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Feb. 23, 2016 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 23, 2016, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Okay, let me close the loop on something here just to because I want to move on.
I've got other I've got a whole Democrat stack here of things I want to get to.
And I'm gonna do it.
I'm not gonna get sidetracked here by a bunch of stuff I've already covered.
Greetings, welcome back, 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program.
There's a Breitbart news story October 6th, says 2016, but that's not possible because August 6th of 2016 has not happened.
So I don't I I'm assuming this is last year, August 6th of 2015, but hell, it could be 2012.
Could be anyway, here's what it says.
Marco Rubio says he wants border fence visa tracking system, but voted against both to pass the gang of eight bill.
And then from the article it says this.
When the Schumer Rubio bill hit the Senate floor, Senator John Thune offered an amendment to require the completion of a border fence.
Senator Rubio joined all members of the gang in voting against Thune's amendment to build a fence, which failed.
Likewise, with respect to the implementation, the exit entry tracking system, Senator Rubio voted against an amendment offered by Senator Vitter of Louisiana, which would require the implementation of exit entry tracking systems in order to prevent foreign nationals from illegally overstaying their visas.
This is this is all about this e-verify system and the and the e-verify card that would be handed uh out.
Uh similarly, the Schumer Rubio immigration bill did not require the immediate implementation of e-verify.
Now, what Rubio said to Bill O'Reilly is that these illegal aliens will pay a fine and pay back taxes.
Now that's the Rubio's not the only one that said that.
Uh people who have this is very hard.
I I just can't win.
Tell people what they don't know, they don't want to hear it.
But this business of leaving the country, getting back in line, paying t fines and back taxes and so forth.
It sounds good, but when the time comes, it's never gonna happen.
Let me draw you an analogy.
It's like Schumer.
Whenever they talk about amnesty, they always said, don't worry, it's not going to include citizenship.
Right, it won't.
I believe that until the next day.
After Schumer gets his bill passed that grants amnesty.
It won't be long before he finds a camera and microphone and starts talking about the mistake they just made.
And it'll be along the lines of compassion.
How could we have overlooked this, he will say, or something like it.
We have just voted a system whereby 12 million who are here can stay.
But we can't we're not gonna let them vote.
It's outrageous.
It's simply outrageous.
How could we have forgotten it?
These people have been here for who knows how many years, and they have been paying their taxes, and they've been working in America.
They have joined the military, they become full-fledged citizens every way except legally, and now we're not gonna let them vote, and that's how that'll happen.
And it'll be bleeding hard again.
Because at the end of the day, what this is, and this is the crux of the issue, and this is this is why it has been universally opposed by everybody in the Republican Party except for elected Republicans in the Chamber of Commerce.
Whatever you want to call it, some people now say don't use the word amnesty because it's lost its oomph and it actually has a negative connotation because it it's a tired, worn-out word.
Well, whatever works, the objective of the Democrat Party is to take whatever people are In this country illegally and allow them to vote.
That's all this is about.
Everything else is a smoke screen.
It's not about uniting families or keeping them united.
It's not about compassion.
It's not about economics.
It's not about any of it.
It's about expanding the Democrat Party voter rolls.
It's all it is is a Democrat Party voter registration program.
And everybody talks all around it.
I have proven it.
I have offered to support every aspect of what they call the gang of eight bill or whatever else, the amnesty, whatever.
I've offered to support it.
I've done this in person, not just on the air.
I've said I will support it if you put in a provision they can't vote for 10 years, 15, 25, 30, any number of years out, but they do not get the right to vote.
They can't register to vote for a long time.
And nobody is interested.
Anyone facing this issue head on knows exactly what this is all about.
It's about Democrats voting.
The Republicans, here we are hashing out all the ground.
The Republicans who join this have bought this notion that they can't win without Hispanic votes, can't win the White House without Hispanic votes.
And the only way they can get Hispanic votes is to prove that they don't hate Hispanics.
And the only way they are told, the only way they can prove they don't hate Hispanics is to sign on to amnesty or whatever we're going to call it now, so that the 12 million who are here can all of a sudden become legal and can vote.
And after that, magic's supposed to happen.
Hispanics are supposed to, well, you know what these Republicans are pretty nice.
You know what?
I like these guys now.
You know what?
I'm going to abandon a Democrat Party.
I'm voting Republican now.
That's what we're told is going to happen.
Except that we know that it won't.
I'm sorry to sigh, but it's frustrating.
And now we've closed the circle.
And now we're back at why Donald Trump is in the race and why Donald Trump is running away with it.
You can get as deep or as shallow in the analysis as you want.
But it's about a last chance, a last gasp effort at preserving the culture that developed after the founding of this country.
It's no more complicated than that, folks.
The country's under siege from all quarters, and recently the Democrat Party has joined those who have put the country under siege.
Now, in this instance, uh I'm not even talking about anything other than perception right now.
Candidates go out and say or do anything, the perception that people have of what they've say or do is going to largely determine the reaction.
They're not going to spend time going deep and deep into what really meant was and what really is going to have to happen before they're just going to they're going to knee-jerk react because that's that's how important the issue is.
They're not going to take any chances with it.
So if somebody comes along and says, and I'm going to deport 12 million, fine.
I hear you, and I hope to hell you're telling me the truth because I support you.
They gotta go.
I'm gonna bill a wall.
Who's gonna pay for the wall?
They go right.
They're not taking the time to ask if he really means it.
They've already decided that he does.
It's that important to a lot of people.
It's about preserving a distinctive American culture which is under assault, which is under siege.
And it's being brought to us by the Democrat Party, which is trying to register all kinds of new voters all the time because they need a permanent underclass of people incapable of taking care of themselves, incapable of providing themselves for themselves, who will always be counted on to vote Democrat to be taken care of.
And under these circumstances, People scratch their heads to this day and cannot understand why a single Republican would ever sign on to this.
And if you want to know what happens to Republicans that do, the name is Jeb Bush.
A hundred million dollars, and it may actually be a hundred and fifteen million dollars could not erase the baggage that Jeb Bush was carrying around that people assumed he was for amnesty.
It's that simple.
That's what happens.
That's where we are.
And we're also back to reminding everybody that the establishments of both parties continue to be in denial.
And maybe they're not.
Maybe they know by now how fully opposed they are.
And they've just got their backs up and are going, well, screw you.
We're still going to get what we want.
You're the serfs.
We're the elites.
We run the show.
Screw you.
You may have some temporary victories here, but uh we're going to get this done no matter how and no matter where, whether you're looking or not, we're going to get it done.
That is their attitude.
Their attitude is not, you know what the American people really don't want this, we'd better modify this.
That's not at all.
That doesn't permeate the establishment mind.
If you don't support what they want, you have to be taken care of.
You have to be defeated, you have to be rendered irrelevant, you have to be cast aside, whatever.
It's that polarizing an issue.
And nothing's changed on it.
And I have a little headline for you here.
New York Post.
The New York Post is reporting new legislation is being pushed that would give illegal aliens the right to vote in certain New York City elections.
The proposal was recently discussed at a black and Latino legislative caucus event in Albany.
And according to the New York Post, it's winning support from the city's black and Hispanic activists.
New York conservatives oppose this attempt to boost the Democrat Party enrollment.
New York State Conservative Party Chairman Mike Long threw cold water on the idea.
But if this thing were to succeed, here are the numbers.
This proposal to grant illegal aliens in New York City the right to vote would result in 1.3 million new voters, non-citizens voting.
Undocumented.
In the 2017 elections, they'd be able to vote for mayor, controller, public advocate, borough president, and city council.
1.3 million non-resident, non-citizen residents, about 500,000 of whom are undocumented, would be able to vote.
That has been proposed in New York City.
Not federal elections, just New York City elections.
But it's already underway, you see, folks.
So discussions of, well, if we make the border secure and then no, no, no, no, no, no.
We don't have time for that.
We're on the cusp of losing the country.
That's why the anger, that's why the fear.
It's not just immigration, but it's the biggie.
There's all kinds of other associated ancillary issues that comprise this.
There's some other things to add to it.
Just to adds a couple of exclamation points.
Daily caller, almost 60% of Democrats think socialism is great for America.
Remember what this is about now.
This is about preserving the original American culture.
And make no mistake, it's under siege, it has been for a while, and it's losing.
A clear majority of Democrats believe socialism has a positive impact on society, according to a poll by the American Action Network.
The political and economic system that has never worked, that wreaks havoc across the world from Venezuela to North Korea to Cuba to communist China is enjoying widespread support in the modern Democrat Party.
Socialism is a fraud.
It's never worked, but it's seductive.
A telephone poll of 1,000 likely Democrat primary voters found that when capitalism and socialism are polled head-to-head, socialism won by 15 percentage points.
Just 25% of respondents saying they favored capitalism.
This is not a poll of college students, folks.
These were likely Democrat primary voters.
In other words, a Democrat base.
Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are not the radical fringe, the Democrat Party.
They represent rank and file mainstream Democrats now.
That's just one poll.
There is yet another poll.
This one is a poll fielded by of a Republican firm called On Message Incorporated.
And it basically has the same results.
Starts out maybe Newsweek was right some time ago.
We are all socialists now.
Democrat voters, every age group, every gender, every race view socialism favorably.
According to the poll.
This is within the Democrat Party.
And I saw on television the other day a uh a woman, a Democrat being interviewed about this very thing.
And the reporter expressed shock.
And the Democrat woman, she's in her 40s, she said, Why?
We have socialism now.
And she listed off the things.
We got Medicaid, we have Obamacare.
Um, and she lifted up all kinds of federal programs that to her we have socialism now, and I like it.
It's it's taking care of my family.
Why why would I answer a poll question?
No, I don't like socialism.
We're living under it.
Democrat voter.
Just an average woman on the street.
But that's not even the worst.
There's another question in this poll.
Please tell me if you agree or disagree with the following statement.
Most of the media in our country is controlled by corporations who are more interested in profits than telling the truth.
Before a corporate-owned media entity covers a campus rally for racial equality, they should first prove they are not biased against the content of the rally.
A majority voted yes.
That before the media can be allowed to cover an event, they must be educated on it and agree with the premise of the protesters.
Otherwise, they won't be allowed to cover it.
Majority of Democrats support that.
And I imagine if you find a Democrat on the streets and you really, well, yeah, that's the situation we got now.
Everybody knows the media is on our side.
Why should we change that?
Why would we give up the media being on our side?
Why should I give up my Medicare?
Why should I give up my Obamacare?
We got socialism now.
Quick time out, we'll be back.
Don't go away, folks.
Sit tight here.
And back to the phones.
Pam and Brentwood.
Uh okay, Pam, now you uh get your two cents in on this.
Okay.
Go ahead.
Well, you you said a lot.
And if I'm going to be completely honest, because I think that's what we all need to be at this stage of the game, I was not aware of the entire gang of eight bill.
I did not know the details and how you explained them and the votes that Mario and and the gang took.
But I will say this, Rush.
We are on a precipice and we have got to face reality.
And as you've mentioned and said on your program many times, there is no perfect candidate.
And this election, we need somebody who can bring this country together and not divide it like the current candidates are.
I'm speaking of Donald Trump.
I feel like he's exploiting the American people and their anger.
I'm angry, too.
When I interrupt you here for a second, and don't worry, you're gonna have your full time, but I've got to stop you on something.
I uh this whole notion of of working, you know, bringing the country together, uh, we're way past that.
We're never we're not we're not gonna unify with the liberal democrats.
We're not there's there's no candidate out there that can forge a kumbaya.
These people have to be defeated, Pam.
They have they have to be they don't there's no unity here.
There never really has been in this country.
Anyway, it's always been a contest for Hooper.
Well, let me ask you this question.
Do you truly believe truly with every ounce, every every fiber in your being that they that we can defeat truly defeat the mindset that is now occurring in our country?
Do you not think that we have kind of crossed the line now where we're going to have to find a candidate that I'm as conservative as you're going to get.
And I understand now that I have to be realistic with who I think can actually win and defeat Hillary Clinton in November.
Right.
And uh and and you even shared a while back the the candidates now, if you would get Kasich out, you would get Carson out.
If you would get one of those out, those votes most likely their negatives of Donald Trump surpassed.
No, other people are are saying that.
I I I haven't.
Well you were reciting polls or whatever.
Right, right.
Nobody knows.
Uh we do have a preliminary indication, some Jeb Bush voters are going to Trump, but uh there's not enough days that have gone by for that to be known.
I've got to ask you to hold it.
We'll continue the conversation here, Pam, after the bottom of the hour break here.
Because this is important.
Uh this whole business of there's two things I want to tackle with you here.
Now back to Pam and Brentwood, Tennessee.
Hey, then the two things.
You you said I want to be understood on this.
You you said uh that we you need to have somebody we bring the country together.
And a lot of people talk about bringing the country together, unifying us, making uh factions of people who disagree somehow come together.
I don't think that that's gonna happen.
We're too divided.
And they're not interested in it, Pam.
The people on the left, they don't want to reach common ground with us.
We are gnats to them.
Or worse, we are the gestapo to them.
We're Nazis to them.
We are whatever standing in the way of whatever they want.
These people have to be defeated.
They have to be overwhelmed.
And then after they're defeated, they cannot be allowed to bully whoever wins into cowardice and caving in.
It's going to be tough.
Winning an election is just the tiny first step after we win the election, it's gonna take perseverance to prevail over all the attempts to subvert the winners of the election and to corrupt what's going on, knowing they still own a lot of the bureaucracy.
But if if if if you believe in a certain cultural America, it's under siege.
There's nothing to join with on the other side in preserving it.
They want to tear it down, transform it, and rebuild it.
They have to be defeated.
This is why the Republican Party's worthless.
They don't even think this way.
The Republican Party's thinking about showing they can work together, they can cooperate, make Washington work.
Sorry, we're so past that.
We're so far past that it's irrelevant.
We're talking about holding on and preserving the country as founded.
And it's gonna be really, really hard.
The second thing is Rush, and this is not just you.
Rush, we can't defort 12 million people.
We're never gonna who says all that is is a conversation stopper.
We are the United States of America.
Who says we can't get rid of people who are here illegally?
It's not a question of we can't.
It's a question of do we have the resolve to?
Do we have the desire to?
Does it make sense to do it?
Are we gonna do it?
And and believe me, even if we win on this, the people opposing it are gonna be firing ammo at whoever wins, like you can't believe.
But if we're serious about stopping this transformation of America, it isn't gonna be easy.
And winning an election is not gonna send a signal to the other side to stand down, you lost.
They don't look at it that way.
It's this this is a this is a fight between socialism and capitalism, freedom versus tyranny, however, you want to care.
There isn't any overlap.
The only things that we may have in common with them are what people want for their families, but we can't even agree on the definition of a family with half of these people.
So I I don't th I don't I don't think all the the putting our hands together and coming together and unifying and working and making the country uh uh come together and and common ground, that's we're so far past that.
If we're if we're serious about what we want, we're and I didn't mean to be touchy-feely when I was referring to that.
I think there's a way you can unify people, and we know we well, we know there is because um his name was Ronald Reagan.
And I feel like we have been given a gift, the Republican, the conservative movement, whatever you want to call it, we've been given two gifts, and they are Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
And if this is not the time where we can bring a candidate who has this qualities as much as we can look for them in a candidate on our side right now, to win this election, I believe we will start seeing a shift in tone, and we will start converting mind.
Listen, I was at Mario's um rally in Franklin, Tennessee this past weekend.
And there were supposedly going to be just a thousand people and it they had to open it into the parking lot.
There were around five to six thousand people, that was their estimate.
He was the closest thing that I have ever experienced to Ronald Reagan and in my entire adult life.
And and I just feel like that argument that we can't start bringing people to our side in quotation marks is not valid right now because we are now in a great position, because there are so many.
You are look, you're I'm I'm not even making this about Rubio or any candidate right now, but you're making my point.
You're citing the 80s in Reagan, and you mean his landslide victories is bringing people together.
Well, then why aren't we still together?
What the hell happened?
Two landslides.
We had the greatest economy the country's known in our lifetimes.
We had low unemployment, we had burgeoning job growth.
We had we had individual and personal wealth that was going like crazy.
We brought down the Soviet Union.
Why are we still not unified?
How did the left tear that down?
Because they sure did.
Because even when Reagan was bringing everybody together, they didn't stop.
The Democrats in Congress were aligning with Soviet communist client states in Central America and Grenada and wherever else they could find to undermine Ronald Reagan.
Teddy Kennedy was going to the Soviet Union and telling Soviet leaders, do not fall for anything Reagan does for you.
Reagan is a trick, Reagan's a bad actor, whatever.
They were doing everything they could to undermine Reagan during his entire eight years.
They hated Reagan as much, if not more so that they hated George W. Bush.
Because Reagan was more successful than George W. Bush.
It was brutal.
It was vicious.
And if the country had been brought together, and if the country during those eight years had actually learned that it was conservatism and Reaganism that led to all of that bounty and the end of the Soviet Union, the Democrats would have never stood a chance.
They would have been ended.
But it was just four short years later, and here comes Bill and Hillary Clinton.
And why?
Because the next president got rid of Reaganism.
The next president started making deals with the Democrats to show that we can do deals, to show that we're nice guys, to show that we can get along.
We had the greatest economic circumstances in our lifetimes, and the Democrats were not interested, Pam.
They didn't want to participate.
Because it left them out of power.
It's not about a great country to them.
It's not about the American people doing the best they can do for themselves.
That's actually bad news for the Democrat Party.
Because all that means people don't need government.
People don't need the Democrats, people don't want them.
They're not dependent.
Bad, bad news.
Can't have that.
Why do you think Ted Kennedy decided to reinstitute amnesty and illegal immigration during Reagan's second term?
They had to undermine it somehow.
And we went along with it.
Because we accepted a promise that we would secure the border.
And those three million in 1986 would be it.
And here we are, talking 12 million, which I think is probably closer to 15 or 20 million.
In the midst of abundance, in the midst of economic prosperity, like we hadn't known since the post war boom, the Democrat Party was trying to tear it down and succeeded.
There isn't Jesus Christ running that's going to unify everybody.
And I hate to say Jesus Christ didn't either.
Unity is one of these things that sounds wonderful.
Sororities love it.
Fraternities pretend to love it so they can get inside the sororities, but it's nothing more than a dream.
This is a world governed by the aggressive use of power, the aggressive use of force.
And if you want to maintain both, you have to fight for it each and every day.
It's never permanently won.
You never permanently convert people.
Even average ordinary Americans in the 1980s who ended up having economic prosperity they'd never known were talked out of it in four short years.
We're convinced it was phony.
We're convinced it was a party that we didn't deserve.
We ran up all these deficits, which was a lie.
We ended down start paying it back.
Sam Donaldson and ABC News, we got a big credit card bill here, folks, because of the Reagan 80s, and we got to pay it back.
BS.
That's what we've got now.
The deficit was coming down with Reagan.
The national debt was stagnant.
It wasn't growing under Reagan.
Well, it was, but it was the deficits eventually were brought under control.
And in 1994, we actually balanced a budget for the first time in my lifetime.
And all that's gone.
Because we have not had a Republican Party that accepts conservatism and fights for it and preserves victories when we get them.
So every day.
Have you ever noticed what we talk about?
We talk about stopping things.
Every Republican think tank...
Every conservative media, whatever organization, including the show, every day, is devoted to how do we stop them.
We don't have time to get around to what we want to advance.
We're too busy stopping.
They're not talking about stopping anything.
They're on the march.
They're on the march and succeeding with things that 10 years ago you would have never thought would ever happen.
Gay marriage.
Today you can walk into in a lot of cities, you can walk into any bathroom you want, claiming you're a transgender, and you decide to present mail that day.
So you walk into the ladies' restroom.
That's becoming a matter of law.
Ten years ago, you'd have been laughed out of this country if you'd have thought that would ever happen.
They are not stopping anything.
Except us.
But they're on the march advancing each and every day.
We talk about stopping things.
Now you can correlate all this to the current presidential race.
And maybe answer some questions you have about why how people are doing, not doing well, doing poorly, or what have you.
Because the American people, I've just described how they feel about all this.
Mine is the most common view.
Everything I just said is what a majority of conservative-oriented cultural Americans believe.
They're scared to death over this.
They're frustrated, they're ticked off, they're angry.
They want to do more than just stop something every day.
They're tired of being overrun.
They're tired of not having allies in the centers of power where this stuff can be stopped.
It's not hard to understand.
But it is.
Because once you accept the task at hand and what has to happen, it's winning the election.
That's the equipment being born, and we're an infant.
And we've got people coming at us.
They're going to try to wipe us out and eliminate everything and pretend it didn't happen.
Corrupt, sabotage, undermine whoever the next president is, and whoever's running the next Congress, and whoever nominates the Supreme Court justice, if it's a conservative, you have no idea what's going to be brought to bear.
We're going to need people with such backbone and guts and steel and iron to hold up and to withstand what's going to come at them.
You can't even imagine it.
But it's what's going to happen.
So it's all of that That informs me each and every day here, folks, as to what happens on this program analyzing what's going on out there.
This is for keeps.
This isn't about unifying, getting along.
They're not interested in it.
And what do you want to get along with them over?
What about their agenda do you want to embrace?
I have to take a break.
I'm a little long.
And that's it, folks.
Sadly, uh, we uh we blew through what I had planned for the last hour, but it worked out.
And can always do it tomorrow.
Stuff left, there's still lots here, so we'll see you then.
Thanks so much for being with us today, folks.
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