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RUSH: Okay. Up next, the Syrian refugee problem, the resettlement problem, and the argument raging over whether the governors have the power to refuse them. The left-wing media, shall we say, “experts” — think tank analysts — all say the governors have no choice. The governors have nothing to say about whether Syrian refugees are put in their states because the federal government gets to determine everything about immigration. Except that\u2019s not true, and I will explain this in the next half hour of the program. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s crucially important, and it\u2019s an area in which the Drive-By Media is once again in blanket fashion lying to the American people, using university professors and think tank specialists to postulate this opinion, when in fact it is incorrect. Paul Ryan wants to pause, put a pause on the Syrian refugee program. A press conference today, Capitol Hill in Washington. This the new Republican Speaker of the House.<\/p>\n

RYAN: It\u2019s important that we have a refugee system in place. We respect that. But we think it\u2019s simply prudent that, for this particular program, in this particular situation, that we be better guarded against any possible infiltration of ISIS coming through this program. That is why we think it\u2019s necessary to have a pause and to have a more comprehensive strategy dealing with guaranteeing that we do not allow ISIS members coming here.<\/line><\/p>\n

RUSH: Because we can\u2019t vet them. He\u2019s exactly right. The libs are trying to say that we are throwing our values away, that we accept anybody, that we are the single experiment in freedom and openness and tolerance — and if we shut it down, we\u2019re no better than anybody else in the rest of the world. “We have to let \u2019em in!” It\u2019s absurd what they are saying — backed up, of course, by the Drive-By Media. But we can\u2019t vet them. We don\u2019t know who they are. There\u2019s no way to know. Ryan\u2019s idea of a pause here makes some sense. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Megan, Citrus Heights, California, near my adopted hometown of Sacramento. How are you doing, Megan?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019m doing great, Rush — and let me tell you, you\u2019re always right, and I love listening to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I appreciate it. Thank you very much. Very, very astute, you are.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, my question is: With all ISIS going on in Paris bombing, I know there\u2019s 27 states that are not letting refugees in. What I don\u2019t understand is why the other states aren\u2019t participating. What is it gonna take for people to wake up and realize —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey, have you heard —<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Does the name John Hickenlooper mean anything? Does it ring a bell to you?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Not really.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, he\u2019s the governor of —<\/p>\n

CALLER: — all the time to learn.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s the governor of Colorado. His nickname is Puff Puff.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay.<\/p>\n

<\/a>RUSH: And this guy has said, “Hey, to all of you states that don\u2019t want these Syrian refugees? We\u2019ll take \u2019em.” Hickenlooper has said, “Bring \u2019em in to Colorado! These 27 states that don\u2019t want \u2019em? We\u2019ll take \u2019em!”<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s madness, Rush. You know, I look at my child. If you don\u2019t mind my saying, I\u2019m a single parent and I look at my child. He\u2019s 15 months old. Can\u2019t they see it\u2019s not anything to do in our state between Democrat and Republican? It\u2019s about the world. ISIS is power hungry madmen that don\u2019t care if they\u2019re – Democrat, Republican. All they care about is your infidel or if you\u2019re Christian and they want to kill you. So, at the end of the day, it does not matter.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, as we just explained, the problem that we have — one of the many — is that there are many ranking Democrats and intellectual leftists who believe ISIS is justified in their actions because of the way we have conquered and abused and stolen and corrupted and overtaken the world. We have created this hatred. It\u2019s justified. Now, this… Folks, there is an argument raging out there, and it\u2019s raging in many places on constitutional grounds over exactly what Megan is talking about here. And the argument is, “We\u2019ve had these governors, many of them Republican, who have said ‘no\u2019 to the federal government. <\/p>\n

“‘You want to bring in Syrian refugees? We don\u2019t want them. We don\u2019t want them here.'” A bunch of leftist intellectuals and professors have said the states are powerless. The states can\u2019t tell the federal government what to do here. The federal government is totally in charge of immigration, and they tell you, “Look at Arizona. Arizona tried to come up with their own immigration laws, and the Feds shot \u2019em down. The courts shot \u2019em down. Because immigration is a total, 100% federal job.”<\/p>\n

But it isn\u2019t. These leftist intellectuals are wrong, and they\u2019re all over the media today. The states… Look, it\u2019s kind of a gray area. But once again, it illustrates that we get mired here in the constitutional argument. When I say “mired,” I mean, it\u2019s valid. But what it misses is that half the governors in this country do not want, and the federal government says, “We don\u2019t care. (Raspberry) you! We don\u2019t care what you want, particularly if you\u2019re Republicans. We really don\u2019t care what you want.”<\/p>\n

It\u2019s another glaring example of how the left is not cooperating with us. They don\u2019t want to walk across the aisle to deal with us. They just want to mandate things on us while we tell ourselves that we\u2019ve got to show them we can work with them. <\/p>\n

But, anyway, there are many more details to this that I will squeeze in at the top of the monologue segment of the next busy broadcast hour.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Headline on a related story: “Obama, Congress Heading for Budget Showdown Over Syrian Refugees<\/a>.” This… No, I\u2019ll tell you where this is headed. The media is getting ready to accuse the Republicans of shutting down the government over Syrian refugees. That\u2019s where this is all headed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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