RUSH: Nancy Pelosi went on Larry King Live last night, talking about the controversy here over the assignment of Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana) to the Homeland Security committee. He was taken off Ways and Means. This is Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana) who had $90,000 cold cash in the freezer, who absconded with a couple of rescue trucks during the Katrina aftermath to get something the size of a microwave out of his house down there. He still hasn't been...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"These carbon credits, these offsets are nothing more than the precursor to an imposed tax on energy usage, maybe an international tax. You are being set up."
"You know, we ought to go into business here at EIB selling 'carbon offsets.' We could become gazillionaires! 'Just trust us: we will take steps here at the EIB Network to reduce carbon footprints so that yours can remain as large as you want it to be. A hundred thousand...

RUSH: Mark in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Hello, sir. Nice to have you on the EIB Network.
RUSH: Hi, Rush. It's a real pleasure.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Thank you. I just wanted to call to kind of clarify some misconceptions that you and a previous caller seemed to have about emissions offsets and cap-and-trade programs. The idea of the cap-and-trade program is that the governing body -- I guess for Kyoto, that would be the UN -- allocates to facilities a certain number of allowances...

RUSH: Nancy Pelosi went on Larry King Live last night, talking about the controversy here over the assignment of Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana) to the Homeland Security committee. He was taken off Ways and Means. This is Congressman William Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana) who had $90,000 cold cash in the freezer, who absconded with a couple of rescue trucks during the Katrina aftermath to get something the size of a microwave out of his house down there. He still hasn't been...

(Playing of EIB carbon offsets spoof.)
RUSH: We are entrepreneurs here at the EIB Network. We see an opportunity, we seize on it. That's right, the can-do spirit. When we see a trend, folks, we get out in front of it. All right, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. This is Steve. You are next, sir. Nice to have you with us.
CALLER: Rush, it's really an honor to call you.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Rush, in your ongoing admonition for us to follow the money trail, I wanted to ask you if you knew...

RUSH: Chris in Utica, New York. Hello, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Hi. Thanks for taking my call, Rush.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: I was hoping for a little bit of advice.
RUSH: For what?
CALLER: Well, tonight I'm going to be hosting a radio show on my college campus, and I was hoping that, since you excel in broadcasting, you could give me a few tips.
RUSH: Well, what are you going to talk about?
CALLER: Well, I'm doing straight news for the first half hour,...

RUSH: Ray in Tampa. I'm glad you called, sir. You're next on the EIB Network.
CALLER: El Rushbo.
RUSH: Hey.
CALLER: Earlier in the program, you were talking about the fact that you're not going to show your support and back any candidate at this point. When you said that, I couldn't have agreed with you more. Right now, currently in this political environment that we're in, I don't hear any candidates talking about things that truly matter to Americans. They talk about things that...

RUSH: Well, here it is, the official threatening notice from the town about sea turtle lights. They have to go off starting tonight, through October 31st. (counting) March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October -- eight months! I was irritated before the program began. Now I'm double irritated. I've gotta read this to you. This is from the TownofPalmBeach.com to the people that live on the ocean. ?To protect endangered sea turtles which nest on local beaches and the hatchlings...

RUSH: I mentioned in our last call the good neighbor meetings, the good neighbor policy between the Iraqis, the Iranians, the Syrians, and us. I have a few items on this today. I caught hell last night from people in the e-mail. ?I'm sick of you bashing Bush! It's bad enough when I have to listen to other Republicans bash Bush on cable TV. You don't know what you're talking about! Fallujah? You don't know what you're talking about in anything! Sadr? Now here you are, ?It's not going to affect...

RUSH: Here's the story on Newt: ?Newt Gingrich yesterday called Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 'a nasty woman' who runs an 'endlessly ruthless' campaign machine. The conservative Republican made the surprising comments - after months of taking care not to trash the Democratic presidential front-runner - in a wide-ranging New York Post editorial-board interview. Asked whether Americans are ready to elect Rudy Giuliani - a leader, the questioner noted, whom Ed Koch had called a 'nasty man' - Gingrich...

RUSH: Audio sound bites number five, six, and seven. We have John McCain last night who announced on the Letterman show -- this is informal, by the way. He told Letterman that when he decided he's going to run for president he'd come back and do it on his show. His formal announcement is slated for sometime in April. But this is how it went last night on the Late Show with David Letterman.
McCAIN: I am announcing that I will be candidate for president of the United States.
LETTERMAN:...

RUSH: As you know, and I've addressed this countless times on many previous excursions into broadcast excellence, e-mails pour in, ?Rush, are you on XM? Rush, are you on Sirius satellite? Are you making any plans to go there?" The answer has always been I can't do it. I have 800 radio stations here, as it was testified to in Congress yesterday. I have 800 radio stations here, and I can't cannibalize them. They've made me who I am. They've stuck with me for eight and a half years, almost 19 now,...

RUSH: A little teaser here for the Global Warming Stack today. This is just unreal. ?A former Canadian defense minister is demanding governments worldwide disclose and use secret alien technologies obtained in alleged UFO crashes to stem climate change,? and global warming according to a local newspaper in Canada, the Ottawa Citizen. "?I would like to see what (alien) technology there might be that could eliminate the burning of fossil fuels within a generation ... that could be a way to save...