RUSH: Robin Toner in the New York Times today, and again, her piece, "Democrats See Dream of '06 Victory Taking Form -- Already, the response to Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq and soaring gasoline prices have taken a toll on the popularity of President Bush and Congressional Republicans." Now, let's take a look at these. Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq, and soaring gasoline prices. Now, what are my theories? And I've always shared these theories. The liberals like Fineman, let's go...

RUSH: Well, the Wall Street Journal op-ed page in the break here at the top of the hour has requested from me an op-ed on the conservative crackdown, as opposed to the conservative crackup for their Monday edition. So I agreed to do it. I'll sit down pen in hand -- well, keyboard at fingertips -- and get this going, because I'll tell you, folks, this is going to be one of those seminal moments that the left is going to be scratching their heads about all next year not understanding what went wrong,...

RUSH: All right, folks, the left is out there salivating over what is happening in the conservative world over the Harriet Miers nomination. Two things here: Robin Toner's piece in the New York Times today, and a Howard Fineman column titled, "The Conservative Crackup."The subhead is: "How the Neocons Have Developed a Political Exit Strategy," and I just know that Howard was sitting there drooling over his keyboard as he was typing this piece -- and, remember, Fineman had a piece recently that...

RUSH: Robin Toner in the New York Times today, and again, her piece, "Democrats See Dream of '06 Victory Taking Form -- Already, the response to Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq and soaring gasoline prices have taken a toll on the popularity of President Bush and Congressional Republicans." Now, let's take a look at these. Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq, and soaring gasoline prices. Now, what are my theories? And I've always shared these theories. The liberals like Fineman, let's go...

RUSH: Well, the Wall Street Journal op-ed page in the break here at the top of the hour has requested from me an op-ed on the conservative crackdown, as opposed to the conservative crackup for their Monday edition. So I agreed to do it. I'll sit down pen in hand -- well, keyboard at fingertips -- and get this going, because I'll tell you, folks, this is going to be one of those seminal moments that the left is going to be scratching their heads about all next year not understanding what went wrong,...

RUSH: All right, folks, the left is out there salivating over what is happening in the conservative world over the Harriet Miers nomination. Two things here: Robin Toner's piece in the New York Times today, and a Howard Fineman column titled, "The Conservative Crackup."The subhead is: "How the Neocons Have Developed a Political Exit Strategy," and I just know that Howard was sitting there drooling over his keyboard as he was typing this piece -- and, remember, Fineman had a piece recently that...