{"id":25983,"date":"2007-06-15T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:20:29","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:20:29","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:20:29","slug":"what_do_we_do_about_trent_lott4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/06\/15\/what_do_we_do_about_trent_lott4\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do We Do About Trent Lott?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: What are we going to do about Mississippi Senator Trent Lott? What are we going to do about Senator Lott? You remember when he got into trouble with the Strom Thurmond comment? We\u2019re out there defending the guy. The White House threw him overboard. All kinds of Republicans were throwing him overboard. Talk radio came to his defense. Trent Lott is now one of the engineers of the Senate immigration bill, the amnesty bill, and they\u2019re trying to bring this thing back. The amendments are being kept under wraps. By the way, I understand Lindsey Grahamnesty, senator from South Carolina, is going to propose an amendment to build the border fence. (Laughing.) $4.4 billion! The government spends that much on rubber bands every year. Well, maybe not that much, but you get the point. Senator Lott is out there saying, ‘The problem with this is talk radio, and it\u2019s a problem that\u2019s going to have be dealt with.\u2019 Now, what does that mean? When I hear a United States senator say that what I do for a living is a ‘problem\u2019 that the government has to ‘deal with,\u2019 you can interpret it any number of ways. He\u2019s either saying, ‘Well, we\u2019re going to have to come up with our own ways to overcome them,\u2019 or, ‘We\u2019re going to just have to wipe them out.\u2019 What does it mean? The real question is: How are we going to deal with Trent Lott? What are we going to do about him? <\/p>\n

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RUSH: I want to spend a little time here on Trent Lott\u2019s comment that talk radio is running the country. What is talk radio? Talk radio is the greatest democratic forum in the country today. It is truly diverse. There are more ideas, there\u2019s more back and forth, there\u2019s more so-called diversity. There are all kinds of great things to say about it. Talk radio is the American voter. I bet most of the people who listen to talk radio are voters. That\u2019s what bothers Trent Lott. Well, who should be running the country? I don\u2019t mean making the day-to-day decisions, but go look at our founding documents, and all that jibber-jabba about governing with the consent of the governed. This is a battle between Washington and the people now. This amnesty bill, when you strip away all of the extraneous stuff this is a battle between Washington and the people, and they know it. So you got a Republican talking about talk radio the way liberals talk about talk radio, which tells you (it tells me) what the real objective of most elected officials in Washington is anyway. It\u2019s to perpetuate themselves and their jobs and to spend money and maybe not — well, yes. It would be in that order. The reason talk radio is ‘running the country\u2019 is because the people who are voters in this country are listening and involved and are passionate. Talk radio may be informing you, but it\u2019s not making you a robot, and you\u2019re taking action on your own, and these blowhards in Washington are hearing from you, the American people, and that\u2019s what bothers them — and we are being blamed for you being informed, and that should tell you something.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Trent Lott: ‘Talk radio is running the country. We\u2019re going to have to deal with that problem,\u2019 he said. You need to really think about that. Well what is he talking about? The people that he\u2019s actually complaining and whining about now are the ones that tried to defend him when everybody else was throwing him overboard when he made those joking comments at a tribute to Strom Thurmond. Folks, I want you to think of something. The notion that people freely expressing their opinions on radio is a ‘problem,\u2019 should scare every one of us that loves liberty. The notion that people freely expressing their opinions in e-mails and phone calls to their elected representatives is a problem should scare every single person who loves liberty. This is the exact sort of thing — people expressing their opinions is a problem — that gave us McCain-Feingold, a government signed, government passed and the president signed assault on free speech, the First Amendment, during campaigns. Trent Lott is a Republican. He has thrown his hat in with John McCain on this because McCain defended him, too, during that episode. <\/p>\n

You know, I was kind of surprised because Lott loves to stick it to President Bush any time he can because of the White House lack of support for Lott during the Strom Thurmond thing. So the bottom line here is that this is frightening stuff. I mean, it\u2019s one thing to hear it from liberals and Democrats. We hear this from them all the time. But the idea that a Republican now joins this mind-set — and believe me, I don\u2019t actually think he\u2019s the only one. You\u2019re good little voters when you sit out there and just shut up. Show up on Election Day. Send your money in. Send in your donations. But you\u2019re getting uppity out there, folks, when you start telling them how to do their jobs. By the way, the latest Rasmussen poll — they\u2019re still going to try to bring this thing back — 20% of the American people support the bill. Only 20% want this. Pure and simple, it\u2019s only 20%. ‘They prefer smaller steps,\u2019 this is a Rasmussen poll<\/a>, ‘with the focus on enforcement.\u2019 They\u2019re working overtime to bring this back and get it done. Oh, you gotta listen to Dingy Harry here. This was this morning on the Senate floor. Listen to this.<\/p>\n

REID: I also want to indicate to all senators and staffs, it\u2019s Friday, and now I understand, Mr. President, we have indicated we might have to work weekends, and I know this causes a lot of distress to folks. But everyone should know that to complete this bill and to complete the immigration bill will require next weekend, without any question, next weekend, Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Aw!<\/p>\n

REID: Senators should understand that this is the real thing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Awwww!<\/p>\n

REID: If we\u2019re going to finish these two bills, which both the Republican leader and I think is absolutely mandatory, essential, that senators should be advised that next Saturday and Sunday — which means the preceding Friday, which is a week from today and a week from Monday — we\u2019ll have to be in session. We only have two weeks left in this work period, and I hope we don\u2019t have to run into the Fourth of July recess period, which is only one week long.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Awww, folks, they\u2019re going to have to work weekends! Oh ho-ho! They might have to work weekends in order to get this done. Oh, how horrible. Maybe you could go out and hire some ‘illegal Americans,\u2019 Dingy Harry, to do some of the staff work on weekends so that you don\u2019t have to. I mean, you obviously don\u2019t want to work weekends. A senator working on weekends is a job you don\u2019t want to do. There are plenty of illegal Americans who will ‘do jobs that Americans don\u2019t want to do.\u2019 Hire them! Make them temps. Make them interns or whatever. Show them the inner workings of government, Dingy Harry, and bring \u2019em in and let \u2019em give you weekends off. They can certainly help. You know, it\u2019s interesting. When one million illegals protest, they\u2019re called ‘activists.\u2019 When one million African-Americans protest or supposedly 19 million, or — yeah, one million (nineteen, that\u2019s Calypso Louie) they\u2019re called ‘activists.\u2019 When presidential candidates go down to Selma to recreate a memorial, it\u2019s activism. When millions of talk radio listeners protest, they\u2019re called…what? A problem! They\u2019re called a problem. Now, when 20 million talk radio listeners protest, that\u2019s a problem. They\u2019re a ‘problem\u2019 that has to be ‘dealt with.\u2019 So you see, ladies and gentlemen, will never be called activists. <\/p>\n

People who get called activists, why, there\u2019s virtue to activism! Why, there\u2019s virtue to getting behind your cause and putting action behind the cause, and getting personally involved in it — and when you do it, it ain\u2019t activism. No, it\u2019s a problem. It\u2019s a problem that has to be dealt with. I\u2019ll tell you, I don\u2019t think that they know. If they think they got deluged last time, they have no clue what\u2019s going to happen after Trent Lott\u2019s comments, and they start doing this stuff and bringing this stuff forward with amendments that have yet to be revealed, amendments that are being kept ‘under wraps,\u2019 is the term right now. These elected officials think that they got heat before? I don\u2019t think they realize what they\u2019re going to get now, but keep in mind what Dianne Feinstein said. In her 15 years in the Senate, she\u2019s never heard more racist, hate-filled commentary than on this issue, the phone calls and e-mails she got on this issue. So the effort to demonize you is on, and I think Lott was trying to do the same thing: demonize you. When you demonize talk radio you\u2019re demonizing the audience of talk radio. You\u2019re being demonized, and the reaction these people are going to have is, ‘Hey, look, it\u2019s just a bunch of angry hotheads full of racism and bigotry, nativism, and so forth. We don\u2019t have to listen to these people. We don\u2019t have to listen to what they saying.\u2019 That\u2019s what\u2019s being set up. <\/p>\n

Now, this thing is going to come out in the Senate. They\u2019re hell-bent on getting this done, and the White House put a lot of pressure on them, by the way. That\u2019s the pressure that\u2019s working on the Republicans. This is going to be a battle at a time, one battle at a time. If it wins passage in the Senate, you ought to prepare yourself for that. I wish it wouldn\u2019t, don\u2019t misunderstand, but it\u2019s then going to go to the House and it\u2019s going to get revved up all over again. The Senate may finish this before their precious July 4th recess, but the House isn\u2019t. The target date on the part of the proponents to get this done is the fall, August, sometimes before the August recess or a little bit after that. So that\u2019s really the time frame on this for the whole thing to get done. So even if it\u2019s not stopped in the Senate — and I\u2019m not giving up on that, don\u2019t misunderstand. I\u2019m just pointing out to you that it\u2019s gotta go to the House next, and then if the procedures are followed, there\u2019s a conference committee between the two, and it\u2019s no sure bet in the House. A lot of House people don\u2019t like it. Representatives are up for reelection every two years. Members of the House are far more attuned to the thoughts and opinions of their constituents than senators are, because senators are not reelected every other year. They\u2019re reelected in six-year terms, as you know. You know all this. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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