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RUSH: “Former President Clinton on Monday compared Republican criticism of his wife\u2019s position on driver\u2019s license for illegal immigrants to the ads that helped sink John Kerry\u2019s White House hopes in 2004. Tim Russert\u2019s question and the Republican reaction is the equivalent of Mrs. Clinton being swiftboated.” He was talking to the American Postal Workers Union at a convention, and he said, (doing Clinton impression) “I had the feeling at the end of that debate that we\u2019re about to get into cutesy land again. But I gotta tell you something. It\u2019s fine for Hillary and all the other Democrats to discuss Governor Spitzer\u2019s plan, but not in 30 seconds. You can\u2019t do this in sound bites. It\u2019s just too complicated for sound bites. You can\u2019t explain this in sound bites.” So here is Mrs. Clinton\u2019s husband running to the rescue once again to try to bail her out. There\u2019s nothing to explain in a sound bite or not. She flip-flopped on the answer and she ended up blowing it big time by saying we should have passed the amnesty bill! Driver\u2019s licenses for illegal aliens, 77% of the public oppose it. I have it here in the stack, ladies and gentlemen. <\/p>\n

This is one of these issues, immigration — here\u2019s the story in the Chicago Sun-Times, by Steve Huntley: “3 Events of Past Week Give Democrats a Reason to Worry — First, Hillary Clinton had a bad night in the Democratic presidential debate in Philadelphia. She was defensive, cold and harsh-sounding, mouthed position papers, and gave muddling, confusing and contradictory answers to questions, in effect trying to take both sides of an issue. That cold, calculating, triangulating image is the reason she has high negatives.” Can we talk about immigration? It\u2019s a huge, huge reason Democrats ought to be worrying. <\/p>\n

The second reason Steve Huntley gives is “Barack Obama laid out his foreign policy views toward Iran in an interview with the New York Times,” and said he\u2019d have an open relationship with them. This is not cool. And the third reason, “last week\u2019s report on war casualties showed that the news from Iraq is turning positive.” Iraq\u2019s going well, Obama is an appeaser to Iran, and Hillary\u2019s biggest vulnerability from the debate was her attitude and her character. Three events the past week give Democrats reason to worry. Well, let\u2019s add two more. Their position on climate change is a deadly one once people find out what it\u2019s going to cost \u2019em, and Mrs. Clinton\u2019s made it clear where Democrats are on illegal immigration.<\/p>\n

When you have 77% of the people in the country opposing illegal immigration and driver\u2019s licenses for illegals, you can flip-flop all day long, and you\u2019re not going to get your tail out of the hot wax. Clinton can come along and say “hey, you know, it\u2019s too complicated. You can\u2019t put this in a sound bite. You can\u2019t sound bite that answer. You people aren\u2019t nuanced enough to understand this like we do.” That isn\u2019t going to sell with anybody. Tell people they\u2019re stupid? That\u2019s really a way to win \u2019em over. “It\u2019s too complicated for you to understand. I would love explain it to you, but…” it\u2019s not complicated at all. They\u2019re trying to make it complicated because they\u2019re trying to get themselves out of the excrement.<\/p>\n

I think these people are just starting to realize here that there is a problem that this woman has when she is forced to answer substantive questions to which slogans and pandering will not work. Then in Cedar Rapids, they\u2019re all out in Iowa getting ready for the Hawkeye Cauci. “The battle against global warming means big economic opportunities as well as challenges for the U.S., Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday, touting her energy proposals as she campaigned in Iowa. ‘For this generation, climate change is our space race,\u2019 said Clinton, speaking in a cavernous factory with giant wind turbines in the background.”<\/p>\n

Get this. She said, “Global warming hits particularly hard at the poor. One in four low-income families have already missed a mortgage or rent payment because of rising energy costs.” Global warming. She has just linked the mortgage credit crisis to global warming, ladies and gentlemen. Does she think we are this stupid? Yes. Then here\u2019s a headline. This is from the Chicago Sun-Times: “Obama Turns Up Heat as He Targets Hillary — With her lead so strong, he decides he has to get tougher.” This guy is so milquetoast, he couldn\u2019t turn up the heat on a teapot, folks, we found that at the debate the other night. The guy couldn\u2019t turn up the heat on an outdoor campfire if somebody showed him the gauge.<\/p>\n

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RUSH: Washington Times today, Rasmussen Report: “Voters oppose driver\u2019s licenses for illegal aliens by a nearly five-to-one margin. As immigration politics explode into the presidential race…” By the way, can you remember when we were debating the amnesty bill way back when in the summer, and the proponents were worried, “We\u2019ve gotta get this done fast! We gotta get this done fast! We can\u2019t let normal politics get in the way of this. We\u2019ve gotta get this done fast to solve the problem,” because they wanted to keep it out of any reelection campaign. Do you remember me saying back then, “This is the kind of issue that needs to be in the presidential debate, in the presidential campaign. We need our future president candidates to be telling us what they think about this,” and, voila<\/emphasize>! It has happened. It happened, ladies and gentlemen — may I remind you, without any ego whatsoever — because I forced this question. Now, we can\u2019t prove that. But day before the debate I am railing about how it is that Mrs. Clinton gets a pass on not having to answer what she thinks about the illegals getting driver\u2019s licenses in New York, and a reporter writes the story, “It\u2019s radioactive for her.” <\/p>\n

So I\u2019m reading and I\u2019m shouting at the paper, “Ask her! You are a reporter!” And, lo and behold, the next night the debate, it came up, and all hell has broken loose since, and the Democrats and the media express shock and dismay that illegal immigration is such a stridently, strong issue out there. You have people like E.J. Dionne, Jr., of the Washington Post saying, (paraphrasing) “Yeah, it sounds like everybody cares about it, but it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s a really small bunch of people, but they are very, very loud.” Tell me, E.J., with the still monopolistic or near-monopolistic control over the left-wing Drive-By Media, how is it that these voices you consider to be so small in number manage to be heard in such great number by our elected officials in Washington? See, this is how libs lie to themselves. Illegal immigration to the inside-the-Beltway bunch — the Washington, New York, Boston corridor, the axis, Northeastern elites — why, they firmly believe, “Why, people in here, great American tradition, immigration, blah, blah, blah, can\u2019t be racists. We can\u2019t be nativists and so forth.” So they think their view is the dominant view, or should be, and so anybody outside the Beltway that doesn\u2019t subscribe, “Ah, they\u2019re just a bunch of rednecks, a real loud, small number of people.” <\/p>\n

How could their voices be so heard when you have done so much in the Drive-Bys to squelch them? “Seventy-seven percent of the adults surveyed opposed making driver\u2019s licenses available to illegal aliens, while just 16 percent supported the idea.” It doesn\u2019t matter if you ask \u2019em, “Well, should it be because of security?” Like here in The Politico, a little story by Roger Simon: “‘Legal or Not, Immigrants Must Drive.\u2019 You probably can make a good argument for giving driver\u2019s licenses to illegal immigrants. And you probably can make a good argument against it. But you can\u2019t make both arguments at the same time. And you can\u2019t explain either in 30 seconds.” Whoa! We just had Bill Clinton say, (Clinton impression) “You know, Limbaugh, this is not a sound bite issue, and you can\u2019t explain this in sound bites.” You know, “It\u2019s not a sound bite,” is itself a sound bite! So Roger Simon has picked up that theme. You can\u2019t explain either in 30 seconds, and you go to the page two of his story, and you get this. <\/p>\n

Bruce Morrison, immigration expert: “It is a very difficult problem with no simple answer. So when it comes to solving the problem, we take to our respective corners and call each other names. This is politics in the 21st century.” It\u2019s just too complicated to explain it! Well, why do they have to drive? I\u2019ll tell you why they have to drive: so Democrats can register them to vote! That\u2019s it. That is what it\u2019s all about. Anyway, you probably think I\u2019ve lost my place. The point is, we got this issue out, and it is now part of the presidential race, where it should be, and it\u2019s going to be quite telling to see how the Democrat candidates go on this, because it\u2019s out there. It\u2019s just waiting for them to trip over time and time again. <\/p>\n

&bull; AP: Clinton Sees Opportunity in Climate Woes<\/a><\/p>\n

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