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RUSH: Joan in Tucson, Arizona. You\u2019re next.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi, Rush. It\u2019s a pleasure to talk with you.<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: I wanted to discuss this bill in the Senate committee sponsored by McCain and Kennedy which they\u2019re calling a ‘guest worker program\u2019 but is — really, if you read the fine print it is — an amnesty program because it puts illegals on the fast track to citizenship.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yep, yep, yep, yep.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m very concerned about this. You know, we have Jon Kyl here, thank God, but then we also have McCain. I think that everybody should be aware of this bill so they can contact their senators and put the pressure on them because it is just horrible.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Here is a companion story to this: ‘House members warned Senate leaders yesterday that they will oppose any immigration legislation that goes beyond tightening border security and enforcing current immigration laws. ‘Unfortunately, we have grave concerns about several of the proposals which have been presented to your committee,\u2019 the 70 Republicans and one Democrat wrote in a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Republican. ‘We are concerned that some of these proposals are fundamentally incompatible with the desire of the American public for real immigration reform — and their clear opposition to reform proposals that amount to little more than thinly disguised attempts to provide amnesty.” You\u2019re exactly right. There\u2019s a battle inside the Republican Party. The Democrats are hanging back just to see what happens. The Democrats don\u2019t care. They just see potential voters. But the Republicans are actually engaged in the issue and trying to come up with a solution. But I\u2019m glad that you\u2019ve spotted where Senator McCain is on this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh. Most of us, I think — most of us conservatives, anyway — in Arizona, we know what he is. (Laughing.) <\/p>\n

RUSH: (Laughing.)<\/p>\n

CALLER: He can pretend to be conservative but he\u2019s not.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I know. It\u2019s all going to get flushed out, too, as time goes on. But, folks, look. I really get trepidatious <\/emphasize>in talking this way to you sometimes, because I\u2019m Mr. Optimism. I\u2019m Mr. Good Cheer — and I am, and I still am, but there are just certain things that you can start to read the tea leaves on. Like I know (laughing). I know that my taxes are not really ever going to come down significantly. I just know this. I\u2019m 55. I\u2019ve had the dream since I was 20. I know it\u2019s not going to happen. I\u2019m going to keep fighting for it, and the way I\u2019m going to get around it is keep earning more money. When it comes to this immigration business, starting to read the tea leaves here. Now, you need to ask yourselves something — and I\u2019m serious. I\u2019m dead serious about this. <\/p>\n

Why, when you raised hell about the ports deal, did they listen to you and they\u2019re not listening to you on immigration? In fact, I was reading… What was it? I have a mental block. It was a journalist, a columnist. It might have been Fred Barnes. Not Fred Barnes. I don\u2019t know. The Washington conservative punditry doesn\u2019t think immigration is a big problem. They think it\u2019s just jingoism. They think people are upset about it for no reason and it\u2019s a cyclical issue that comes and goes, we\u2019ve always argued about immigration. But just ask yourselves: Your elected officials know full well how you all feel about it, and they\u2019re ignoring you. Why do they ignore you on this and they couldn\u2019t wait <\/emphasize>to implement your desires when it came to the (whispers) ports deal<\/emphasize>? Seriously. You ask yourself. Give me your answer on Monday. A little pop quiz.<\/p>\n

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