{"id":26113,"date":"2007-07-03T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:20:04","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:20:04","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:20:04","slug":"the_immigration_stack2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/07\/03\/the_immigration_stack2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Immigration Stack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: I guess it\u2019s a column. No, it\u2019s a story. I don\u2019t know what it is! It\u2019s an article. There used to be a difference between columns and articles in the Drive-By Media. Today, it doesn\u2019t matter. All articles are columns anyway, essentially. Now, this is about the immigration bill. We have a fairly decent immigration stack here, too. ‘On the morning the immigration bill died &mdash; again &mdash; the ideological Washington Times exposed a supposed plot on Page One: A photo of Sen. Charles E. Schumer, the liberal Democrat from New York, conspiring with a Republican ‘traitor\u2019 from South Carolina, Sen. Lindsey Graham, to put something over on the American people. In reality, they could have been checking a takeout menu. That Thursday morning, however, Schumer and Graham were in agreement that the Senate should keep talking and voting on revising laws on illegal immigration. To the conservative media, Schumer and Graham symbolized the enemy. Hours later, the senators\u2019 cause was lost. And the new media &mdash; websites, e-mails, conservative talk radio and television &mdash; scored their most clearcut [sic] victory since the reelection of President George W. Bush in 2004.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Get this next line: ‘This time the new media did it without strings being pulled by Karl Rove…\u2019 (Laughing.) These guys in the media just can\u2019t get past their action lines and their templates. It\u2019s like the Washington Post referring to me as an ‘untamed piece of the GOP message machine.\u2019 They actually believe that all of these things that I say or anybody else that you listen to might say, all comes in fax or e-mail form, that we get talking points, marching orders every day from Rove\u2019s office and that\u2019s how everybody is on the same page. They can\u2019t believe that conservatism as an ideology and has certain principles that its believers adhere to. So this time it happened, but we did it despite Karl Rove. The idea that the conservative movement was opposed to this and most conservatives were opposed to it… Most Americans were. In fact, the Democrats had an interesting poll released Tuesday — and this is the San Francisco Chronicle. This is back during the debate. I just wanted to remind you of this, because this was a factor in this thing going down, too. This story is dated June 20th: ‘A new Democrat poll released Tuesday could spell trouble for the big Senate immigration bill scheduled for another key procedural vote this week,\u2019 it\u2019s a Democracy Corps poll, by Stan Greenberg and James Carville, ‘showed intense voter concern about immigration in battleground congressional districts. Voters were far more likely to support proposals that could tighten the border and stop illegal immigrants from getting government benefits than efforts to legalize them.\u2019<\/p>\n

The Democrats\u2019 poll ‘said most people didn\u2019t really care about the amnesty.\u2019 That wasn\u2019t what it was. It was that they\u2019re going to be on the welfare state rolls, and that they\u2019re going to be pouring over the border with nobody checking it, and we\u2019re going to lose control of the country. The numbers on this poll: ‘Democrats were evenly divided, 47-47% on whether the immigration bill should become law.\u2019 Yet this little guy in the Buffalo News is all convinced that it was the new media that single-handedly got this done. It couldn\u2019t possibly be that the legislation was bad. It couldn\u2019t probably be that Grahamnesty and Schumer were indeed conspiring in ways to go over the heads and ignore the wishes of the American people. No, couldn\u2019t possibly be that. The most interesting thing in this guy\u2019s piece, though, is the last paragraph. This guy\u2019s name again is Douglas Turner. ‘The stunning victory scored by new media in this episode raises a big question for the power structure: The lobbyists, the political Establishment and their friends in the mainstream press. How are they going to manage the message in the presidential election, when more and more people out there are looking elsewhere for details?\u2019 Now, what strikes you about that last sentence? ‘How are they going to manage the message in a presidential race when more and more people out there are looking elsewhere for details?\u2019 Manage the message? Lobbyists, politics establishment, and the mainstream press? Well, thanks, Mr. Turner, for confirming what we\u2019ve all suspected, what we\u2019ve all known. There\u2019s an agenda, and it\u2019s no longer hidden — and now managing the news, ‘managing the message,\u2019 is something that\u2019s been alluded to here, and they\u2019re worried, they\u2019re concerned, as they should be. This is not the first time something like this has happened, and it\u2019s why they\u2019re constantly trying to do everything they can to diminish the, quote, unquote, ‘power of the new media.\u2019<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is from USA Today. ‘Businesses target failed immigration bill. The business community is already pushing to resurrect portions of a wide-ranging immigration bill that died in the Senate last week. Among the priorities for business are provisions to allow more highly skilled workers into the country each year and expand programs for farm workers. ‘We\u2019re going to have to go back and see how many things from the bill we can pull out and get fixes,\u2019 says Angelo Amador, director of immigration policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, who also said his group would push to give undocumented students who have been raised in the USA a chance to earn legal status and finish their education. … Amador added that businesses face increasing immigration raids and new legislation at the state and local levels,\u2019 precisely because the federal government is lax on this. They\u2019re lax on all areas of enforcement of existing, current immigration law. <\/p>\n

‘The American Farm Bureau Federation will continue pushing for a farm worker program, probably more expansive than the one in the failed bill. That program provided a path to legalization for about 1 million current agricultural workers and made it easier to use a guest worker program.\u2019 What do you mean, one million? By the way, isn\u2019t that interesting, path to legalization? Now they start talking about what was in the bill for real. Now they start talking about the truth! In all these stories prior to this one, it was path to citizenship. There was no path. Well there was a path there, but it was so loaded with land mines that the average illegal wouldn\u2019t bother trying to walk down the path. All these fines, all these fees, there was no way. Path to legalization is what it was. But it was certainly for more than one million. ‘Paul Schlegel, director of public policy for the American Farm Bureau Federation, said, ‘It\u2019s an issue we\u2019ve been working on for a long time … we\u2019re not going to stop.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Nowhere in this story is there any reference to border security. Nowhere in this story is there reference to border control. You know, Scott Rasmussen, the pollster, says according to his data, the primary reason that there was so much opposition to this was no border control, no stopping of the invasion of illegals into the country. Amnesty was bad enough, but it wasn\u2019t the one thing that bothered everybody. It was border control. Note that in Washington they still don\u2019t get it. And, folks, they\u2019re not going to, because the people that are behind this and want this to happen want there to be a constant flow of ‘farm workers,\u2019 they are called here in this story. The current crop of low skilled and uneducated people that form the labor pool that business would love to have. Now, there is one thing good to be said about this. One of the problems with this bill, one of the many — I mean it\u2019s hard to single out one as being the overriding problem. But when you see on a piece of legislation the word ‘comprehensive,\u2019 that is the wrong way to go about anything, trying to fix everything under the sun and add a whole bunch of new provisions that nobody knows about because it\u2019s not happening in sunlight, no committee hearings, no nothing. The way this thing ought to happen is incrementally. <\/p>\n

This whole debate ought to be part of the presidential campaign both in the primaries and in the general election. It ought to be. It is that important to the American people. This effort to get this thing passed in comprehensive form was simply a way to ram it down people\u2019s throats while nobody knew what was in it. But, of course, because of me, talk radio, and all this other so-called new media, you people who would not have known anything about this at all on your own because you\u2019re a bunch of dolts, because of me, they were unable to sneak it through. I say this with due sarcasm and cynicism because you\u2019re not idiots, and it\u2019s about time that they stopped looking at you as idiots. There are plenty of idiots in this country, but you people in this audience are not idiots, and furthermore you are voters, and they secretly know it, but they try to relegate that status of yours to something of lesser importance than it ought to be. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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