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<\/p>\nRUSH: We go to immigration. In a remarkable turn of events, all eight Gang of Eight members voted to table the Grassley amendment, to have control of the border for six months before the amnesty kicks in. And, by the way, don\u2019t call it amnesty. It isn\u2019t amnesty. That\u2019s the latest claim from the powers that be. The Grassley amendment to the Gang of Eight bill simply said we would gain control of the border for six months before any other aspect of the bill — which is exactly what we were told was supported from the get-go. That\u2019s exactly what we were told the condition was: Border security first, or nothing. Now of course that\u2019s out the window. So is the Grassley amendment out the window with control of the border for six months.<\/p>\n
And again, this despite the sponsors having — I don\u2019t know. I thought I was promised. I thought we were all promised that enforcement would be the key here. I also thought there would be an open amendment process. There\u2019s polling data that shows the American people want enforcement first by a 4-to-1 margin. But none of this makes any sense. Try as I have, I can\u2019t understand how it makes any sense. I don\u2019t understand how the Republicans do not understand what they\u2019re doing to themselves with this. I do not understand how it is they do not see what\u2019s happening. I don\u2019t understand how they don\u2019t get what the Democrats are doing, how the Democrats are playing them. I don\u2019t get it.<\/p>\n
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We\u2019ve talked about this. The Hispanic vote was not even 8% of the electorate. There was a poll out — I mentioned this to you some weeks ago — if Romney had got 70% of the Hispanic vote — and no Republican ever has the — he still would not have won. The Republicans got 37% of the Hispanic vote back in 1984. Then in 1986, they did amnesty. Then they got 30%. They lost 7% of the Hispanic vote after amnesty in 1988 election when George H. W. Bush ran. The polling data is clear: 70% of the Hispanic voters are gonna vote Democrat no matter what. You bring 11 to 12 million new people out of the shadows, and they\u2019re — I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m missing. On the surface, what it appears is — and I can\u2019t believe this. It appears that the Republicans really do fear what the Democrats tell them, that the Hispanics hate you, the Hispanics don\u2019t like you, the Hispanics are never gonna vote for you unless you change your opinion on immigration.<\/p>\n
I try to put myself in the position of being a Republican in the House or the Senate. I can\u2019t for the life of me understand it. I don\u2019t understand how they don\u2019t see what this is going to do to their party. For the life of me, I don\u2019t understand it. Nobody has been able to make me understand what I\u2019m missing. What is the secret that we don\u2019t get? What\u2019s the secret that we\u2019re missing, that they know, that we don\u2019t know? Because, on the surface, this doesn\u2019t appear to make any sense.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Immigration. Again, to refresh your memory, what we mentioned at the top of the program, “in a remarkable turn of events,” quote, unquote, remarkable turn of events, all eight gang members voted to table an amendment by Senator Grassley that would have control of the border for six months before the pathway to whatever kicks in. The Gang of Eight and all of its supporters in the House and Senate are now claiming it\u2019s not amnesty, and don\u2019t call it amnesty. There\u2019s a pathway. There are requirements. There are fines, things these people have to do before they become citizens. It\u2019s gonna take 10 years, do not call this amnesty.<\/p>\n
Anyway, Grassley, because he sensed what was happening here, we were — folks, I think we\u2019ve been played. I hate thinking this. I hate saying it. It\u2019s one of the reasons I\u2019m in a foul humor today, because I don\u2019t know, sometimes I take things too personally. When I think that I\u2019m being played or somebody\u2019s insulting my intelligence or taking advantage of my goodwill, it saddens me, it irritates me, and here we are on the cusp things, and essentially we\u2019re told that all this talk about securing the border first, it was just that, it was just talk, and I shoulda known based on not my instincts, I mean actual things that happened, I should have known, but I held out hope that what we were being told was actually the truth.<\/p>\n
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Anyway, Grassley offers his amendment that essentially says border control for six months, secure the border, now, by the way, one of the reasons the Grassley amendment was rejected, “Well, it\u2019s gonna take years to secure the border. I mean, we could never do this if we had to secure the border first. It\u2019s gonna take six, eight, maybe 10 years,” said Senator Chuck-U Schumer. And then Harry Reid is saying forget it, we\u2019re never gonna do it. Now that we\u2019re on the cusp of the Senate passing the bill, we\u2019re never gonna have any border security, what are you people talking about? That was never part of the deal, says Dingy Harry.<\/p>\n
Anyway, despite what everybody thought was the sponsors promising that enforcement would come first, and despite polling data which shows that Americans want enforcement first by a 4-to-1 margin, all Gang of Eight members voted to table the Grassley amendment. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. Michele Bachmann, who is retiring from Congress — we mentioned yesterday that there are several in the House, and we were told all along, and I believe this, too, folks — that the whole thing here was a campaign issue for Obama, that the strategery was have immigration pass the Senate. The Democrats own the Senate, it\u2019s gonna pass there no matter what the Gang of Eight does and no matter what we\u2019re told, but it will die in the House.<\/p>\n
Obama and the Democrats want it to die in the House because once again, they want to be able to run for office in 2014 in the midterms, the Democrats want the House, and be able to campaign on the idea that Republicans are again racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes who hate Hispanics, who don\u2019t like Hispanics, want to punish Hispanics, whatever, all because the Republicans vote down immigration reform in the House. Well, a prevailing theory is, no, no, no, we\u2019re gonna get immigration reform, comprehensive, amnesty, whatever you want to call it, the House is gonna end up voting for it, and the way it\u2019s gonna happen is — well, here let Michele Bachmann explain it. We have a couple of bites. She was talking to correspondent Garth Kent on WorldNetDaily.com.<\/p>\n
BACHMANN: Don\u2019t count on the House stopping this bill. This is what\u2019s going to happen. The Senate is going to pass a very bad bill. The House will pass what will sound like a pretty good bill, but I\u2019m just here to tell you it\u2019s a Trojan horse. Those bills will go to what\u2019s called the conference committee. The good guts of the Trojan horse bill will be pulled out. The very bad amnesty provisions will be put in the bill. The bill will go to the House floor, and it won\u2019t be Republicans that pass it, it will be Nancy Pelosi leading all the House Democrats to vote for it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, but they don\u2019t have enough Democrats in the House to secure victory. They\u2019re gonna need some Republican votes for it to pass. Now, what she\u2019s talking about is, the Senate bill passes and goes to the House. The House doesn\u2019t have to deal with that; they can come up with their own bill, which they will. And the House bill, under the theory, will be a very conservative immigration reform bill that does not have amnesty in it. So you have those two bills, amnesty versus no amnesty. They go to conference. Now, who goes to conference? Well, the Senate leaders appoint their negotiators, and the House leaders appoint theirs. The theory is the House leadership will appoint conferees that are not conservative, that are not the Tea Party freshmen, and they\u2019ll get together with the Senate conferees, and they\u2019re strip out — Bachmann was saying, the Trojan horse — they\u2019ll strip out the conservative elements of the House bill and agree to the Democrat version of the bill.<\/p>\n
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That will become the one bill that both houses then vote on, and in order for it to pass the House there are going to have to be some Republicans that vote for it. Even if every Democrat supports it, that\u2019s not enough to secure passage. So the theory that\u2019s going around requires — and there is a fear that this will happen, depending on who in the House you talk to — there\u2019s a theory going around that there are some, quote, unquote, RINO Republicans who will vote for essentially the Senate immigration bill. And then, voila, it passes and it gets sent to Obama, and there you go. Now, that\u2019s just a fear right now. It\u2019s people raising red flags and warning. It could be all wet. The theory could be all wrong. It could be based in fear and not have any basis in fact.<\/p>\n
But I just want you to know, there are people who think that\u2019s the plan. And we had the sound bite yesterday of the Speaker earlier in the week saying that there will be a bill passing the House by the end of the year, comprehensive immigration reform. There will be. So that, coupled with the other strategy, is leading people to believe that a fix might be in that essentially passes the Senate version of the bill in the House, and we get whatever we get, amnesty or maybe we\u2019re not supposed to call it that. Bachmann had this to say in one more sound bite.<\/p>\n
BACHMANN: I think the master plan of the ruling class that runs Washington, DC, is to ram this bill through before the American people know what\u2019s hit them and before members of Congress even know what has hit them. I hate to tell people once again you\u2019ve gotta rise up, but I\u2019m just telling you, this is the most important bill that we\u2019re going to deal with in the next two years, and so if people are going to weigh in at all, now is the time. The republic\u2019s at stake.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. So what does that mean, republic is at stake? This is ball game. I remember people saying that about Obamacare. Now they\u2019re saying it about immigration reform. And they\u2019re both right. In the case of immigration reform, it effectively wipes out the Republican Party. ‘Cause here\u2019s what I think\u2019s gonna happen. We\u2019re told there\u2019s a 10-year waiting period for the people in the shadows to come out. They have to be identified so we know who they are. During that 10 years they can\u2019t vote. During that 10 years they can\u2019t get access to Obamacare benefits. They can\u2019t get any other benefits. They\u2019ve gotta go through the process, but we\u2019re not gonna punish \u2019em. We\u2019re not gonna deport \u2019em. We\u2019re not gonna penalize them, but they are gonna have to get in line, go through the process, 10 years.<\/p>\n
I think probably within the first two days of the 10 years, I\u2019m gonna see Senator Schumer on television talking about how unfair having to wait 10 years is. Since we\u2019ve gone ahead now and essentially legalized them, it\u2019s just inhumane, it\u2019s not who we are to make these people who have families and have been working here and have been paying taxes, it\u2019s just not fair that they don\u2019t have a voice in this democracy, or something like that. And of course others will readily agree because this will sound like it\u2019s compassion and love, sensitivity and all these wonderful chickified things that our culture\u2019s become, and, voila, there won\u2019t be a ten-year waiting period. They might be able to vote in time for the 2016 election.<\/p>\n
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But regardless, whenever they get the vote, if it\u2019s 10 years, if it\u2019s two hours, if it\u2019s five years, if there are 11, 12 million people here currently unable to vote, and they are Hispanic, and if they fit the profile that polling data gives us, a full 70% of them are gonna vote Democrats. So the numbers work out this way. If you got 11 or 12 million people here that can\u2019t vote right now, not legally, but someday will be able to, and 70% of those people are gonna vote Democrat, how in the world does the Republican Party stay — I hate using this word \u2019cause it\u2019s used incorrectly, but viable, how does the Republican Party stay viable, when they get 30% of whatever that number of millions of new people is?<\/p>\n
And here\u2019s the real question I have. If I can figure this out, why can\u2019t the Republicans? What are you missing, what am I missing in this? See, if I were a Republican in the House, or the Senate, there is no way I would want to participate in something that is going to effectively negate my party. And yet so many Republicans seem eager to do this. It doesn\u2019t make sense to me. So there has to be something I\u2019m missing. Are this many people, Republicans, this blind? Or are there this many Republicans that know something we don\u2019t know about these people in the shadows and how they intend to vote?<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t know, folks. I\u2019ve always been puzzled by the Republicans\u2019 seemingly eager to accept all this assistance from the Democrats. I just don\u2019t believe the Democrats want to help us get more votes. And the Democrats say, “You know, you guys are gonna have to change the way you are to make these Hispanics like you. You\u2019re never gonna be a viable party unless you change your attitudes on Hispanics.” The Democrats really want us to get some of their voters? This is why I will never be qualified to be in the ruling class. I\u2019m just too stupid. There are obviously some things I just don\u2019t get.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Somebody has got a theory on all of this. Edward in Leesburg, Virginia. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for having me, and hi to your audience. Rush, there is been something that\u2019s been troubling me for some time and I just wanted to run this past you. I mean, you\u2019ve been talking about what are these Republicans up to, and I have a sense, and I don\u2019t like saying this, but I get the feeling that there might be a lot of Republicans that might be happy to see the immigration bill pass in hopes of breaking up the country class or the conservative coalition, and that they would probably be happy to switch sides and become Democrats, you know, like Arlen Specter did, in order to find themselves a place in the new order.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, now, I can understand that there might be a few Republicans who would like to switch sides to be with the good guys, to not be hated, to be in the “in” crowd, to whatever, and I understand there are Republicans who want to bust up the conservative influence of the party. But what are they gonna be left with after they do that in this case?<\/p>\n
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CALLER: The only thing I thought is that, okay, maybe they want to switch parties. Maybe, you know, Olympia Snowe or something wants to jump on really —<\/p>\n
RUSH: But — (crosstalk)<\/p>\n
CALLER: — Democrats now. Maybe this whole bunch of them that just want to just move and just say, you know, this is where the power is, this is where I —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, then just do that. Why go through all of this?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I couldn\u2019t explain, except the only thing I see is that so many of these Republicans in Washington, DC, and you see them on the Sunday shows, et cetera, and they\u2019re always talking down this country. I mean, they are talking all the time. And I just feel that there is an animus that these people have against the people of this country, I mean against the backbone, the foundation of this country, and that people such as us are people who get in the way of them being who they really want to be.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I understand that. I know that that\u2019s the case. I know that there are a bunch of nonconservative Republicans. I talked about it. Didn\u2019t like Reagan. But wiping out their own party to get rid of us still doesn\u2019t make sense to me.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Maybe, folks, maybe there\u2019s a bunch of moderate to liberal Republicans who don\u2019t care about being winners. They just want to be elected and be in power. Whatever that means. Maybe they really don\u2019t care. I don\u2019t know. There has to be something we\u2019re missing.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I mentioned that Chuck Schumer said that the Grassley bill, which is six months to get the border secure before anything else can happen, Schumer said, “We can\u2019t do this in six months, gonna be years and years, 10 years, 13,” whatever it is. Here\u2019s Chuck Schumer.<\/p>\n
SCHUMER: What does this amendment do? It\u2019s very simple. It says that the 11 million people living in the shadows cannot even get RPI status, the provisional status by which they can work and travel until, until the secretary of Homeland Security says the border is fully secure. We all know that that will take years and years and years.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Exactly right. It\u2019ll take years and years and years, but that\u2019s what we were told. And we all bought it. We all believed that this was one of the requirements that our guys had before they would support this, that the border would be secure. This is where it failed the last time. We did amnesty in 1986, and they promised border security then, and there wasn\u2019t any. And the fact that there wasn\u2019t any led to whatever the number is today. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s 11 million. I think it\u2019s much more, many more. But 11 million is the number of the day, so we\u2019ll go with it. So we\u2019re back where we were in 1986. Okay, well, secure the border this time. We\u2019ve got to stop this.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ll tell you where we are now. When this happens, and if there is this ten-year, 13 year, whatever it is, it\u2019s not gonna be either of those, but by the law, Gang of Eight bill, is 13 years. In those 13 years, those people that Schumer\u2019s talking about cannot get Obamacare, they cannot get any welfare benefits, and guess what? That makes them more hirable. They\u2019re cheaper. Employers will hire the newly pathway to citizenship people because they don\u2019t have to pay a fine if they don\u2019t have health care. They don\u2019t have to give them Obamacare benefits. They don\u2019t have to provide them workmen\u2019s comp, any of that, they don\u2019t qualify, they\u2019re not citizens yet.<\/p>\n
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