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July 11, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 11, 2014, Friday, Hour #3
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Well, well, well, well, well, the administration says they are now willing to work with the Republicans to pass an immigration package.
How about that?
Isn't that cool?
Like right now, the regime signals that they are ready to work with the GOP on an immigration package.
Wait till you hear the latest exclusive from Breitbart News.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line.
Yes, everybody.
Final busy broadcast hour.
Open line Friday today.
Rush Limbaugh at 800-282-2882.
And the email address, LRushbo at EIBNet.com.
Illegal aliens are being allowed to fly on commercial airliners without valid identification.
According to the National Border Patrol Council.
You think you could do that?
Let's try it this afternoon, Snerdley.
Let's head over to PBI and try to get on an airplane without any ID.
See what happens here.
This is an exclusive here from Breitbart News.
The TSA is allowing illegals to fly without verifiable IDs.
This is the Border Patrol Union, by the way, the National Border Patrol Council.
It's like the National Screeners Union that Snerdley is a member of.
You know, Moe Thacker is the union chief.
It's not a perfect union thug name.
Mo Thacker has been the head of the United Screeners Union since I started this program in New York in 1988.
The Border Patrol has a union.
It's called the National Border Patrol Council.
The aliens who are getting released on their own recognizance are being allowed to board and travel commercial airliners by simply showing their notice to appear forms.
And the spokesman has a name here.
His name is Hector Garza.
And he is the local 2455 spokesman.
He says, this is not the customs and border protection or another federal agency renting or leasing an aircraft.
These are the same planes the American public uses for domestic travel.
Said Hector Garza, this just adds insult to injury.
Not only are we releasing unknown illegal aliens onto American streets, we are allowing them to travel commercially using paperwork that could easily be reproduced or manipulated on any home computer.
Lois Lerner could even do it.
The notice to appear form has no photo.
Anybody can make one and manipulate one.
They don't have any security features.
There's no watermark.
There's nothing.
They're simply printed on standard copy paper based on the information the illegal alien says is the truth.
And these are notices to appear before an immigration judge.
And everybody knows they're not going to show up and appear.
They're going to end up in the shadows.
This is just more monkey business by the regime.
Oh, but they've all promised to show up.
They've all promised to come back and appear.
That's why we're letting them in the country.
And we give them the notice to appear form and they swear that they'll come back.
But we're not tracking them.
We don't know where they go.
Well, I'm not sure about that.
I wonder if there's a paper trail where all of these illegal aliens, not just children, by the way, they're being dispersed.
They're not in these processing centers very long.
Are being dispersed to quote-unquote families sponsors.
I read a story the other day that they're outraged in Michigan over the influx of some of these illegal alien kids.
They are being flown all over the country and apparently the border patrol union guys have said they just they're allowed on planes without any valid ID.
Spokesman Garza, Hector Garza, of the local 2455, the National Border Patrol Council, said we don't know who these people are.
We often have to solely rely on who they say they are, where they say they came from and the history they say they have.
We know nothing about most of them.
ICE releases them into the American public and now they're boarding aircraft at will with a simple paper document that anyone can easily alter or reproduce themselves.
Even if you don't do that, even if they've, even if the form they have is legit, it's still not a real ID.
We still don't know who they are.
So Breitbart wanted to see if this was real or just the the rant of one local union spokesman, and they found out that Garza was validated by the national body of the National Border Patrol Council, the NBPC, and Breitbart Texas, obtained an exclusive statement from the NBPC, and it's this,
the National Border Patrol Council adamantly opposes the decision of Department OF Homeland Security to release the illegal aliens who have been transported from the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol sector to other locations for processing.
The lack of consequences has furthered this crisis and will only continue to do so.
The fact that the Transportation Security Authority is accepting the notice to appear as a form of ID and allowing illegal aliens to travel commercially shows just how little regard the federal government has for its own immigration laws.
So I'm going to ask, since the subject keeps coming up, is this just this Obama bunch in the middle of a crisis, not knowing what the hell to do?
Is this something else?
Is this the purposeful erasure of the border?
If not erasure, is it the blurring of the border?
Is it the now?
I've been thinking about this.
I got this email from my friend who thinks, rush these people.
They finally, they're in over their head and they don't know what to do.
They're going from crisis to crisis and they don't know what to do now.
He also says at the end of his email that everything they're doing is on purpose and by design, and I know that's contradictory, but let's take the first half of this.
Okay, you have this bunch of extreme liberals who have never, there's not a one of them, folks, in a prominent administration position who really has worked in the private sector.
There isn't one.
They are all think tank types or theoreticians, faculty lounge lizards, if you will.
They don't have any experience entrepreneurally.
They don't have any experience running a business or making a payroll or any of that.
They don't really have any experience dealing with the federal government from the private sector version of it or view of it.
They're just theoreticians.
In addition to that, they're arrogant and conceited.
They think they're smarter than everybody else.
They sit around and they look all over the country and they see what they don't like about it, what's unfair and unjust, and they sit around, they theorize how they could fix it all just with the power of their intelligence and personality if they ever got power.
Okay, so now they're in power.
And everything they've tried, based on what they truly believe, let's give them the benefit of the doubt here.
Everything they fervently, they really believe that taking money from the rich and passing it around is going to grow an economy.
They really believe that taking money from the rich and big business and spreading it around, redistributing wealth is going to raise everybody's standard of living.
Let's just say that that's what they believe.
And they've been at it for five and a half years.
Let's say they believe that government spending here and government spending there is how you grow an economy.
The stimulus that's going to create jobs.
Roads and bridges are going to be repaired.
Let's say they believe all this that they're saying.
Well, they're obviously wrong because none of what they believe has worked.
None of what they have tried has worked.
Okay, so five and a half years and they are in a state of shock.
These are the best and brightest in their own minds.
These are arrogant, condescending, conceited people who think everybody else is a bunch of idiots and they have all the answers.
They can right the wrongs of culture.
They can reverse all the social injustice.
They can make everything right again.
They can make everybody equal.
They can make everything fair.
And they've been at it for five and a half years.
And what do they got to show for it?
Zilch zero nadas.
So now, what do they do?
Well, even giving them this benefit of the doubt, we are in big trouble because they don't know what to do.
Everything they believe does not work by definition, by experience, five and a half years of them doing what they believe obviously doesn't work.
Now, in their minds, they haven't yet admitted it fails.
They're still flummoxed why it hasn't worked yet.
And so now they're saying to themselves what the apologists for the Soviet Union said.
Well, you know, they just didn't have enough time and they ran out of money.
But you put the right people in charge and it would have worked.
That's what they've said about every failed socialist effort in the world.
Well, and they believe that they finally are the right people.
We're the ones we've been waiting for or whatever.
And they've got unlimited money now because they're in charge of the treasury.
And they are spending it like it's never been spent before.
And it isn't fixing anything.
It's continuing to break everything.
What do they do?
They don't know what to do.
Everything they believe in is blowing up in their face.
They automatically reject everything in the past that has worked, such as Reaganism, because it's inherently unfair, it's unjust, it benefits the rich, and there isn't any trickle dust.
They automatically reject what works because they politically, arrogantly oppose it.
So what do they do?
I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt for you, low-information voters, who also give them a benefit of the doubt and think their intentions are honorable.
No matter what, we're still where we are.
And they're either doing it on purpose or it's happened because they don't know what they're doing.
In either case, they don't know what to do next.
Now, giving them the benefit of the doubt, what is the humanitarian thing going on here with immigration?
You have to understand that the left's blurring of the borders and happily accepting the underclass of the world crossing the border.
Well, there's only a few things that could explain this.
A, they think it's the United States' fault that these people are poor.
And don't doubt that.
Remember, we are, in many ways, in their minds, a great Satan.
World superpower, we're not wealthy because of anything we've done.
We're wealthy because we've stolen.
We're wealthy because we took what was theirs and we used it and we grew powerful and wealthy and we didn't share it back.
So these people coming in, it's really their stuff.
We owe it to them.
That's being charitable.
Another way of being charitable is that, well, no, not being charitable, is that they realize that they're animals of electoral politics and they need more and more people like this registered as Democrats to keep them in power so that they can continue on their path of social justice.
I don't care how you define their motives or their actions in explaining where we are.
The one hard cold reality is they do not know how to fix this.
Even if they wanted to fix this, they do not know how.
They have never attempted it.
All they've done is sat around amongst themselves and bitched and moaned about everybody else and theorized how smarter than they are than everybody else.
And if they ever got a chance to govern, that they would show everybody how it's done.
Well, they've been doing it five and a half years and it's more broken than it's ever been.
They have no real world experience at all.
They're all academicians, theoreticians, pointy head, egghead think tank types.
They've never done, hands have never gotten dirty.
They don't know what to do.
And they reject everything that works because it's politically unacceptable.
Reaganism, free market, capitalism.
Ew, God, capitalism, ew.
It's like showing Dracula the cross.
You can't do that.
That's unfair.
People die.
People suffering and there's harm and there's no gay marriage and capitalism and blah blah blah.
So they're not going to do what works.
They've already rejected that.
They are in the middle of a slow realization that they are bombing out.
And since they've never, ever had any experience, and since what they profoundly believe to be true has never worked anywhere, i.e. socialism, communism, liberalism, it's never worked.
Woe is all of us, because what do they do?
And that's potentially very dangerous now.
What will they do?
Because now it's total CYA.
Now it's total protect Obama and the cause time.
If whatever happens, make sure it ain't Obama's fault.
Make sure that liberalism doesn't get blamed.
Make sure that socialism doesn't know whatever happens, it can't result in us getting blamed for it.
And the Republican Party is not out there publicly offering alternatives because they're afraid to.
So we're kind of stuck here because the people in charge are clueless, don't know what to do, no experience with anything that works.
Back in just a second, folks.
Back to the phones.
This is Lee, Leesburg, Virginia.
You are next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you doing?
I'm good.
Thank you very much.
Rush, I've been a longtime listener of your program, and I have noticed something, and I had an observation, and I kind of have a question related to that observation.
It seems to me since your last operation for the cochlear implant, that the repertoire of your bumper music seems to have expanded quite a bit.
And kind of two-part kind of related question is that.
Is that observation correct?
And then the second thing I wanted to know about your cochlear implant that really interests me is I'm a musician, so sound and the sculpting of sound is very important to me.
I wanted to know if you can tell with your implant the difference between tone and content.
Say, for instance, if I say to you, I love hot chocolate.
Can you tell the difference between that and I love hot chocolate?
Does that cochlear implant give you the opportunity to realize that and understand that difference in tone?
Yes.
I can understand context in the spoken word.
Yeah, when you say I love hot chocolate, I hear you say that instead of I love hot chocolate.
Oh, well, that's what I was wondering.
That's wonderful.
I mean, being a musician, I really appreciate the sculpting of sound and how it.
And if that were missing from my life, I would feel a poverty.
I have to tell you something.
Since your question about bumper music, the roster has not the official roster has not expanded.
Now, there are certain broadcast engineers who take advantage of my inability to recognize all music and bring some of their favorites in from home now and then and try to sneak into by me.
Now, as to music, this is actually, I've not explained this part.
When this program started, music was a huge part of this program.
Musical parodies, and using current music, hip, current music, and relating it to issues.
This is something we did from the very beginning of this program, and it set this program apart.
I can remember the early program drill.
What are you doing playing records?
This is a talk show.
You're supposed to be interviewing guests and taking phone calls.
What the hell are you doing playing Kennedy parody songs?
They didn't understand it for a while.
But from the moment I lost my hearing, that aspect is gone.
I can't hear current music.
I can hear it, but I don't know the melody of any song that I haven't heard before.
And lyrics are practically impossible for me unless I've got them written in front of me.
I'm talking about music I don't know.
That's one of the biggest hits this program took as a result of my losing my hearing is that the musical, I mean, during the program, not the bumpers, but during the actual program content.
Since I'm not able to recognize any current music, it's not a part of the show anymore.
And that's, to me, a big disappointment, a huge hit.
Here's Gordon in Lakeland, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
You bet.
My question is about something you said a few weeks back.
You said that the president violated long-standing contract law when he put a cap on college loan payments.
And I agree with you, but I would like to know why you did not call the Congress out on doing the same thing.
I have a college loan, and when I took it out, it was part of the contract that there were rights to refinance, bankruptcy rights.
That was part of the contract.
When Congress passed laws, they gradually stripped all those rights away from the contract.
And the U.S. Congress wrote unconstitutional law by violating the contract of the existing student loans, and there's not even truth in lending.
Students are not even told that their loans lack all these protections, which violates due process as well.
And I'd like to know why you didn't call the Congress out or if you would.
Because Obama has commandeered the student loan program.
I agree, but the Congress was wrong to remove the bankruptcy protections from the student loans of existing loans.
How would you like it if you had an insurance policy, okay, and you paid into it and all that, and it was part of the contract?
You get into a wreck, but when it came to pay out, they changed the terms of the contract.
Wait just a second now.
You've got to be very careful.
One of the things I do not do on this program as a matter of policy, do not think you are alone in the boat of being screwed, shafted, attempted to be screwed, shafted, mistreated by blank companies.
I don't have student loans.
I don't have loans, but I've got insurance policies.
And believe me, these I just make it a pro.
Nobody's going to care if I complain, and I'm not a whiner anyway.
I hate complaining, so I don't do it.
I try never to bleed on the audience, especially about personal things.
But the fact that the student loan program's been monkeyed with, it's just that if it satisfies you, I'll be glad to admit that this government has gotten way too big and exercises way too much control over way too many people and way too many aspects of their lives.
And it's worse for people like you who become really dependent on government for your money, be it a student loan or whatever.
And I really feel for you.
I wish it weren't necessary.
I'm I'm I'm just I'm genetically opposed to dependence on government for my for personal stuff.
But what are you going to do if you're on a student loan and the government runs it?
Got no choice but to have the government involved in it.
I understand.
I feel your pain.
I didn't mention Congress because they've got nothing to do with the program now.
It's being totally administered by Obama.
Here's Dan in Indianapolis.
You're next on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Thanks for taking the call, Brad.
I'm sure President Obama's laughing about this border situation because he's doing exactly what he said he was going to do.
He's getting amnesty, and he's going around Congress to do it.
And nobody in the Republican Party is pushing back because they're in on it with him.
The rhinos and our leadership are right there with him.
So they're getting what they want with actually without going to Congress.
Well, two things.
If you are, if you're bouncing off my explanation of a few minutes ago, and you might be because you said they're doing it on purpose.
I'm not denying that.
I was just trying to present an alternative list of motives because there are some people, Dan, no matter what you tell them, you can tell them and you can prove to them what you just said is true, and they're not going to believe you because they refuse to.
They just don't want to believe that their own president, not so much government, the presidency, they just don't view it that would sabotage things like the border.
No matter what, you're not.
So I was simply seeking another way of trying to reach those people.
Okay, let's assume that their motives have been okay and they've tried what they really think best.
It's still broken.
And we're in really bad shape because they don't know what to do.
The alternative, of course, is that we're right where they want us to be.
They still don't know what to do to fix this.
But your point is, there's nothing to fix.
This is the fix, as far as they're concerned.
This does right the injustice.
This does make up for all of these years of America's brutality in the world and America's unfairness and America's social injustice and America's mistreatment of minorities and stealing Mexico and stealing the country from the American Indian, the Native Indian.
This is exactly what is probably right.
But there's a certain percentage of people in this country are never going to believe it.
No matter what kind of, you could have a smoking gun memo from Obama, and they still wouldn't believe it because they don't want to.
But you still have to reach them.
Now, as to the Republican leadership, I'm not sure that this is what the Republican leadership wants.
I know that they are for amnesty.
I know that they are for immigration refair.
They're for doing something that will send the signal to Hispanics that they don't hate them.
That's their motivation.
There's another motivation, and that's campaign donations.
And the donor class, as popularized by the Chamber of Commerce, is threatening them.
If you don't do this, you cannot expect to receive any more money from us.
The Chamber of Commerce head, Tom Donahoe or Hugh, whatever, he said to the Republicans a couple of months ago: if you don't do amnesty, you may as well not even nominate a candidate in 2016 because none of us are going to give any Republican any money if they don't do this.
The pressure is on.
So the Republicans, the leadership, as you say, the rhinos, the establishment, they clearly want massive immigration, comprehensive immigration reform.
But I still draw the, I don't think they're happy with this.
But they're kind of caught between a rock and a hard place because they haven't opposed much of this.
So to come out now and do so would maybe anger the donor class.
They're kind of caught.
But I don't think they're for the erasure of the border or the blurring of the border.
But they clearly want to grant amnesty for the people that are already here.
So there's no question about that.
But I think all this is going to backfire on these people.
The Democrats and the Republicans both.
The regime thinks, and I can promise you this, the regime thinks that this endless influx is going to put pressure on the people of the country and the Republicans to pass an amnesty bill, comprehensive immigration reform.
They don't like the word amnesty.
It's what it's going to end up being.
They think this is going to pressure everybody into supporting that.
But it isn't going to cause that.
It's going to cause the exact opposite.
Because everybody, with even a smidgen of common sense, can ask a very salient question.
How does passing amnesty stop this?
You mean to tell me that the moment Obama signs amnesty into law, the parents of these kids in El Salvador are going to stop them from leaving?
You're trying to tell me the trains are going to stop dead on the tracks and nobody is going to be delivered to the southern border once we get amnesty?
There's not a person in this country that believes that.
Well, not a sensible person.
In fact, if we pass comprehensive immigration reform and Obama signs it, there's going to be more of this.
The DREAM Act is why we've got this.
A couple years ago, Obama, with a stroke of his pen while on his phone, simply altered immigration law unconstitutionally.
He granted amnesty to all illegal aliens under 16 currently in the country.
He said, you can stay.
There's not a person in the world with a smidget of common sense that does not think that that is a precursor to what's happening today.
If the president of the United States, and it's known around the world, has just automatically with the stroke of his pen legalized every illegal kid in this country under 16.
Why, that's a green light right there on the border.
Come on in.
And in fact, this was asked at the White House press briefing just this afternoon.
Fox White House correspondent Wendell Goeller.
You said that the 2008 law makes it difficult to deal with this problem, but is it not also true that the 2012 DACA executive order contributed to this problem since the child migration doubled that fiscal year and then doubled again the following fiscal year and is on track to double in the current one?
Maybe either misrepresentation or misunderstanding of the executive order, but certainly it seems to have played a part.
He's asking the press secretary, didn't the DREAM Act, didn't Obama allowing with a stroke of his pen in 2012 every illegal under the age of 16 to stay, didn't that lead to what's happening today?
What's evident is that this is a problem with a lot of different causes, and that's why you're seeing a whole of government approach to dealing with these challenges.
That includes everything from trying to deal with this problem at the source through conversations with the leaders of Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala to providing additional resources to law enforcement so that they can better handle the influx of individuals who are being apprehended on the border.
There is a lot that this government, that this administration, is focused on to address this situation.
Again, what we'd really like to see is a similar sense of urgency from Congress.
Right now, all they're saying is that they hope to get to this later this month.
I guess they're more focused on lawsuits than on actually trying to solve problems.
So, the White House press secretary didn't have nothing to do with it.
I mean, there's all kinds of conclusion for the business, nothing to do with it.
And then blames the Republicans.
Got to take a break here, folks, because of the constraints of time in the programming format.
Now, sadly, folks, that's it.
There is no more busy broadcasting, no broadcast time busy or otherwise left for this week.
We are all at the weekend, and I realize for many of you there is no such thing as a weekend anymore because there's no weekday.
I hope that changes.
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