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RUSH: You really have, huh?<\/p>\nRUSH: Chantilly, Virginia. This is Bill. Great to have you, Bill. How are you doing, sir?<\/p>\n
CALLER:\u00a0 I\u2019m doing fine. How are you doing, Mr. Rush?<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m doing okay. Doin\u2019 fine and dandy here. Goin\u2019 into a three-day Presidents\u2019 weekend.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s good. My point… My call is that the president didn\u2019t need to sign that spending bill today. He could have not signed it, declared the emergency, and we, as his base of supporters, would have supported him 100% on it. But by signing it with all this negativity that\u2019s in it, all the basic giveaways that he\u2019s doing, he\u2019s damaged his base. I mean, there\u2019s just no getting around it. People are upset that he signed this into law basically giving open borders. No wall\u2019s gonna be built. He\u2019s turned his back on us — and, quite frankly, I have lost faith in his ability to do his job.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You really have, huh?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, sir, I have. I mean —<\/p>\n
RUSH: He\u2019s —<\/p>\n
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CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I\u2019m not trying to stir things up. I\u2019ve just got a question. I can\u2019t find a news story yet that says he signed this. Everybody\u2019s thinking he has, and he came out and said he was going declare a national emergency. But I can\u2019t find where he\u2019s actually signed this yet. Now, I\u2019m not trying to do anything here. I may have missed it or it just… It may have happened and it\u2019s considered such a formality that it doesn\u2019t warrant a news story because the declaration of national emergency\u2019s a far greater thing. I don\u2019t know. But I haven\u2019t seen any evidence —<\/p>\n
CALLER: I\u2019m at work so I didn\u2019t even know whether… I was going by what was being reported on the radio that he had signed it. So if he hasn\u2019t signed it, well, more power to him. But —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I don\u2019t know that. The reporting was that he was gonna sign it and declare a national emergency at the same time. But he hasn\u2019t actually said he signed it. He said he\u2019s declared the national emergency. Look, I shouldn\u2019t have mentioned that \u2019cause I\u2019m not trying to cause trouble. I\u2019m not trying to get everybody\u2019s hopes up here on this. I\u2019m just sharing that haven\u2019t seen it yet, and if it happens… It\u2019s tougher for me to keep track of things while the program\u2019s underway — and it may have happened, and I just have missed it. But, really, you\u2019re beginning to lose faith. I got that from what you said.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, based on what I\u2019m seeing reported as what\u2019s in this bill, declaring an emergency to get the wall built when the localities down there can tell him, “No, we don\u2019t want the wall,” and he\u2019s powerless to build a wall? I mean, basically to me it\u2019s pointless to declare an emergency on our border if you can\u2019t do anything down there to change it. You\u2019re allowing open immigration, what you quoted earlier about building welcoming centers —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah. That\u2019s outrageous.<\/p>\n
CALLER: — and escorting them across the border.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: I know that. Yep. Well, I\u2019m sorry to hear that you are wavering, losing faith. I\u2019m not gonna sit here and try to talk you off the ledge. I have more respect for your independence and your decision-making than that. (sigh) About all I could say… I mean, when the Democrats win the House, what does anybody think is gonna happen? Look, I don\u2019t want to relive the past because you can\u2019t change it. But all during that campaign last year, I grew so sick and tired of hearing from everybody, “The Democrats are gonna win the House \u2019cause it\u2019s automatic.<\/p>\n
“This is what happens. The out-of-power party always picks up seats in the first midterm elections after a new president\u2019s been elected.” It just seemed to me that there wasn\u2019t a whole lot of effort on the Republican side to stop this. We had all these damn Republican resignations. That meant a lot of incumbent seats in the House were automatically in play, given how automatically reelected incumbents are. So all these Republicans are quitting, and I\u2019m asking, “Why?”<\/p>\n
And they said, “Well, because they\u2019ve been term-limited out of their chairmanships.”<\/p>\n
“Oh! So since they\u2019re just gonna go back to being average, ordinary, run-of-the-mill members, that\u2019s beneath them, and they\u2019re gonna leave?”<\/p>\n
“Well, they want to go earn some money — and, you know, they don\u2019t think Trump\u2019s this or that.”<\/p>\n
So we basically had a party… How many Republicans retired? Was it over 50 or 40 or something? We practically gave the House to them, and Trump\u2019s out there doing all these rallies trying to prevent a disaster — and holding the House was crucial to Trump\u2019s agenda going forward. It just… As I say, there\u2019s no going back now. I mean, you can\u2019t change it. It ticked me off!<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Here\u2019s Michael in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. I\u2019m glad you waited. How are you doing, sir?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Hey, I\u2019m doing great, Rush. Looks like it\u2019s dittos on the mega 30-year dittos from the previous caller.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Thank you, sir!<\/p>\n
CALLER: You bet. Hey, as a longtime student of the Limbaugh Institute, I know what you meant when you said about Obama, “I hope he fails,” and I know that that was his policies that you spoke of. In particular, we\u2019re dealing right now with an economic policy of Obama\u2019s that has reared its ugly head nine years later. It\u2019s called the rain tax here in Pennsylvania. This is a tax as a result of a federal mandate which is an executive order signed by Obama, which put into play taxing rain on our homes, businesses, schools, churches, farms, et cetera, and it\u2019s come to effect here in this year, and —<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, now, wait a minute. Explain how this works. You get taxed every time it rains?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes. They base it on the square footage of what they call “impermeable area,” which is your roof, your driveway, buildings that you have, parking lot, anything that they determine… By “they” I mean the EPA and DEP. Anything they determine that it doesn\u2019t run off and soak into the ground. So they determine with the aerial photograph of your square footage, and then they tax you accordingly.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What taxing authority does this? The county, the city? Where do you get this tax bill from?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, right now in Northeastern Pennsylvania we got it from… It\u2019s a local authority called the Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Oh, yeah. Those guys!<\/p>\n
CALLER: They\u2019ve taken on this initiative.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay. Those guys.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (laughing)<\/p>\n
RUSH: I know who you\u2019re talking about.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, the EPA has pushed it down to the states. The states have pushed it down to local authorities. It\u2019s a direct result of Executive Order 13508 signed by Obama in 2010, May of 2010. But the EPA pushed it down to the states, and the states pushed it down to local levels, and the local levels are implementing it.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, it\u2019s an example there of Obama executive overreach. Something like that would never pass Congress, but he did it anyway, which circles us back. I have to tell you, Fox News just reported a poll that they took, and this is what I was afraid of. Fox just reported that their poll found that 15% of Trump voters and 17% of Republican voters said they would like someone other than Trump to be the 2020 nominee. Now, I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s a flash poll today or if it\u2019s just an ongoing president tracking poll or preference poll that they take.<\/p>\n
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But I\u2019m telling you, that\u2019s what this stupid budget deal is, and I think that… Folks, there is another way to try to look at this. It\u2019s very, very hard to do this. But try to strip the politics out of this. I know this is hard. Try to take the ideology out of this, and just look at what we have. We have a president — a man — who believes in his heart and throughout his being that illegal immigration is destroying the country in many ways.<\/p>\n
The rule of law is crumbling as it\u2019s not enforced. We have literally an invading army of people coming to this country who have no intentions of assimilating and becoming Americans. There is a never-ending supply of them. All of Central America and the Caribbean… It\u2019s been calculated 42 million people who live in those regions say they would like to move to America. There\u2019s not one disincentive to do so in this bill.<\/p>\n
This bill that Trump was presented for signature — and he did sign it, by the way, just a few minutes ago. So he has signed the legislation in addition to the declaration of national emergency. You have the Washington establishment, which is in total opposition to President Trump on this. They have passed a budget and sent to him for signature that\u2019s basically creates welcome committees and reception centers and offers money and food and medical care.<\/p>\n
And it even works — and this was the Obama-era declaration. It works with the drug cartels in delivering “unaccompanied minors” who will then be held in these reception centers until, quote-unquote, “their parents” show up to get them. In the bill, there was also a cap on the number of beds at existing detention centers, meaning we cannot detain any more people than we are currently detaining or holding, particularly the criminal element. So what do we have here?<\/p>\n
We have the entirety of the Washington establishment arrayed and aligned against one man and his supporters, and the battle lines couldn\u2019t be more clear. On one side, we have people who don\u2019t care about the rule of law, who don\u2019t care about this army of people not becoming Americans, because they\u2019re gonna use them for other purposes. Both parties. And over here we got Trump, who is offended by it, alarmed by it, thinks it\u2019s wrong and it needs to stop.<\/p>\n
So we have divided government. There is no way that President Trump\u2019s ideas and policies can prevail on this issue in legislation. It\u2019s not possible. I mean, not right now. It isn\u2019t possible right now. It wouldn\u2019t be possible if there was another government shutdown, because the people and the forces arrayed against Trump are trying to force him out of office — and whatever they have to do to do that is fine. If it means not enforcing the law, fine.<\/p>\n
If it means providing expanded welfare services and engraved invitations for illegals to keep coming, they\u2019ll do that. They essentially are. Trump, in my mind, has no choice here, when that\u2019s what he\u2019s up against. Not signing it, shutting down the government is not going to change the political landscape. Declaring a national emergency and getting the wall built however he can by finding money wherever he can, is his only option.<\/p>\n
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And he\u2019s taking it. And he\u2019s probably the only Republican any of us could vote for who would do even half of what he has done on this issue. But what choice does he have? You can\u2019t do anything about the fact that the Democrats have the House and we don\u2019t have 60 votes in the Senate. You can lament all day long, “Well, if Trump would have tried to pass it in the first two years…” Well, none of that happened! We gotta deal with what\u2019s the case now.<\/p>\n
Trump\u2019s been up against opposition from both parties ever since he won the election. He\u2019s really got no choice. And if he\u2019s right, if people agree with him that what we face here is a national emergency, this is the only option available to him. And he sounds confident as he can be that he\u2019s gonna succeed and get this done. In fact, if you want to bring the politics back into this — and I mentioned this Wednesday when I made my now absolutely 1,000% correct prediction.<\/p>\n
I think now, as the wall is built or as areas of it are renovated and upgraded, we\u2019re gonna have pictures of that — and, believe me, this issue hasn\u2019t been lost. The American people… There\u2019s not a majority of American people who want to send engraved invitations to illegals and say, “Come on in!” We don\u2019t have a majority of Americans that want to expand reception centers for illegal immigrants. The politics of that, when you get to that, Trump\u2019s still in the majority position. He just doesn\u2019t have any support from elsewhere in the government. So this is the only option open to him. (sigh)<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t have to describe for you how serious this is.<\/p>\n
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