All these stories on tax cuts today, and the New York Times is paving the way here for Democrats to raise taxes. The story: "Bush Tax Cuts Offer Most for Very Rich, Study Finds." So this is the windup to allow the Democrats, the cover, to raises taxes out there. "Families earning more than $1 million a year saw their federal tax rates drop more sharply than any group in the country as a result of President Bush?s tax cuts, according to a new," according to the Congressional Budget Office. You...

RUSH: I want to say a couple things here, if I might about the "troop surge," or at least the president's speech coming on Wednesday, which will announce whatever the plan is. Because I said earlier in the very busy program today -- and we played audio sound bites from Nancy Pelosi and some others, and, by the way, some Democrats are distancing themselves from her on this. Regardless, the president is coming up with a way here to try to win this. He's shopping around for ideas. He's got new generals,...

Here's this story by Peter Beinart I was telling you about, "Return of the Nixon Doctrine -- as Somalia shows, the US is letting others do its bidding. Here's why that can't last." Now, for years, literally years, the Drive-By Media and the Democrats have pounded us incessantly, complaining and whining and moaning that Bush was too eager to go it alone. He was a cowboy. He was a frat boy. He shot from the hip. He was talking too much and taking too much upon himself. He wouldn't rely on his allies....

RUSH: I want to say a couple things here, if I might about the "troop surge," or at least the president's speech coming on Wednesday, which will announce whatever the plan is. Because I said earlier in the very busy program today -- and we played audio sound bites from Nancy Pelosi and some others, and, by the way, some Democrats are distancing themselves from her on this. Regardless, the president is coming up with a way here to try to win this. He's shopping around for ideas. He's got new generals,...

"Democratic leaders who had hoped to emphasize their domestic agenda in the opening weeks of Congress have concluded that Iraq will share top billing, and they plan on aggressively confronting administration officials this week in a series of hearings." What this means is that Bush, with his speech Wednesday on plans for Iraq and the so-called surge, is intruding on Nancy Pelosi's first hundred hours. In fact, "Joe Lockhart says, 'The challenge for the Democrats is this: Iraq's the central issue....

Howard Kurtz cited me, America's Anchorman, on his Reliable Sources show on CNN Sunday and he played some Dittocam footage of Nancy Pelosi commentary from me for a reporterette for The New Republic.
KURTZ: As long as we're criticizing Nancy Pelosi, I want to play for you, Michelle Cottle, some comments by Rush Limbaugh about Nancy Pelosi and the media.
RUSH ARCHIVE: We've got one of these wacko, wild-eyed feminists who is a product of all this, and we got a soppy, lap dog Drive-By Media...

RUSH: From Blossburg, Pennsylvania -- "Six-year-old Karlind Dunbar barely touched her dinner, but not for time-honored 6-year-old reasons. The pasta was not the wrong shape. She did not have an urgent date with her dolls. The problem was the letter Karlind discovered, tucked inside her report card, saying that she had a body mass index in the 80th percentile.
"The first grader did not know what 'index' or 'percentile' meant, or that children scoring in the 5th through 85th percentiles are...

RUSH: Let me find the story. What does it matter of that the Democrats are shutting the Republicans out? Try this headline from the Washington Times today: "GOP Willing to Back Democrats' Key Bills." Amnesty and changes in Social Security that bar you owning your own money, and the Republicans going to go along with it.
"Leaders of both parties say that Democrats in Congress are likely to win bipartisan support for many..." Bipartisan. What does it matter if the Republicans are let in? Even...

We had a caller on hold who didn't make it. A cell phone signal died. His point was going to be, or his point was, that I owe you in this audience an apology for having Sylvester Stallone on this program back in December to discuss his new movie Rocky Balboa. Now, why do I owe an apology for this? That's why I owe this audience an apology: because I have Stallone on, his movie does well, and then he goes somewhere and comes out against the fence? Is that what he did? He came out against the...

RUSH: Here's the other Schwarzenegger story. In addition to the fact that he wants to provide health care insurance for every child in California, even the children of illegal immigrants, he wants a new welfare program that is being opposed out there as an end to bipartisanship. He wants to "cut almost $500 million in welfare programs next year and impose new rules aimed at pushing recipients off public assistance and into the workforce." So it's a state version of welfare reform. "He's going...

RUSH: I had a great weekend, folks, but, I'll tell you what: I went out and did some television Saturday in Los Angeles. There's a new show that probably will air soon, I'm not sure when, but it's called The Half Hour NewsHour." That's the working title of it now. I guess that's subject to change. Well, actually it's not, because if it changes I gotta go back out there, but nevertheless it's a parody newscast, takeoff on liberal media newscasts, and I play the president of the United States...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"The argument that cutting the number of American troops will help stabilize Iraq is like arguing that the best way to put out a spreading fire is by pulling out the firemen."
"'Wait until the gas passes.' This is one of the great executive leadership lines of all time: 'Just open the doors, open the windows, and wait until the gas passes.'"
"The big deal at the Consumer Electronics Show is this 108-inch LCD TV by Sharp,...

Fayetteville, North Carolina, this is Jay. You're next. Welcome, sir.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. In light of the recent revelation that stem cells can be safely harvested from freely donated amniotic fluid rather than taking the lives of an unborn with embryonic cells --
RUSH: Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh!
CALLER: -- do you think liberals --
RUSH: Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh!
CALLER: -- will apologize to you and acknowledge that you were right?
RUSH: Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh!
CALLER: (chuckles)
RUSH:...

RUSH: This is from the Los Angeles Times from yesterday. It's a list of the 12 most bizarre college courses in the United States. Now, I guess I can get away with the language here. I don't think I need to offer a warning. You people are mature enough and your kids... It's okay. "The 'dirty dozen' list of 'America's most bizarre and politically correct college courses' is out and Los Angeles-area institutions of higher learning have walked away with a quarter of the ranked honours (or dishonours)....

RUSH: I saw this next story yesterday, and I asked myself, "How long is it going to take for this to get a certain kind of treatment?" It hasn't happened yet because there are so many other pressing issues, but it's an Associated Press story, and the headline: "Mars Killers from Earth?" Get this.
"Two NASA space probes that visited Mars 30 years ago may have stumbled upon alien microbes," i.e. life, "on the Red Planet and inadvertently killed them, a scientist," a single scientist, "theorizes...

I warned you people about this. This is from January 3rd: "A five-year-old Canadian boy can have two mothers and a father, an Ontario court ruled last week in a landmark case that redefines the meaning of family and examines the rights of parents in same sex relationships." Back in 2005, I warned you people of this very thing happening.
RUSH ARCHIVE: Where would the line be drawn? Where would the liberals draw the line on the right to privacy? I mean, if you can marry somebody of the same...

RUSH: All right, let's just put this out there. If they're going to shut down New York City every time something stinks, nobody's ever going to get any work done there. Yeah, you go to library in New Jersey, and you don't get any relief there. They allow the homeless to walk in, putrid and all. Greetings, my good friends and welcome. It's the Rush Limbaugh program. This is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. It's a thrill and a...

All these stories on tax cuts today, and the New York Times is paving the way here for Democrats to raise taxes. The story: "Bush Tax Cuts Offer Most for Very Rich, Study Finds." So this is the windup to allow the Democrats, the cover, to raises taxes out there. "Families earning more than $1 million a year saw their federal tax rates drop more sharply than any group in the country as a result of President Bush?s tax cuts, according to a new," according to the Congressional Budget Office. You...