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RUSH: Will in Batavia, Illinois, it\u2019s great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, earlier you said that that the Republicans are operating out of fear of losing this Hispanic vote or immigrant vote. I think that that stops short of the point. Either they\u2019re fearful of losing this vote, or conversely, they\u2019re not fearful of losing the vote of their base. You know, how can they operate like that? I suspect they feel that the base is going to forget.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s a good question. One of the things they\u2019re doing is looking at fundraising, and they see right now that the Republican National Committee is far outpacing the Democrat National Committee on fundraising. But they also have a little bit of hubris about this. They tell themselves when it comes down to the actual November in election and they go into the voting booth and it\u2019s Hillary Clinton versus whoever our nominee is, that there\u2019s no way their base is going to turn against them. They really do not believe the base will, even looking at the results of 2006, because they\u2019ve got themselves believing that was about Iraq and not about themselves and their lack of conservative performance. So the one thing that they misjudge, and they go through this every cycle, and I\u2019ve been talking on the phone about it to Republicans since I\u2019ve been hosting this show in Sacramento in 1984. They will not show up. They may not show up and vote for Democrats, but they will stay home if they are that are agitated. The Republicans risk that happening again in 2008 with all this.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I don\u2019t want to get too hung up here on the problems in the Republican Party. They are real but the Democrats are not sailing on smooth glass out there. They have their own problems. They\u2019ve got big problems with their base, the anti-war base, very, very upset the Democrats have let \u2019em down and surrendered to surrender, retreated from retreat, not putting a definite date certain for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq, and not only that, the Democrats, Pelosi and these people, everything they do and say is alienating more and more mainstream Americans at the same time. The media just doesn\u2019t do stories on this. It\u2019s like this thing we had last week from this guy David Bauder at the Associated Press talking about the Drive-By Media had indeed focused far more attention on Democrat presidential candidates than Republican presidential candidates. But there was no bias involved, no, no, no, no, no, no, because Rush Limbaugh was talking about Democrats more, too. Well, big difference, Mr. Bauder, the Drive-Bys, when they report on the Democrats, they do it in a fawning, supportive, let\u2019s give \u2019em some help and advice sort of way. When I focus on the Democrats, it is to hold them accountable. <\/p>\n

The same thing when we talk about the Republicans out here. I found it fascinating they decided to compare me with the Drive-By Media and essentially proclaim that I am equal time, that I am balance. Now, people have said to me, it happened over the weekend on the golf course. Golf, golf, golf, golf, golf this weekend, and somebody said, ‘You really think an 80% chance Mrs. Clinton\u2019s the next president?\u2019 I said, ‘I\u2019m sorry, I have to say so. Republicans aren\u2019t on the field right now.\u2019 More than that, though, this, of course, assuming she gets nomination. But do you realize that parties, political parties holding the White House for three terms is really, really, really, really, really rare? When George H. W. Bush extended Reagan\u2019s two terms, that was — I mean you can count \u2019em on one hand in the last 50 years where these kinds of things happen. Throw out FDR, of course. But if you look at it from the historical perspective, that you have to factor in as well too. Regardless if the Democrats win in \u201908, they\u2019re digging their grave, folks, for later on down the road. The more they win, the more confident they get that they could be honest about their agenda, and their agenda, if they get the power to implement it, is going to really screw things up so that will help to hasten their demise, but it\u2019s going to be tough sledding in the process, in the interim. White Stone, New York, this is Matthew. You\u2019re next. I appreciate your waiting.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Hi, Rush.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: What I wanted to say Rush, this immigration bill, I think the burden is going to be carried by our children, our grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No kidding. Absolutely right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: They\u2019re the ones who are going to have to pay a 70% tax rate in order to support the Social Security payments of these uneducated boobs that we\u2019re letting in.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, it\u2019s not just the tax payments and the tax rates they\u2019re going to face, they\u2019re going to face a country that potentially, in terms of the traditions and institutions that their parents and grandparents lived in, is disintegrating and being changed.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Absolutely.<\/p>\n

RUSH: But they\u2019re not going to put up with a 70% tax rate. They will not put up with it. At some point people end up saying, ‘Enough, I\u2019m not paying this. Why go to work if my tax rate is going to be 70%? Not my top marginal rate, but if my tax rate is 70%, why in the world go to work?\u2019 They\u2019re going to want to get on the end of the wagon. They\u2019re going to get in the wagon that\u2019s being pulled by those who will work.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And I will also say to you, Rush, if I may —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Tax rates have been high. The top marginal rate when Kennedy was around was 90%, but that was on the last dollars you had to be earning. Nobody ever reported that kind of income, so nobody ever paid 90% of the last dollars. It was a sliding scale. It was ninety — I think 70, and then it went on a whole bunch of tax brackets back then. When Reagan took office, it was 70%. And when he left office the top marginal rate was 28. And of course look what\u2019s happened to revenue generation since all that happened? But it\u2019s academic because people aren\u2019t going to pay, young workers — somebody, if you\u2019re right, that your children and grandchildren are going to be profoundly impacted by this. They\u2019re going to be the ones that will fix it, demand change, or what have you. Just hope it\u2019s not too late. What was it you were going to say? I didn\u2019t mean to interrupt you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I would also submit that if this bill does go through as written, I don\u2019t see what impact the 2008 elections are going to have. What difference does it make who runs or who wins? If this bill goes through, our children\u2019s future for the most part is gone. What difference does the 2008 elections make?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s not the way to look at it. I understand your point. That\u2019s really why all the politicos want to hustle this through and get it done so that by the \u201908 election it\u2019s not something being debated. It would be really great if this ended up being part of the presidential debate. If somebody could just put the brakes on this long enough that it was part of the presidential debate, Republicans and Democrats have to explain to the American people how they think about this thing, and it doesn\u2019t get signed into law before 2008, then that would be ideal. That\u2019s how things are supposed to happen here, rather than be railroaded through under cover of darkness as a result of negotiations in a back room. But you\u2019re right, if it gets signed into law the only way it\u2019s going to affect things \u201908 is Republican voters probably will just sit it out and say to hell with it, what do we have to lose now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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