McCain to Univision: Fence? I didn’t vote for any fence
posted at 3:54 pm on September 17, 2008 by Allahpundit
McCain, circa January 2007: “I’ll build the goddamned fence if they want it.” McCain, two days ago to Univision:
-You voted for the construction of the wall between Mexico and the United States. However, the Mexican Government has just confirmed that every year, at least half a million Mexicans come to the United States. How exactly are you planning to secure that border? Every single minute there is an immigrant coming into the United States illegally.
-I didn’t vote for, I am not sure what you are talking about, but we can secure…
-…about 700 miles.
-I say we can secure our borders with walls and/or fences in urban areas, and then virtual fences, vehicle barriers
-But, you did vote for the wall.
-I didn’t vote for an…, I don’t know what you are exactly what you are referring to. What my plan was, and what our proposal was, that we secure our borders, and we can secure it, not necessarilly with walls and fences. Although that is important in populated areas, in the deserts of Arizona vehicle barriers, cameras, and sensors, all of those things, can be used. By the way, on the Arizona Border, common practice today, drug dealers send a group of illegals across the border, the drug dealers call cartels, call the border patrol that they round them up and leave and the drugs go behind them. So, don’t try to separate that issue, because they are inextricably tied, my friend.
Where could the interviewer have gotten the idea that Maverick supports a “goddamned fence”? Ah, right — from his vote for the Secure Fence Act of 2006, as this immigration blogger reminds us. Remember that? 700 miles of fence along the border? Remember how the blogosphere rejoiced — except for one dour skeptic who had the last laugh a year later when her warnings about what an egregious sham it was proved only too true? McCain’s playing it off here as though what he really voted for was the virtual fence, which the bill did indeed provide for — and which, predictably, ran into delays and technological problems on the ground — but there was a bit more to it than that. Read Section 3 for yourself.
Incidentally, in the same Univision interview, he promises to present a new comprehensive immigration bill to Congress “in the first day” he takes office — which isn’t the first time he’s said that, his many empty soundbites about securing the border first notwithstanding. Exit question: You do understand we’re going to see amnesty with President McCain in office, right? And Vice President Palin’s likely to be cheering all the way.
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It really is mind boggling that the president of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, has so little respect for his office that he would actually try blame his ineffectiveness on a private citizen who simply broadcast his opinions. Pathetic!
chazmaz on May 14, 2013 at 9:31 PM
If Rush does live in Obama’s head, could he at least tell us what Obama was doing on the night of the Benghazi attack?
monalisa on May 14, 2013 at 9:37 PM
Dittos all.
Could be they identified the enemy and it is us.
Julian Bond had an interesting description of the Tea Party tonight.
Interesting times.
seesalrun2 on May 14, 2013 at 9:45 PM
Or maybe Obama is angry that he can’t forcibly nationalize the broadcast spectrum in total a la Hugo Chavez. Which is why he gets into these p***ing matches with Rush and Fox News.
Myron Falwell on May 14, 2013 at 9:47 PM
Good for Rush finding this new apartment. I hear there is plenty of empty space up in there; he should be able to get some good practice in on that golf swing of his.
Gingotts on May 14, 2013 at 9:53 PM
God bless Rush Limbaugh.
TitularHead on May 14, 2013 at 10:04 PM
What he does every night, watching Sportscenter of course. That’s such common knowledge that lobbyists have started advertising on ESPN just to get to him.
slickwillie2001 on May 14, 2013 at 10:25 PM
It can’t cost too much, there’s nothing there.
mmcnamer1 on May 14, 2013 at 10:26 PM
Even a thimble has space for a gnat, Mr.Limbaugh.
All the mockery of shout radio combined has not done one whit to halt his socialist agenda, or even really to hold the GOP’s feet to the fire until they were worth a hoot. So make your jokes about rent-free life…they’ve got the power and we don’t.
MelonCollie on May 14, 2013 at 11:11 PM
MMM-MMM-MMM!
Sir Loin on May 15, 2013 at 2:29 AM
Exactly right. You know when I essentially gave up on the American people and knew in my gut that this country had gone too far down the path of ignorance and facism? When there was no back-lash, no rising up against the incredible attacks on Sarah Palin and her children. And then this President who called Americans “the enemy” and those of us who defended the Constitution and criticised the press and the federal government for acting like a 3rd World dictator became “extremests”. The filth spewed by Hollywood became the “norm”. Veterans and people who opposed the likes of that butcher Gosnell were put on the terrorist “watch” lists and low-life, pedophiles were allowed to sexually abuse children in public while their parents looked on at our airports.
Now we learn that 7 muslims—chemists—were found at Boston’s water source and while Obama is busy persecuting Billy Graham, these innocent “researchers” are allowed to go their merry way. Why aren’t every one of them in jail awaiting a direct plane to their homeland? Why the hell are they in this county in the first place?
I’m very tired of the awful, souless country we’re passing on to the next generation. Degenerates in Hollywood glorify drug abuse, incivility, and ignorance and they are the pied pipers who shoulder the most immoral man who has ever sat in the Oval Office to lead us all over the cliff. I went to Lowes last week looking for stuff for a remodel in my house. I couldn’t read the freaking packages. I needed an interpreter because everything was in Spanish. I’d like to know why these people are here? They hate us. They want to turn us into Mexico and they burn our flag and insult and ignore our laws and we want more of them? And why are we allowing “students” from Muslim countries? Can anyone, anywhere point to any progress in bringing any Muslim country out of the 6th century? The only thing these “educated” Muslims do is provide technical expertise to blow us all up.
OK. Good grief. I haven’t been involved in any politics since the election because I was intimidated. I used to poo poo “conspiracy” theorists. And for six years I’ve watched the fruition of every, single theory out there. One of the same so-called “nuts” who predicted persecution and prosecution and camps for conservatives and Republicans is now telling us that Google is joining with the Bilderburgs for total power and thought control. Even last year, I would have dismissed this. Now? After the confirmation that the IRS is Obama’s personal SS, I’m paying attention. Now wonder these people want everyone’s guns and ammo.
Portia46 on May 15, 2013 at 9:14 AM
Rush also has the bad taste to not have attended Columbia or Harvard.
TimBuk3 on May 15, 2013 at 9:28 AM
Now THAT, I couldn’t care less about.
Ivy League schools have hopelessly fallen from vaunted institutions of higher learning to left-wing indoctrination centers…and places where all kinds of rich-brat capers go on and get covered up by daddy’s money.
MelonCollie on May 15, 2013 at 9:31 AM
Rush is now the most powerful man on earth…he dictates our policies, he dictates what the president can and cannot do…amazing that a radio talk show host, without one single vote, dictates the policy, foreign and domestic of the United States.
Truly, in this country, you can be anything you want, even president without being president…
right2bright on May 15, 2013 at 10:03 AM
Oblamo must recognize Rush as the Big Community Organizer on the right. It’s really the only thing prezzy is good at and he does like to clear the field of any competition.
Kissmygrits on May 15, 2013 at 10:33 AM
Limbaugh: “I live rent-free” in President Obama’s head
There should be PLENTY of room with nothing else occupying Obummers head space…much like our troll nonpartisan!
EEprom on May 15, 2013 at 10:38 AM
SCoaMF, forever the beta male to Rush’s alpha.
MNHawk on May 15, 2013 at 11:35 AM
Rush, you better not be paying any rent for living in Obama’s head: it’s an unfurnished sewer of a place.
PD Quig on May 15, 2013 at 12:45 PM
Rent free, baby! Freaking legend.
Decoski on May 15, 2013 at 6:15 PM
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