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June 27, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 27, 2014, Friday, Hour #2
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This is very comforting.
It is from the BBC in his first interview with any media since the ISIS invasion began in Iraq.
Prime Minister there, Nuri Al-Maliki, has announced that he is giving up.
Giving up on trying to get fighter jets from America.
Because the United States is delaying the process too long.
So Nuri Al-Maliki is going to buy fighter jets from Putin instead.
He's going to buy fighter jets from Russia.
Nuri al-Maliki even says that Iraq was deluded.
Diluded when they signed the contract with the U.S. Diluted, I don't know what does he mean.
Uh fooled, delusional, stupid, betrayed.
Whatever, it sure sounds to me like the regime is trying to keep the Iraq government from being able to defend themselves.
The first thing that uh Iraq asked for is just some fighter jet cover.
Just some bombing raids on the ISIS bad guys.
And Obama has dithered and dathered, and he's had meetings and he's had summits and he's had um press conferences.
Well, no, he had he had a uh an announcement from the uh from the Oval Office.
He sent 300 military advisors and said that there was no military solution.
He said there was no military solution, then sent 300 military advisors and then said both sides had to listen to them.
Which means, I guess that we were going to be equal and fair.
That half of the 300 military advisors would be advising ISIS, and the other half would be advising Al-Maliki and Iraq.
So anyway, Al-Maliki said, you know what?
I'm being jerked around here.
Meanwhile, they're marching on to crit, they're marching on other cities.
ISIS is really on the march, and I've got to do something to stop them, and Vladimir Putin said he's gonna send me some jets.
So I'm gonna take them.
It I mean, we're sending the Iraqis right into the waving arms of the Russians.
So let's let's could could it be, ladies and gentlemen, that what we're doing here is actually just giving Iraq to the Russians.
Molochy's out there, he's all excited now.
Not he's gonna get the Russian jets.
He's saying that the Russian jets are gonna turn the tide.
He's all he's he's really popped up here.
He thinks they're hopped up.
He thinks that the jets that the Russians are gonna send him are going to do bombing raids on ISIS and turn the tide and stop this onslaught and maybe even reverse it.
Now the Russians have always wanted Iraq.
I mean, there's a lot of oil there.
And unlike Obama, Putin actually appreciates it.
And Putin sees the value in having as much of it as he can get and controlling as much of it as he can.
The Russians have always wanted Iraq.
In fact, this is not widely known, and it might even be disputed by some who are not aware of it.
But one of the reasons, way back in the 1980s that the Russians invaded Afghanistan was to get to Iraq.
It was a stepping stone.
It was not that Afghanistan was not desired, it was, but it was also going to serve as a stepping stone into Iraq and maybe Iran.
We're going by 40 years here.
This is a long time ago, and people may not have known that at all at the time and may be reluctant to believe it now.
But Al Maliki has uh I mean he's happy he's not there, he's BBC.
Yes, he hopes these jets from Russia and Belarus will turn the tide against rebels in the coming days.
God willing, within one week, this force will be effective, it'll destroy the terrorist dens.
He said the process of buying U.S. jets had been long-winded, the militants advance could have been avoided if air cover had been in place.
So Obama apparently Al Maliki offered to buy some jets from us, and Obama wouldn't even sell them.
Not just wouldn't send any to provide cover, but wouldn't sell any jets to Al-Maliki.
And well, who Obama?
Yeah.
He wants regime change.
He wants Al-Maliki out of there.
And that's what he's holding out for.
And he's gonna get it.
The Russians.
Iraq is gonna.
Where else is yes, they are friendly with Iran already.
Where else is going to end up?
See, so if you have Iraq ending up as a puppet client state of the we know what Putin wants to do.
He wants to reconstitute the Soviet Union.
It doesn't have to be the same countries.
And uh meanwhile.
So that's the latest on that.
Let's get to the immigration stack here.
I just want to review the thing I have here on top, just to start here.
There's a major new report from the Center for Immigration Studies, and they used data from the government, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
And they have occluded concluded, according to the uh research here, that all employment growth, net employment growth in America since 2000 has gone to immigrants, legal and illegal entirely.
Using data from the Bureau of Labor stats, the scholars for the Center for Immigration Studies, Stephen Camarada and Karen Ziegler found that there were 127,000 fewer working-age Native Americans holding a job in the first quarter of 2014 than there were in 2000.
However, the number of immigrants with a job is 5.7 million greater than it was in the year 2000.
So the two numbers back to back are these.
Since the first quarter of 2000, there are 127,000 fewer Native-born Americans with jobs in America.
Since the first quarter of 2000, there are 5.7 million new workers with jobs, comprised entirely of illegal and legal immigrants.
The rapidity with which immigrants recovered from the Great Recession, as well as the fact that they held a disproportionate share of jobs relative to their share of population growth before the recession, helped to explain the findings here.
In addition, native-born Americans and immigrants were affected differently by the recession.
Some of the findings are these: because the native-born population grew significantly, but the number of working Native Americans actually fell, there were 17 million more working-age natives not working in the first quarter of 2014 than in in 2000.
So it gets even worse.
We know that there are 95 to 100 million Americans not working, and now we're learning some more about that.
Because the native-born population grew significantly, but the number of working members from that group actually fell.
There were 17 million more working-age natives not working in the first quarter of 2014 than were in 2000.
58 million working-age Native-born Americans at present, right now, are not employed.
And the key to this is the Chamber of Commerce working with the Republican Party wants to build on these numbers.
In a story on June 25th about the flood of immigrant children travel alone caught crossing the Mehican border illegally, the AP reported erroneously that the federal immigration court system has a backlog of more than 30,000 cases.
The actual backlog is greater than 360,000 pending cases, according to federal records analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearing House.
That's at Syracuse University.
The incorrect figure originally reported by the AP appeared in an earlier story published on June 22nd and June 23rd that was slugged immigrant children.
Well, this is an understandable mistake here.
After all, what's the difference between 36,000 illegals and 360,000?
Hell, it's just a zero.
Anybody can get that wrong.
Yeah, it's a zero in a couple of comments.
No big deal here.
What's the big problem?
You wait, in a few years, the AP will put out a correction about their reports that there are 11 million illegals in the U.S. And then they will say, you know, we were but we we we were wrong.
It's actually 51 million.
Well, we we were wrong, but what's the difference?
Just a one versus a five.
Big deal.
White House Press Secretary Josh Ernest, we are not just gonna sit around and wait for Congress to write laws.
President Obama, tired of waiting for Congress to act on immigration reform, is currently exploring ways to address issues with the Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jay Johnson.
During an interview with MSNBC's F. Chuck Todd, the White House Press Secretary Josh Ernest said the regime was getting impatient with Congress.
We're not just going to sit around and wait for Congress.
We've been waiting a year already.
The president has tasked the Secretary of Homeland Security with reviewing what options are available to the president...
What's at his disposal or disposal using his executive authority to try to address some of the problems that have been created by our broken immigration system.
Look, well we're not saying it's a substitute for robust congressional action, but if they're not going to do anything, we're going to.
We're not just going to sit around and wait.
Well, now, wait a minute, Mr. Ernest, there's this thing called the Constitution says you can't do that.
That's the point of the separation of powers.
It's called gridlock, and it's a damn good thing.
And if Congress will not write a law, you just can't write it yourself.
But they clearly think they can.
They clearly intend to do it, and they're daring anybody to stop them.
Thank you.
They're going to do it.
There is we don't have an attorney general.
You're never going to get a special prosecutor on any of this stuff.
You're never going to get a conviction on it.
The DOJ has been as politicized as anything else the regime's touched.
There is no immediate remedy to this.
I mean, you could say, okay, well, well, we'll file a lawsuit.
Fine.
You'll you'll wait for it to make its way to the Supreme Court.
You've got years for that to happen.
Meanwhile, the regime just going to rewrite the immigration laws.
I'll tell you what's not only is is doing this bold, but to actually say it, this is the kind of thing not that long ago that if uh this this guy, Josh Ernest and uh Obama and the rest of them were contemplating this, they wouldn't telegraph it.
This is too outrageous.
Not that long ago, there'd be an outcry in the country.
You can't do that.
That's against the Constitution.
Congress writes the laws you can't.
And they would try to do it on the sly, they'd try to do it under cover of darkness.
They do the executive order and not tell anybody about it.
They just implement it and try to make the law happen when it let people figure out.
Now they're telegraphing it.
I mean, they're puffing themselves up, they're feeling their oats, they're bragging, they're saying, come stop us.
I mean, they are fully confident and arrogant, and they're daring anybody to stop them.
And they're telegraphing up front what they intend to do.
And I don't think this is just a pressure tactic.
Right?
I don't think they send Ernest out there and say, okay, look, you earnestly tell them that if they don't act, we're just gonna do it ourselves, and that that'll get them in gear.
That's not what they're trying to do.
They're hoping Congress doesn't act.
This is what I meant when I said this administration is not slowing down and it's not over.
It's just getting up to speed.
This is the kind of he's not up for re-election anymore.
He doesn't face the electorate, it doesn't matter what they think.
He's got two years, two and a half years to transform this country.
And he knows he's gonna have to do it over the heads of Congress.
He's never gonna get the House and Senate, particularly after the November elections, he's never gonna get the House and Senate to go along with him.
And yet he's still gonna do it.
They're just telling us.
It I'm I'm telling you, Nixon would have never said something like this.
He would have dreamed it.
He might have he might have mentioned it to Bibi Rabozo, who might have leaked it on Key Biscayne during a golf match, but he would have never actually said it.
These guys are out bragging about it and warning us that it's coming our way, and they're daring us to stop it.
Mexican military chopper crosses the border, shoots at agents.
This is from Tucson.
Is learned that a Mexican military helicopter traveled across the border and fired on U.S. border patrol agents.
Why is that not an act of war?
Okay, of course they apologize.
They didn't mean it.
They didn't know where the border was.
Oh, neither do we.
We can't even be sure there is one.
You know, in the break here, I'm going to go to my Google map, and I'm going to see if there is a border.
Or see if the Google guys have just erased it in advance of what's coming.
And I'm going to check the Apple map, and I'm going to see if there's still a border there.
Can't blame the Mexican military.
They don't think there's a border.
The kids don't think there's a border.
Does anybody think there's a border?
There's not a border being enforced.
Anyway, so they fly across, they fire on our border patrol, and then they make tracks back to the safety of Mexican airspace.
It happened in the early morning hours yesterday, west of the San Miguel Gate, on the Tohono O'odham Nation reservation.
Got to take a break, folks.
We'll be back here in a second.
And we're back.
Great to have you with us.
As the relates to the Mexican military helicopter crossing the border and firing on border patrol agents, some of the border patrol agents are saying that drug cartels, Mexican drug cartels, are renting these Mexican military helicopters and using them for
cover, for smuggling operations, I.E., the war on drugs, bringing drugs into the country via the southern border.
And apparently there's a story at town hall here, but it's not that infrequent.
It, uh, it happens fairly often.
Mexican military are oftentimes working hand in glove with the cartels.
Mexican military is routinely cross the border in areas that border patrol agents are actively tracking or seizing drug loads.
Inevitably, the Meican military claim they get lost, that the border was not clearly marked, or in extreme cases they fire on agents to cover their retreat, and they say, sorry, sorry, we just we got we got lost.
What a convenient excuse.
We didn't know where the border was.
What are we gonna say to that?
Now, Snerdley just said something to me, and it was it's uh this is these guys that they're worried, Rush, this this Hispanic, they're losing the Hispanic vote.
You remember that Wall Street Journal, the NBC News poll you had where Obama's supporting the Hispanic community is gone from 67 to 43 percent.
I said, Yeah, I remember that.
They're scared to death this upcoming election, they're ready.
I said, you know, you just you just can't stop it.
You look at everything to the prism of the election coming up.
You don't think Obama would be doing this without an election, he'd be doing it, whether it was an election or not.
The fact that he's not up for election matters of I said, yeah.
But Chuck Schumer, everything he's been working for is up for grabs if the Democrats lose Chuck Schumer's out and he's got nothing.
They watch why they want this done done.
There is some truth to that.
And we're back on open line Friday.
It's great to have you here.
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's pro-amnesty, FWD.us group is calling for a national day of action on Thursday to pressure House Republicans to pass amnesty legislation.
Now somebody needs to get a hold of Zuckerberg and tell him that it isn't amnesty.
His team is not to use that word.
I am the only one permitted to use that word so that Chuck Schumer can go out and say that it isn't amnesty.
And when Rush Limbaugh calls an amnesty and people end up believing it, then we've got big problems.
But it isn't amnesty, Chuck said yesterday.
That's not what we're doing.
Here's Zuckerberg out letting the cat out of the bag.
Zuckerberg's group wrote an email to their supporters yesterday, which means their donors.
This week marks one year since the Senate passed comprehensive immigration reform, and tomorrow we are mobilizing supporters like you to tell House Republicans that we can't wait any longer to fix our broken system.
It is imperative that Congress act now and not later.
That is why.
We are calling on uh reform's biggest advocates to commit to calling Congress on the day of action tomorrow and get this done.
Day of action for amnesty.
Now, Zuckerberg is Harvard, he dropped out, started Facebook.
Uh, he's 24, 25.
I mean, my question is, and I don't, I don't I'm asking this in all sincerity, and I don't mean to be impugning him.
Does this guy know anything about is he fronting?
Did they go to him?
Did the chamber go to him?
Did the powerful Democrats go to, hey Mark, let me tell you, you want to really make your business grow.
You need to join us in amnesty.
And he just is a seduced by close proximity to power, or does he actually know?
Or think he knows about it.
I'm just asking, I don't know.
Because he's spearheading this.
He has put together a group, and it ostensibly his group consists of Democrats and Republicans and conservatives and liberals.
I mean, it's the essence of bipartisan.
And I just I just wonder if and again, I I don't mean to be insulting here at all.
I mean, if any of you have 24 year olds, I mean, how many of them are out there going to war on this?
And leading efforts and raising money and all that.
Now, I know not your average 24, 25 year old does not own the biggest and did not found the biggest social media.
Is he 30?
Wow.
Okay, time flies.
This turn through.
Well, he looked just to question that I've just wondered about it.
Because I know that the pro-amnesty forces are very powerful.
And go out and would purposely try to get Zuckerberg and others in social media because they think they own the Utes.
And to get the Utes on board and turn it into a hip pop culture issue as well.
Now, here at the Hill.com, Democrats no bluff.
Obama will go it alone on emigration.
So we had Josh Ernest who told F. Chuck Todd, look, we're not going to sit around and wait for Congress to write a bunch of laws.
If they don't do it, we're going to do it ourselves.
And now from the Hill.com.
The regime is not bluffing in its intent to take executive action on immigration policy if the House Republicans don't act soon.
This from top Democrat leaders yesterday.
We were at the end of the line, said Roberto Mendez.
Democrat New Jersey is a press briefing of the Capitol.
We're not bluffing by setting a legislative deadline for them to act.
The first job is to govern.
And in the absence of governing, you're going to see executive actions.
And then Senator Dick Turbin piled on.
Well, I don't know how much more time he thinks he needs, but I hope that Speaker Boehner will speak up today.
And if he doesn't, the president's going to borrow the power that is needed to solve the problems of immigration.
Borrow the power that is needed.
So Obama is going to borrow the power that the House Republicans have.
He's going to use it and then what?
Give it back.
By the way, John, here's your power back.
I use it for amnesty.
And we got it done.
And now I'm giving your power back.
Is that how it works?
Listen to these arrogant people.
Urging the president of the United States to just go over their heads too, even though they have passed a bill.
Look how eager they are for the executive.
See, this is further evidence.
They're all in for statism.
They're all in for this kind of authoritarian pretend dictatorial kind of power.
And I'm folks, there really needs to be some serious pushback against these consistent threats because that's all these people are doing is threatening every other day.
Some of these people need to be put on notice that there will be impeachment proceedings of some of these underlings if this kind of wanton disregard for the Constitution continues.
And Obama should be put on notice too.
You don't want to go there.
You do not want to just do immigration reform with an executive order that is not going to stand.
But nobody's saying that.
Now, the remarks that Dick Durbin made and Roberto Menendez made came a day after Boehner announced his intent to push legislation allowing the House to sue Obama for what the Republicans say is an habitual inclination to overstep his constitutional authority.
There isn't going to be any lawsuit.
You know why there's going to be a lawsuit?
There isn't a court that'll take it.
There's no court that'll take it.
There's no prosecutor that'll take it.
If Eric Holder runs this system, it's not going to happen.
It would have to go all the way up to the Supreme Court.
There's nobody that's going to take it.
Boehner doesn't have standing.
So, and Boehner knows it.
Filing the lawsuit is supposed to constitute pushback.
There isn't going to be any lawsuit.
No matter how desirous Boehner actually might be for one.
Obama runs the court system with Eric Holder.
There isn't going to be any lawsuit taken up.
So the filing of the suit is supposed to tell us that the Republicans are getting serious.
That is as in your face as it's going to get.
Now, Senator Chuck U. Schumer, the third ranking Democrat in the upper chamber, said that Boehner and other Republican critics of Obama's executive actions have a very good antidote.
That's to put a bill on the floor.
If you don't like him violating the Constitution, then give him what he wants.
It's kind of like Peter Bynard saying, if you don't like the way the country's changing, then you better join us, or it's going to change even faster.
So here's Chuck Hugh at the same press conference where he mentioned my name and criticized me for calling it amnesty.
Then said, look, John, meaning to Bahner, there's a very, very good antidote to Obama doing executive actions, and that is put a bill on the floor that does what Obama's gonna do.
Join us, John, and then we don't have to violate the Constitution.
And then listen to this.
Schumer said, if they don't bring any bill to the floor, the president has no choice on a humanitarian basis, on a policy basis to act where he can on his own.
Now, in case anybody doubted that this current flood of illegal alien children was not orchestrated by the White House and the Democrats in order to ram through amnesty one way or the other, you should now know that that's exactly what happened because they're out there making a big push on it.
And I must admit here, Snerdley has a point.
Obama has lost 23 points in a year in approval from Hispanic votes.
The senators, these guys are scared to death.
Thad Cochran, notwithstanding, they know the truth of what happened in Mississippi.
They know the only way they were able to keep old Thad in office was to replicate something that is never going to happen in real life during a real election.
They're never gonna get 9% of black votes for a Republican they're never gonna get that happening in a general election.
Here's the thing about this.
Schumer and these Democrats are salivating and have been for years over amnesty.
You know it and I know it.
They have run the Senate for all these years, but they haven't run the House, and this election shaping up to be an absolute landslide debacle for the Democrats, precisely because of them and Obama.
And that's why they are impugning and ripping the Tea Party every day.
It is why they did what they did to keep old Thad in office.
It's why they're worried about what happened to Eric Cantor.
And it's now why they are converting this unaccompanied children influx at the border to a humanitarian and compassion issue.
Why, if these mean Republicans don't care enough about the children, the president must act on humanitarian ways alone, they're saying.
It's not even the Constitution that matters here.
It's the children.
It's these poor children.
And my God, we just can't leave them alone in the desert like we've got the...
Humanitarian reasons alone.
What it's really all about is getting this done before the election, because if they don't get it done before the election, not only is it not going to get done via a constitutional process, these Democrats are not going to be running their committees anymore because they are going to lose the Senate.
So there's a full court press on this.
And then Pelosi is going to the southern border, and she is going to meet some of these arriving children and be the face of America.
And the face of the Democrat Party.
Hi, boys and girls, I'm Nancy Pelosi, and I'm your nanny.
And I represent the political party that's going to provide you everything you ever want once you establish residence here in the country, which should be in about 20 minutes after I leave here and sign the papers.
And Pelosi, before leaving on this trip to meet with the children.
She's going to go to South Texas.
She's going to meet a detention center in South Texas.
She said, echoing Chucky O'Shumer, she said the humanitarian crisis unfolding across our nation's southern border demands.
Congress come together and find thoughtful, compassionate, bipartisan solutions.
We must ensure our laws are fully enforced.
What a croc.
You live to break them.
Particularly immigration laws.
There isn't one immigration law that matters that's being upheld as it should be.
We must ensure that our laws are fully enforced, so the due process is provided to unaccompanied children, and the safety and well-being of unaccompanied children is protected.
We must also uh work to address the root cause of the problem, which is the Republican Party.
And so Schumer Pelosi, humanitarian cause, they're setting up Obama's executive action on that basis right now.
Gotta do it before the election, or their opportunity they think is gone.
A cheat sheet, little cheat sheet has been found at the border that coaches illegals, including the children, how to stay in the United States, the questions they'll be asked and how to answer them.
But I want to get back to the phones.
It's been a while.
It's open line Friday, and this is Diane in Alexandria, Virginia.
Hi, and I really appreciate your holding on.
Hi.
Hey, hey, Russ, Megan Ditto.
Thank you very much.
And and Megadiddos to Mr. Snartley, too.
I just have to say he's one of the most polite people I think I've spoken with in a while.
Um I have uh a couple of observations over the last week, and I'm just curious on um your perspective on them.
The first one is I'm curious if you find it more than coincidental that within maybe ten days of Diane Sawyer's interview of Hillary, in which the Democrats probably might figure she was not handled with um the delicacy that she is normally handled with.
Suddenly Diane Sawyer is stepping down from ABC News.
I find that interesting.
And the second thing that I wanted your um perspective on is, you know, it seems that all of Obama's efforts um are to discredit Republicans, paint Republicans, um, and and do whatever he can to ensure that obviously they don't uh stay in office.
He would want nothing but a fully liberal Democrat uh Congress.
Yet, ironically, um his biggest beat supposedly with Al Maliki is that Al Maliki is not open to a um a more inclusive government.
I'm curious what you think about both of them.
Well, the the fact that Obama's a hypocrite and that liberals are hypocrites uh is is nothing new.
Now, the Iraq situation uh it is really a complicated mess.
That that country has really two major problems.
One what it is, and two where it is.
And I'll be happy to explain this in the in the next hour.
He wants Maliki out of there because Maliki has ties to Bush.
She wants his own guy in there, is basically gonna uh do his bidding.
Uh Obama already thinks he's in the he's Mr. Magnanimous.
He thinks he is the epitome of fairness.
He thinks he offers the Republicans every chance in the world to join him.
They're the problem because they reject his niceties.
They reject his willingness to sacrifice and compromise.
That's the way he honestly looks at this.
And so I I just look it.
If I, given circumstances, uh I would I would just assume there'd be no liberals in Congress if I were president, too.
And that would be my objective.
To make sure every damn one of them lost every election possible.
That's I got I totally understand that.
As to Diane Sawyer losing her job because she was mean to Hillary, I haven't seen any proof otherwise.
It's the fastest three hours in media.
Two of them are already done in the can on the way over to the Limbaugh Broadcast Museum at Rushlimbaugh.com.
But hang in there, be tough.
Because we are coming right back.
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