RUSH: Linda in Dallas. Linda, glad you waited. Welcome to the program.CALLER: Rush, you were talking about Hillary this morning, you know, mucking it up with the nurses?RUSH: Yeah. CALLER: I know that I heard it on your program back when she was trying to get her original health care, she was speaking to a group of nurses, and one of the nurses spoke up and said, "Well, if you do that, some of us nurses are going to lose our jobs." And she said, "You will just have to find another profession."...

RUSH: Tom in Indian Trail, North Carolina, welcome, sir. I have about a minute, but I wanted to squeeeeeeeeze you in.CALLER: (silence) Hello?RUSH: Yes.CALLER: I'm still here.RUSH: Well, I have about a minute. I have 55 seconds now.CALLER: Good. (silence)RUSH: You know, uh... (chuckles) Tom, what did you want to say?CALLER: I want to talk about Roe v. Wade, 1972, how it's gone bananas.RUSH: You mean, the Democrat Party's gone bananas?CALLER: Yeah, both.RUSH: Well, that's like well said,...

RUSH: Anyway, to the phones we go. This is Howard in Oklahoma City. You're next, sir. It's great to have you with us on the EIB Network.CALLER: Thank you for taking my call, Rush.RUSH: Yeah, yeah.CALLER: You realize that you alone are going to be the demise of the cigar industry in the United States? Because of you, the Democrats are targeting cigars because you are a cigar smoker.RUSH: Well, I am the nation's most prominent cigar smoker, maybe right next to Arnold Schwarzenegger, and both...

RUSH: Linda in Dallas. Linda, glad you waited. Welcome to the program.CALLER: Rush, you were talking about Hillary this morning, you know, mucking it up with the nurses?RUSH: Yeah. CALLER: I know that I heard it on your program back when she was trying to get her original health care, she was speaking to a group of nurses, and one of the nurses spoke up and said, "Well, if you do that, some of us nurses are going to lose our jobs." And she said, "You will just have to find another profession."...

RUSH: Elizabeth Edwards praised her husband, the Breck Girl, for apologizing for his vote in favor of the Iraq war and questioned Senator Hillary Clinton for not doing the same thing. "'She even, in the New Hampshire debate said, 'I made a mistake.'" People are looking for a mea culpa from her. And when she buried a line like that -- I give her credit for saying that -- but when she buries that line… we're electing a leader of the free world, and just like the votes on this last funding...

RUSH: Tom in Nieves, Minnesota, welcome to the EIB Network. Great to have you here.CALLER: Oh, thank you, Rush. I'm glad to be on your show.RUSH: I appreciate that, sir. Thank you.CALLER: Yes. Uh, I've got a question about something that was brought up yesterday, okay? And on the news I was listening to this, how they're having a toothpaste recall that was made -- the toothpaste was made in China, and it has a little bit of radiator coolant in it, and this made me start thinking about the...

RUSH: We have quoted on several occasions on this program stories from the German magazine Der Spiegel. Der Spiegel is as virulently anti-America and anti-war in Iraq as any American publication, as any British publication, if not more so. Thus, the following story is fascinating. This is from Ed Morrissey at his Captain's Quarters blog. "Der Spiegel has reflected and led overwhelming German opposition to the war in Iraq practically from the moment of the invasion in 2003. They have often featured...

RUSH: Barack Obama, it's getting bad out there. He's saying some things here, folks, that are really stupid -- well, let me retract, impolitic -- and that were he anyone else, would have him laughed out of the race by now. Now, to put this recent spat here in some historical context, from yesterday in the UK Guardian, "The wife of Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama on Sunday admonished those who question her biracial husband's credentials as a black man, calling the issue 'nonsense.'...

RUSH: Carl in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. You're first, as we go to the phones today on the EIB Network.CALLER: Rush, why can't we all just get along? Now, I listen --RUSH: Oh, Carl, give me a break. Don't do a Rodney King on me. You gotta be kidding me.CALLER: No, I'm not kidding you. I think it's a very realistic thing. See, here's what I hear. First of all, I -- as an independent, all the politicians work for me. Well, they work for all of us. But what I hear is, if -- if someone on...

RUSH: After the joint press conference with President Bush and Karl Rove, it's over, and Bush is making his way to a helicopter or wherever, and Bill Plante of CBS shouts out, "If Rove is so smart, how come you lost Congress?" They can ask whatever they want, but you know, had I been there, had I been in the press corps, you know what I would have said? "Hey, Plante, if you're so smart, how come Katie Couric is doing the CBS Evening News?" Ingrates. I tell you, this is Rove Derangement Syndrome.BREAK...

RUSH: It's time to go back to Conservatism 101. I like to do this now and then. We're in our 20th year now, and it's sometimes unavoidable that I will just assume that after all these years that you've been listening to this program that the fundamentals of conservatism are understood here. Then I run across a story, and people's reaction to it, and I say, "Nope, this is something that needs to be constantly reinforced, basic Conservatism 101, something that needs to be constantly taught." I...

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