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RUSH: I just had a news story sent to me. This is from San Antonio, WOAI radio<\/a> reporting. This is one example, and this is going to be happening all over the place. ‘Hundreds of illegal immigrants have registered to vote in Bexar County in recent years and dozens of them have actually cast ballots, canceling out the votes of U.S. citizens.\u2019 Figures obtained by the radio station in San Antonio ‘show that 303 illegals successfully registered to vote, and at least 41 cast ballots in various elections.\u2019 This is just one <\/emphasize>county. This is more than enough to impact an election or throw it. See, the thing that the Democrats know — and this is something you need to remain confident in — is the Democrats cannot win in the arena of ideas. That\u2019s why they want the Fairness Doctrine, to silence people like me. That is why there\u2019s political correctness. That\u2019s why these censorship all over the place. They can\u2019t win. They don\u2019t even want to debate in the arena of ideas. They don\u2019t know how. They\u2019ve not been forced to defend their positions. They suffer from a terminal rage. <\/p>\n

Tom Sowell<\/a> has a great piece about this. I read it on Townhall.com. He said it\u2019s inexplicable, as I myself have said on previous occasions. All you have to do is mention tax cuts for the rich, and these people go ballistic. They literally lose their minds. You mention George W. Bush? They literally lose their minds — and Bush is one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. He\u2019s never done or said anything to them. They hated Ronald Reagan. They just have this never-ending rage. Since they can\u2019t win in the arena of ideas, they need as many ‘new,\u2019 quote, unquote, citizens as they can get, because they know they\u2019re going to end up registering as Democrats. The unions are going to make beelines for these people. We\u2019ve joked here, but I\u2019ve often thought that there are already illegals out there registering to vote. We know there\u2019s all kinds of vote fraud going on. By the way, speaking of that, this US attorney imbroglio, that whole controversy, do you know what that was really all about? The White House was getting complaints from senators and others out across the fruited plain. Many of those eight US attorneys targeted for dismissal were not pursuing voter fraud cases. I don\u2019t know why. They weren\u2019t interested in them. They weren\u2019t big enough or high profile enough. Who knows why, but they weren\u2019t. <\/p>\n

Voter fraud is another one of these media templates that is an exclusive Republican problem. The Democrats think every election is stolen from them when they lose it. The Democrats lose elections? Why, doesn\u2019t compute! They lost the House? It doesn\u2019t compute! Lost the Florida aftermath, they lost 15 recounts? It doesn\u2019t compute! It has to be the election is stolen. If they just had a 55,000 vote swing in Ohio, John Kerry would be the president, he thinks, and he said. There had to be voter machine fraud. So the voter fraud that\u2019s actually occurring is more on that side, it\u2019s everywhere, but they\u2019re probably more involved in fake registrations and that sort of thing. This is only going to blow up and expand if this immigration bill that the Senate has agreed to now remains in its present form, signed by the president. This is inexplicable to me. I do not understand the Republicans on this at all, politically. Even when you look at it beyond politically, ‘Well, this is a bad move. Republicans are going to take it in the shorts. This is really, really a dumb,\u2019 but beyond the political aspect, we try to look at things here not always through the political prism. <\/p>\n

The worthlessness of the law, the empty promises that we\u2019ve had on securing the border: part of this bill is to relax some of those things, too. The fence? No, it\u2019s not going to be nearly as big now. Senator Kennedy is not crazy about it. So you look at just the real world aspects of this, rather than just factoring the political ramifications, and that\u2019s also a mystery. Nothing about this makes any sense, and the people that try to sell it engage in some of the most unbelievable spin. It makes you wonder why they do. Do they not know <\/emphasize>how they sound? Do they not know how this is not selling? Do they know how up in arms people are? People don\u2019t like to have their intelligence insulted. Some of the spin on this from the Republican side is exactly that. Plus, the final straw is when you throw in with the Democrats and you compromise, ‘Well, but, Rush, they\u2019re the minority. They have to throw in.\u2019 There are procedural steps you can take. You don\u2019t have to give in like this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Back to the phones we go to Jenna in Apple Valley, California. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. My name is actually Janice, and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait. Did you say Janice?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. Sorry. It says ‘Jenna\u2019 up there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s okay. Mr. Snerdley is one of the nicest people I\u2019ve ever talked to, so that\u2019s okay. We\u2019ll cut him some slack on that one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You might.<\/p>\n

CALLER: My question to you is, since most of the Mexican people that I know are hard-working people and they\u2019re mostly Catholic, so that would take the abortion issue right off the table, why are we to automatically assume that if they all become citizens they\u2019re just automatically going to be Democrat registrations? Why wouldn\u2019t some of them be siphoned off to Republicans? I just don\u2019t see why it\u2019s an automatic thing. What is it in their culture, maybe you can explain to me, that would make them automatically Democrats?<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, I\u2019m not basing this on any cultural examination of Mexicans. Look, the best answer in the world that\u2019s staring right in front of our faces is, who is it that really wants this to happen? It\u2019s the Democrats. Now, why? What is their possible interest in it? The Republican interest is based on the desire for them to have cheap labor. That\u2019s where the support and the pressure on Republican senators is coming from, from a lot of the agriculture business people, and other big business people, via the Chamber of Commerce. The second thing is: experience. Simpson-Mazzoli with, I think it was 2.7 to three million illegals, and there\u2019s no evidence that being nice and granting them legal status and granting them amnesty made them appreciate Republicans who were in charge of that legislation. Republicans are counting on the appreciation of these people. It has nothing to do with cultural. They\u2019re not all going to be Democrats. Of course every group of people is going to have a percentage and is not going to be universal Democrat, but the Democrats are going to more actively pursue them via the unions and getting them registered to vote and this sort of thing. Republicans will be in that game, too, because they both want this. They\u2019re both looking at this as a new pool of voters. I just think experience says the Democrats are going to win this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, that\u2019s not good. (Laughing.) See, most of the people when you watch the news out here in California and they interview Hispanic people that are citizens, they aren\u2019t happy about all this either.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know, but those are the ones that have gone the legal route, and they resent all this, and we\u2019ve got people trying to get in the door legally who are watching this who aren\u2019t going to like it, either — not just from around the world but from Mexico as well. See, the dirty little secret when it comes to the southern border is — and they know it — get in, and you\u2019re in. You\u2019re not going to be deported, the odds are, and when you get in — especially now with this new immigration bill lurking out there, you talk about a new magnet? You look at the rallies, all these rallies for amnesty, for making the illegals legal. Who do you think put those together? The unions. La Raza. Democrats! They\u2019ve got bigger numbers on those rallies than they got for any of their anti-war rallies.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I know from being an ex-union worker because I\u2019m retired now, that they really push that. They push that in the workplace. They push it on you everywhere —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — for these kinds of things. So I know that they\u2019re looking to swell their ranks because they are becoming ineffective. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you mean the unions?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, they are.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah. They\u2019re becoming ineffective. This is another reason the unions have turned around — some of them have — and want this, is because they\u2019re losing membership. The percentage of the workforce that is unionized I think is down to 9%. In the eighties it was 12 to 15, and the highest it was was 35% back in the glory days, and most of the union work now, believe it or not, is in government. The government unions and this sort of thing. So there\u2019s a pool of new union workers out there. And, by the way, if the unions get hold of these people and get \u2019em into union jobs and get them organized, you\u2019re not going to get any of this cheap labor stuff anymore because the union is not going to settle for that because they\u2019re going to use it just like they used the minimum wage. The reason they want an increase in the minimum wage is because that raises the ceiling on which other workers get paid. So the union boss will go in to negotiate with the business that he\u2019s working with, ‘We just raised unskilled labor to seven, eight bucks an hour, and you\u2019re telling me my professional, skilled worker is only worth 15 bucks an hour? Not in this next contract, Mr. Businessman.\u2019 Well, you bring in the illegals who are working now for whatever it is, two to three, four, five bucks an hour. You won\u2019t get them up to eight or ten — and guess what? The unions get to get their floor raised again. So there\u2019s all kinds of things in this that point to Democrat activism — not the least of which is the engine behind this in the United States Senate. Austin, Texas, this is Al. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush. Mega Hispanic dittos.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: (Laughing.) Hey, I was listening to the lady just now, and she was basically commenting, ‘Well what makes you think that Hispanics are going to vote for all Democrats and everything?\u2019 and, Rush, I grew up in south Texas, where it\u2019s predominantly Hispanic. The Democratic Party has such a stronghold in south Texas, it\u2019s unbelievable. They\u2019ve created so many welfare programs. They\u2019ve kept people on the welfare roles to just keep them voting for Democrats. I know these people because I grew up with them, and, yes, there\u2019s a lot of very good people, hard-working people. I know a lot of them, and I grew up with a lot of people knowing that they were not fully legal here in the US, and yes, there\u2019s a lot of very good people, but what I don\u2019t understand is, why can\u2019t they just come here legally? I don\u2019t understand.<\/line>RUSH: Because it\u2019s easier to get here illegally. They can get here illegally and they can earn more here than they can in Mexico. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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