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RUSH: Many people think that President Bush yesterday in his remarks about conservative critics of his immigration bill were actually aimed at me. They\u2019re actually aimed at you, but maybe me, too, but the Drive-By Media is rejoicing today that they are aimed at me. Brian Maloney who has a blog called The Radio Equalizer has got a little piece he just posted called ‘Bush vs. Rush\u2019 and this is all about how the media is excited. Now, the media is excited because the president of the United States has taken me on, and there\u2019s a McClatchy story that\u2019s running in all the McClatchy newspapers and quite a few others around the country today as well. The media is just having a field day with this. The New York Times, I mean some of the reporting on President Bush today is some of the most laudatory and some of the friendliest that he has had in a while. It leads me to believe the Drive-Bys hate me more than they hate President Bush, and it seems that I may have been able to have done a service here in some regard, because if I can single-handedly turn around press coverage for President Bush, who knows how valuable that is to the people at the White House. <\/p>\n

Some are speculating that President Bush might become the new McCain because he\u2019s essentially attacked me, i.e., his own base, and this is what you have to do to get the Drive-Bys to love you. This is what McCain did, constantly attacking Bush and his own party in order to get fawning press coverage. Of course, that\u2019s dried up now that McCain is seeking the Republican presidential nomination. Speaking of McCain, he was in Carlsbad, California, yesterday, and he urged Congress to adopt a sweeping overhaul of his immigration bill, criticized his leading rivals, Romney, Giuliani, and a reporter said, ‘What about their opposition to the Senate compromise brokered earlier this month?\u2019 McCain said, (Doing McCain impression) ‘Anybody, anybody says we shouldn\u2019t pass this, I would ask for their proposal. What\u2019s their idea?\u2019 I got the answer. Stick with existing law! We don\u2019t need to pile more laws on top of more laws. What\u2019s the solution? Enforce what\u2019s on the books now. Of course, that answer would be greeted with just a show of frustration, throw their hands in the air, totally frustrated. ‘Oh, yeah, easy for you to say.\u2019 Sort of like telling homeless people to go out and try working, get a job. At any rate, we\u2019ll have a full stack <\/a>on illegal immigration and the process of this bill winding its way through the Senate. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: This is Case in Stafford, Virginia. Great to have you on the program, Case.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, sir. Thank you for having me again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, you bet.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I called a few months ago. Hey, I\u2019m kind of with President Bush on this immigration thing. I think we are enforcing the laws on the books right now. I think ICE probably returns what, a million folks a year, something like that. The analogy I like to use is like creating a ten-lane highway and posting the speed limit sign at 15 miles an hour. You don\u2019t get enough cops out there to give speed tickets to everybody, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re facing. For whatever reason, these guys come across the border and work, and so we have 12 million folks, doesn\u2019t mean that we didn\u2019t return a million folks each year.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All I know is that ‘can\u2019t\u2019 never did anything, and you\u2019re right, we can\u2019t deport 12 million people. By the way, nobody is suggesting that.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: I\u2019ve been looking at the e-mails here during our obscene profit center time-outs. I\u2019m getting a lot of e-mails from people who are expressing surprise and incredulity that I am not outraged and angry at President Bush for his attacks yesterday on his base. Many people in their e-mails, ‘You know he was talking about you. You know it was you. You\u2019re not firing back, and I don\u2019t understand.\u2019 Let me try to explain it, folks. I\u2019ve known President Bush since before he was governor of Texas. I don\u2019t know him well, but I\u2019ve been with him socially on two or three occasions and I personally like him very much. I don\u2019t associate his motives on this immigration bill with the same characteristics that the Democrats have on this. It\u2019s disappointing to me. I\u2019m not going to hide that, but the fact that he may be attacking me doesn\u2019t bother me. What concerns me more about it, you can\u2019t take this kind of stuff personally. He didn\u2019t mention my name and I\u2019m not going to sit around here and start making assumptions. The thing that is most troublesome to me is that the words that he spoke yesterday were a criticism of the people who have stood by him through thick and thin. When everybody\u2019s been trying to destroy him, be it the National Guard story, take your pick, Rumsfeld, the entire war in Iraq, the whole weapons of mass destruction thing, people have stood by him, and because they trust him and believe him on those issues. They also did not want the Democrats to get away with taking him out. <\/p>\n

I\u2019m even getting e-mail I don\u2019t even want to mention. Never mind. Because it\u2019s nuts, what some people are suggesting that I now support. I\u2019ll just tell you a few, ‘You ought to get behind the impeachment of Bush.\u2019 Come on, folks, this is asinine. I\u2019ve told you what I think the president\u2019s motivations here are on the immigration bill, and I think they\u2019re far loftier motivations than political, frankly. I think they have to do with his desire to help the less fortunate around the world to realize dreams, his belief in this country as a way to get it done. But this criticism of his base is going to be problematic for him because the left is going to keep up their incessant harping on Iraq, and he needs people to support him on this. He needs to have a base of support that will not waver. I haven\u2019t talked to any of you about this. I\u2019ve gotten some e-mails, and those are just anecdotal, but there are people who are saying, ‘I\u2019ve had it, I\u2019m through defending the guy. This is the last straw because he\u2019s attacking me here, somebody who doesn\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about, somebody who doesn\u2019t want what\u2019s right for the country,\u2019 and so forth. <\/p>\n

I understand you and other people getting upset about it, and I can understand if you flew the coop in terms of supporting some of these other things. I just think that there\u2019s a little bit of tone deafness in the Republican Party on the impact of this, on their base. Either that or there\u2019s so much arrogance now in the Republican Party over this that it\u2019s incomprehensible. I don\u2019t take this stuff that the president said yesterday personally at all. I don\u2019t even think he meant it that way. He\u2019s just out trying to sell his position on this. I think he\u2019s wrong about it, and I\u2019ve made no secret of that. But he does not in any way constitute an enemy to me on this. The enemy on this is the Democrats, primarily, and the Republicans — remember, this is a Ted Kennedy bill, and he joined up there with McCain to get this done, and some Republicans in the Senate, that are recalcitrant. But the Republicans in the House, the conservatives over there are fit to be tied over this. It\u2019s going to have a rocky road ahead of it regardless what comes out of the Senate. I just wish he hadn\u2019t done it because he\u2019s not going to lose me on Iraq, and he\u2019s not going to lose me on national security, he\u2019s not going to lose me on the war on terror, but he might lose some of you, and that might mean losing some of your votes for other Republicans because the president\u2019s not on any ballot anymore, but other Republicans are. The people who have hung with you, you don\u2019t just cast them aside in an even casual sense. That\u2019s the thing about this that troubles me, that\u2019s what\u2019s the saddest aspect of this, to me. Nothing personal. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I mentioned earlier in the program that a lot of people are angry at President Bush for his remarks. In fact, we\u2019ve got those sound bites. Let\u2019s listen to those. Twelve and 13. Grab 12 and 13. Because the New York Times has a story here that kind of makes the point that I made when I first talked about this. This is President Bush at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, speaking about comprehensive immigration reform, two bites. This is the first.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: Oh, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ve heard some of the talk out there about people defining the bill. It\u2019s clear they hadn\u2019t read the bill. They\u2019re speculating about what the bill says, and they\u2019re trying to rile up people\u2019s emotions. This is a good piece of legislation. It addresses the border security needs and it addresses the employment needs of our country. If you\u2019re serious about bringing hard working illegal immigrants out of the shadows of our society, it makes sense to support legislation that will resolve their status without animosity and without amnesty.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I just don\u2019t… This is so painful! ‘Out of the shadows.\u2019 ‘Employment needs of our country.\u2019 ‘It makes sense to support legislation, resolve their status.\u2019 He makes the speech at Glynco, Georgia, at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. Here\u2019s the second bite.<\/p>\n

THE PRESIDENT: This bill is not an amnesty bill. If you want to scare the American people, what you say is, the bill\u2019s an amnesty bill. It\u2019s not an amnesty bill. That\u2019s empty political rhetoric, trying to frighten our fellow citizens. People in Congress need the courage to go back to their districts and explain exactly what this bill is all about in order to put comprehensive immigration reform in place.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He had some comments. Well, The Times headline here is: ‘Bush Takes on Conservatives Over Immigration.\u2019 It\u2019s our old buddy Jim Rutenberg at the New York Times writing the story. ”President Bush took on parts of his conservative base on Tuesday by accusing opponents of his proposed immigration measure of fear-mongering to defeat its passage in Congress. ‘If you want to scare the American people, what you say is the bill\u2019s an amnesty bill,\u2019 Mr. Bush said…\u2019 Well, you can read it and find out that that\u2019s pretty much what it is. Anyway, the president all of a sudden has found new-found respect among media enemies and the Drive-Bys, because he\u2019s taking out after his conservative supporters. Brian Maloney has a blog called the Radio Equalizer. He says this is Bush vs. Rush and the media loves it. The media hates Rush and here\u2019s Bush taking on Rush. Why, Bush could end up as the new McCain, a media darling for taking on the conservative movement — because the Drive-Bys hate conservatives, and they despise the conservative movement. So now they\u2019re caught between a rock and a hard place. They don\u2019t like Bush, either, but now Bush has taken on conservatives, and the Drive-Bys lost their monopoly because of conservatives — me. So they\u2019re eating this stuff up. So in a sort of ancillary way, ladies and gentlemen, I single-handedly may have helped revive President Bush\u2019s standing in the Drive-By Media!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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