RUSH: Stan in San Francisco. (You note that I'm delaying playing these Ted Kennedy bites because I really don't want to hear them. I'm struggling here with: I've got the duty to play them to you and do I want to sit through 'em and listen to them, and I will probably opt to play some of them.) Anyway, Stan in San Francisco, you're up, sir, welcome to the program.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Greetings from one of the 99 conservative Republicans in her speakership's district.
RUSH: (Laughing.)
CALLER:...

RUSH: Jim in Atlanta, I'm glad you waited, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Listen, I think you may be on to something about this Hillary and her tears. Last year, Peggy Noonan wrote an article and said that people know Hillary can be a man. What they don't know is that she can be a woman. I kind of scratched my head on that, and then she had her little Oprah moment with the tears, and I thought, ah, there you go. I bet that's it. She's showing people she can be a...

RUSH: I don't want to scare you people, but as I listen to the Democrats, I can't help but thinking, ladies and gentlemen, that we may be living in a period of time where our tax rates are as low as they are ever going to be. With no real Social Security reform planned and with the only medicine that we appear to be offered for Social Security reform is more taxes, and with the Democrats bellyaching and whining and moaning about "deficits as far as the eye can see," the only thing that's keeping...

RUSH: I'm going to play one Ted Kennedy sound bite just for the hell of it here because it has nothing to do with the prequel that he had. Well, it has nothing to do with the war. We'll get to those tomorrow. There'll be plenty of time to play 'em tomorrow, if I even care then. But he was asked a question aside from all this war business. What are the Democrats going to do in this congressional year? Get this.
KENNEDY: I think we'll do something on preventative care. We'll do something...

RUSH: Senator Kennedy is delivering a speech at one o'clock. He's calling it a prequel to the president's speech tomorrow night. We have some audio sound bites from Senator Kennedy. Keep in mind now these are sound bites from a man and a party who profess, consistently, their "support for the troops." Senator Kennedy is making the rounds on TV today. On the Today Show, Meredith Vieira asked him this question. "Just two days ago your Democrat colleague, Senator Biden, said as a practical matter...

RUSH: Time for a See, I Told You So. This is delectable. We start with me, an excerpt of me pontificating on this program October 24th, 2006.
RUSH ARCHIVE: The Democrats politicized spinal paralysis and spinal injuries in the 2004 campaign, and now they are politicizing Parkinson's disease, and they've done that, and it's all about stem cell research, and of course embryonic stem cell research. Any bit of information or research that shows progress in either of these areas that does not involve...

RUSH: Stan in San Francisco. (You note that I'm delaying playing these Ted Kennedy bites because I really don't want to hear them. I'm struggling here with: I've got the duty to play them to you and do I want to sit through 'em and listen to them, and I will probably opt to play some of them.) Anyway, Stan in San Francisco, you're up, sir, welcome to the program.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Greetings from one of the 99 conservative Republicans in her speakership's district.
RUSH: (Laughing.)
CALLER:...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"If something by definition doesn't strive to be conservative, it will become liberal. That's a profundity."
"A US air strike hit targets in southern Somalia where Islamic militants were believed to be sheltering suspects in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies, and some pretty high-up Al-Qaeda figures bit the dust. This, ladies and gentlemen, is more like it!"
"Time-outs as a disciplinary measure? The number one disciplinary...

RUSH: And more nanny state news, ladies and gentlemen: "The Bangor [Maine] City Council approved a measure Monday that prohibits people from smoking in vehicles when children are present. When the law goes into effect next week, Bangor will become the first municipality in Maine to have such a law. Similar statewide measures have been adopted in Arkansas and Louisiana and are under consideration in several other states. People who smoke with children present in the confined space of a car or...

RUSH: I've got a running transcript of Steve Jobs' keynote address at Macworld, the Macworld Expo out in San Francisco, and they've introduced what many people thought was going to be the big deal today: the iPhone. It is an iPod; it is a Blackberry type device and it's a telephone in one sleek box. It's all touch screen, just like these Sony cameras, the digit cameras are very popular right now. In demonstrating the new iPhone, it's got a single button, a home button, and it's got one button....

RUSH: Tom in Nevis, Minnesota, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.
CALLER: Good morning, sir. How are you doing?
RUSH: Just fine, sir, thank you.
CALLER: That's good. My question about the stem fluid research is, exactly where do you stand? And the reason I ask this is because a couple months ago you were quoted as saying that it is your constitutional right to get your hearing back and you didn't care about the abortion.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: So...
RUSH: Yeah,...

RUSH: Wesley in Newton, North Carolina, welcome, sir, to the EIB Network. Glad you waited.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. How you doing today?
RUSH: Just fine, sir.
CALLER: Question for you. Actually it's not really a question, to begin with. Probably about half an hour ago when you were talking about the stem cell research -- you said we wouldn't be able to swallow this when you said it, actually, but -- you came across like this whole stem cell research debate is the Democrats' attempt...

RUSH: Here's Tom in Columbus, Indiana. Tom, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Nice to have you on the EIB Network.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush. It's good to talk to you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: Rush, I was wondering if you could give us your feelings on changing the rules of engagement in conjunction with our increase in troops in Iraq, and I'd like to have your comments with the background of our concern about the media and the Islamic nations reacting to collateral damage that...

RUSH: Get this, folks. Frankly, it doesn't surprise me. "About one in three parents in the United States and Canada do not think their methods of disciplining their children work well, according to a U.S. study.
"Dr. Shari Barkin, chief of general pediatrics at Tennessee's Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt found 31 percent of about 5,000 parents surveyed said they 'never' or 'sometimes' perceived their methods to be effective. Many of those reported turning into their own...

RUSH: The New York Times today is unbelievable. Lead editorial: "Past Time to Get Real on Iraq." This is a ramp-up to opposing Bush's plan tomorrow night for his "surge." By the way, I read the Washington Post today. The real interesting ingredient to me about this is not really the additional troops. I'll get to that here in just a second. I have to share this Times editorial with you, because it's mind-blowing. They want it both ways. They're telling us to get out of Iraq. This is absurd,...

RUSH: A US air strike, AC-130 gunships, ladies and gentlemen, "hit targets in southern Somalia where Islamic militants were believed to be sheltering suspects in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies. Many people reported killed. Monday's attack is the first overt military action by [us] in Somalia since the 1990s," i.e., Black Hawk Down, "although it was not clear if they were American or Ethiopian aircraft. It was not known if there are any casualties..." Yes, it is now known that there were...

RUSH: John in Nashville, I'm glad you waited, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Hello, Rush.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: Hi. It is an honor to speak with you, and to get a commentary on something that I had considered an odd comment from two-and-a-half years ago when Nancy Pelosi was on Meet the Press with Tim Russert, and it struck me as odd because the first third or first half of the interview she was nearly crying about the troops in Iraq and what a bad thing it was to be there,...