
It's one of two things.
It's the gang of nine with Obama as part of it, or it's the gang of one, and it's all Obama.
Because the New York Times is making it plain that Obama is directing everything that happens on the immigration bill, and that the Republicans involved don't want anybody knowing that.
The Republicans don't want it.
We understand the Democrats trying to shield Obama.
So this Hover, Hovind-Corker Amendment is really the Obama Amendment.
It was Obama's idea, possibly, and they found a couple guys to put their names on it.
Bob Corker, he's a good guy.
You know, he's a Democrat.
I'm sorry, Republican Tennessee.
This afternoon in Washington on the Senate floor, after the gang of nine decided to accept the bill or the amendment, he went on the floor of the Senate and said this.
I want to thank the majority leader for his leadership in this effort, for his comments earlier.
By filing cloture today on this amendment, it's going to give everybody in this body and in the nation to read this piece of legislation for 75 hours before the cloture vote occurs.
I want to thank the senator from New York.
My last call last night at 12:33 was with him, and my first call early, early this morning was with him.
I want to thank him for the way that he has worked with us to try to work through Republican sensibilities so that we have a bill that not only meets the needs of the Democratic side of the aisle, but we have a bill that meets the needs of the Republican side of the aisle, which is why we all came here.
There you have it.
Senator Corker went to the floor of the Senate to thank Senators Schumer and Reed for considering the Republicans.
Thank you for thinking of us.
And thank you for including what we want in the bill.
You're great guys.
And now, folks, it's kumbaya time because we have bipartisanship now.
We have a bipartisan agreement on the Hoven-Corker Amendment.
And Schumer and Reed have just been thanked for acknowledging Republican sensibilities, i.e., desires and concerns.
And the Democrats get what they want, and the Republicans get what they want.
And now we've got 75 hours to read the bill.
Now, what this means is that the Senate immigration vote is going to be 75 hours from now.
If this is followed, 75 hours to do whatever, 75 hours before the cloture vote on the whole bill.
That's it.
24 hours in a day, 48 hours, two days, 72 hours.
So basically, three days from now, they're going to have the cloture vote.
meaning the vote, on the Senate immigration bill.
Again, I just feel like I must go through this again.
This amendment, the Hoven-Corker Amendment, here's what it does: it doubles the number of Border Patrol agents to 40,000.
No, it's not for the whole bill.
I'm sorry, 75 hours to read the cloture vote on the amendment, not on the whole bill.
I got that wrong.
There's 75 hours to now read the amendment and then vote on the amendment because the gang approved it.
Then there's 75 hours, and they'll vote on the amendment.
They'll have a cloture vote on the amendment in 75 hours.
Not the whole Senate bill.
Take that back.
Not the whole Senate bill.
Correct myself.
Anyway, the Hovan-Corker Amendment doubles border agents to 40,000.
It beefs up by $3 billion this biometric technology and enables them to better determine who has overstayed their visas.
And we had a soundbite from earlier today of one of these guys, name was Corker again, explaining what's great about this.
Well, these border agents are going to be in place.
Let's see if I can find it.
I know I put it at the bottom of the stack.
This should be relatively easy to find.
Yes, I just found it.
Grab audio soundbite.
Number 23.
This Bob Corker again.
You just heard him thanking Reed and Schumer for okaying his amendment.
They get 75 hours to vote on it now.
He was on Fox this morning and he was asked how his amendment enhances border security.
Immigrants cannot get a green card until all 20,000 Border Patrol agents are in place.
They cannot get a green card until all 3.2 billion of the technology that the Border Control has asked for is in place.
They cannot get a green card until the exit visa program that candidly is very important is in place.
They cannot get a green card until E-Verify is in place.
So this has the most tangible, not subjective, tangible triggers that you can possibly put in place.
Anyone who criticizes this bill because of border security, in my opinion, is just looking for a reason to criticize a bill.
Okay, now there's 75 hours to read this thing and to debate it, and they're going to have a closure vote, meaning 60.
They need 60 votes on the amendment.
I don't even think they've got that yet, or they would be voting on it.
So the news is that the gang has approved their amendment.
Doesn't mean it's been accepted by the Senate.
Just the gang says it meets our requirements.
But the whole Senate has to vote on it, and 60 senators have to support it.
As I understand this.
And I don't know that they've got the 60 votes now or they would vote on it now.
Anyway, we're back to where we started the program with this sound bite here.
We're going to double the number of border agents and we're going to put them in place.
And then the exit visa program will be in place.
And E-Verify it in place.
And therefore, we have the most tangible triggers that you can possibly put in place.
But in place, you could have 40,000 Border Patrol agents clipping their nails.
You have 40,000 Border Patrol agents playing video games.
It depends on what you're going to have them do.
And the same Senate tabled an amendment, the Cornyn Amendment, which would have required proof that 90% of those trying to cross the border illegal are apprehended.
And they voted that down.
Now, Senator Corker, who I know is a good guy, anybody who criticizes this bill because of border security, in my opinion, just looking for a reason to criticize the bill.
Senator, I don't think your amendment secures the border.
I don't you could secure the border today with existing law.
The fact of the matter is that Washington does not want the border to be secure.
But they are very, very intent on making you think that they care about that or that they're going to secure it.
And it's hard, folks, it's hard not to be cynical here because we've heard all this since 1986.
We've heard all of this.
From what I understand, they won't even let this biometric ID of those crossing the border get a vote for the full Senate.
That idea, they're not even going to let that get a full, a vote from the full because they know that's that's not that doesn't stand a prayer anyway.
I want to just tell you, I never intended this to take up so much time today.
I really, really didn't.
I did not intend it to take up this much time.
It's just that news has continued to flow on this.
I got to take a brief time out here again.
You sit tight.
We'll be back.
I'm going to ram some more of your phone calls in here before we get out of here.
All right.
Okay, let me get this straight.
We're going to have 20,000 new border agents.
And who are they?
They are union members.
Therefore, they're going to be Democrat voters, but they're also going to be contributing dues to the Democrat Party.
So we've just, under the guise of securing the border, we got 20,000 more Democrat union members paying dues to the Democrat Party.
Now, we cannot have photo IDs in this country to vote.
That's considered discriminatory.
That's racist.
We can't have photo IDs to vote, and yet we are supposed to believe that there's going to be biometric tracking.
Get real.
Biometric tracking, but no photo IDs.
You want to hear something else, folks?
In the Gang of Eight bill, which we now know is the Obama bill, which we knew all along was the Obama bill.
But what it is, it's got a provision.
It's 1,000 pages.
There is a proviso in the bill to grant an additional 20,000 visas to low-income,
low-educated or unskilled people specifically for the hospitality industry, which means the SEIU gets a payoff in this bill by having 20,000 visas targeted specially to them.
Unskilled, low-skilled, low-wage visas granted to people, 20,000 of them, to go to the hospitality industry.
Jim DeMint, who is the former senator from North Carolina, sorry, South Carolina, and just tweeted, he's now president of Heritage Foundation, just tweeted an observation: immigration reform should improve the lives, incomes, and opportunities of Americans.
Senate bill doesn't do that.
Folks, it's, I don't know, just amazing.
Washington wants this so bad, they can taste it.
They want this so bad.
And all this is, is Obama buying a permanent Democrat majority.
And it's Washington.
It's not Obama, Washington is buying a permanent Democrat majority.
That's a way to look at this.
We'll be back, folks.
Don't go away.
Well, Dingy Harry has adjourned the Senate, and there's no work on the weekend, so we're quote-unquote safe.
It alluded to the fact to be working on the weekend, but they're not going to.
I forgot to mention, folks, 2F by True The end of tonight, 11.59 p.m. Pacific, the tea is at a reduced price.
We don't call it on sale.
We just have it at a reduced price.
So it's an even more attractive gig for you.
We'll see you on Monday.
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