{"id":23478,"date":"2006-04-07T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:30:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T06:30:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T06:30:14","slug":"america_wins_elites_lose_on_immigration2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2006\/04\/07\/america_wins_elites_lose_on_immigration2\/","title":{"rendered":"America Wins, Elites Lose on Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Now, folks, how about the immigration breakthrough bill from yesterday? Yeah, what happened here, folks? Why, this thing was slam-dunk! McCain and Kennedy and Hagel, why, it was a slam-dunk! It was going to happen. All this media hype. All the attention on this hole-in-the-wall gang that had their private meeting on Wednesday night. It was Hagel, Mel Martinez, Specter, vice president Lindsey Graham, yeah, and Bill Frist. They had crafted this compromise, and, boy, we\u2019re going to get the immigration bill, we\u2019re going to get this out, and we\u2019re going to make America what America always has been.<\/line>We\u2019re going to make America real again. The truth is, they never had a chance. I told you yesterday, what about George Allen? Is anybody talking to him about this? Or Jeff Sessions, or Jon Kyl, are anybody talking… and, lo and behold, they should have been talking to them because they would have found out that there wasn\u2019t one of them that was going to vote for this thing. This thing in a test vote goes down to an embarrassing defeat, 38-60, it lost. And the people on the side of 38 (Laughing) they\u2019re claiming that they\u2019ve been cheated, well, not that they\u2019ve been cheated, but it\u2019s just not right, because they bought the media hype, too. This is a classic illustration — along with this idiotic hysteria on the nonstory of Bush authorizing Libby to go say something to a reporter, can you imagine a president would do that? How scandalous.<\/line><\/p>\n

Media is off touch on that, out of base, and certainly on this immigration story, because they think four people run the Senate: McCain, Hagel, Graham, and Specter, and whatever those people tell them, by God, that\u2019s what the Senate is going to do. The media, drive-by media out there pushing this. They were pushing for McCain and Graham and Hagel. They all but ignored the overwhelming majority of senators. Didn\u2019t even seek them out, didn\u2019t even talk to them, didn\u2019t even go find out, “What do you think about this, Senator Kyl? What about you, Senator Sessions, what do you think of this?” No, just assume if McCain is behind it, why, it\u2019s magically going to happen. And they\u2019re out there all promoting the Democrat position as well. I\u2019ll tell you what I think. I think that even McCain and vice president Graham saw this thing was going to get killed, they knew it. So they have come up with a face-saving act. All this talk about, “Well, the Democrats wouldn\u2019t let any amendments be added, that\u2019s what killed it. The Democrats killed it procedurally.” <\/line>They didn\u2019t kill it procedurally, this thing was dead on substance. This thing was as dead on arrival as the Reagan budget was when Tip O\u2019Neill was the Speaker of the House. It doesn\u2019t look like a single Republican voted for this thing, not a single one. So what we have here, the people, you, won, the elites in Washington lost. George Allen, Kyl, Jeff Sessions, Cornyn, they\u2019re the big winners. We appoint our winners rather than the media, folks. That\u2019s what I mean about going on offense. It\u2019s like Tom DeLay said to me on the phone the other day. He said we allow the Democrats to pick our leaders in the House of Representatives because we came up with this asinine law that says if anybody in the leadership is under indictment, they have to quit the leadership. The Democrats don\u2019t have such a law. The Democrats are always pressuring Republicans, and Republicans say, “Okay, look Democrats, we will be fair as the majority. And if you indict one of us, then we\u2019ll leave.” And so they cooked up this thing with Ronnie Earle. <\/line>I\u2019m not going to sit here and let the media pick the people I think leave the Senate. Because apparently in this instance the people that the media has anointed as the leaders didn\u2019t get the job done. Here are the big losers: McCain, Graham, Specter, Hagel, Martinez, Frist, maybe even Sam Brownback. Those are the losers. This is a loss, folks. They\u2019re trying to hide behind the fact the Democrats wouldn\u2019t let any amendments, but this thing went down because they probably heard from you yesterday.<\/line><\/p>\n

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