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RUSH: This is Lynn in Chester County, Pennsylvania. It\u2019s great to have you with us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, it\u2019s an honor to speak to you, and I am apoplectic about this immigration bill. I agree with you a thousand percent. Do you realize, Rush, that former ace prosecutor Rudy Giuliani couldn\u2019t properly vet out Bernie Kerik for Homeland Security advisor, but we are expected to believe that 12 million illegal aliens from countries replete with corruption which keep no verifiable legitimate record whatsoever —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think it was the president that couldn\u2019t vet Bernie Kerik. I mean, Rudy knew.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s true. That\u2019s true, with all respect to —<\/p>\n

RUSH: But your overall point, I agree with you. Where is the belief that a brand-new bureaucracy, an inefficient bureaucracy is going to be able to do something that it can\u2019t do anywhere else? We had the Fort Dix Six. We had the Fort Dix Six. They\u2019re here. They\u2019re plotting terrorism. If it weren\u2019t for an informant, we wouldn\u2019t have the slightest idea. <\/p>\n

CALLER: But where are we going for these background checks? I mean presumably to the consulates of these countries and the officials in these countries who are corrupt from the word go.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re going to relax that. We\u2019re going to relax that. You watch. They\u2019re going to slough that off on the employer. The employer is going to do it. But it\u2019s going to prove too onerous; it\u2019s going to prove too costly; it\u2019s going to cost businesses money. Look , it\u2019s an amnesty <\/emphasize>program. There\u2019s not one thing in this bill that\u2019s redeeming.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I agree. It\u2019s an absurdity. It\u2019s absolutely treasonous insofar as I\u2019m concerned, and I also thought that I heard — I don\u2019t want to misquote him — Tony Snow yesterday allude to the fact that they\u2019ve committed felonies by virtue of obtaining fraudulent documents to the extent that they have here, and I thought that that in itself was a bar to citizenship. So I don\u2019t know how that hurdle is going to be overcome.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, don\u2019t get me going on any of this because we\u2019ll be talking here \u2019til the program ends and we won\u2019t have time for commercials.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, we\u2019re counting on you, Rush. That\u2019s all I want to say.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But obtaining fraudulent documents is going to still happen. It does now. What enforcement measure is going to stop it? There\u2019s going to be no incentive to stop it, is the point. Once your objective is to make it as easy as possible for these people to get legal, what\u2019s the incentive to stop it? What\u2019s the incentive to man the border? What\u2019s the incentive to shore up all the holes in it? I mean, you\u2019ve taken the incentive away! That\u2019s not the objective of this. That\u2019s just in there to try to placate people, but people like you are too wise and smart. You\u2019re not going to be bought. You\u2019re not going to be fooled by it. The objective here is to get these people as legal as soon as they can possibly get it done.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You\u2019re exactly right. I don\u2019t know what there is for the rest of us to do, but that\u2019s exactly the right conclusion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s the real troubling thing: what to do. If this were the Dubai Ports Deal, they listened to you on the Dubai Port Deal. By the way, Halliburton\u2019s CEO moving to Dubai soon to set up operations. I have that story in the stack. I love those two words: Halliburton and Dubai. Remember the Dubai Ports deal? You people were livid, and on Capitol Hill the Republicans and Democrats were in a race to see who could first get to the finish line to take credit for stopping it. There\u2019s been just as much outrage over this whole immigration philosophy, but in this case, they say, ‘You don\u2019t know enough to really have an informed opinion about this. We here in Washington know best what\u2019s going on in this deal, and you\u2019re just going to have to live with it.\u2019 Wait \u2019til the Republicans — I mean it\u2019s going to show up in the primaries, and McCain is big on this. He was involved in the first effort to get this done. You just watch the primaries. See if this doesn\u2019t put up a huge roadblock for him. The desire to go out and please this constituency of 12, whatever it is, million illegals, and ignore the people who have voted for you and supported you, I can\u2019t explain this, folks. Don\u2019t ask me. I cannot give you an answer, other than arrogance and the usual answers. It doesn\u2019t make sense, which is why I can\u2019t explain it. I\u2019m not good talking about things that don\u2019t make sense, other than liberalism because I have that down pat. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019m looking at a picture on the Fox News Channel right now. It\u2019s Senator Kennedy, and they\u2019re all excited up there in the Senate. They\u2019re celebrating this deal that they\u2019ve made now. The Senate has come to an agreement on granting legal status as quickly as possible to 12 million — and standing right behind his right shoulder is Senator McCain. When this picture gets out, Republican primary voters are going to see this, and Senator McCain is going to have what I predicted mere moments ago on this very program: a problem. This is not something… Here\u2019s Ted Kennedy out there. He\u2019s taking the credit. ‘This is great!\u2019 He\u2019s the guy that\u2019s happy on this, and any Republican that\u2019s in that same picture is going to have problems. (interruption) Who doesn\u2019t look good? No, he doesn\u2019t. He\u2019s not happy, McCain, but he\u2019s there. He doesn\u2019t have to be there. He could be in the group, but not in the camera range. They know where the camera is and where it isn\u2019t. But Ken Salazar is standing behind Senator Kennedy\u2019s left shoulder. McCain looks like he\u2019s frowning now. He\u2019s looking like he has a question in his mind. Somebody could have said something to him. It\u2019s tough to judge this. I can\u2019t hear. I\u2019m not listening to what\u2019s being said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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