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Aug. 12, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 12, 2013, Monday, Hour #2
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Yeah, so the Republicans are traipsing off to Iowa already, getting ready for the 2016 presidential sweepstakes.
Ted Cruz seems to be winning everything right now.
And it doesn't matter.
What's happening right now really doesn't matter.
The results of what's happening right now don't mean anything.
But, you know, the media and everybody, everybody in the media has this, it's not an agenda.
It's just this, it's in this case, it's just the formula.
Okay, so the next presidential race is up and the Democrats are ready to coronate Hillary, so it's hers by default.
Now, what are the Republicans going to do?
Instead of looking now, who's spending time in Iowa, Trump's out there ripping into Karl Rove big time.
I mean, big time.
I mean, Trump is excoriating Karl Rove.
Dumbest ads he's ever seen.
$400 million wasted.
Who in the world does this guy think he is?
He's not the architect.
The guy's a guaranteed loser.
This is what Trump is saying.
Ted Cruz is out espousing just pedal of the metal conservatism.
And he's at the top of the heap.
Santorum is back in it.
But the reason I don't spend a lot of time on it right now, because it's formulaic, folks.
I mean, it's what everybody does just because it's that time.
But it doesn't mean anything yet.
Like, presidential polls, presidential primary preference polls don't mean anything yet.
They're far more important things right now.
And I know the next presidential race is key, but looking at it, the way everybody seems to look at it like it's a horse race is the wrong way to look at it.
Because while all that is going on, the left's agenda just keeps marching.
You've got Dingy Harry.
Dingy Harry says that we are, what, just one step away from single payer, what we've always wanted.
Dingy Harry's out there complaining about how health care became an employer benefit in World War II.
That if that hadn't happened, we'd already be at single payer.
So the Democrats are marching on with Obamacare, salivating over having it become single-payer government-run.
All of the chaos that's happening in the healthcare and health insurance fields is by design.
All of it, it's supposed to be a big mess that people can't figure out.
It's supposed to be a big mess that leaves a lot of people uninsured and untreated.
It's supposed to be a big mess so that people eventually turn to the place of last resort, the North Pole where the White House is there in Santa Claus.
That's the design.
And the Democrats are pumping iron.
They're very confident, folks.
They don't think anything can stop them.
They really don't.
And why would they?
They got the Republicans in Washington basically agreeing with them.
They're marionettes.
They're puppet masters.
Want the Republicans to focus on destroying their base by going out and appealing to Hispanics?
They do it.
They want the Republicans to fail to distinguish themselves on socialism and capitalism by basically agreeing with the Democrats and Obamacare.
They do it.
So from that standpoint, what's going on in Iowa is important.
But the results right now aren't.
And that's how the media is looking at the horse race.
Who is leading in the polls right now?
Who is drawing the biggest crowds?
And there's just so early.
We haven't even had the 2014 midterms yet.
But I just, I wanted to mention it so that you didn't think that I was ignoring it.
But the left's agenda marches on here, folks, no matter what the Republicans are doing in Iowa.
And there are a lot of things that Republicans need to be doing between now and 2016 without focusing on 2016.
There's a lot of things they need to be focusing on prior to that.
Reince Pribus, the RNC committee chairman, last week sent a letter to CNN and to NBC.
And he said, we're not going to be in any of your debates.
I mean, you guys, NBC and CNN, you're going to do documentaries or movies on Hillary.
We're not going to do any of your debates that you moderate your networks.
We're not showing up.
Which is good, but he ought to tell them he's not showing up regardless.
It doesn't matter whether they do a Hillary movie or not.
The media is what it is now.
The gloves are off.
The masks are off.
The camouflage is gone.
The media is the Democrat Party.
It literally makes no sense for the Republic, particularly in the primaries, for the Republicans to do 20 debates, or the Democrat Party media can destroy all of them.
Now, the Republicans' thinking in the past has been: well, you know, it is what it is out there, and we've got to show we can overcome it.
We have to show we're not afraid of anything.
We've got to show that we're willing to travel the route necessary in order to get to the White House.
Well, you do not have to.
You do not have to let the Democrat Party destroy every nominee before one's chosen, every potential nominee.
You don't have to do that.
There are plenty of other places.
If you want to have a Republican candidate debate, there are plenty of ways to do it without doing it in front of Democrat media people.
Yeah, but Rush, if we get out there and if we do really well, our candidates might show those media guys the light.
It's never going to happen.
Learned that early on.
Journalists are not there to have their minds changed.
Journalists are not there to learn.
Journalists are not there to even understand what conservatives or Republicans are all about.
They are there to defeat them, pure and simple.
They're there to impugn them.
And for the Republicans to subject themselves to it anymore is stupid.
There are plenty of other places they can go if they want to stage their own debates.
They can do it on the web.
They can find any number of outlets to do it that will actually expose the Republican candidates as they are rather than constantly being on the defensive, not answering questions, but addressing charges.
A Republican primary debate is nothing more than Democrat media people accusing the Republicans of one thing or another.
It's no real serious questioning.
There's no real effort to understand who they are.
The effort is to tell the country who they are and to expose them as what they are.
Suspects, frauds, elitists, rich people, whatever it is.
It's silly.
So on that score, Reince Pribus is halfway right when he uses these Hillary movies as an excuse.
But I want to remind you of something.
On Friday, Last Wednesday on this program, shortly, no, I think it was Friday.
I'm getting confused on the days now.
One day last week, it was suggested that the Republican candidates could go on Fox and do a debate.
And I remember, well, let me play for you.
Listen to what I said last week about the idea of Republican primary debates occurring on the Fox News channel.
Audio soundbite number eight, Friday.
Here it is.
I'm going to get in trouble here.
There's too much affection for and loyalty to Hillary in that boardroom.
And I don't mean the Fox boardroom, but the corporate umbrella boardroom.
We're talking 20th Century Fox movie studio.
We're talking News Corp here.
We're not just talking Fox News.
The point that I was making was that in a lot of the Fox News empire, there's all kinds of support for Hillary.
Fox News is just a division of News Corp.
News Corp also owns 20th Century Fox movie studio.
The News Corp board of directors is not really reflective of what you see on the Fox News channel.
And I made the point here that you're going to have a lot of sympathy and a lot of support for Hillary at 20th Century Fox, at the Fox Hollywood TV studios.
And lo and behold, Candy Crowley of CNN made this point on her show yesterday as she was interviewing Reinz Priebus, Priebus.
I always get this name confused because I've never heard it.
It looks like Rinz Priebus, but I'm told he pronounces it Reince.
Okay, Reinz, then what is the next name?
Priebus?
The RNC chairman.
Let's just call him that.
Never met him.
But she's talking to him.
Candy Crowley says, the New York Times is reporting that the NBC Clinton series might be produced by Fox Television.
What did I just tell you?
This is exactly right.
I wonder how she even knew this.
So she says the NBC Clinton series likely be produced by Fox Television Studios.
Sister company to Fox News.
So if we follow your logic, Mr. Chairman, do you think that then is a connection to Fox News?
Would they be subject to the same kind of scrutiny?
The big question for me, Candy, is, number one, which company is putting it on the air?
Who's doing the work?
I'm not interested if they're using the same caterer or whether they all drink Diet Coke.
I'm not interested in whether they use the same sound studio or whether they use the same set.
I don't know the truth of anything you're talking about, but I do know what's very clear is that the company that puts these things on the air to promote Hillary Clinton, including CNN, is the company that is not going to be involved in our debates.
Yeah, but what she's asking, okay, let's say you take your debate to Fox News, but Fox Corporate might produce the Hillary movie.
And Praebus has said, well, it doesn't matter.
That doesn't matter because Fox News isn't airing it.
That is his point.
You guys are going to air it, so we're not showing up here.
And NBC is going to air one, and we're not going to show it up here.
By the way, Candy Crowley is very discombobulated by all this.
She's very worried about her objectivity now.
Because the CNN Hillary story will be produced by an outside studio.
CNN is not going to produce it or cast it or any of that.
Fox is.
And she's very, very worried about this.
It's just, it's laughable.
Anyway, all of this can be avoided if these Republican debates are held nowhere near traditional, conventional, mainstream media anywhere.
Okay, a couple stories on this new wave, if you will, of illegal immigration.
First story, Fox News Phoenix affiliate, Eyeball News, KSAZ.
A loophole is allowing hundreds of immigrants across the Mayco border into the United States.
Immigrants are being taught to use keywords and phrases to be allowed to enter and stay in the country.
Now, is this another outreach program by the U.S. government?
Somebody has to be behind this.
Somebody has to be behind this program.
And the USDA Department of Agriculture is advertising in Mayco for food stamps and telling people how to do it after they enter the United States.
Just this past Monday, which would be a week ago now, Border Patrol agents say about 200 people came through the OTE crossing in San Diego, claiming, quote, a credible fear, credible fear, in quotes, of the drug cartels.
So many people were doing this.
They had to close down the processing center and move the overflow by vans to another station.
They're being told that if they come across the border, when they come up to the border and they say certain words, they'll be allowed into the country.
We're being overwhelmed.
This is somebody who didn't want to be identified on camera.
Peter Nunez, former U.S. attorney, immigration expert, said this will swamp the system to make our system even more ridiculous than it's been in the past.
There are no detention facilities for families, so the families have to be split up.
We don't want to split families up.
So we end up releasing people out into the wild, essentially.
So what this essentially is, folks, is refugee status.
And refugee status is about the best status you can have living in America.
Being a refugee, right up there with being a citizen, because benefits for refugees include food stamps, housing vouchers, English language training, job training, transportation passes, Medicaid, supplemental security income assistance, SSI, as well as other public and private benefits.
I mean, the Sonara family were refugees.
They landed in America, either at Logan or JFK, wherever they, and they claimed asylum.
And that's all you have to do.
Now, theoretically, you're tracked and you're kept track of.
But if you come in claiming oppression, political asylum, or in this case, a credible fear of the drug cartels, then you're admitted.
And somebody has come up with this idea.
It's not known, not known who, obviously, but somebody's come up with this.
What are the odds that whoever has come up with this is either a Democrat or a Democrat activist?
Now, the second story is from Breitbart, and it's about the same thing.
It's just a little bit different treatment.
At the OTE crossing near the San Diego border on Monday, about 200 people coming from Mexico gained entry using all the same key phrase.
They claimed that they had a credible fear of drug cartels.
William Lajanese at Fox News says that this sudden influx of illegal immigrants from Mexico requesting asylum is overwhelming immigration agents in San Diego.
And the latest is agencies have been forced to rent hotel rooms for some of the undocumented families and release others to cities all over the country.
So now we have federal agencies renting hotel rooms to handle the surge of Mexican illegal immigrants who are now not bothering to try to sneak in.
They're not hiring coyotes or any of the northern, they're not trying to get in under cover of darkness.
Somebody has told them.
In fact, I know this is going to be easy for me to say.
I have been wondering why on the southern border this is never used.
You know, the refugees, if you will, from Eastern Europe, from the former Soviet bloc, they land at JFK.
60 Minutes did a big expose on this years ago, decades ago, at least a couple.
All you have to do is claim political asylum, and you are here.
And then that list of benefits that I read off, you get.
And I always wondered why this was not tried.
One of the things preventing it, I get from being used was the Mexican government was not looked at as hostile.
But the drug cartels are.
And that's what these new arrivals are doing is they are claiming they have a credible fear of drug cartels.
Now, look, we're already taking in thousands upon thousands of Mexicans and Hispanics.
And there's a companion story here about Syrian refugees are now pouring into the United States.
And there hadn't been anything signed.
There's no new immigration bill.
All this happened.
The Republicans didn't sign on to some 1,000-page bill.
There are plenty of laws on the books to overwhelm the country with new immigrants without any amnesty bill taking place.
So while we're all debating that, this new influx just continues.
Have my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Great to have you on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, 800-282-2882.
We'll get to the phones here in just a second.
While this new influx is taking place with the claim, refugee status, essentially, claiming asylum, credible fear is the phrase being used.
Credible fear of the drug cartels in Mexico.
The Wall Street Journal has a story about the record number of Americans renouncing citizenship because of taxes.
Now, this is not some hokey conspiratorial, obscure website.
This is the Wall Street Journal.
U.S. citizens are giving up their American passports as the government is cracking down on tax evaders.
The Wall Street Journal's Deborah Cann speaks to lawyer Eugene Chow about the main reason why many don't want to be Americans anymore.
Wall Street Journal.
Now, it's not a huge number, but it's growing and it's a trend.
And you talk about demographics, folks, we're in the living it.
We are in the middle of one of the greatest demographic upheavals that this country has ever experienced.
This country is undergoing an identity transformation unlike it has ever seen.
And it is a transformation that's being sponsored and engineered by the current administration.
The Wall Street Journal stories out of Hong Kong: the U.S. crackdown on global tax evaders is leading to a record number of people renouncing their citizenship.
And its effects are being felt keenly in Asia, which, if you measure by household assets, Asia is now the world's wealthiest region, not the United States any longer.
A growing number of wealthy Americans in Asia are exploring whether to renounce their citizenship or give up their green cards to avoid onerous tax obligations.
Now, this is pretty obvious.
The IRS is making a move on all kinds of people that they think have sheltered taxes, sheltered income to avoid taxes.
As you know, they've successfully intimidated even Swiss banks from giving up information about account holders.
There's a huge amount of money that American corporations are holding overseas.
They're not repatriating the money.
You can look at Apple as an example.
Apple's cash on hand is right now at about $145 billion, some total of all the profit they've made.
And they plow some of it back into research and development, of course.
But as the sales of their products continue to skyrocket, that cash hoard grows.
The fact is that I think 93 to $95 billion of the $45 is overseas.
And they're not going to bring it back at 35%.
The U.S. corporate tax rate is 35%, and they're not going to bring it back here.
And nor is General Electric, nor is any other U.S. corporation with international operations that has large amounts of money overseas.
That's not what this story is about, but it's an interesting dovetail because it is, if you lump it all together, it's all about all kinds of American money that isn't here.
And it's all about either corporations or individuals escaping what they consider to be onerous taxes, corporations and individuals.
And they're just acting either in their own self-interest or of the corporation in the interest of the shareholders.
The objective of any corporation, the objective of any individual, is to spend as little as possible on this, according to the law.
And that's what's taking place here.
And there are simply better options around the world now.
There are places around the world where you can keep more of what you have, where you can keep more of what you've earned, rather than having it taken and wasted and spent on unproductive things that are not going to contribute to the growth of the country or anything else.
All it's going to do is enrich the Democrat Party and other statists that maybe not Democrats.
You may find some Republicans in there.
Now, this story in the Wall Street Journal, globally, more U.S. citizens have renounced their citizenship in the first and second quarters of this year than all of last year combined.
2013 is already on track to become a record year for citizenship renunciation.
A total of 1,130 names appeared on the latest list of renunciations from the IRS.
When I became an immigration lawyer 30 years ago, people really were excited about going to America.
Now more than half of my clients are people thinking of other alternatives rather than people seeking to emigrate to the United States.
This is that lawyer, Eugene Chow, cited earlier in the story.
His firm, by the way, called Chow King and Associates.
So what you have, when you hear people like Mark Zuckerberg, who is one of the late young Silicon Valley arrivals on the pro-amnesty scene, and a number of other people that are on this pro-amnesty bandwagon, one of the things they're saying is, we need smart people here.
We need highly educated, highly trained people that we can employ here.
We need to open up our immigration.
Now, what this ends up doing is supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants south of the border and from other poor countries.
The very thing that they want, the opposite is happening.
The rich, the highly educated are staying away.
They're not immigrating.
The people who are immigrating are essentially low-skilled, uneducated, seeking an opportunity or whatever they're seeking.
But the point is, all of these people with their stated objective of wanting highly educated, highly skilled, well-trained, elite engineer-type people, they're staying away.
And that's what I mean about this amazing demographical transformation that is taking place.
You couple that with people already living abroad.
I think the story is mostly about people already live in Asia, not people living here and moving there.
These are Americans who live in Asia and elsewhere.
And they're looking at what's happening and they're saying, hell with it.
I don't want to come back.
I don't want to move back and I'm not going to stay a citizen.
Now, the numbers are not large.
1,130 people is not a huge number, but it's a trend.
And it's already, through August of this year, already more than it was last year.
And there's nothing happening to change the trend.
There's nothing happening that would send the other direction.
So here we've got hundreds of people flooding our southern border claiming refugee status.
At the same time, accomplished, working, Wealthy people, a kind who would employ others, are renouncing their citizenship, giving up their passports, and staying abroad.
And American corporations are not bringing their foreign money earned in foreign countries home because of the confiscatory tax rate.
And none of this needs to be happening.
Except there, I guess there's a political party that doesn't mind it.
Because the demographic shift that's taking place is guaranteed to keep this political party in power in perpetuity.
And that's where we are.
Be right back.
Your calls are coming next.
Don't go away.
Thanks to all of you for hauling on the phones and we head back to the phones.
Mike in Omaha, thank you for waiting, sir.
You're next.
It's great to have you here.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush, for taking my call, and thank you for tirelessly framing the debate all these years for us.
Well, thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate that.
I have two points that I kind of want to get across to you.
One, on immigration reform, it kind of went into what you were saying earlier: is that, you know, the immigration reform is supposed to be about doing what's best for the American people.
Well, if that's true, then they should at least split the difference on the 11 million people and say, we'll keep 5 million that are here, and then we're going to bring in 5 million or so people from around the world that are engineers.
Ho, ho, ho, ho, ho.
Hold on just a minute.
Who in the world told you that immigration policy, whatever, is being done for the American people?
That's a good question.
You just may kind of make that hope, I guess, or assumption.
Well, even if you listen to the Democrats, they don't talk about it in terms of doing it for the American people.
That's true.
That's very true.
They might say that it's a humane thing to do, or we need to, in order to be good people, or to be good Americans, but in terms of benefiting the American people, that would be a laugher if anybody ever said that.
My other big fear with the immigration is that as soon as you pass a bill, it's no longer in the legislature's hands.
It's going to go right to the courts.
So no matter what they pass, within a year or two years, the courts will overturn it or change it or do whatever they want with it.
So it's difficult to support any type of legislation.
Well, the only way that would happen is if a law passes that is not liked by the Democrats.
And that's not true.
I mean, maybe some Republican group could bring it.
But I understand your point.
The courts are filled with liberals and they're going to fix it no matter what happens in the Congress.
Right.
Even if you just passed the, if you said, you know, let me tell you, there's a more immediate point to be made.
You're right about that.
I don't mean to diminish your point as Obama has diminished the presidency.
But even before you get to court, look at what's happening here.
We're debating amnesty in the Congress.
The Republicans are being told, you guys had better support this or you're never going to win the White House again.
It's Democrats, by the way, telling them that.
Essentially, Democrats are saying, you know, we're tired of winning every four years.
We want you to win some.
And if you're going to win some, you're going to have to get on board with the Hispanics because the Hispanics hate you, Republicans, and we don't like that.
We want some Hispanics to love you.
So you better sign on to amnesty.
So the Republicans say, well, we don't want to be hated.
We want to be loved too.
So, okay.
Even if we admit, like Senator McCain does, that ain't going to get us one vote, we still want to be liked and we want to be good people.
Well, while all this is going on, we're being flooded under a new program called refugee status.
It doesn't matter what the Congress does.
They're going to find a way around it before they get to the courts.
So the Republicans ought to take the occasion here and distance themselves from what's going on, stop this mad dash to amnesty and stand up for themselves and start drawing distinctions between who they are and what the Democrats are, because a majority of people does not support what's happening.
I don't get, I don't, even if the Republicans don't want to be conservatives, they still, theoretically, are the opposition party.
They still, I would think, want to beat Democrats, even if they don't want to be conservatives.
So why are they not opposing all this as Republicans, as the opposition party, and citing on health care and on this?
A majority of the American people oppose what the Democrats want.
There's a sitting majority of people waiting for the Republican Party to identify with, to connect to.
And the Democrats, or the Republicans, I'm sorry, instead of doing that, appear to be aligning with the Democrats on the issue under the theory that, well, I don't know the theory.
I really don't know the theory.
It doesn't make any sense to me why they would do it.
If they're going to do it on this, why not on abortion?
Why not on every women's issue?
Why don't the Republicans just start echoing the Democrats everywhere?
Well, of course, on immigration, it's donors.
It's any number.
It's consultants.
The biggest trick, look, the biggest trick that's been played on the Republican Party, and it's still working, is this notion that 20% of the voters determine the outcome of presidential elections, the independents.
And so while the Democrats are out there giving money to everybody and trying to get everybody's votes, the Republicans are trying to get the independents, the 20%.
They're taking their base for granted to their detriment.
They've bought into this notion that it's 40% automatic vote Republican, 40% automatic vote Democrat.
Can't change it.
Every election hinges on that 20%.
So what do the Republicans do?
They have their consultants out there who tell every candidate, I'm the guy who can get you enough independence to win.
And lo and behold, Romney, if you go back and look, Romney won an overwhelming majority of independence and lost significantly.
The trick is working big time.
And so while the Republicans think that they are gaining favor with Hispanics by softening their tone on amnesty, all of a sudden now somebody's come up on the Democrat side with another trick.
Refugee status.
Fear the consequences of the drug cartels.
We're renting hotel rooms for illegal immigrants.
It's not funny.
I don't mean to be laughing.
It just, it's mind-boggling.
And all this is happening with a president with an average approval rating of 43 percent.
So I think it's safe to conclude here that we really are dealing with the circumstances set forth by the esteemed Professor Angelo Corvia.
who wrote of the ruling class versus the rest of the people, the country class, Washington being the ruling class.
But anyway, Mike, I appreciate your call.
I'm really trying to think now if I've heard amnesty promoted or sold as something for the American people.
I know what he means by that, but are those words actually being used?
This is all being done for the Republican Democrat parties.
It's not being done for the American people is my point.
The real immigration push is for the Democrat Party.
That's the thing that fascinates me.
We've got to take a break.
Dingy Harry, Harry Reid, Obamacare, just one step away from the inevitable single-payer government-run health care plan.
Just one inevitable step away.
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