RUSH: By the way, as far as the State of the Union is concerned, tax increases on your health benefits, ladies and gentlemen. Have you heard about this? Yes, here's how it's going to work. The average benefit -- and 150 million Americans have health insurance through their employers, and right now that's a benefit. It's income that's not taxed. You don't see it, but it's what it costs the employer to pay you, so you're not taxed on it. I've been predicting this. I just didn't know a Republican...

RUSH: A friend of mine sent me an editorial from the Stanford University Daily, the Stanford Daily. This is written (it's unsigned) by the editorial board. I just want to read you some excerpts before we get to the ?24? sound bites here. ?For Senior Jonathan Goldstein, Monday nights from 9-10 p.m. are off limits for everything except FOX?s hit drama, ?24.? ?My friends know not to call me during that hour,? he said. ?It?s not that I?m anti-social about it, I?ll watch it with other people. I...

RUSH: General Petraeus has been testifying all morning today about the surge in Iraq, and it is most revealing. It is incredible, particularly when you listen to him and then look at the, it seems, rising tide of opposition from the Democrats on this committee and even some Republicans. We will go through that. Al-Qaeda and Ayman al-Zawahiri mocked President Bush's plan to send 21,000 more troops to Iraq, and said, ?Just send the entire army. Why don't you send the entire army? You're going...

RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bites here. I want you to hear Ayman al-Zawahiri -- you'll hear him in the background. It's actually a CNN report. Nic Robertson -- and I guess we could say this is Zawahiri's prebuttal to President Bush's State of the Union address tonight.
ROBERTSON: In many ways this is vintage Ayman al-Zawahiri, criticizing President Bush in Iraq saying, ?Why send 20,000 troops? Why not send another 50,000 or a hundred thousand--? he said, ?--they'll be defeated anyway.?
RUSH:...

RUSH: I've told you that Mrs. Clinton, with her announcement, saying that she wanted this "national conversation" and so forth, all a replica of her New York state campaign for Senate's "listening tour." The whole thing is designed to make sure that she doesn't get any questions, because she doesn't want to answer serious questions. The press doesn't ask her serious questions anyway. But she wants the focus to be supposedly on you. Yes, and what you want, and what you want to tell her, and...

RUSH: By the way, as far as the State of the Union is concerned, tax increases on your health benefits, ladies and gentlemen. Have you heard about this? Yes, here's how it's going to work. The average benefit -- and 150 million Americans have health insurance through their employers, and right now that's a benefit. It's income that's not taxed. You don't see it, but it's what it costs the employer to pay you, so you're not taxed on it. I've been predicting this. I just didn't know a Republican...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"If you Democrats persist and succeed in securing the defeat of the US military in Iraq, you have no idea the electoral hell that will descend upon you in November of 2008. Mark my words."
"We are the most prosperous, affluent country on the face of the earth, and if Paris Hilton wants to get drunk every night in South Beach or Hollywood, she can. We have plenty of people her age that volunteer to defend the country."
"This...

RUSH: Gentry in Atlanta, you're next on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Rush, good day.
RUSH: Hey.
CALLER: How are you?
RUSH: Good.
CALLER: Getting any respect today?
RUSH: Am I getting respect? I get respect constantly, respect myself.
CALLER: Well, bless your heart.
RUSH: Thank you. Thank you, sir.
CALLER: You read that --
RUSH: We must love ourselves before others may love us as well.
CALLER: True, and --
RUSH: And I have no problem loving myself.
CALLER:...

RUSH: I have some questions for you about the Libby trial. Since opening statements were completed today, the trial now begins. We have talked about the controversial things that have been stated today, such as by Fitzgerald that Cheney wrote Libby a note that Libby then destroyed, told Libby to start leaking Valerie Plame's name and so forth, and yet Cheney is not indicted. There was no crime committed here in terms of the original charge anyway, and so Cheney's name has been bandied about,...

RUSH: When this news gets broadcast about Patrick Fitzgerald?s opening argument today about Cheney -- I mean, it's going to be a feeding frenzy. You're going to see headlines, maybe they're out there already, ?Bush fighting for political life, not just Iraq,? ?Bush fighting for survival in Washington, the last two years of his administration,? going into the State of the Union tonight.
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RUSH: Here's the Cheney story. ?Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald used his opening...

RUSH: Do you people know that this is National No Name-Calling Week? It is. It is National No Name-Calling Week. "It's an annual week of educational activities aimed at ending name-calling of all kinds and providing skrools with the tools and inspiration to launch an ongoing dialogue about ways to eliminate bullying in their communities." It's January 22nd through the 26th, National No Name-Calling Week. That means the Democrats are going to be hard-pressed to respond to President Bush's State...