{"id":26047,"date":"2011-05-19T05:20:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:20:17","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-02-10T10:28:23","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T15:28:23","slug":"geo_politics_and_illegal_immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2011\/05\/19\/geo_politics_and_illegal_immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"“Geo-Politics” and Illegal Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"
RUSH: Alex in Concord, New Hampshire, hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. Good afternoon, Mr. Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Good afternoon.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, first I\u2019ll just briefly say that I\u2019m a first-generation American, an offspring of Ukrainian ancestry, so I know very well what it means to come here legally, because that\u2019s what my parents did. But I must say that I think that the question of illegal — I do mean illegal — immigration from Mexico is a geopolitical necessity for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

RUSH: A geopolitical necessity to have both legal and illegal immigration from Mexico?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is the geopolitical necessity?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think that basically there is obviously a large low-income group in Mexico that is having enough gumption to do what they need to do to come here to this country illegally and risk what they risk because the economy down there can\u2019t support them, and obviously Mexico wouldn\u2019t want to admit that, and we wouldn\u2019t want to do that, either, and if they don\u2019t have an outlet for those people to come here, those people would stay in that country and get discouraged, and you know what happens when you have a large discouraged populace that doesn\u2019t think they have anywhere to go.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You revolt and overthrow the government.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right. And then you have another Hugo Chavez, II down in Mexico, and if you think that $3 a gallon gas is bad, wait until it gets to five or six.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay, you know, I thought this is where you were going to go. I thought he were going to go to oil.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, that\u2019s just part of it —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I knew you were going to go to oil. I knew you were going to go to oil, and I had this sneaking suspicion that you were going to bring Hugo Chavez into this. I don\u2019t know why, it was just my instincts on parade here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: You have good instincts.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I had a feeling that you were going to do this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: In the context of, ‘We need we need oil,\u2019 this is what nobody wants to admit. We\u2019re in this mode in this country right now where we\u2019re trying everything we can to get people convinced that we need to alternative energy, ethanol, and all this, but the bottom line is, the dirty little secret, is for all the pontificating on alternative energy, we would starve and die and cease to exist as a superpower if we lost access to oil — and since we are not going to drill for our own oil because we have a bunch of obstacles in the way to getting that done, we need cooperation from countries who are producing and drilling oil. Mexico just discovered a huge field.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I believe they\u2019re our number two or number three supplier of crude oil.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, Canada is number one; Saudi Arabia is number two, but Mexico is high up on the list. And then, of course, you\u2019ve got Hugo Chavez which is his own geopolitical problem that we\u2019re going to face. We don\u2019t know what we\u2019re going to do about it. But Hugo Chavez has financial interests in some of the refineries in this country.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So, look, I say this again in the context that these are the things that Republican senators who are voting the way they\u2019re voting would never tell us.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Exactly right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That would doom their fate.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I would think that, you know, to have the president and all these political leaders do what they do with this bill, and not quote, unquote, ‘listen\u2019 to the populace and still try to put this through, there has to be something going on that we are just not being told. I think that\u2019s the dirty secret.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re exactly right, and I mentioned this in the last hour. Now, just so people don\u2019t misunderstand, you\u2019re looking at this as way, way, way down-the-road issue and you\u2019re looking at it without any —<\/p>\n

CALLER: (interrupting)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. Let me finish. I\u2019m asking you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You\u2019re looking at this without really examining the impact on the United States of the arrival of this kind of influx that could be 45 to 50 million people.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to go back to your theory at first.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Your theory at first was we gotta get these people out of Mexico because it\u2019s the only way to keep Mexico stable.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Correct.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They gotta come here because it\u2019s the only place they can. What if our attitude was like that about every country? What if we said, ‘Okay, the starving and the dying and the oppressed and the unhappy and the near-riotous. Let them all in\u2019?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not every country shares a common border with us and, again if there was a socialistic dictatorship in Mexico, I think it wouldn\u2019t just affect us. It would affect the entire, you know, global marketplace.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Why let Mexico off the hook? Why? Why is it our responsibility to provide a haven? You are supporting the concept of a constant flow of illegals — which is, by the way, what the Senate wants.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Mmm-hmm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You people need to understand this. There\u2019s nothing in this bill that\u2019s going to stop the illegal flow, even if all these currently here are made legal, however that happens, there\u2019s nothing that\u2019s going to stop it. They say there is, but there\u2019s no enforcement here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think eventually what the hope is, what will stop it is that the Mexican economy over a decade —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It ain\u2019t going to happen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — or so will advance to the point —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Ain\u2019t going to happen.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I mean we have to have hope that it will because otherwise, you\u2019re going to have a problem.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, you don\u2019t hope. Hope is the wrong thing to have. You have to have a policy for economic revival. Hope will not accomplish anything. Hope may keep you alive a couple days if you\u2019re in the bottom of a well.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, I\u2019m saying the United States has to have the hope that Mexico, given time, will be able to improve their economic standards.<\/p>\n

RUSH: If that\u2019s going to be our policy, if hope is our policy, then we\u2019re doomed. Because hope never accomplished anything.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, ‘believe,\u2019 then.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look at NAFTA and GATT. That was supposed to revive the Mexican economy. We have bailed Mexico out with loans from the Federal Reserve, $25 billion back in the mid-nineties. We\u2019ve done everything we can. There are structural problems inside Mexico that make it impractical. They\u2019ve had all kinds of time. They share a common border with us. We do trade with them. But somehow, after that wealth is not finding its way down to their ever increasingly poor population.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, but then so — so what\u2019s — what\u2019s the answer? I mean, something has to be done, otherwise —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, let me ask you a question.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes?<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s inherently wrong with revolution? If the Mexican people feel like revolting, let \u2019em revolt against their own government, not destroy our country!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well that\u2019s a valid point.<\/p>\n

RUSH: How did we come into existence? We came into existence via revolution.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Sure.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You have this idea we\u2019re so big and so compassionate that it\u2019s our responsibility —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, no, no, no.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — to save Mexico.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: At what point does Mexico have to save itself? Mexico is just dumping people here. They\u2019re happy! They\u2019re educating people how to get through our border, how to get here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m saying it is in our society\u2019s responsibility — I don\u2019t want to say best interests, but it\u2019s in our economic survival best interests in order to prevent that kind of turmoil in Mexico. Like I said, we have enough trouble dealing with little hiccups in our economy and not having, you know, everybody scream, ‘The sky is falling, the sky is falling!\u2019 If you have some, you know, real problems on your back doorstep, I wouldn\u2019t want that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: See, here\u2019s the problem with that. The problem is that your attitude is one of the United States in a constant defensive mode without having any control over our own destiny. If the United States\u2019 future could be imperiled by a revolt in Mexico, then we are in bigger trouble than many people could imagine. You talked about a revolt in Mexico upsetting, let\u2019s say, their distribution of the oil that they drill and so forth, that they produce. Let me tell you something. The people that sell oil are going to keep selling oil and they\u2019re going to find whoever will buy it at whatever price the buyers will pay, whether there\u2019s a revolution or not, because oil is the fuel of the world economy. It is the foundation of the world economy — and whoever has it is going to find a way to sell it whether their country is in revolt or not. If these revolutionaries get hold of the wells, that\u2019s another matter, but that\u2019s probably unlikely to happen. They\u2019re trying to do that in Saudi Arabia. That\u2019s one of the things Al-Qaeda would love to do. It\u2019s what Saddam Hussein wanted to do. That\u2019s why he went into Kuwait, and was making moves to get into Saudi Arabia to get hold of those oil wells.<\/p>\n

I understand your concern here and what you\u2019re trying to offer this audience as an explanation for why these guys voted the way they did and why they will never say any of this, because this would really doom \u2019em, because what they\u2019re saying if you\u2019re close to being right — and I agree with you that there\u2019s something going on here that we don\u2019t know: arm twisting, promises, some real reason for this, because these guys are risking, many of these Republicans are risking their future. Some of their futures may literally be over now, political futures because of this vote, depending on what they do on the cloture vote on Thursday. But when you call here and say that there has to be, for geopolitical reasons, an influx of legal and illegal immigration from Mexico, there is no justification for the numbers of illegals that will be made legal. When you have the ‘family unification\u2019 aspect of this, we could end up with 45 to 55 million here, of low-educated, uneducated, low-skill people. We may be staving off whatever bad thing could happen in Mexico, but we\u2019re ruining ourselves and our economy at the same time, and there\u2019s no justification for that. Anyway, I appreciate the call.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: We go to Idaho, and Donna. Donna, it\u2019s nice to have you. Thanks for the call.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. This is Donna, and I wanted to comment on this man who came through the legal requirements to get here —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I knew it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: — and he thinks that\u2019s good, but he wants us to have another policy for the Mexicans to come lawlessly. I don\u2019t think he understands very well what a country of law means, obviously.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What he was trying to say — and I\u2019m glad he called, but what he was trying to say — is he was trying to offer an explanation why this explicable vote in the Senate. Why in the world…? None of this makes sense! People destroying their careers potentially, ruining their chances for reelection, insulting us, telling us we don\u2019t know what we\u2019re talking about when we do; telling us we don\u2019t know what\u2019s in the bill. He was trying to offer an explanation, and an explanation that included as his theory, why these people in the Senate can\u2019t be honest with us about what they\u2019re really doing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I understand that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Okay. But he was simply saying we got great big problems out there south of the border, in our southern hemisphere, and a lot of our oil comes from there, and we can\u2019t stand a revolution in Mexico, and so we have to help alleviate Mexico\u2019s own tattering framework of social destruction and economic hardship and so forth. He\u2019s just offering a theory as to why they\u2019re doing what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, we\u2019ve been their welfare program forever, and as for you picking on them, for goodness sake, what other ethnic group has 15 million people floating around illegally in this country if it isn\u2019t Hispanics? In our area, a spokesman for that group wrote a nasty letter to the editor and said, ‘We are 10% of your population, and we commit 90% of your crime, but it\u2019s all your fault.\u2019 She didn\u2019t quite get that explained satisfactorily to me, but…<\/p>\n

RUSH: She said that proudly. We\u2019re 10% of your population. We commit 90% of the crime.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, yeah! I can say it\u2019s the truth, too.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. I know. Look, I\u2019m not agreeing with the guy, don\u2019t misunderstand. Of course, we can\u2019t absorb that number of people —<\/p>\n

CALLER: No!<\/p>\n

RUSH: — and maintain the America that always has been.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And we can\u2019t compromise our standards for oil or we\u2019re not going to be America.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s true. That was my point. We don\u2019t have to compromise.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s like this notion that we\u2019re on the defensive, that we find ourselves prisoner.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: We\u2019re the lone superpower on this planet, and yet every time that there\u2019s something goes… We feed the world! It\u2019s the morning update today. I don\u2019t know if you heard it. The morning update today was about GivingUSA. GivingUSA is a group that chronicles and records charitable giving. Charitable giving last year was up through the roof. It was like higher even than in 2005 when we had Hurricane Katrina that, that tsunami over there, Hurricane Wilma. The American people, despite their level of taxation, despite all the obstacles that they face having their paychecks work out, we are still the most charitable nation on earth — and this doesn\u2019t count the foreign aid budget that our tax dollars also contribute to.<\/p>\n

CALLER: No, right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yet whenever anything goes wrong in the country, guess who gets the blame? The United States! We\u2019re destroying the world; we\u2019re stealing the resources; we\u2019re polluting the planet, global warming. And we act all defensive. That\u2019s one of the things about this immigration debate that sort of irritates me. We act like we owe these people who are here illegally, an apology!<\/p>\n

CALLER: I know.<\/p>\n

RUSH: For daring to call it amnesty.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We need to build the fence. We need to build the fence. It\u2019s an insult to the engineers. I bet they were mad when they heard him say that, but he says that, ‘Well, they\u2019ve got an engineering problem there in Smugglers Gulch,\u2019 and it\u2019s been held up for two years, which is, I believe, about the time it took to build Boulder Dam.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I went through this. Look, this is something that really, really… Rich Lowry made this point. This is something that, when I put this in perspective, was frightening to me. You go back to the Depression. In the 1930s in San Francisco, we built the Bay Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge both at the same time, roughly on time in four years. The Golden Gate Bridge fascinates me. The Bay Bridge is actually a more challenging engineering marvel, but the Golden Gate is fascinating. I went out and got books about how they did this and videos. I was fascinated by it. The Hoover Dam was built in the Great Depression. The Empire State building went up in 431 days! Five years after 9\/11, we have a hole in the ground in New York City with Democrat attacks on Rudy Giuliani as being lousy at it. We\u2019re not builders anymore. We have too much a defensive posture. We\u2019re worried that we don\u2019t offend people. We\u2019re worried about our image in the world. Who cares!<\/p>\n

CALLER: It takes longer now to fill out the permits and more money than it would to build the project, to get them filed and enacted on.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m going to tell you why.<\/p>\n

CALLER: We\u2019re paralyzed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s because you have a bunch of anti-capitalists that have grown very powerful in this country, and they\u2019re pushing for their own socialist dominance. In fact, it\u2019s interesting to note, too, because in China, they\u2019re having trouble educating kids. Marx is not interesting to the students. The students are seeing this wild market development. In places like Beijing and Shanghai, development\u2019s going crazy. They\u2019re putting up buildings; people are driving cars, and students don\u2019t want to read Das Kapital. They want to read about capitalism, because they want a part of it, they want a piece of it. So teachers are having big problems. The Chinese government has unleashed the free market there. They\u2019ve tried to control it like Gorbachev did with ‘glasnost\u2019 and ‘perestroika,\u2019 but you can\u2019t. Once you unleash freedom to people who have had it denied them, it\u2019s only a matter of time before they\u2019re going to get what they want.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I want to go back to the call we had from the Ukrainian immigrant, the legal Ukrainian immigrant, who offered his own theories as to why the votes are happening the way they are, because senators have far more concerns, geopolitical concerns in our hemisphere revolving around oil and Hugo Chavez, the stability of the Mexican government and so forth, that they can\u2019t dare talk about, he offered as their reasons.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve gone back and forth trying to understand this for I don\u2019t know how long, ever since this most recent incarnation of the bill in the Senate came up. We all know that on the surface of things, the things that we could figure out, just on our experience guided by intelligence, that the Democrats simply see these people that are flooding in here as new victims, new members of the welfare state, requiring the government to grow larger and larger and larger, taxes to go up, so that the redistribution of wealth can take place, creating as many dependents as possible, and then eventually getting them legal and as many of them citizenship as possible so they can vote for Democrats, because that\u2019s who they\u2019ll vote for. Republicans, on the other hand, you\u2019ve got a bunch of different lobby interests on the Republican side of this. One of them is big business, Chamber of Commerce, they like the cheap labor. There\u2019s another element of this, and I remember mentioning this to you, oh, probably six weeks ago now, maybe even a little longer than that. What\u2019s happening here largely is that we need — they\u2019re flawed in their reasoning here, but it\u2019s the old argument about saving Social Security.<\/p>\n

We all know, if we choose to believe it, that Social Security has an endpoint where it\u2019s going to require the taxes of one worker to pay the retirement benefits of one retiree, and that\u2019s going to require a tax rate that workers won\u2019t pay. You\u2019re not going to go convince 20, 22-year-old people today that in 30 years their tax rate is going to be 75%. They\u2019re not going to pay it. They\u2019re not going to work. They\u2019re going to join the welfare state and it will all break down. Congress doesn\u2019t have the guts to take on Social Security reform and really reform it. It\u2019s the third rail of politics. You\u2019ve heard that. That\u2019s the fastest way to cause yourself to lose an election. Actually, it\u2019s the second-best way to now cause yourself to lose an election. The first best way is voting the wrong way on this immigration bill. But the influx of all of these people, the theory is, look at all these news taxpayers. Whether they\u2019re legal or not doesn\u2019t matter. They are paying Social Security taxes, even if they\u2019re on an illegal Social Security card with an illegal number, the money is still being collected. Now, do the businesses that are hiring these people pass it on the government or not? Probably not in the case of illegals with forged numbers because a quick way to be identified as hiring illegals is a risk that some businesses don\u2019t want to take. That\u2019s what\u2019s flawed about all this.<\/p>\n

But the theory is that these people coming in will contribute all this new income because we\u2019ve been aborting ourselves. We gotta throw this in the mix, too. Since 1973, run the numbers, 1.3 million abortions a year. We\u2019ve aborted 40 million potential Americans, 40 million taxpayers who would be in the workforce producing income, generating wealth and paying Social Security taxes. Our replacement birth rate in this country is not what it should be. It\u2019s a little low. So the fastest way to get bodies in here is to allow these illegals who want to come in, come in and pay their Social Security taxes, and put off the day of reckoning on Social Security for another bunch of generations to deal with and not have to make the hard choices now. I think that\u2019s a factor, too. The problem with it is it will all fall apart because these illegals that are coming in and will be allowed in if this thing ever happens are going to be net drains on the whole safety net, because the low wages they\u2019re going to be paid will not allow them to fend for themselves in enough areas. We\u2019re a compassionate country, and so they\u2019ll have to have free dental care, free health care, get all this stuff, and guess who\u2019s going to be paying for that? You will.<\/p>\n

The liberals love that ultimately because that\u2019s just more taxes; that\u2019s just bigger government; that is the greater redistribution of wealth. Believe me, liberals, if they could wipe out conservatism as a viable alternative ideology, they would love to be able to do it. If you bring 45, 50 million people in here that automatically vote Democrat, and you can create a minority that votes 90% Democrat like African-Americans do, then you could effectively end the existence as a viable force of Republicanism or conservatism or what have you. Those are all the Democrat motivations, which makes it even more puzzling why the Republicans don\u2019t see it and they\u2019re falling for it. Which leads then to, well, clearly they\u2019re not that dumb so there\u2019s gotta be something else going on here that we don\u2019t understand. But I wanted to review the whole thing here because the vote that comes up on Thursday is another actual cloture vote. When the show started, I didn\u2019t know there was another vote on Thursday. I saw Mark Krikorian\u2019s post on National Review Online which, you know, bells and whistles went off, ‘Whoa, whoa, what is this?\u2019 Then I started delving into it and finding out what\u2019s up.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Michael in Austin, Texas, I\u2019m glad you waited, sir. You\u2019re next on the EIB Network.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Ah, thank you, Rush. I hope I don\u2019t blow this one.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait. How could you blow it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, there is a lot of other things I would rather talked about but I heard the guy from the Ukraine talk about the geopolitical potential of this —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Uh, uh, I don\u2019t want to be a nitpicker here, but it\u2019s ‘Ukraine.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

RUSH: There\u2019s no ‘the\u2019 or ‘thee\u2019 in front of it. We\u2019re an educational, informative program here.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well…<\/p>\n

RUSH: He was from ‘Ukraine.\u2019<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay. I think this goes back, a lot of it, to the Cold War. I don\u2019t think originally it was. A lot of us held our nose with Bush and the way he\u2019s always saddled up to the illegal alien community around here, but in the last two years it\u2019s like he\u2019s thrown open the doors — and I think his reasons for doing it are far different from the Democrats\u2019, and I don\u2019t think we really know what his reasons are necessarily. You\u2019ve got Russia that\u2019s basically fomented the Middle Eastern terrorists, and they\u2019re allies with Iran in a nonaggression pact. They will defend Iran, supposedly, if anyone goes against them. You have China with North Korea, and they also have control of the Panama Canal. You have Hugo Chavez down in Central America and you got a half a dozen people going on these talk shows with all sorts of different scenarios about potential for nuclear weapons going off on the shore, or, you know, on the coastland of America, and also potential EMP devices going off. Maybe he knows something. Maybe Bush knows something that we don\u2019t. Maybe he\u2019s concerned that we\u2019re going to have a flood of just the masses from the south of the border in the middle of a bunch of chaos if our enemies orchestrate some form of attack against us and wants to engender a lot of support with those countries by allowing a large number of their citizens to go in there and have roots in there.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I mean, it would have to be something so big that… You know, maybe he\u2019s got some piece of evidence he\u2019s sitting on and —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Look, I admire listening to people\u2019s thought processes, because I admire people who think. I admire people who are not robots. But on this I respectfully say that that is a bit of a stretch. If I heard you right, we want a flood of illegals so we have allies if Al-Qaeda and the Russians and the Iranians decide to nuke us. Man, if we\u2019re going to depend on illegals — and I don\u2019t mean in joining the Army; I\u2019m talking about creating goodwill so we have allies — we may as well just reelect Kerry and have him do the global test, turn over our whole sovereignty to what the rest of the world thinks. I don\u2019t think with Bush that\u2019s what it is. With Bush, he\u2019s devout in his faith. I really think you\u2019ve got second-term presidents and they\u2019re concerned with legacies. I don\u2019t know to what extent he has that concern. It\u2019s not, certainly, as strong as Bill Clinton did, but I do think that with Bush, it\u2019s probably a more simpler explanation than it is complicated. I think it\u2019s these are the great unwashed. These are the ‘huddled masses.\u2019 These are the people that want to improve their lives, that want to access the greatest country in the world because of the opportunity we have, and he\u2019s not going to close the door on them. He\u2019s just not going to do it. Now, there\u2019s more to it than that. I don\u2019t want to go into much more detail than that, but I think that obviously there\u2019s some political concerns, too. I think there\u2019s some misjudgments, miscalculations. I really do think that there\u2019s some Republicans who think that these people are going to end up being conservative Republicans, because if they\u2019ve pandered to enough we can show the people that we\u2019re nicer to them than the Democrats are. It\u2019s absurd! If you\u2019re somebody who\u2019s seeking to access relevant spot in the safety net, why would you go to the pretenders to get what you need when you can go to the real guys, in this case the liberal Democrats? Anyway, I appreciate the call out there Michael.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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