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RUSH: The big news, of course, ladies and gentlemen, continues to be the battle being waged in the Senate over illegal immigration. Major, major, major progress. ‘Heeding conservative demands to shore up the southern US border to prevent illegal immigrants from freely crossing into the country, the Senate voted yesterday…\u2019 We got the news of this right at the end of yesterday\u2019s program. As soon as the program was over, I saw the story. They\u2019re going to build a 370-mile fence, triple layered. The vote was 83-16, including the votes of Chuck Schumer and Hillary Rodham Rodham. They voted. They were among the 83 to add the fencing and 500 miles of vehicle barriers along the southern border. <\/p>\n

‘Construction of the barrier would send a signal that open border days are over. Good fences make good neighbors. Fences don\u2019t make bad neighbors,\u2019 said senator Jeff Sessions. Dick Durbin said a lot of stupid things. Among them, ‘What we have here has become a symbol for the right wing in American politics. Our relationship with Mexico would come down to a barrier between our two countries.\u2019 We have other comments from Durbin as well. Now, the story also has this little paragraph. ‘Earlier in the day, the Senate unanimously approved an amendment that says legal or illegal immigrants who are convicted of a felony or three misdemeanors unrelated to their residency status will be deported immediately. Those convicted will be permanently barred from the guest worker program or any chance of getting on a path to U.S. citizenship.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Now, what is this? We need an amendment requiring the deportation of alien felons? ‘Rush, aren\u2019t you willing to take what you can get here? Good news on the fence.\u2019 Folks, we\u2019re moving the chains here. The ground is being covered at a rapid pace; still a long way to go on this, but this is patently absurd. Isn\u2019t that already a law, for crying out loud? How many times are we going to rewrite laws? How many redundant laws are we going to have in this country? It\u2019s amazing. I guess we have to write new laws because we don\u2019t much mind people violating current laws. What\u2019s going to happen when they just ignore all the new ones? <\/p>\n

You know, without some serious enforcement mechanisms in here, there\u2019s no reason for anybody to obey the law. Now, my question is, could we deport rogue senators? If they happen to get in some… Never mind. I don\u2019t even want to go there. They\u2019ll be able to get back in and haunt us, jump the fence or what have you. Now, a couple things here to illustrate the point that we are in the process of moving the chains and winning. There are two interesting columns today. David Brooks in the New York Times — the man whose work I have often cited and praised; I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever been critical of Mr. Brooks — and also a piece by the Creators Syndicate, Alan Reynolds, a man I also respect, his work, particularly in economics, has been highly instructive for me. But these two pieces put together, I want to analyze them for you, the piece is found on Townhall. Let me start with Alan Reynolds first.<\/p>\n

He says: ‘I\u2019m not a big talk show fan, but I happened to catch Rush Limbaugh interviewing Vice President Cheney about the recent presidential address on immigration.\u2019 Now, I\u2019m not a big talk show fan? Why did he throw that in there for? Well, because you can\u2019t have people thinking that these people inside-the-Beltway and part of GOP elite actually listen to talk radio. It had to be an accident. ‘Limbaugh\u2019s key statement or question was this: ‘The compromise bill we\u2019re being told is Hagel-Martinez, two Republicans proposing this bill. Robert Rector at Heritage and (Alabama Republican) Sen. Sessions, who I know you respect, both did joint analyses of this bill, and what they project using conservative estimates is anywhere from, over the next 20 years, 110 million to 217 million legal immigrants entering the country, and illegals as part of that number, being granted legal status. <\/p>\n

”What is the public policy purpose for doing that in these kinds of numbers?\u2019 Vice President Cheney appeared unaware of these ‘conservative estimates,\u2019 so he asked, ‘These are people who would attain legal status?\u2019 Rush answered: ‘No, this is a combination of both. This is an increase in the number of legal immigrants, as well as added to illegals who would then be made legal over that 20-year time frame. It also allows for exponential growth because these people would be allowed to bring in their family members, as well.\u2019<\/p>\n

Mr. Reynolds then says, ‘Rush is a very smart fellow, and his comments on economic issues normally range from astute to brilliant. But these numbers are not ‘just striking,\u2019 they are patently absurd,\u2019 the 117 to 217 million over the next 20 years. He said the numbers are just ‘patently absurd. Regardless whether the bill in question (S.2611) is better or worse than other immigration bills, to suggest it would, could or even might permit legal immigration to average between 5.1 million and 10.9 million per year is nothing more than a cheap parlor trick.\u2019<\/p>\n

All right, those three paragraphs, they stand alone. I\u2019m not going to spend a lot of time analyzing them, but ‘very smart fellow…comments on economic issues normally range from astute to brilliant,\u2019 but the fact that I bought into these numbers, gotta question my sanity now or my intelligence, because this is just not possible. Mr. Reynolds then says, ‘The larger estimate of 217 million legal immigrants by 2026 implies that annual legal immigration under S.2611 would be almost 12 times larger than its current rate of about 950,000 a year (plus at least 400,000 illegal immigrants).\u2019 He says that, ‘Nobody could possibly believe legal immigration is suddenly going to jump from about 1 million a year to nearly 11 million, so the 20-year average of 10.9 legal immigrants per year necessarily requires annual immigration much larger than 10.9 million in the future — larger, in fact, than 25 million a year. <\/p>\n

‘If the idea of Congress allowing 25 million legal immigrants per year is starting to sound unbelievable, that is because it is. The trick involved is aptly called ‘the magic of compound interest.\u2019 The original version of S.2611 would have allowed the number of temporary guest workers (initially set at 325,000 a year) to increase by as much as 20 percent in any given year, but that was a ceiling, not a norm. Congress could also reduce the number. The bill\u2019s sponsors have, in fact, reduced the proposed number of temporary six-year work visas to 200,000 (only about half the number of uninvited guests). When people talk about illegal workers ‘moving to the back of the line,\u2019 that would be the length of the line (which is currently almost non-existent).\u2019<\/p>\n

<\/a> Now, a couple of points on this. Mr. Reynolds is striking here at the high side estimate, the 117 to 217 million illegal immigrants and ignoring completely the low side or even conservative estimate of between 80 and 90 million under the original bill. Now, I don\u2019t know how many of you have been involved in negotiations, but the idea that you might suggest in a bill — and, by the way, these numbers were not specified. They had to be analyzed. If this bill were enacted, signed into law, and every provision of it carried out, that is what would happen. Not to say it was the design. Of course, the people that wrote the bill knew it was going to be analyzed that way, and you have a number like 217 million, well, it\u2019s absurd. So you reduce it.<\/line>Okay, fine. Sessions got them to reduce it a couple days ago, and now the range is 60 to 90 million. Well, that\u2019s still an incredibly high figure, and yet it\u2019s being portrayed as a “victory.” It\u2019s a typical negotiation ploy. Everybody has throwaways in them. So “the magic,” as Mr. Reynolds puts it, isn\u2019t “compound interest.” It\u2019s extended family. The bill not only hugely increased legal immigration, but it expanded the number and kinds of family members who would qualify for legal status as well. Now I would imagine, folks, that back in 1986, the last time we did this, when less than three million illegal immigrants were granted amnesty, it would have been unbelievable to think that at least four times as many illegal aliens would come to the country in 20 years, but that\u2019s exactly what happened. <\/line>You know, we legalized a little over three million in 1986, granted them amnesty, said, “All right, fine. We\u2019re going to fix the problem. Now the number is up to 12, some people say 20, million. It can\u2019t happen? It did! It did happen. That\u2019s precisely what happened. Not to mention the millions more legal immigrants who have also emigrated here. Now, that takes me to Mr. Reynold\u2019s other point, which has nothing to do with analyzing the economic or demographic consequences of this bill. He asserts in this piece that Congress wouldn\u2019t allow such growth in immigration. Well, I\u2019m sorry. The evidence is otherwise. The last 20 years. Why do you think we\u2019re at this point now? It\u2019s because of what has happened the last 20 years. Who\u2019s to say it can\u2019t happen again? <\/line>It\u2019s easier to believe that something that has happened can happen again, isn\u2019t it? Congress just voted to reduce the cap on legal immigrants. That\u2019s true. So now the estimate appears to be anywhere from 60 to 90 million over 20 years. Fine. Okay, a big victory, down from 217 to 90. Whew. We can all breathe easier. But, successive Congresses and presidents have in fact done little to stem the tide of legal and illegal immigration into the country for decades, which is why we are where we are today. The historical evidence proves Mr. Reynolds wrong. What has happened could very easily happen again, and if it\u2019s in the bill, and if it thus is possible, it still is worthy of calling attention to it. <\/line>“By assuming that…” Now, this is Mr. Reynolds again. “By assuming (or pretending) that Congress would always permit the number of guest workers to increase by the maximum allowable percentage, year after year without end, the original 325,000 per year would approach 1.7 million a year within a decade and 10.4 million a year by 2026. But why stop there? If this calculation made any sense, the United States would supposedly be importing 54.6 million guest workers in the year 2036, then 65.5 million in the following year and 78.6 million the year after that. Each time 20 percent is added, it becomes part of the base so that the next time the 20 percent is applied to a larger amount.”<\/line><\/p>\n

Again, this is deft, but it\u2019s silly. The only reason that 20-year analyses of this bill are being done is because about every 20 years Congress and the president seem to act on this issue. It takes 20 years for it to effervesce up, to bubble up to where people get roiled about it, so that\u2019s why a 20-year analysis. It was not a figure picked out of the air, and it was not a figure used to create panic. It was a figure that is historically accurate. Every 20 years we do something about this. Mr. Reynolds says that we wouldn\u2019t welcome millions of spouses and children and parents into our country, but that\u2019s exactly what the bill would do as it\u2019s written. <\/line>Why deny it? It\u2019s in plain English. I mean, what sense is it in writing a new law, a new bill, “Ah, it will never happen.” Well, it can if it\u2019s written that way. The warning bells were simply sounded, and guess what? It worked. The 217\u2019s now down to between 60 and 90 million, and of course there\u2019s nothing that says that future presidents and Congresses can\u2019t go back and change this however way they want to or ignore it or what have you. But I suspect, folks, that… Well, I don\u2019t want to speculate too much on this, but it just seems the manner in which the piece opens and the substance of the piece, I\u2019m not sure that somebody didn\u2019t ask Mr. Reynolds to write this in order to counter these numbers out there, especially since the vice president was involved and didn\u2019t know of these numbers. <\/line>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/line>RUSH: My friends, we are winning. I want to add one more thing to Alan Reynolds\u2019 piece from which I just quoted. Once a law like this is passed and you know this to be true, those of you who follow these kind of things, legal rights will inure to those who benefit from it, and that always ends up being litigated. Furthermore, the political and demographic situation changes drastically, making reversing course almost impossible which is what we\u2019re experiencing right now with all this silliness. The reason that we\u2019re having a national argument about this is because we fixed this in \u201986 but we didn\u2019t fix<\/emphasize> it, and now we\u2019ve gotten to a point where they say there\u2019s nothing we can do. Well, we don\u2019t want to go through this again. <\/line>Nothing we can do. It\u2019s exactly right. Once you get to a point where the problem is too big to solve, it\u2019s in a way synonymous with Senator Moynihan, “defining deviancy down.” Once you decide you can\u2019t stop certain kinds of crime, you just stop and say, “Well, it\u2019s normal behavior now. Well, we\u2019ve got 11 to 12 million, and we can\u2019t deport them. Rush, the horses are out of the barn. We can\u2019t deport these people. We gotta find a way to make \u2019em legal.” Well, we don\u2019t want this to happen again. If we\u2019re going to fix it, we\u2019re going to fix it, and when you get a bill like this that has this wide open possibility for these massive numbers, you have to deal with it as it\u2019s written. <\/line><\/p>\n

Nobody knows, trying to determine the intent of Congress; the intent of Congress is what\u2019s in the stupid bill. “Well, it\u2019s absurd to think those numbers would ever be real.” Well, why were they put in there? This program, we don\u2019t try to read the minds of these people. We deal with what they actually say and do. I learned you can\u2019t read minds a long time ago, in a number of different ways. The Reynolds piece sort of is emotional, but it\u2019s not very analytical. He\u2019s not up to his usual stuff. Remember, he\u2019s a brilliant economist. He\u2019s got a tremendous pedigree and r?sum?. It\u2019s one of the reasons why I\u2019m not sure this whole thing was his idea. <\/line>I could be dead wrong about that, but nevertheless, that\u2019s neither here nor there. (interruption) What do you mean? I\u2019m not going to say who I think put him up to it. I\u2019m not going to start throwing accusations around. I\u2019m going to keep some things to myself, Snerdley. Well, that\u2019s the interesting thing. Snerdley says, “Why not? They accuse you of things.” That\u2019s what\u2019s interesting about this. I\u2019ve not attacked Alan Reynolds ever and I certainly haven\u2019t attacked Brooks, and yet today, this week… See, these things don\u2019t happen by accident. All of a sudden I\u2019m the bad guy here, and talk radio. It\u2019s not just me, although we all know that I am talk radio. <\/line>Now, I\u2019m sitting here. I\u2019m just doing what I always do — speaking truth to kooks, and putting all this in proper perspective, and doing a deep analysis of all this stuff — and all of a sudden now the slings and arrows are coming at me. Folks, I have learned over the course of my sterling career that when that happens, it means I\u2019m winning. It means we\u2019re winning. I mean, they savaged me over tax cuts. “Why, it\u2019s heartless, cold-hearted! Limbaugh doesn\u2019t care. He\u2019s sidling up to the rich.” Same thing with welfare reform, any number of issues. When they start — I don\u2019t care who, either the GOP elite, inside the Beltway, or the libs, whenever they start — attacking like this, it means we\u2019re winning. Otherwise they would ignore us. <\/line>And there\u2019s a little frustration, too, folks, because these inside the Beltway types, I\u2019ll tell you what this reminds me of. I\u2019ve told you about this. I used to go to these country club blue-blood Republican dinner parties out in the Hamptons in the nineties, and all of these rich Republican contributors would come up to me, “You gotta stop those Christians on abortion! They\u2019re going to wreck the party!” <\/line>I said, “What are you talking to me for?”<\/line>“They listen to you!”<\/line>“Yeah?”<\/line>“Well, you can\u2019t get by without them. If you want to be a winner as a Republican, you better find a way to co-exist with those people because they are not the enemy. The Democrats are your enemy.”<\/line>Well, a lot of these guys\u2019 wives were just henpecking them to death over this about abortion, but look at where it\u2019s ended up. The bottom line is abortion didn\u2019t wreck the Republican Party. Abortion helped define what has come to be known as values voters, and abortion is now losing in the arena of ideas. It\u2019s now a minority who favor it. It\u2019s under 50%. So these blue-bloods and country clubs are out of touch and they resent the fact that they don\u2019t have the power that talk radio and other town hall forums do.<\/line><\/p>\n

All right, a couple relevant paragraphs from David Brooks\u2019 piece. “What bothers you about the restrictionists…” Okay, that\u2019s me and you, and I think they even include Mark Levin in this piece. “What bothers you about the restrictionists is not that they are primitives or racists.” Thank you, Mr. Brooks! “They\u2019re not. It\u2019s their imperviousness, their unwillingness to compromise. They don\u2019t have the numbers to govern, but they think they have the numbers to destroy.” Uh, and then there\u2019s this: “They trumpet the studies indicating that immigration decreases wages, but ignore the ones that show it stimulates wages and growth. <\/line>“They mention the strains first-generation immigrants put on social services, but ignore the evidence that immigrants\u2019 children are so productive they more than compensate for the cost. They talk about the criminal immigrants, but look past the vast majority who are religious and family-centered.” Now, that is a straw dog. We don\u2019t ignore any of this. I don\u2019t say that they\u2019re all criminals. I don\u2019t deny that many of them have faith. I don\u2019t even put \u2019em down, period. You know, this is one example of how this has gotten out of hand. People seem to forget the word “illegal” is in front of the word “immigrant,” and also I have said, I don\u2019t even think this is about “immigration.” <\/line>I think it\u2019s just some people seeking a better life and wanting a job in this country. They\u2019re not assimilating. We\u2019re not even debating this in the proper context. But I\u2019ll tell you, I do reject the false arguments about the net financial benefit, re: the public service costs. All you gotta do at look at Prop 187. All you have to do is look at Arizona. You can look at a number of places that have been infested here with an illegal immigrant wave or population, and you tell me that there\u2019s a net benefit to their arrival when it comes to propping up the social safety net — I\u2019m going to reject that right off the bat. Now, this first little line, “They don\u2019t have the numbers to govern,” you and me, the leaders of the insurgency here in America. Yeah, outside the Beltway we\u2019re an insurgency. Inside the Beltway, the best and the brightest, you know, going to make sure the country heads down the right track. We are too clueless, unsophisticated and uneducated to have the slightest idea what we\u2019re even talking about and we\u2019re dangerous because so many of you are stupid, too, that when you believe people like me, why, we\u2019ve got a major problem in the country. But then Mr. Brooks comforts himself with the notion that, quote, “They don\u2019t have the numbers to govern, but they think they have the numbers to destroy.” I\u2019m not trying to govern anything nor am I trying to destroy anything. <\/line><\/p>\n

This is an upbeat, positive, optimistic program. Love of country, doing the right thing, that\u2019s what we focus on here as often as possible. Destroy? What are we trying to destroy? Has Mr. Brooks forgotten there\u2019s a whole political party that is bent on destroying this administration and this country\u2019s national security? And yet the big enemy today is people like me and you? They don\u2019t have the numbers to govern but they think they have the numbers to destroy? It reminds me what Fred Barnes said, who\u2019s also part of this inside-the-Beltway cabal, on Brit Hume\u2019s show on Tuesday night, said Limbaugh and his crowd at the end of the day don\u2019t have any votes, so it doesn\u2019t matter. Don\u2019t have any votes. The way of treating us as inconsequential. <\/p>\n

I guess they misunderstand the motive of the problem. We\u2019re not trying to affect any outcome. Just trying to create as many informed people as possible. We\u2019re doing a radio program here. I guess the editors at the Weekly Standard and one or two conservative writers for the New York Times, though, I guess they do have a lot of votes, and of course they have the pulse of the nation and the movement, they understand what\u2019s going on? They have votes? Of course they think they do include White House policy, and they might, and, in fact, if they do that might be one explanation why Bush is in such deep doo-doo with the GOP base, because he\u2019s getting a bunch of advice from people to whom the rest of the country is a mystery. <\/p>\n

These are the country club types. If they\u2019re not country club they hang close enough around them. I don\u2019t know how in touch they are. Standing by all this is a recipe for disaster down the road, 20 years ago versus where we are today. Imagine it getting even worse. How many votes can Fred Barnes or David Brooks bring to the table? How many votes can I bring to the table? I could ask them how many politicians, you know, ask them to write favorable pieces about them before an election. I could tell you how many of them call here and want to get on this show. They don\u2019t get on because we don\u2019t have guests. <\/p>\n

When it comes to measuring the views of the base, people like you, they dismiss you and programs like this. I really think it\u2019s because there\u2019s a — I don\u2019t know — fear or a little bit of an anger out there at the influence programs like this do have, versus, you know, what people who write columns inside the Beltway have. It\u2019s always been this way, folks, there\u2019s nothing new about it. It\u2019s just interesting to see this erupting now on the right side of the center aisle. But it just means we\u2019re winning, and that\u2019s what all these attacks mean. I guess Mr. Brooks and some in his circle seem concerned about how I, quote, unquote, am leading the grassroots in the wrong direction and how the elites are marching on regardless, and when I say don\u2019t have any votes, that really doesn\u2019t matter, but Barnes accused me of being ‘anti-immigrant.\u2019 There\u2019s been no such statement out of my mouth ever. I thought these people were more informed and a little bit more up to speed on what actually happens here. At any rate, let me grab a couple phone calls here before we go to the break. Raymond outside of San Francisco. Welcome to the program, sir, nice to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Semper fi dittos, sir. I salute your intellect.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, sir. Appreciate that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You know, these papers that were written, he\u2019s trying to base it on this is your policy position because you\u2019re a Republican, not on your intellectual dissemination of the facts and that\u2019s what these people inside the Beltway don\u2019t get. Your program does not brainwash; it informs us, and then we come to an intellectual, well-thought-out position based on those facts, and the fact is that this nation will be overrun with immigrants just by, whatever, we wave our magic wand and make everybody legal.<\/line>RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know about “overrun,” but I mean the possibility clearly exists. If those numbers happened it would be overrun.<\/line>CALLER: Oh, absolutely.<\/line>RUSH: But, you know, you touched on something very important. A lot of people use the word brainwashing, and after 18 years, it\u2019s amazing to still run into this, that people think that you people in this audience are a bunch of absolute idiots, mind-numbed robots, and you get your marching orders on this show. What they don\u2019t understand… I guess now this would include people on the right in certain parts of the country. What they don\u2019t get is that I don\u2019t brainwash anybody, and I\u2019m nobody\u2019s Svengali. I validate what you already think in some cases, and there are huge numbers of people out there that fall into this category, and those numbers are frightening. <\/line>To diminish the numbers, the constitution of those numbers has to be made up of nitwits and gullible, easily-led fools, and of course this represents a grave threat because that means demagogues can rule, and it\u2019s all rooted in — especially when the criticism is dishonest. You have to say things, the right things that have been said on this program that have not been said ever, than it indicates there\u2019s a little resentment, fear, maybe some jealousy, and the desire to discredit is simply an indication, as I said at the top of the program, that we\u2019re winning on this, and they\u2019re frustrated by it. Maria in Del Rey Beach, Florida, you\u2019re next on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/line>CALLER: Hi. Hi, Rush, delighted to talk with you. I work in the medical community, and I tell you, it doesn\u2019t take very, you know, a rocket scientist to figure this one out. All you gotta do is know when you go in the hospital and you pay 30 dollars for one aspirin or you pay your insurance for your health care, you\u2019re paying for every illegal immigrant that needs medical care, and many other things. It\u2019s a cycle that\u2019s happening that attacks us in other ways because the hospitals and the physicians aren\u2019t making enough money because a lot of this is going into, you know, freebies at the ER and all of that. And then they\u2019re forced to start hiring employees that don\u2019t speak English that bring down the medical community even more. It\u2019s a complete nightmare.<\/line>RUSH: You know. Do you know there are 11 hospital emergency rooms that have shut down in southern California simply —<\/line>CALLER: And it\u2019s happening here, too, Rush, in Palm Beach County. It\u2019s not very far away.<\/line>RUSH: I know. People are showing up, have no ability to pay, everybody else has to pay, and if outside people refuse to pay and don\u2019t, then there\u2019s no revenue coming in and, bammo! You\u2019ve lost seven emergency rooms in southern California. <\/line>CALLER: Exactly. So it has an enormous impact.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, I know. It does. I\u2019m trying to imagine the other side of this. I don\u2019t mind trying to find virtue in people wanting to improve their lives and come to this country and do so. I\u2019m not opposed that happening. But the easiness and the willingness to ignore certain realities about who, and the numbers, and the word illegal <\/emphasize>— that\u2019s what\u2019s striking to me. I\u2019m having a tough time understanding what it is they don\u2019t see about this that I do. I guess it\u2019s because they think that views that you and I have are rooted in some sort of bigotry.<\/line>Well, they said it wasn\u2019t bigotry or racism. I don\u2019t know what it is. (interruption) Heartlessness and it\u2019s not compassionate? Is that right? That\u2019s right. They have families, they have children, they\u2019re trying to improve their lives, and immigration is what\u2019s made America great. Well, this isn\u2019t immigration. This is a job quest. There is so little assimilation going on. I told you the story the other day of a friend of mine. I was out in LA. I was out at a well known golf club, and I played a round with the pro who was from Minnesota, and you can\u2019t go out there and escape this issue. <\/line>The only way you can go out there and not talk about this is get involved in the entertainment community with some brain dead person that has no clue that John McCain is alive. That\u2019s the only way you can escape it, and so I\u2019m talking to this golfer and he said, “You know, we moved out here to Minnesota three years ago. I went to the DMV, had to get my driver\u2019s license switched over to California. So I talked to the guy, chatted him up for about a minute or two just getting to know him and asking him about policies, and we got down to business and he said, ‘What language would you like to take the test in?\u2019 What language? I\u2019ve just been talking to you in English for two minutes. ‘I have to ask, sir.'” Has to ask. What language do you want to take the test in? <\/line>It\u2019s a little bit of an illustration of the point that assimilation and acculturation are not really a focus of any of this, and let\u2019s be honest, folks, let\u2019s not leave the politics out. Let\u2019s stick inside the Beltway. We know damn well that as far as the Democratic Party is concerned, these people represent nothing but voters and future victims. The Democratic Party doesn\u2019t want these people to become prosperous. That would be the worst thing that could happen to them; they become prosperous, rich Republicans, beneficiaries of tax cuts. <\/line><\/p>\n

No, the Democrats want these people to remain downtrodden, poor, uneducated. That\u2019s the Democrat base! They need victims. This economy\u2019s doing so well that they\u2019re running out of victims. So this wave of illegal immigrants represents a great new source of votes. They\u2019re out there recruiting in these marches, for crying out loud, and then you look at the marches and you look at who\u2019s sponsoring, you find a bunch of anti-American, you know, pro-Marxist bunch of people. Then you hear Ted Kennedy talk about this, the new civil rights movement. This is not about immigration, let\u2019s face it, and, frankly, some of the Republicans, Shelby Steele has it exactly right. This is nothing but guilt. ‘Why, they\u2019re poor people, they have families, and we\u2019re the rich, powerful United States, and we\u2019re only 5% of the population, but we\u2019re raping the world, 25% of its resources. No wonder they want to come here because this is where everything is because we\u2019ve stolen it. We can\u2019t be mean to the…\u2019 blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. <\/p>\n

So the Republicans, they don\u2019t want to be seen as cold-hearted and cruel or any of this sort of stuff, so they run along and get into this thinking this new wave of people are going to think, hey, the Republicans are pretty nice, maybe we can vote for them. We get into this competition of the Republicans trying to out-Democrat Democrats so we\u2019ve got this newfangled, asinine immigration bill. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I\u2019ve been waiting for the environmentalist wackos to take a position on all this illegal immigration, and they\u2019re strangely silent. Now, the environmentalist wackos of course blame us, they blame the United States for practically everything. They also blame us for global warming. They blame us for pollution. They blame us for fossil fuels. We\u2019ve raped the world\u2019s resources. We\u2019re only 5% of the population and so forth. Now, you would think that if they were consistent, they would be alarmed at this wave of millions and millions and millions of new people coming into this country. <\/p>\n

Wouldn\u2019t you think that the more immigrants we allow in, the more air we\u2019re going to pollute, and the more trees that we\u2019re going to need to cut down, the more gasoline that we\u2019re going to burn? It would seem to me that the environmentalist wackos would have dire threats and be making dire threats and telling us of extreme consequences of this. But you don\u2019t hear anything at all. If the Kyoto treaty, the Kyoto whatever, the protocol, if it were intellectually honest, you\u2019d end up blaming much of Mexico for our pollution, given their theories. More people, the more population, and the more technological advancement, the more people living a better life, I mean that\u2019s their theory, the worse the global environmental situation is.<\/p>\n

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