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RUSH: 46 to 53, and it is over. We have some audio sound bites from the debate that happened on the floor of the Senate this morning. It's truly astounding, and I want to you hear these sound bites. Here's what's going to happen next. Just a little prediction here, and I told you, we went out on a limb yesterday and predicted to you this thing would go down in flames. There were 18, as I counted, 18 switch votes, and, by the way, I want to tell you one thing, everybody is going to try to portray this...

RUSH: Lindsey Grahamnesty was on the Today show today. Meredith Vieira interviewed him. She said, "When you went home recently, you were at a GOP meeting, you got booed over immigration. A lot of people in a lot of states, conservatives who think this bill is bad and they see it as a litmus test." GRAHAMNESTY: Here's what I believe. This is a bill is a million percent better than the current system. I mentioned working with Ted Kennedy, and I got booed. I'm a Republican conservative who believes my country is at risk by not solving immigration. I'm a...

RUSH: I was going to call in to the show on Friday and do some minor gloating and take a little credit here for the immigration bill being pulled, but right about the time I hit my third birdie on the front nine I said, "To hell with it, I'm going to keep playing golf." Besides, in all candor, it's not dead. It's still on life support. The president's going to meet with some people: Congress, GOP, probably Ted Kennedy, too, sometime tomorrow. It may even go up to the Capitol. The original meeting was supposed to be lunch at...