RUSH: Debra Saunders in the San Francisco Chronicle today has an excellent point. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan out there to give everybody in California everything, apparently. In fact grab audio sound bite number ten. Listen to this. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger exhibiting and illustrating his new centrism, and you tell me what this sounds like.SCHWARZENEGGER: We hear so much about climate change. One area where we definitely need the climate to change is the national government's attitude...

RUSH: Both CNN and PMSNBC today have launched what I am calling their "Telethons to Purge the Surge." It's ridiculous. PMSNBC even has a countdown clock to the Bush speech tonight. It's right now at eight hours, 52 minutes, 47 seconds and counting until the Bush speech. During this Telethon to Purge the Surge, they're doing everything they can to defeat the policy before the president has even really announced it. The president invited both Democrats and Republicans to the White House yesterday...

RUSH: Let's go sound bite 13. You know, we always loved special orders, and the one-minute speeches by James Traficant from Ohio who is now in jail. We think we may have found a Democrat replacement, Representative David Wu, Democrat, Oregon, this morning on the House floor during one-minute speeches.
WU: This president has listened to some people, the so-called Vulcans in the White House, the ideologues. But you know, unlike the Vulcans of Star Trek who made the decisions based on logic...

RUSH: Debra Saunders in the San Francisco Chronicle today has an excellent point. Arnold Schwarzenegger's plan out there to give everybody in California everything, apparently. In fact grab audio sound bite number ten. Listen to this. This is Arnold Schwarzenegger exhibiting and illustrating his new centrism, and you tell me what this sounds like.
SCHWARZENEGGER: We hear so much about climate change. One area where we definitely need the climate to change is the national government's attitude...

RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bite roster. This is Senator Dick Durbin yesterday. He's on the floor of the Senate talking about our troops. Listen to this.
DURBIN: Our hearts go out to those families. Our prayers are with them and the troops, as this decision is made to escalate this war in Iraq. These troops followed these orders because they are the best and the bravest.
RUSH: Yeah?
DURBIN: They march off to war, risking their lives away from those that they love because they...

The guy who had the announcement, Dr. Anthony Atala, that there were worthwhile and many similar stem cells in amniotic fluid, has put out a statement today: Hey, hey, hey! A lot of people are misinterpreting my research! I wasn't talking about my amniotic fluid research being a replacement for amniotic stem cells. No, no, no, no! Don't misunderstand. No, I believe we ought to continue full bore into our research on embryonic stem cells. I wasn't trying to say that! This is wrong for people to say...

RUSH: The Drive-By Media is still all absorbed with Trump and Rosie O'Donnell. I guess some more happened. Trump's out there saying Barbara Walters is a liar and sent Rosie a letter and all this, and Barbara's defending Rosie on the show today, calling Rosie fine and Trump a pathetic man, pathetic, mean man, whatever. But there was something that happened, it was earlier this week or late last week, Rosie reacted to being called a slob by Trump. She said, ?That's really big to call somebody...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"When you want to leave before the job's done, whether it's a war or the assignment you have at whatever job you have, when you quit, there's nothing valorous about it."
"The Democrats have no power to stop this war unless they defund it, and as Ronaldus Magnus said: 'Go ahead, make my day. Defund it, Democrats.'"
"One of my biggest problems, folks, is that I sometimes end up mired in logic in a country where logic is deemed...

RUSH: Here is John in Dublin, California. John, welcome to the program.
CALLER: Megga dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: You don't puff yourself up. That's for us to do.
RUSH: That's exactly what I told the guy.
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: Exactly what I told the guy.
CALLER: Doing a great job. Hey, just a quick one, in reference to -- I'm a retired military officer, 22 years in the Army, fought in Desert Storm, trained many of these troops which have gone...

RUSH: Look who's been waiting: Jen from Roanoke, Virginia. She was with us yesterday, but Snerdley -- the official program observer and call screener -- said there wasn't enough time by the time we got to her for her to properly articulate what she wanted to say. So we got her back on the phone. Hello, Jen. I'm glad you let us get back to you.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: I wanted to thank you for taking the issue of timeout head-on yesterday,...

As you people know, I have shared with you over the course of many years the writings of Robert Samuelson who is an economist and columnist for the Washington Post, and on most occasions, I am a supreme advocate. This piece that ran today in the Washington Post is a little problematic for me in some areas. The title of his column is, "Entitled Selfishness." His theme here is that the baby boomer generation is in a state of denial. Let me give you some excerpts here. ?As someone born in late...

New York Sun today, Josh Gerstein. This is a really distressing story, and it confirms something, a suspicion of mine that I have held for many years. ?A lack of cooperation from one or more intelligence agencies led the FBI to abandon several recent criminal investigations into leaks of classified information to the press, records obtained by The New York Sun indicate. In January 2005, a top FBI official asked the Justice Department to close three pending leak inquiries because the 'victim...

RUSH: We start in St. Louis. This is Steve. You're up, sir. Nice to have you with us.
CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
RUSH: Good.
CALLER: I'm a little disheartened and slightly offended, your comment in the beginning of the program lumping the majority of liberals and/or Democrats as being anti-war and anti-American. I certainly am not anti-war. I'm anti-this-war, and I'm certainly not anti-American. I'm very patriotic.
RUSH: Well, it's good to know that you're there.
CALLER:...