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RUSH: This is just late January. Anything can change. And the big thing that could wipe all of this out is the one issue that could make Republicans stay home, and that would be if the House Republican leadership pushes forward with any kind of immigration reform. There is no reason that any Republican voter can be made to understand why we have to do this, and yet the Republican leadership seems hell-bent on getting this done. It\u2019s the end of the Republican Party. That\u2019s not even arguable. <\/p>\n

All you have to do is look at California and what\u2019s happened to the Republican Party there since the last time we did amnesty, which was Simpson-Mazzoli, \u201986-87, and you see what will happen. I mean, when you flood the country with millions of people who are predestined to vote Democrat, in a vast majority sense, who are inexperienced and low wage, what in the world is going to happen when you bring in that many or legalize that many and you\u2019ve given up your assimilation, the assimilation aspect of immigration, then you have Balkanization that takes place? There\u2019s no evidence that this works. There\u2019s no evidence that this benefits the Republican Party. <\/p>\n

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So people are looking at this and they\u2019re just scratching their heads. And that\u2019s why people come up with explanations for it, such as, “Well, these guys have been in the House for all these years, and they make their annual salary, and that\u2019s it. But when they leave, if they do the Chamber of Commerce\u2019s bidding on this, maybe they\u2019ll get a great, great long-term, high-paying gig at a Chamber of Commerce-related business. Or maybe a lobbying company will hire \u2019em, maybe a donor will hire them at some point, if they do this.” That\u2019s why people start coming up with explanations like that. And what those people that assume things like that are actually saying is the Republicans in the House leadership would sell out the party and the country for their own personal gain. That\u2019s pretty damning. <\/p>\n

That would be a serious charge if somebody actually publicly made it. I\u2019m not. I\u2019m just repeating to you what I\u2019ve heard from people who believe there has to be a logical explanation for this, and the logic isn\u2019t found in the politics of it, so what is it? Well, here\u2019s where we are. Reset the table. The Democrats<\/a> have given — according to Politico, late January, subject to change, where we are today. It\u2019s real, by the way. I think people in this country are so fed up, status quo. It\u2019s not that they\u2019re fed up with Democrats. That\u2019d be great if they were. I\u2019m not even going there. They\u2019re just fed up with Washington, with government. It isn\u2019t working on the thing that is, in many people\u2019s lives, the most important thing in the world to \u2019em, and that\u2019s their health care and their health insurance and not going bankrupt and not losing everything. <\/p>\n

Washington doesn\u2019t get that. They\u2019re not connected to these people. They use them. They exploit them. They take their votes and they promise them all these things and then lie to \u2019em. That bond has really been severed here. But it\u2019s not because the Republicans have done anything. They haven\u2019t done anything that\u2019s attracting these people. This is a total anti-vote, if it happens, if the election were today, and it happened the way it\u2019s expected, it would be a total anti-vote like 2010 was.<\/p>\n

So in the midst of that, why in the world would you sabotage that? Why would you do something guaranteed to keep your voters home? Well, the only logical political explanation is that the Republican establishment is willing to get rid of the Tea Party as voters, as members, and conservatives, and willing to live in the wilderness for how many number of years necessary to reassemble a coalition that is made up of moderates. And particularly these guys, who, when this is all over, are gonna be okay job-wise, after they\u2019re not reelected, after they\u2019re defeated, primaried or what have you. And that is a legitimate political possibility, too. <\/p>\n

You know as well as I do that the Republican establishment is not enamored of conservatives in the Tea Party, and the Republican Party consultant class doesn\u2019t like them, and whoever, Palin, Cruz, Mike Lee, don\u2019t like them, don\u2019t like the voters, and if this can sever them from the Republican Party, that\u2019s the only logical political explanation for it. It still doesn\u2019t compute. <\/line><\/p>\n

Mickey Kaus has a piece today at The Daily Caller<\/a>. And this is about the Republicans who, by the way, if you\u2019re just joining us, Paul Ryan and Reince Priebus and the spokesman, the communications director from the RNC, Sean Spicer, appeared this week on MSNBC to tout immigration. I\u2019m sure they know that MSNBC is under a ban on this program. We don\u2019t play anything from MSNBC. It\u2019s a way to be under the radar. It\u2019s a way to curry favor with Democrat voters. I know, folks, if it doesn\u2019t compute, don\u2019t blame yourself. We\u2019ve got those sound bites coming up. <\/p>\n

But Mickey Kaus. He goes back and forth. Centrist guy, leans left, but is sensible now and then. He\u2019s got a piece The Daily Caller about the Republicans and their pursuit of immigration reform. <\/p>\n

“This is the Best Scam They Can Come Up With? — Immigration reform watchers have been waiting to see how the GOP leadership tries to package legislation to trick anti-amnesty conservatives into voting for what in essence is an amnesty. Curiosity grew after House Judiciary chair Bob Goodlatte gave the impression that the leaders were preparing some sort of ‘enforcement first\u2019 approach — or at least preparing to pretend they were proposing an ‘enforcement first\u2019 approach: ‘If we can have a way to get [immigration enforcement] up and operating, I see no reason why we can\u00c2\u2019t also have an agreement that shows how people who are not lawfully here can be able to be lawfully here.'” That\u2019s one of the Republican leaders speaking. <\/p>\n

“The problem for Republican lobbyists — whose clients would deeply appreciate the surge of cheap labor an immigration bill could provide — is that Democrats will not agree to any bill that actually requires enforcement measures –” meaning securing the border. The Democrats will not agree to any bill that actually requires securing the border, “– (like an E-verify employment-check, or a system to catch visa overstayers, or a fence) to be ‘up and operating\u2019 before legalization.”<\/p>\n

The Republicans are saying, “We\u2019re gonna do amnesty, but not at first. We\u2019re gonna shore up the border, we\u2019re gonna legalize the people here, but not citizenship. They can\u2019t vote.” And Kaus is saying the Democrats are never gonna support that. That\u2019s not what they want. “They want legalization now — both to please their constituents and to allow them leverage against enforcement later, once legalization has been pocketed.”<\/p>\n

So, asks Mickey Kaus, “How were Boehner & Co going to sell ‘legal status first\u2019 plan as an ‘enforcement first plan\u2019? Now we know: By pretending that legal status isn\u00c2\u2019t legal status. That\u00c2\u2019s something that not even the famously deceptive Senate Gang of 8 tried. According to amnesty champion Paul Ryan, illegal immigrants would at first get ‘probationary status\u2019 along with a ‘work permit.\u2019 They could come ‘out of the shadows\u2019 and live and work here. Then if measures are taken so the ‘border is secured\u2019 they\u00c2\u2019d get a ‘regular work permit.'”<\/line><\/p>\n

The idea, according to Greg Sargent, well-known leftist at the Washington Post<\/a>, “Seems to be that ‘Undocumenteds will be allowed to work on probation while the border is being secured, but will not enjoy legal status.'” All that means is they can\u2019t vote, and that\u2019s all that matters to the Democrats and maybe the Republicans, but really not at first. The Republicans are really trying to satisfy the Chamber of Commerce and their donors. The Democrats want the voters; the Republicans want their donors to keep donating, they want the money. <\/p>\n

“So if the idea seems to be that ‘Undocumenteds will be allowed to work on probation while the border is being secured, but will not enjoy legal status.\u2019 Why not? Apparently because their ‘probationary\u2019 permits might not be permanent — the immigrants ‘could be kicked off of probationary status if certain security benchmarks aren\u00c2\u2019t met.'” And Kaus says, “This is a joke.” This is never gonna happen. Who do they think that they are fooling with this? The first thing that isn\u2019t gonna happen is secure the borders. That\u2019s not gonna happen while we\u2019ve got 12 million or whatever on probation. Hey, 12 million, come out of the shadows, we\u2019re here, you\u2019re here, we love you. There\u2019s a job over there, a job over there. You can do anything, but you can\u2019t vote. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, while you come out of the shadows we\u2019re gonna go down and we\u2019re gonna build a fence, secure the borders or whatever, but while we\u2019re doing that, you can\u2019t do anything but work and pay taxes. And, by the way, if you do something that makes us mad, we could revoke your probationary permit. You could be kicked off if certain benchmarks for shoring up the border aren\u2019t met. And people say, “Come on, that\u2019s never gonna happen.” <\/p>\n

In the first place, the reason it isn\u2019t gonna happen is because nobody wants that. That is language in there to appease somebody. That language is to appease the Tea Party. That language is to appease you. It\u2019s language designed to appease everybody who opposes this. Because they\u2019re trying to convince you that you\u2019re worried about these people coming and flooding the voter rolls with Democrat votes and voting, and that\u2019s not gonna happen. And everybody and their uncle says, “Oh, yes, it will.”<\/p>\n

The reason why this doesn\u2019t pass the smell test is Chuck Schumer. It\u2019s real simple. We do all of this as it\u2019s drawn up, and within two hours Chuck Schumer\u2019s gonna find a camera, maybe less than that, and he\u2019s gonna start talking about what he wasn\u2019t told, and how inhumane this is. (imitating Schumer) “You mean to tell me that we\u2019re going to welcome these wonderful, great, real Americans out of the shadows, and we\u2019re gonna tell \u2019em to go do dirt work that nobody really wants to do, and we\u2019re gonna tell \u2019em they\u2019ve gotta pay taxes, and they can\u2019t vote? That is unacceptable.” <\/p>\n

And the move will be on, legislation to get rid of that probationary status and turn \u2019em into voters, and nobody\u2019s gonna vote that down. And Kaus\u2019 point is this is of course what\u2019s gonna happen. He\u2019s asking, why don\u2019t the Republicans see through this? The headline: “This is the Best Scam They Can Come Up With?” He\u2019s asking the Republicans, do they not understand how transparent their plan is? <\/p>\n

Kaus says: “This is a joke.” He gives four reasons here. “a) Anything that allows formerly illegal immigrants to ‘be able to be lawfully here,\u2019 … is legal status.” You call it probationary or whatever you want to call it, but it\u2019s legal status. If you are going to take them from illegal to legal, you bring \u2019em out of the shadows, they are legal. You\u2019ve just granted amnesty. No matter what you say and no matter how you try to calculate it, you\u2019ve just granted amnesty. <\/line><\/p>\n

And he says: “The Ryan plan gives this legal status — ability to live and work here — instantly, rewarding people who immigrated illegally with the main thing they were after,” and that is legal status. And, by that example, more people, more illegal immigration would be encouraged because future illegals-in-waiting would see what happened. They would see that after a certain passage of time, they\u2019re gonna be made legal, too. <\/p>\n

So it\u2019s not gonna shut down illegal immigration, like the amnesty people tell us, and just like we were told after Simpson-Mazzoli: “We gotta do this and this will stop.” Ted Kennedy, remember? We won\u2019t have any problem anymore if we do this now. And they\u2019re just saying that now. <\/p>\n

The second thing. “Nobody is going to re-illegalize previously legalized illegals.” That\u2019s a tongue twister, but what he\u2019s saying here, okay, they bring \u2019em out of shadows and we make \u2019em legal. But then we say, if we don\u2019t secure the border, if something goes wrong there, then you\u2019re gonna go back to being illegal. He\u2019s saying that\u2019s not gonna happen, who are we lying to? Who are we kidding? <\/p>\n

Nobody is going to re-illegalize people that have been legalized if border security goals are not met. How\u2019s that gonna happen? We can\u2019t even run a website for health care. How in the world is any of this gonna happen? We\u2019re gonna legalize \u2019em, and then they can\u2019t vote, can\u2019t become citizens until we shore up the border, but if something goes wrong there, then we\u2019re gonna re-illegalize \u2019em. This is never gonna happen. <\/p>\n

“The idea,” Kaus writes, “is so bad there is zero chance the provision would even make it into final legislation after House-Senate talks. The entire purpose of Ryan\u00c2\u2019s exploding cigar legalization provision is to give House conservatives a reason to say immediate legal status isn\u00c2\u2019t somehow really immediate legal status.” That\u2019s why he says, do these people really think conservative Tea Party people are this dumb that they\u2019re not gonna see this for what it is? That\u2019s the purpose of Kaus\u2019 piece, if I had to sum it up. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Here is the third thing. Even if you accept all of these terms, Paul Ryan\u2019s plan does not satisfy the promise of Bob Goodlatte since it allows illegals to be lawfully here before enforcement measures are up and running. See, Goodlatte\u2019s out there trying to tell everybody, “Don\u2019t worry, we\u2019re not gonna legalize anybody \u2019til we secured the border.” No. The plan legalizes people while we secure the border and then claims if something goes wrong with that, we will re-illegalize \u2019em before they are able to vote. <\/p>\n

Kaus says, “Really, this is the best they could come up with? I\u2019m beginning to worry about the lack of ingenuity among America\u2019s skilled legislative con artists. Maybe we need to import some better ones from abroad — a sort of ‘guest lobbyist\u2019 program. (H-1K visas),” get some people in here who know how to run a scam. Mickey Kaus in The Daily Caller. He said, “<\/p>\n

“What\u2019s wrong with a straight Enforcement First, Legalization Second approach, anyway? The undocumented have been waiting ‘in the shadows\u2019 for 25 years. They can wait 5 more while we implement a few measures to prevent another surge of additional undocumenteds…”<\/p>\n

What\u2019s wrong with a straight enforcement first, legalization second approach anyway? The undocumented have been waiting in the shadows for 25 years. They could wait five more while we implement a few measures to prevent another surge of additional undocumenteds after this.” Why the need to do it now, he\u2019s asking — and the answer, of course, is right C of C. It appears, anyway. What\u2019s in the public domain is, the reason we gotta do it now is the Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Our old buddy Robert Rector at the Heritage Foundation<\/a> last summer wrote a report, issued a report, published a report, and made the point that if you take a body of 11 million immigrants who have an average education of tenth grade — and these are statistical numbers. Nobody\u2019s insulting anybody here. Just calm down. But that\u2019s basically what we\u2019re talking about, by definition — and even that may be somewhat charitable. <\/p>\n

But we\u2019ll stick with. If you take a body of 11, 12 million immigrants who have an average education of tenth grade and you give them access to 80 different means tested welfare programs, including Obamacare, Soc. Security, and Medicare, who is going to pay for that? There is polling data that shows overwhelming majority of such arrivals are not here to join the Tea Party. <\/line><\/p>\n

They believe in Big Government. They believe in command-and-control government over their lives. It\u2019s just what they believe. You throw this group of people into the mix with no assimilation and immediate access, and you\u2019re overwhelming a system that\u2019s already incapable of fulfilling its original purpose and charter. Now, I don\u2019t want to anybody misunderstand. I\u2019m actually thinking that Kaus here has nailed it. <\/p>\n

I just wanted to share with you a take on this that I found humorous in parts but interesting. You know, I guess my quibble with Kaus would be that this was only meant to be a fig leaf and not a scam. Immigration itself is the scam. It\u2019s the mother of all — illegal. Amnesty is the mother of all scams. But this securing the border talk is just a fig leaf that enables the real scam. The scam is not the strategy. That\u2019s my quibble with what Kaus said. <\/p>\n

He\u2019s laughing at the strategy. He\u2019s saying, “Can\u2019t they come up with a better way to lie? Can\u2019t they come up with a better way to scam us, can\u2019t they come up with a better plan that will fool people? Where\u2019s Bill Clinton when we need him? That\u2019s what Kaus is asking. So I don\u2019t think their strategy is the scam. Amnesty is the scam. The substance of this is the scam, not the strategy. That would be my quibble with Kaus\u2019 take. <\/p>\n

But to each his own. <\/p>\n

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RUSH: Bob in Osawatomie, Kansas. Great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hello, Rush. This is an honor, and we love you in the Midwest and we truly think you\u2019re a gift.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, thank you very much. I really appreciate that. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, you bet. It\u2019s the truth. I had something on immigration. I\u2019ll be quick as I know that you can couch this better than I can, and perhaps you can see the err of my ways. But I\u2019m strong on Paul Ryan, and I think this may be more brilliant than we think. I read through and listened and found out as much as I could about this proposal. When you have Trumka and Schumer come out so quickly against it, I think we may be on to something. <\/line><\/p>\n

I think what Paul Ryan may be doing… Most, the vast majority of Americans seem to want some way of getting their friends, the people in their church, some sort of a legalization card. But their sense of fair play won\u2019t let them move ahead of people, get amnesty, get citizenship, or just get a free pass in. It seems to me what they\u2019re doing is they\u2019re forcing Obama into a veto that he doesn\u2019t want to make, and I think that\u2019s why Schumer\u2019s so scared of it like Trumka is so scared of it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That they would veto it?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes. I think that\u2019s what they\u2019re doing, or else threatening to do before it even goes anywhere, and then the Republicans take the high ground and say, “Here was an immigration bill,” and I think immigrants will see it that way. I think if any of us know any illegal immigrants —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Wait. I just want to understand. Are you suggesting that they\u2019re proposing this without really thinking it\u2019s gonna go anywhere?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Or, if it does go somewhere, they win. It\u2019s a win-win. If it doesn\u2019t go, they take the high ground, and the Democrats, they bluff them out of their position. If it does go, they win the immigrants. You can\u2019t lose.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That interesting, your take on this. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, this is why I think that. First of all, you\u2019re making somebody legal, and we all realize that\u2019s tough to stomach this, because here in the Midwest —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me ask you a question, since you seem to be inclined to support this. We do this now?<\/p>\n

CALLER: The “now” does surprise me, except I think they may be picking an issue that was at 3% in most of the polls as having importance. Because in other words, when you do a win-win, they\u2019re picking an issue that people will flag, that they\u2019ll take an interest in, and yet it\u2019s a 3% on their radar. And so the Republicans are going to show the hypocrisy of Obama and the Democrats and they\u2019re picking an issue that\u2019s not huge.<\/p>\n

RUSH: No, it is huge. The 3% number in the polls is the number of people who think that it is important and needs to be done — i.e., only 3% think we need to reform immigration law with amnesty. We\u2019ve already got the most generous immigration policy in the world. But here\u2019s another thing: There are a lot of people who, you know, favor immigration because they think it\u2019s going to help people escape poverty. <\/p>\n

They just do it on that basis alone, just from the compassion side of it; and immigration is not a solution to poverty. It\u2019s certainly not a solution to poverty around the world. It\u2019s not the solution to poverty in Mexico. You might say it\u2019s a solution to poverty for those who emigrate to the country, but not necessarily the illegal immigrants, because they\u2019re not assimilating, the majority of \u2019em. <\/p>\n

Now, to your theory. Look, Trumka? I dealt with this at the beginning of the program. Trumka reflexively opposed the Republican plan, came out very angrily opposing the plan, and I think the reason why is to maintain credibility with his base. After all, these are the dastardly Republicans. Trumka and the Democrats have demonized these Republicans for decades, so any idea they\u2019ve got has to be suspected. <\/p>\n

Any idea they have has got to be wrong, cockeyed, mean-spirited, racist, or whatever. Trumka, even if he likes it, cannot afford to agree with it right off the bat. But I don\u2019t think that in any way this entraps the Democrats or Obama. All it does, if it succeeds, is give them what they want, and they are always going to get the credit for it, no matter what. The Republicans…<\/p>\n

This is the frustrating thing for me. <\/p>\n

The Republicans are never going to be given credit. Even if they pass this law, even if the Republicans are the ones to make amnesty happen, they\u2019re not gonna get the credit for it in the media. Obama is. The Democrats are. The Republicans are going to be reported as having gone along with this because of the inevitability of it. “It\u2019s the only way they could have survived.” <\/p>\n

They\u2019re not gonna be given any credit whatsoever for this. But it\u2019s interesting that Bob here thinks there\u2019s something in this, that Ryan\u2019s really brilliant on it and we\u2019re missing — and I\u2019m open to that possibility. I mean, I don\u2019t close anything off. But it just doesn\u2019t look that way to me right now. I don\u2019t know why we\u2019re doing this. I don\u2019t know why we\u2019re doing it, period, and I don\u2019t know why we\u2019re doing it now.<\/p>\n

Grab sound bite 24. It\u2019s not very long. It\u2019s Ted Cruz. It\u2019s from Bloomberg TV Market Makers this morning, and he\u2019s talking so some guy named Peter Cook. The question\u2019s longer than the answer. Basically he\u2019s asked: What do you make of this Republican plan? Is this a move Republicans should be making? Is it time to compromise with the Democrats on this?<\/p>\n

CRUZ: I think it would be a mistake if House Republicans were to support amnesty for those here illegally. In my view, we need to secure the borders. We need to stop illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And he\u2019s gone further, of course, as you know. Why are we doing it, period, and certainly not now. If the Democrats are on the ropes, why do it now? I just… The thing that scares me about it, Bob, is I just think it\u2019s the end of the Republican Party. I look at California, not to mention the end of the country. I actually care about that first. I appreciate the call. Thank you so much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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