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RUSH: Here\u2019s Larry in Springfield, Missouri. You\u2019re next, sir. I\u2019m glad you called.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Dittos, Mr. Limbaugh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s my first time speaking to the great one. I\u2019m quite excited. When I heard your sound bites in the first hour, during the first monologue, from Senator Grahamnesty about what the Democrats will or won\u2019t allow. As you\u2019ve said on many occasions, Democrats in charge is the normal course of things. I guess to Senator Grahamnesty it is also the normal course of things. He didn\u2019t know what the heck to do with the power the electorate gave him, and neither did the other Republican leadership, and they spent like super-duper Democrats, and that\u2019s why they no longer have power. To them, I guess Democrats in charge is normal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, with Senator Grahamnesty I think I understand what happened. I think that I can explain Senator Grahamnesty. He was a really solid conservative member of the House of Representatives. He was part of the Freshman Class of 1994, of which I was made an honorary member. During the impeachment of Bill Clinton, Senator Grahamnesty, then-Congressman Graham, served as one of the House managers prosecuting the case against Clinton in the Senate trial. I think this ended up affecting him in a way that he didn\u2019t understand and didn\u2019t appreciate. He was tagged as a kook and so you know what the Drive-By Media did to those guys. So he runs for the Senate in South Carolina, and on the basis of his solid performance as a member of Congress, he wins — and it was appreciated, by the way, by the people of South Carolina that he served as a House manager. When he gets to the Senate, he feels compelled to change his image with the Drive-By Media and with Democrats. He wants to erase this House manager experience, so he throws in with McCain. He sees how McCain does it. That\u2019s why we refered to him here as ‘Vice President Lindsey Graham\u2019 before he became Senator Grahamnesty. So McCain\u2019s out there doing everything he can to get noticed in Washington, and the way you do that is you turn against your own party; you turn against your own president; you make the Drive-By Media your best buddy. You make deals with liberals in the Senate, and you make the Democrats in the Senate think that you\u2019re ‘growing\u2019 and that you\u2019re expanding your universe and area of knowledge. Senator Grahamnesty, I think, threw in with Senator McCain and they became a team and a partnership and so forth. I think that\u2019s what happened to him. <\/p>\n

Look, let\u2019s play these two bites. We played these almost three hours ago, and you may not know what Larry in Springfield is referring to, but let\u2019s play a couple bites. Senator Grahamnesty before the cloture vote this morning. This is from the Senate floor. <\/p>\n

GRAHAM: You\u2019re never going to deal with this issue until you embrace the 12 million. No Democrat is going to let you build a — a fence and do all the things that we want to do, without addressing the 12 million. That\u2019s never going to happen. I want to address the 12 million. The reason I want to address the 12 million, it bothers me that there\u2019s 12 million people here that we don\u2019t know who they are and what they\u2019re up to. I wish they would go away, but they\u2019re not. It is a problem that America has to deal with, and we want someone else to do it, because we\u2019re afraid that if we do a plea bargain, it\u2019s amnesty.<\/p>\n

RUSH: A plea bargain is amnesty! Anyway, you see him saying that no Democrat is ever going to let you build a fence, and he\u2019s also said in the past that his job is to go there — during this debate, not today, but previous to today he has said that his purpose is to go there — and work with Democrats to get things done because I guess they\u2019re the majority, so we gotta work with them. And those who elected him don\u2019t think that\u2019s his job. Those that elected Senator Grahamnesty believe that his job is to defend his own principles and ideals and try to emerge victorious after political battles with Democrats, not get along with them. He\u2019s seen how Senator McCain has prospered over the years as a senator and become a favorite of the Drive-By Media. What he ought to be noticing here, is Senator McCain\u2019s precipitous plummet into single digits in the Republican presidential primary. The two are linked. <\/p>\n

GRAHAM: The 12 million will be dealt with. They\u2019re not going to be ignored. They will be dealt with firmly and fairly, eventually. They\u2019re not going to be deported. They\u2019re not going to jail. They can\u2019t be wished away. So we need to come together in a bipartisan manner, have principled compromise, where we deal with 12 million, we deal with broken borders; we get a temporary worker program. To my Republican friends: remember this day if you vote no. You will never, ever have this deal again.<\/p>\n

RUSH: To which we all say, ‘Thank God!\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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