RUSH: I want to welcome back to the program Vice President Dick Cheney. Always, as I say, a pleasure and thrill to have you here, sir. Welcome back.CHENEY: Well, good afternoon, Rush. Good to talk to you.RUSH: Good to talk to you. All right, a couple things. We have you for a limited amount of time and I want to race through a couple things. I see here today an AP story that the House of Representatives has voted to delay the demise of the wiretap law by two weeks. So we've got a two-week...

RUSH: Gene now in Manhattan, Kansas. Nice to have you, sir, welcome to the big program.CALLER: Hello.RUSH: Hello.CALLER: Hello. Yeah, I had to get the phone off the earphones so I could hear better. Yeah, about the fellow who called in a while ago about jumping your case because you weren't picking out his nominee, if anybody listens to you enough and they understand you, it's obvious that when you're telling us about John McCain and who we don't want -- and you think like I do. I mean, I'm...

RUSH: Here's Miles O'Brien this morning on CNN.

O'BRIEN: Stories of the morning are coming up. We'll check in on the campaign for president, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Rush Limbaugh, although he's not campaigning for president, all weighing in.
RUSH: Did you hear that? Listen to this again, folks. This just speaks for itself.
O'BRIEN: Stories of the morning are coming up. We'll check in on the campaign for president, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Rush Limbaugh, although he's...

RUSH: Here's Miles O'Brien this morning on CNN.

O'BRIEN: Stories of the morning are coming up. We'll check in on the campaign for president, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Rush Limbaugh, although he's not campaigning for president, all weighing in.
RUSH: Did you hear that? Listen to this again, folks. This just speaks for itself.
O'BRIEN: Stories of the morning are coming up. We'll check in on the campaign for president, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Rush Limbaugh, although he's...

RUSH: Here's Miles O'Brien this morning on CNN.

O'BRIEN: Stories of the morning are coming up. We'll check in on the campaign for president, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Rush Limbaugh, although he's not campaigning for president, all weighing in.
RUSH: Did you hear that? Listen to this again, folks. This just speaks for itself.
O'BRIEN: Stories of the morning are coming up. We'll check in on the campaign for president, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Rush Limbaugh, although he's...

RUSH: Here's Miles O'Brien this morning on CNN.

O'BRIEN: Stories of the morning are coming up. We'll check in on the campaign for president, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Rush Limbaugh, although he's not campaigning for president, all weighing in.
RUSH: Did you hear that? Listen to this again, folks. This just speaks for itself.
O'BRIEN: Stories of the morning are coming up. We'll check in on the campaign for president, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Rush Limbaugh, although he's...

RUSH: Gene now in Manhattan, Kansas. Nice to have you, sir, welcome to the big program.CALLER: Hello.RUSH: Hello.CALLER: Hello. Yeah, I had to get the phone off the earphones so I could hear better. Yeah, about the fellow who called in a while ago about jumping your case because you weren't picking out his nominee, if anybody listens to you enough and they understand you, it's obvious that when you're telling us about John McCain and who we don't want -- and you think like I do. I mean, I'm...

RUSH: I want to welcome back to the program Vice President Dick Cheney. Always, as I say, a pleasure and thrill to have you here, sir. Welcome back.CHENEY: Well, good afternoon, Rush. Good to talk to you.RUSH: Good to talk to you. All right, a couple things. We have you for a limited amount of time and I want to race through a couple things. I see here today an AP story that the House of Representatives has voted to delay the demise of the wiretap law by two weeks. So we've got a two-week...

RUSH: Anyway, folks, great to be with you, you have lots on the plate today, a veritable buffet, a smorgasbord, if you will. We just had a brilliantly, hugely successful military operation in Najaf. We wiped out hundreds of terrorist insurgents. We blew up a plot by Shi'ites to kill leading Shi'ite clerics, including the grand ayatollah Ali al-Sistani. In fact, the Shi'ite group that was going to do this were going to use kids and others, and they were going to disguise themselves as pilgrims...

RUSH: From Foreign Policy magazine: ?Vietnam taught many Americans the wrong lesson: that determined guerrilla fighters are invincible. But history shows that insurgents rarely win, and Iraq should be no different. Now that it finally has a winning strategy, the Bush administration is in a race against time to beat the insurgency before the public?s patience finally wears out. That the insurgents can?t be beaten is a myth, because history shows otherwise. The cold, hard truth about the Bush administration?s...

RUSH: Yesterday we did a then-and-now with Mrs. Clinton, showing how she is literally lying over the weekend in Iowa, in Des Moines as she was describing to people how she voted for the Iraq war and what it meant. She wasn't voting for the war, she was voting for the president to negotiate, and he mistrusted everybody and tricked her and misused her vote, which she was not authorizing anybody to go to war.
We found sound bites from 2003 speaking to Code Pink where she contradicted herself in...

RUSH: Washington Post from Sunday. It's a long story. I'm not going to go through the whole thing with you. It's written by Linda Hirshman and it's just amazing. Let me give you just a couple of quotes here. ?In every election there's a chance that women will be the decisive force that will elect someone who embraces their views. Yet they never seem to have done so. My own theory is that women don't decide elections because they're not rational political actors. They don't make firm policy...

RUSH: A great story in the Washington Post today by Gio Batta Gori: ?The Bogus 'Science' of Secondhand Smoke.? A former National Cancer Institute head honcho says that secondhand smoke studies are not slam-dunk science. It is a guess that secondhand smoke is deadly, and that guess moves to consensus to advance a cause. It's political. There is no "consensus" in science. Now, on page three of this story, this guy said, (paraphrasing) ?Hey, look, you know, reducing smoking is laudable, but don't...

RUSH: All right, ?the people spoke in the 2006 election.? I am worn out hearing this. (news) The Democrats are running around saying it all the time, countless times a day, in an attempt to claim a mandate. I know I shouldn't be, but I'm always surprised how politicians seize upon a phrase or a focus group line and with the help of the propagandists in the Drive-By Media repeat it and repeat it and repeat it and turn it into an urban legend, an urban legend that becomes accepted truth. How...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"If the Republicans had just waited and tried to save Barbaro instead of Terri Schiavo, do you realize how things could be different in Washington today? What a political miscalculation!"
"That is a great story: 'The horse's last meal was grass.' Probably was the horse's first meal, too. And probably every meal in between. Maybe some hay thrown in."
"Hillary Clinton will say whatever she has to say to get elected. She'll lie,...

RUSH: Here's Miles O'Brien this morning on CNN.

O'BRIEN: Stories of the morning are coming up. We'll check in on the campaign for president, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Rush Limbaugh, although he's not campaigning for president, all weighing in.
RUSH: Did you hear that? Listen to this again, folks. This just speaks for itself.
O'BRIEN: Stories of the morning are coming up. We'll check in on the campaign for president, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, Rush Limbaugh, although he's...

RUSH: Do you remember when Lurch, Senator Kerry, visited the Kennedy Space Center during the 2004 presidential campaign, and he looked like a sperm? He had on some costume called the bunny costume, and he was in some white tubing and stuff climbing through it, and he looked like a sperm. He had this goofy smile on his face. Well, apparently, it turns out that the whole visit broke the law.
?Sen. John Kerry's visit to Kennedy Space Center during the 2004 presidential campaign violated the...

RUSH: you will not believe what I am holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. You will not believe this. It is from the UK. Toilets in one London prison are being changed in the direction in which they point to accommodate Muslim inmates who cannot use the toilets while facing Mecca. ?Government officials acknowledged using tax dollars for the changes to the facilities, but maintained that moving the toilets was part of "on-going refurbishment," according to an article in The Sun....

RUSH: We'll start in Jackson, New Jersey, with Lee. Lee, welcome, and it's great to have you with us.
CALLER: Hey, Rush, longtime listener, first-time caller.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Former Democrat, now Republican, had to respond to the cow lady about Barbaro. No can do. Horses have to mount a mare or a phantom, as it's called.
RUSH: Wait, wait, let me bring the callers up to speed. As you know each broadcast minute here brings a new audience, and they may be wondering, ?What...

RUSH: I was in the kitchen and Snerdley comes up -- this is about a half hour ago -- Snerdley comes up to me and says, ?You know, this horse thing is getting way out of hand, and if you were who you were back in the late eighties and early nineties, you'd be doing animal rights updates all over the place about the obsessive coverage over this horse.? He said, ?There are real heroes in this country and across the oceans and in foreign countries that are dying that don't get the kind of coverage...

RUSH: What was the name of that syndrome that the woman called about, trying to explain why people send flowers and cards to Barbaro, the horse? It's parasocial relationship theory. A woman called to say that's the explanation for so many people reaching out, like to Princess Diana when she had died and now the horse -- and even before the horse had died. By the way, we learned last hour that the horse's last meal was grass. Parasocial relationship theory. Basically what it means is that people...

RUSH: In the Los Angeles Times today, Maura Reynolds, the info babe reporterette -- this is unbelievable. ?The 'Democrat majority' is still the talk of the capital? Yes, you heard right, ?The 'Democrat majority' is still the talk of the capital.? Here's the opening line, the lead ? ?Will President Bush put the ?-ic? back in ?Democratic?? That was the hot topic around Washington on Monday after the president was asked why, during his State of the Union address last week, he referred to Congress'...