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RUSH: We\u2019ve heard audio sound bites today<\/a> from Trent Lott and from Senator Feinstein, and I\u2019m sure that Senator McCain and Senator Lindsey Grahamnesty all feel the same way, that we just don\u2019t know what\u2019s in it, that you don\u2019t know what\u2019s in it, and we in talk radio don\u2019t know what\u2019s in it, and you\u2019re just a bunch of uninformed, extremist boobs who are getting in the way of them doing their job. Meanwhile, everybody talks about how low Bush\u2019s ratings are, Congress\u2019 approval ratings are in the tank. It\u2019s not for the reasons that the analysts here think it is. The people that follow government and think that government\u2019s the end-all, the beginning and end of everything, think that when congressional numbers are low, it\u2019s because they\u2019re not passing the immigration bill, or they\u2019re not getting this legislation done, because all of these people that are government watchers sit there and they define everything that\u2019s good or bad by virtue of what happens with government. <\/p>\n

Now, you and I, people who make the country work, have to do what we do in many cases in spite of what government does. The reason that Congress is at a 19% approval number or whatever it is, or even lower than that, is because people are fed up with what they are trying to do, not with what they\u2019re not doing. There is a new level of sophistication on the part of you, the American voter. You understand that they do things that are bad and damaging and they place obstacles in our way, but everybody that watches government thinks they\u2019re so upset over what they\u2019re not doing. Meanwhile, when they analyze Bush\u2019s low numbers, it\u2019s because the American public is very sophisticated. The American public, very aware, very informed, not boobs at all. Why, they understand that Bush is horrible, that Bush isn\u2019t listening to them on Iraq and Bush isn\u2019t doing this. I\u2019ll guarantee you, Bush\u2019s position on immigration is hurting him every bit as much as his Iraq position is with the liberals and the leftists in this country. But isn\u2019t it amazing how informed you are when you give the president a low number, and what a bunch of boobs you are when you give Congress a low number. <\/p>\n

Now, guess who happens to be running the White House? A Republican. Guess who happens to be running Congress? Democrats. So, of course, it\u2019s not their fault, it\u2019s your fault for being impatient. They\u2019re not doing enough when it\u2019s not the case at all. They keep telling us we don\u2019t know what\u2019s in the bill, but they haven\u2019t made any effort to tell us what\u2019s in the bill, they just tell us we\u2019re a bunch of fools and idiots because we don\u2019t know. We probably know more about what\u2019s in the bill than they ever intended us to know. But I\u2019d like to turn it around. We have the No Child Left Behind Act to make sure that our little crumb crunchers out there are properly educated. Well, as a man who\u2019s running America, I would like to institute the No Senator Left Behind Test. If it\u2019s important to measure the learning of fourth graders, shouldn\u2019t we see how much or how little our senators know? Some days there\u2019s no difference between them and your average fourth grader. How much do they really know about this bill itself? How much do they know about the fine print, the details that say one thing but mean something entirely different? They say the fence will come first. <\/p>\n

This is how they\u2019re trying to get us to come on board. The fence will come first. Well, what does that mean? Does it mean the fence will be authorized first or built first? Does it mean that it will be started, and does it mean it will be finished? I can sit here and tell you, folks, they\u2019re going to do that fence thing first. It could mean any number of things. It could mean they\u2019re going to talk about it first; it could mean they\u2019re going to pass that first. But are they actually going to do anything toward building it? Our intelligence guided by experience on that issue alone says no, there already is money for a fence, and is there a fence? No. When they were building the fence, the illegals were doing it, probably putting escape hatches in it, or entry hatches. Hell, they found a tunnel. ‘Police in Tijuana have discovered a narrow tunnel under the border that was used to smuggle drugs and possibly undocumented migrants into the United States, officials said today. More than 50 tunnels under the U.S.-Mexico border have been discovered since surveillance was increased following the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, prompting drug smugglers to go underground to avoid detection. The latest was discovered inside an area guarded by Treasury Department officials where goods to be imported from California into Mexico are held pending paperwork. … Officials were investigating how the tunnel — 32 feet long, about two feet wide and about three feet high — was able to operate so close…\u2019 (laughing) — get this — this just it says all. ‘Officials are investigating how the tunnel was able to operate so close to where federal officials were on duty.\u2019 (Laughing.) Right. It is a very good question. <\/p>\n

So how is any other element of enforcement in this bill, if there is to be one, going to be worth anything? How about this, when you talk about the fence, will all of the state, city, and local regulations, environmental impact studies, be nailed down? Or will they be used as a stalling tactic? So where Senator lot, Senator Grahamnesty say, ‘Hey, we promised you we were going to do the fence first but look what we ran into, why, we had impact studies, environmental impact studies. We had to do that, of course, we want to protect the environment. State, city, local regulations are different every county you get into, every city, it\u2019s a monumental task. We\u2019ll build that fence, but we\u2019ve got to move on with the other elements of the bill. And they\u2019ve, in their minds, not lied. They did it first. They didn\u2019t accomplish it in the example that I give you. Another thing they\u2019re trying to do to earmark — you know, we need another word for earmarks. You know what earmarks are? Constituent bribes. There are a lot of constituent bribes in this immigration bill. The fence being done first. Here\u2019s another one. They say the bill will increase merit-based immigration. More skilled workers, more professionals, more engineers, less laborers. But do the senators who are telling us this know when that kicks in? Well, the No Senator Left Behind Test would tell us, and I, Rush Limbaugh, running America, will institute this test. Do you know when it kicks in? <\/p>\n

Do you know when it kicks it? I\u2019ll get to that in a second. Do you know when that provision kicks in, the merit-based immigration provision? Does it kick in in one year? Does it kick in in two years? Best I can find kicks in at eight. Maybe it\u2019s six. I\u2019m not sure which. But I\u2019m not even sure if it\u2019s still in there. That\u2019s the thing, we don\u2019t know if it\u2019s still in there. They\u2019re talking about putting this in, all these amendments that are designed to bribe us, will probably never pass anyway, but that\u2019s how these senators who are reluctant to vote for this bill are going to be brought on board. We\u2019ll let you submit your amendment. We\u2019ll let you put your amendment to the bill, and we\u2019ll vote on the amendments, and then the amendments, most of them, will not pass. People have been asking, ‘How can the Republicans fall for this? How is it that the Republicans don\u2019t understand, A, why their own voters are upset, and, B, why this is bad legislation?\u2019 Thanks to the family unity clause, here\u2019s the deal on the table. If you think it\u2019s absurd, you are right. ‘Democrats will allow 15 million illegals to become legal if the Republicans will allow those 15 million to bring in their family members,\u2019 giving us 30 to 45 million, or who knows how many million. <\/p>\n

Now, I know that sounds absurd, but that\u2019s a deal Republicans made. Are our senators smart enough to negotiate with these clowns? The father of modern immigration, by the way, is Ted Kennedy, who has really shepherded this thing since the sixties. He\u2019s been wrong at every turn. He\u2019s been wrong every time they tried legislation on this. As to this provision, the bill will increase merit-based immigration. There will be more skilled workers, professionals, engineers, and less laborers. Who\u2019s going to tell the laborers this? Who\u2019s going to tell the low skilled, uneducated laborer, ‘Hey, by the way, there\u2019s less of you people coming in,\u2019 in six years or whenever it is, and who\u2019s going to enforce this? They have no intention to enforce this. Well, you have to understand, and I\u2019m sure you do, is the whole point of this is to have a steady flow of low-wage workers and low wage workers are low skilled and either uneducated or poorly educated, and that\u2019s what I guess these people have decided the United States of America needs to remain the world\u2019s lone superpower. As I love to say, if a steady stream of low income, low educated, or uneducated workers, low-skill workers was the key to a thriving, prosperous economy, Mexico and a number of Third World countries would be leading the United States in every economic measure you would take.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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