RUSH: Mark in Chicago, you're up next, sir. I appreciate your patience, and welcome.CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.RUSH: Yes, sir, you bet.CALLER: Hey, Rush, real quick, I have a 17-year-old son who's a senior in high school, and he just enlisted in the Marines and he's heading off to Camp Pendleton this July. And he's raised some concerns and questions to me about the politics of the funding of the war.RUSH: Wait a second. I hate to be ignorant about this, but is...

RUSH: Jan Crawford Greenburg is a legal reporter for ABC News. She's excellent. She's rare. I'm not going to say too much because I'll ruin her career. It's happened too many times. I've praised various journalists, networks, and they get in trouble. So Jan Crawford Greenburg produced a story here, an exclusive: "Department of Justice Official Ignored White House Guidance; Testimony Contradicted Gonzales in U.S. Attorney Matter, Sparked Controversy -- The firestorm over the fired U.S. attorneys...

RUSH: Mark in Chicago, you're up next, sir. I appreciate your patience, and welcome.CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.RUSH: Yes, sir, you bet.CALLER: Hey, Rush, real quick, I have a 17-year-old son who's a senior in high school, and he just enlisted in the Marines and he's heading off to Camp Pendleton this July. And he's raised some concerns and questions to me about the politics of the funding of the war.RUSH: Wait a second. I hate to be ignorant about this, but is...

RUSH: Here's Ken in Orlando. Ken, thank you for waiting. Welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Boy, it's really great to talk to you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Mega dittos.RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.CALLER: I just don't want you to let that one senator, the real space cadet from Arkansas, I believe it was, that you've mentioned early in the program.RUSH: That would be Mark Pryor. You're talking about the guy that wants a secret date in legislation to get out of Iraq that nobody...

RUSH: Let's go to this Hagel business. Here is a sound bite from yesterday's program, me speaking.RUSH ARCHIVE: Snerdley and I were just talking about this, and I can't figure it out here. I can't figure what the political upside for Chuck Hagel is and all this rap that he's gotten into now talking about the president might be impeached or could be impeachable. I just can't figure it out, unless he's running for the Democrat nomination. I don't know what Chuck Hagel is up to. I'm literally...

RUSH: "Democratic Lawmakers to Reintroduce ERA -- Liberal Democrats in the Senate and House plan to resume 'the fight for women's equality' on Tuesday, when they reintroduce the Women's Equality Amendment. Sens. Ted Kennedy (Mass.) and Barbara Boxer (Calif.) and Reps. Carolyn Maloney and Jerrold Nadler, both of New York, plan to join Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority, in making the Tuesday afternoon announcement." I haven't seen anything on this yet today, so if they've announced...

RUSH: Port Huron, Michigan, Ron. Ron, thank you very much for waiting. It's great to have you here.CALLER: Thank you, sir. You're a great American. It's an honor to speak with you.RUSH: Thank you very much.CALLER: Well, my issue is I need a little bit of advice. I'm a college student. I've been going to school about two years in the criminal justice program.RUSH: How old are you?CALLER: I am 21.RUSH: You're in a criminal justice program.CALLER: Yes, sir.RUSH: Okay.CALLER: I've had...

RUSH: This is Redding, California. Matt, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the program.CALLER: Hello. I got a comment regarding -- seems to be making a lot of waves, that the lady isn't willing to testify on the investigation regarding the US attorney. I seem to think that that's going to be a coming trend as the Democrats reap what they sow after the Scooter Libby deal.RUSH: Yeah. You know, it's interesting. The New York Times has this story: "Aide to Gonzales Won't Testify About Dismissals."...

RUSH: One reminder here, folks. We started this yesterday, andthis is way cool. Yesterday marked the first edition of the Rush in a Hurry E-mail Show Notes. Go up there and sign up. You don't have to be a Rush 24/7 member. You don't have to do anything. Well, you have to sign up, but it's easy. You just go to the little red box halfway down on the right side at RushLimbaugh.com, and sign up and by four o'clock every afternoon you'll receive an e-mail of highlights of the program that you will...

RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bites from Sunday, Fox News Sunday. Trent Lott was sharing the stage with California Senator Dianne Feinstein. Chris Wallace said, "Senator Lott, since the president is willing to allow his aides to talk to Congress, how do you defend -- or do you defend --his insistence they testify in private, not under oath, no transcript being made?"LOTT: Are the Democrats in the Senate interested in information or confrontation? In my mind, I think if the president would...

RUSH: Now, here's this Dick Morris piece. It's at Fox News and was published way back on the 22nd, and I just now have been made aware of it. So it is clear this piece was published prior to Mrs. Bill Clinton's big fundraising sweep out in Beverly Hills over the weekend in California. "They were supposed to be the A Team in American politics. The Clinton Machine that inspired fear and admiration throughout the political world. They had guided Hillary through two successful Senate races in a...

RUSH: Do you remember way, way back (this had to be in the early nineties, late eighties, maybe, on April Fool's Day, on April 1st), I did an entire monologue on the necessity of increasing taxes on the poor. The poor were not paying their fair share. It was unfair. I went through this whole mess. It was one of the early things that marked me as one of America's truly great thinkers and bold thinkers, because not only did I think it, I had the courage to actually suggest it. Well, it has taken...

RUSH: I also got some e-mail today from people who are just fit to be tied over what they've heard about the Republicans in the Senate who are going to go ahead and try to pass the House get-out-of-Iraq bill as soon as they can. A lot of people say,"What do you mean? The Republicans selling out! You mean they're going to go along with this pork? That's why they lost in November, and, I'll tell you what, I'm never voting Republican again!" You people have to calm down out there. This is a brilliant...

RUSH: Headline from Susan Page in USA Today: "Edwards Gains Support as He Remains in the Race." He indeed got a bump out of the announcement, the press conference he had last week with his wife. "Americans by 2-to-1 support the decision by former North Carolina senator John Edwards to stay in the Democratic presidential race even though his wife, Elizabeth, has been diagnosed with a recurrence of breast cancer." By the way, it's now moved to her hip as well as one of her ribs. "A USA TODAY/Gallup...

RUSH: More sad news this morning. Tony Snow's cancer is back. It's been a rough four or five days here for the people in politics who have come down with cancer. John and Elizabeth Edwards, now Tony Snow. He had colon cancer.Hehad his colon removed. Theyfound another spot that they thought was clean and benign. He went to the hospital yesterday, did some tests, and it's back. It has metastasized and it has moved to the liver now. No word on the prognosis, but aggressive treatments are going...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Republican administration aides are going to need legal fees built into their compensation.""Like I said yesterday, the Republican field is sort of like the buffet at Denny's. Do they have a buffet at Denny's? They don't have a buffet as Denny's. Well, imagine they had a buffet at Denny's and everything on the menu was in the buffet.""As far as I'm concerned, Bush didn't act soon enough in getting rid of some of these institutionalized...

Story #1:50% Say They Won't Vote for Mrs. Bill ClintonRUSH:I just got a new Harris poll here, ladies and gentlemen, and it's not good for the campaign of Mrs. Bill Clinton.It's in The Hill newspaper today. "Half of voting-age Americans say they would not vote for [Mrs. Bill Clinton] if she became the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, according to a Harris Interactive poll released Tuesday. More than one in five Democrats that participated in the survey said they would not vote for [Mrs....