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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 Barron Nouri 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.
Nouri al-Maliki even says that Iraq was deluded, deluded when they signed the contract with the U.S. Deluded, what does he mean?
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 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 press conferences.
Well, no, he had an announcement 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 in 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 going to send me some jets.
So I'm going to take them.
I mean, we're sending the Iraqis right into the waving arms of the Russians.
Could it be, ladies and gentlemen, that what we're doing here is actually just giving Iraq to the Russians?
Maliki's out there.
He's all excited now.
Now he's going to get the Russian jets.
He's saying that the Russian jets are going to turn the tide.
He's really popped up here.
He thinks, or hopped up.
He thinks that the jets that the Russians are going to send him are going to do bombing raids on ISIS are going to 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 back 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, I mean, he's happy.
He's not there.
He's in the 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 going to get it.
They're Russians.
Iraq is going to...
Where else is it?
Yes, they are friendly with Iran already.
Where else is it going to end up?
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 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 concluded, according to the 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 Camerada 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 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 traveling alone caught crossing the Mekin 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 Clearinghouse.
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 could get that wrong.
Yeah, it's a zero in a couple of commas.
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 wrong.
I mean, it's actually 51 million.
We were wrong there, but what's the difference?
It's just a one versus a five.
Big deal.
White House Press Secretary Josh Ernest.
We are not just going to 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 disposable or disposal, using his executive authority to try to address some of the problems that have been created by our broken immigration system.
Look, 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 that 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.
They're going to do it.
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, we'll file a lawsuit.
Fine.
You'll wait for it to make its way to the Supreme Court.
You've got years for that to happen.
Meanwhile, the regime is going to rewrite the immigration laws.
I'll tell you what's not only is doing this bold, but to actually say it, this is the kind of thing, not that long ago that if Josh Ernest and 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'd do the executive order, not tell anybody about it.
They just implement it and try to make the law happen when it'll 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.
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 going to 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 reelection 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 going to have to do it over the heads of Congress.
He's never going to get the House and Senate, particularly after the November elections.
He's never going to get the House and Senate to go along with him.
And yet he's still going to do it.
They're just telling us.
We're not just going to sit around and wait for it.
I'm telling you, Nixon would have never said something like this.
He would have dreamed it.
He might have mentioned it to Bibi Rebozo, 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.
Eyeball News 4 in Tucson has 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.
Well, 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.
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 Tojono Odom Nation reservation.
Got to take a break, folks.
We'll be back here this second.
Hey, 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 that's not that infrequent.
It happens fairly often.
Mexican military are oftentimes working hand in glove with the cartels.
Mexican military has routinely crossed the border in areas that Border Patrol agents are actively tracking or seizing drug loads.
Inevitably, the Mexican 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 said, sorry, sorry, we just, we got, we got lost.
What a convenient excuse.
We didn't know where the border was.
What are we going to say to that?
Now, Snerdley just said something to me, and it was, it's, these guys, they're worried, Rush, this, this Hispanic, they're losing the Hispanic vote.
You remember that Wall Street Journal, the NBC News pulled you hand?
Where Obama's support in the Hispanic community has gone from 67 to 43%?
I said, yeah, I remember that.
They're scared to death this upcoming election.
And I said, you know, you just can't stop it.
You look at everything to the prism of the election coming up.
You don't think Obama'd be doing this without an election?
He'd be doing it, whether there's an election or not.
The fact that he's not up for election matters to life.
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.
That's why they want this done.
And 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 it 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 wake 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 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, he's Harvard, he dropped out, started Facebook.
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 seduced by close proximity to power, or does he actually know or think he knows?
I'm just asking, I don't know because he's spearheading this.
He has put together a group, and 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 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 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 turned through.
Well, he looks just a 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 they get the Utes on board and turn it into a hip pop culture issue as well.
Now, here at theHill.com, Democrats, no bluff, Obama will go it alone on immigration.
So he 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 theHill.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 at 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 used 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 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.
Everybody, 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.
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's going to take it.
Boehner doesn't have standing.
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 Beinhardt 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 Yu at the same press conference where he mentioned my name and criticized me for calling it amnesty.
Then said, look, John, meaning to Boehner, 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 going to 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 going to get 9% of black votes for a Republican.
They're never going to 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.
They haven't run the House.
And this election is 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 incomparison 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 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 Chuck Yo Schumer, 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 crock.
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 that due process is provided to unaccompanied children and the safety and well-being of unaccompanied children is protected.
We must also 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.
Got to 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, Rush, Meghan Dittos.
Thank you very much.
And Megha Dittos to Mr. Snartly, too.
I just have to say he's one of the most polite people I think I've spoken with in a while.
I have a couple of observations over the last week, and I'm just curious on your perspective on them.
The first one is: I'm curious if you find it more than coincidental that within maybe 10 days of Diane Sawyer's interview of Hillary, in which the Democrats probably might figure she was not handled with 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 perspective on is: you know, it seems that all of Obama's efforts are to discredit Republicans, paint Republicans, and do whatever he can to ensure that, obviously, they don't stay in office.
He would want nothing but a fully liberal Democrat Congress.
Yet, ironically, his biggest beef, supposedly, with al-Maliki is that Al-Maliki is not open to a more inclusive government.
I'm curious what you think about both.
Well, the fact that Obama is a hypocrite and that liberals are hypocrites is nothing new.
Now, the Iraq situation It is really a complicated mess.
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 next hour.
He wants Malachi out of there because Malachi has ties to Bush.
He wants his own guy in there.
He's basically going to do his bidding.
Obama already thinks 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 just look at if I, given circumstances, 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.
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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