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RUSH: Here\u2019s Bruce in Farmington, New Mexico. It\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network, Bruce. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, retired Predator pilot Air Force dittos for you. Thank you so much for taking my call. I\u2019ve got so much I want to talk to you about. But while I was on hold, one of the things I was thinking about was you\u2019re complaining about the bastardization of our language. One of the things I really hate is, this is America; we do not have classes here. We are all Americans and we all have the same opportunity, which plays into the main point that I called you about. This Gang of Eight bill has a built-in booby trap, and what I see is, we are developing a government-instituted subclass of Americans.<\/p>\n

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These will be citizens that can\u2019t vote and don\u2019t have some federal benefits, and that\u2019s prohibited by the 14th Amendment and the 15th Amendment. What I see Chucky and the liberals doing is they\u2019re gonna say, “Yeah, we\u2019ll buy into this. We\u2019ll do it. But we learned our lesson in the health care debate. We\u2019re gonna make sure there\u2019s a severability clause in there.” So they get it, they get it instituted, and then they immediately go to Supreme Court. They argue that previous point, and they should easily win that. That\u2019s an easy one. The Supreme Court throws out the restrictions, and all of a sudden whenever these guys are naturalized, whether it\u2019s a year or 10 years, they\u2019re complete citizens.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me walk you through this. Hold it. You\u2019ve gone through this lickety-split. I want to make sure people follow what your theory is. First off, you say the government — I\u2019d say “the Democrat Party,” you think “the government” — needs a permanent underclass. That\u2019s basically what you\u2019re saying, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, the bill will produce a government-sanctioned underclass.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Right, government-sanctioned underclass of low-information, low-education, low-skill people<\/a>.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You don\u2019t have to pay them very much. Then what you say is they\u2019re gonna grant them — they\u2019re gonna give them — amnesty and whatever else. But they\u2019re not gonna grant them citizenship right off the bat, the right to vote and this kind of stuff. Then they\u2019re gonna go sue themselves. They\u2019re gonna go to the Supreme Court and say, “Wait, we can\u2019t do what we just did.”<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly.<\/p>\n

RUSH: “What we just did is unconstitutional.” You think the Supreme Court could agree. “Yeah, what you guys did is unconstitutional. You\u2019ve got to give \u2019em benefits right now. You\u2019ve gotta let \u2019em vote right now. You have to let \u2019em have access to the welfare system right now.” That\u2019s your theory, right?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly, and they don\u2019t even have to wait until somebody\u2019s actually naturalized. Just pass the bill and then go, “Ooh, we made a mistake,” and they go to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court says, “Yeah. There are severability clauses in there. Everything else stands, but they get benefits as soon as they are naturalized.”<\/p>\n

RUSH: I can see that. Some of it, they wouldn\u2019t even have to go to the Supreme Court. All they would have to say is, “You know, it\u2019s just not fair what we just did.” I mean, these people, we\u2019ve just put \u2019em on the path to citizenship, and we\u2019ve told \u2019em they can\u2019t vote! How fair is that? Bad for us. Our bad. So, you know what? It really isn\u2019t fair. So we\u2019re gonna give \u2019em the right to vote tomorrow. We shoulda done that.” His point is that after they get the bill signed into law, then they\u2019re going to go do what they really intend the bill to accomplish.<\/p>\n

They\u2019re not gonna wait 10 years or 13 years (whatever the legislation says) for these people to acquire all these rights, benefits, or what have you. “It\u2019s not fair that they have to wait! It isn\u2019t fair they don\u2019t get AFDC. It isn\u2019t fair they don\u2019t get benefits. How can we do this to these people? What were we thinking? We\u2019re horrible! So we\u2019ve gotta correct our mistakes here. Wink, wink.” Ah, it\u2019s an interesting theory. I do think it\u2019s applicable to voting, because I think that\u2019s the main reason for doing this. You have two main reasons for doing this.<\/p>\n

You have voting (for the Democrats), and low-wage labor for everybody else. There may be a third reason, too: The Democrat Party does need a permanent underclass. They\u2019ll take it wherever they can get it, but they need it. They need a large voting bloc made up of people that don\u2019t know very much and don\u2019t have too many skills, therefore don\u2019t have a whole lot of potential, therefore have a lot of dependency. Democrats want to turn them into “entitlement staters,” if you will. Those are reliable votes every election.<\/p>\n

All they would need for this is one or two liberal federal judges to see it this way, which they could easily find. But I tell you, folks, it\u2019s not irrational at all to be thinking this way. I mean, there\u2019s always something in every piece of legislation. An unintended consequence or something pops up that nobody thought of (although they actually did, they just didn\u2019t tell you) that has to be dealt with right away. “It\u2019s a mistake that was made in our haste,” blah, blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s why the focus here in talking about this is: What do people really want? I mean, why are we doing this? Simple question: Why are we granting amnesty? Why are we providing lip service to border security? Why are we doing it? I mean, what…? If you\u2019ve got two scenarios, one scenario is that there are 11 or 12 million people here who are not legal. They have violated the law in coming. But they\u2019re here, and they\u2019re doing things. They\u2019re working or whatever they\u2019re doing. That\u2019s Situation A. Over here, “That\u2019s not right. We\u2019ve gotta bring those people out of the shadows. We can\u2019t have 11 million people here as a result of breaking the law.”<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve been getting along just fine since 1986. Well, not just fine, but why are we doing this? And you ought to hear the answers. When that question is asked, and it\u2019s not very often that it\u2019s asked, the answers are quite telling. “We\u2019re doing it to bring \u2019em out of the shadows, Mr. Limbaugh, that\u2019s why, bring \u2019em out of the shadows.” Okay, bring \u2019em out of the shadows. They\u2019re not in the shadows! They\u2019re all over the place. They\u2019re not in the shadows. “Well, it\u2019s inhumane what we\u2019re doing.” What\u2019s inhumane? They\u2019ve got health care. They can go to the emergency room, what\u2019s inhumane? They\u2019re working. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s all about voting. When you get right down to it, that\u2019s all that is being done. There are 11 million people here who can\u2019t vote. That\u2019s gotta change. However we do it, it\u2019s gotta change. And from the Democrat standpoint, we\u2019ve gotta make sure they vote for us. That\u2019s what this is about. “Mr. Limbaugh, I can\u2019t believe that you are so cynical.” Well, Mr. New Castrati, it\u2019s not cynicism. It\u2019s honest, straightforward analysis. I always ask the question why are we doing this. Why are you doing this? Republicans say, “Well, you know, we\u2019re not really getting the Hispanic vote. The Hispanics hate us, and they hate us \u2019cause they think we hate them, so we gotta show \u2019em we don\u2019t hate \u2019em.” <\/p>\n

Okay, so how are we gonna do that? “Well, we\u2019re gonna say that we\u2019re for a pathway to citizenship.” That\u2019s what they\u2019ll say. I don\u2019t think they hate us to begin with, but they may have been talked into it. There may be some genuine dislike here, but the way to fix that is not this. But it\u2019s all about voting, folks, both parties. Both parties think there are votes there. The Democrats know there are. The Republicans, they see it happening. “Well, my gosh, we better sign onto this, or they\u2019re gonna really hate us, and then we\u2019ll go for their votes later.” It\u2019s all about votes. What else could it be? Is there anything else it could really be about it? Not to me. If somebody could show me there\u2019s something else where I\u2019m wrong, I\u2019d be more than willing to listen to it.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, Chris Cillizza\u2019s point, that piece that I was sharing with you about how all of these scandals are distracting everybody away from amnesty, not here. And I just want to reiterate with all of these things that are going on, amnesty is the biggie, folks, because if amnesty is achieved, then all the rest of this is academic, and we basically have a one-party government and country for at least a generation. By the way, Chris Cillizza, even in his story, Chris Cillizza\u2019s point was that the IRS scandals were distracting talk radio from raising the alarm about amnesty. He admitted that it was talk radio that stopped amnesty in 2007. <\/line><\/p>\n

Chris Cillizza, the Washington Post. And he said all these other scandals — Benghazi, IRS — are providing cover for amnesty, got talk radio distracted, so they know where their real problems lie. Cillizza admits it. But here\u2019s the point. The amnesty bill, as it\u2019s written, or the pathway to citizenship bill, delays citizenship for a number of years. That\u2019s why you\u2019re hearing pathway to citizenship. Well, what\u2019ll happen, the theory is — and it\u2019s a good one — what\u2019ll happen is if the law is passed, then it\u2019ll immediately be challenged, that this citizenship provision is unconstitutional. You can\u2019t bring these people out of shadows. You can\u2019t grant them this. You can\u2019t do that. They\u2019re citizens now, and all you need is one Obama judge, one liberal judge, and they\u2019re not hard to find these days, and, bammo, you\u2019ve got instant citizenship, instant voting. <\/p>\n

So they know if they put this in the legislation, it\u2019s not gonna pass. So this is how they\u2019re gonna get it. Even Bob Menendez, there\u2019s a political story today, Bob Menendez, Democrat Senator, New Jersey, admits that the problem with the bill right now in the Senate is Democrats, not Republicans. They don\u2019t have 60 votes for this thing because they don\u2019t have enough Democrats for it. But he says give us time and we\u2019ll get 70 votes. Well, what the time is needed for, they can\u2019t in this bill come out and say we\u2019re gonna grant \u2019em citizenship the minute Obama signs it. Nobody, nobody will stand for that. <\/p>\n

So the trick, or the deception, is a pathway to citizenship that delays citizenship for a number of years or whatever it is — I think it\u2019s 12 or 13, but regardless — the minute that bill is signed, the next day it\u2019s gonna get challenged. Maybe even Schumer will challenge himself; who knows. But some activist group is gonna challenge the bill as unconstitutional. All you gotta do is go to a federal judge that agrees with the liberals, and, bammo, you got instant citizenship. That is the caller\u2019s theory, and it\u2019s a good one, and it probably is the strategy. ‘Cause they know, in Congress, House and Senate, the American people do not want this. We did this once in 1986. The American people may want some kind of immigration reform, but blanket amnesty they don\u2019t want.<\/p>\n

So this is the way to get it and it has the added benefit of having it done under the courts, and when it happens in the courts, it\u2019s over, you can\u2019t challenge the courts. Federal court, Supreme Court, what have you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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