RUSH: If you weren't here yesterday, Josh Gerstein in the New York Sun wrote a story about the Breck Girl, John Edwards and Kate Michelman, who used to run NARAL, the big abortion group. She said of all the guys out there, he's closest to understanding women. The headline of the story: "Edwards: Could He Be the First Female President?" So we decided we're going to need a John Edwards update on this, and we commissioned Paul Shanklin to go out and do a takeoff of Helen Reddy's "I am Woman" sung by...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Mitch McConnell took to the Senate floor yesterday to expose the Democrats for the clowns that they are. He knows he's the most powerful man in the Senate."
"I'm not in a good mood today, folks; I just want to warn you about this. Have you seen the latest news from Forbes magazine? 153 new billionaires -- a grand total now of 946 billionaires -- and I'm not one of them."
"John Kerry said, 'We must never forget the importance...

RUSH: You gotta hear Calypso Louie from Nightline last night. He was talking with reporter Martin Bashir, and Bashir said, "Well, what about [Mrs. Bill Clinton]?"FARRAKHAN: Not for young people. Ms. Clinton is formidable, but Barack is even more.BASHIR: Hillary Clinton was -- her husband, Bill Clinton, was described as a black president. What does that make her? FARRAKHAN: Really, not much. Although black people looked at Bill Clinton as a black president, he did less for black people than other...

RUSH: Hey, folks, before I get out of here for the weekend, I have to tell you I watched “Amazing Grace” last night. I don't know if you've heard about this. It is really a fine movie, and it's a movie that is just unlike stuff made in Hollywood today. The whole family can watch this. It is properly refined. It's clean and pure right down the middle, but it has an amazing story. It's about William Wilberforce. William Wilberforce abolished the slave trade in Eighteenth Century Great...

RUSH: If you weren't here yesterday, Josh Gerstein in the New York Sun wrote a story about the Breck Girl, John Edwards and Kate Michelman, who used to run NARAL, the big abortion group. She said of all the guys out there, he's closest to understanding women. The headline of the story: "Edwards: Could He Be the First Female President?" So we decided we're going to need a John Edwards update on this, and we commissioned Paul Shanklin to go out and do a takeoff of Helen Reddy's "I am Woman" sung by...

RUSH: ( story | PDF ) “A divided three-judge DC circuit panel has held that the District of Columbia's gun control laws violate individuals' Second Amendment rights. According to the majority opinion, 'the phrase the right of the people when read intratextually and in light of Supreme Court precedent leads us to conclude that the right in question is individual.'" The majority opinion sums up its holding on this point as follows. To summarize: "We conclude that the Second Amendment protects...

RUSH: There was an entry in the Washington Post blog yesterday by a guy named Dan Froomkin. I missed this yesterday because I don't read the Washington Post blog. I found this referenced on another blog out there. This guy has a theory, and his theory is that midway through the trial, Scooter Libby and his lawyers called Bush, and they offered the following deal: “If you'll pardon Libby, we will not put Libby on the stand and will not call Cheney.” Now, this was on the blog. It was not...

RUSH: Just checking the e-mail.“Rush! Rush! Rush! When are you going to start talking about Newt Gingrich? When are you going to start talking about Newt Gingrich?” What do they mean, Newt's announcement that he had an affair? Folks, I hate to tell you, it's not news. Now, I know what Newt's doing with this. Newt's taking ownership of it and he's getting it out there early, before any of the opponents if he decides to get in the race, if any of the opponents bring it up. But it's not...

RUSH: Are you ready, ladies and gentlemen, for Hagelmania? Do you know what Hagelmania is? Well, no. I'm not joking. I'm actually asking if people are ready for Hagelmania. Senator Chuck Hagel said yesterday that he's going to "announce his political future" on Monday. Everybody thinks that he's going to announce for the presidency, but there's been no word on whether he will say he's running for president or for reelection. “The Omaha World-Herald writes that 'Hagel acts like he's already...

RUSH: Here is Tony in Mesa, Arizona. Thank you for calling, sir. It's nice to have you on the EIB Network.CALLER: Hey, Rush. Mega dittos from Arizona.RUSH: Yes, sir.CALLER: I wanted to ask you about a problem with our antiquated copyright laws. It seems if you show any copyright material like an episode of “24” on a TV larger than 55 inches to company, it may constitute a "public performance" and therefore break copyright law. I know you have a big screen TV. I have a big screen TV....

RUSH: Bill in Poughkeepsie, New York, thank you for waiting. Welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Dittos. Thanks for taking my call.RUSH: Yes, sir.CALLER: You've had some calls lately asking you to do more and asking what can you do, et cetera. I was thinking about that. It seems to me that 2008 is going to be about one issue. It's the identity of the American nation. Who are we? What are we? How much control do we have over our own destiny? The Europeans think we should have none of that....

RUSH: San Diego, this is Keith. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.CALLER: Hi. I love your show, but I disagree with the fundamental premise you take that the conservative movement is advancing. I just see the conservative principles in America as slowly dying, and maybe we slow that down a little bit when Ronald Reagan takes over or something like that, but the secular humanists seem to be taking over the country little by little.RUSH: Well, the brakes have been put on that. I know it's a challenge...

RUSH: Here is John in Virginia Beach, Virginia. You're next, sir, on the program.CALLER: Yes, sir. I just want to talk about, have you noticed how breathless the media has been in trying to report all these anti-Bush protests every time he goes to another country?RUSH: Oh, yeah.CALLER: Like it's something new? There should be anti-American protests, but it's something new because it's President Bush, when it's been going on for 40-something years? It's the favorite sport of the left all around the...

RUSH: Let's go to Surprise, Arizona. Line one, that is. Surprise, Arizona. Kansas City Royals train there, by the way, a couple of other Major League Baseball teams. This is Robert. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush. I've been listening for 15 years, and I love it.RUSH: Thank you. Well, I appreciate that. Thank you, sir.CALLER: I have a question. In all the changes in administrations through the years, why does the Ninth Circuit remain so liberal?RUSH: Well, let me...

RUSH: Tucson, Arizona. I've been there. This is Brian. Welcome, sir, to the EIB Network.CALLER: Hey, Rush. A-10 warthog dittos to you. Pleasure to speak to you.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: The focus of the so-called Walter Reed scandal is not that the military or the Bush administration are abusing our servicemen. The way the libs are caterwauling, they're pretending like it's Gitmo North up there. The focus needs to be and should be, if you listen to the comments of people that are complaining,...

RUSH: John in Tampa, Florida. Thank you for waiting, sir, and welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Well, Rush Limbaugh, God bless you, and it's good to talk for you for the first time. Hey, something that has been on my mind for a while -- and I think it kind of falls on the laps of both the puppet Congress of the liberal party that's in there and our own conservatives -- is that the oil prices... We keep hearing a lot of excuses for the gas prices being a result of oil prices going up or refineries,...

RUSH: The Democrats are out there with their, now seventeenth, resolution on getting us out of Iraq with a date certain, and they are making an absolute joke of themselves. Meanwhile... (laughing) This is from the Associated Press: “U.S. President George W. Bush's troop buildup in Baghdad apparently will be bigger and more costly - and perhaps will last longer - than it seemed when he unveiled the plan in January as the centerpiece of a new Iraq strategy. … The Bush plan called for...

RUSH: Snerdley handed me a news story today, and it's kind of funny. He put a couple notes on here, and I would disagree with one of the notes that you wrote on this story. It is an AP story. It's entitled, "War Protests," and basically the headline ought to be: The Kooks Revolt. "Some opponents of the Iraq war are taking their protests straight to Congress -- staging 'occupations' in lawmakers' offices on Capitol Hill and in their home communities. Rep. Rahm Emanuel's office in Chicago was targeted...

RUSH: Folks, the Democrat Party in both the House and the Senate is becoming a full-fledged joke everywhere. From John Edwards refusing to appear on Fox because MoveOn.org doesn't want him to, to resolution after resolution after resolution, what's happening in the House is an absolute joke. It is hilarious. Nancy Pelosi's lost control of the Democrat caucus. There are so many different cauci in the Democrats. You have the Out of Iraq Now Caucus. You have the Stop the War Caucus. You have the Hispanic...