RUSH: I said this two weeks ago, maybe three now. I said by the time we get to the actual presidential campaign in 2008, the Iraq war will not be a major issue. The Democrats cannot win it in their current iteration. I said, "What's going to be the primary subject matter net presidential campaign will be the future of the country and where we are headed as a country. It will not be Iraq, further alienating the base, further disappointing them."Now, don't misunderstand, the Democrats are not going...

RUSH: Look, ladies and gentlemen, what I am doing for you. Not just for you, look at what I am doing for all of America. The phony soldiers smear has tied up the Senate for days. It has kept them distracted with me rather than figuring out ways to control you. By the way, how about this headline here in the New York Times -- I'm going to take partial credit for this -- "Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers." Another disappointment for the lunatic fringe of the Democrat base. The Democrats...

RUSH: Carol in Waldorf, Maryland, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hello. I just wanted to share with you that when we lived in Sicily from '95 to '98, you were not on the radio then, and we had found your show when we lived in Guam, and we planned our dinner hours where our two teenaged children could watch it with us. Then when we went to Italy, we were kind of disappointed because we couldn't get you, but then we found out there was a group of people, somebody's...

RUSH: Marty in northern Virginia, I'm glad you called, sir, welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Yes, thanks, Rush.RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: Hey, I just had to call when I heard your comment about how the Republican candidates need to energize the base. I like your idea of calling attention to the liberal media bias, but when you got a leader of the Christian right saying they should form a third political party, that's a real problem. RUSH: You're talking about Dr. Dobson?CALLER: Yeah. He doesn't...

RUSH: We're going to go back to October 27th in Oxford, Mississippi, University of Mississippi. There was a forum with Senator Trent Lott and Senator Tom Daschle, and the title of the forum was Senate Leaders Working Together -- Which Always Leads to Republicans Losing. They didn't call it that. I added it. Here's a portion of Senator Lott's remarks about his support of the amnesty bill.LOTT: I learned a lesson. I got clobbered, by name! Some of my close friends, Rush Limbaugh, and they really...

RUSH: Well, this is just getting hilarious now. "Every citizen could get a 401(k) retirement account and up to $1,000 in annual matching funds from the government under a plan offered Tuesday by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. At a cost of $20 billion-$25 billion a year," ahem, "the plan is Clinton's largest domestic proposal other than her plan for universal health insurance. The New York senator said it would be paid for by taxing estates worth more than $7 million...

RUSH: I said this two weeks ago, maybe three now. I said by the time we get to the actual presidential campaign in 2008, the Iraq war will not be a major issue. The Democrats cannot win it in their current iteration. I said, "What's going to be the primary subject matter net presidential campaign will be the future of the country and where we are headed as a country. It will not be Iraq, further alienating the base, further disappointing them."Now, don't misunderstand, the Democrats are not going...

RUSH: I think that some in the Drive-By Media are now starting a new push on Mrs. Clinton. Here's a headline in the Boston Globe today: "Many Warming Unexpectedly to Clinton -- Don Schwartz, who describes himself as 'a super-Deaniac progressive type,' decided to back Hillary Clinton -- whose centrist views, he concedes, do not necessarily match his own -- for a simple reason. He wanted, finally, to be with a winner. When Schwartz, the vice chairman of the Londonderry Democratic Committee, started...

RUSH: Kim in St. Louis, thank you for calling. You're next on the program, great to have you here.CALLER: Hi! Mega dittos from St. Louis, Missouri. I was actually... We have media in classes in school. I'm a international relations major at one of the most liberal universities in the state, I think. But when we are told to look at the media and how to pull sources from the media, we're told to look at "unbiased, very credible sources." We're told to -- encouraged to -- stay away from like...

RUSH: This is Roseanne in Reidsville, North Carolina. Hi, Roseanne. It's nice to have you on the program.CALLER: Hi, Rush. I want to tell you what Senator [sic] Waxman's representative told me, and then I would like to tell you what I told him when he said something about the tone of the Internet. He told me that the senator's position was not being represented correctly, that what the senator actually believed and what was being reported weren't the same thing, which puts him in the same position...

RUSH: Eric in Charlotte, Virginia. Welcome, sir. It's nice to have you with us.CALLER: Yes. This is the Eric Woods guy that you said was the best call that you've ever had in your time of hosting this show. I'm the guy who said mental -- that Democrats, or liberalism, is a form of mental illness and I told you about that blacks, the analogy between the slave, the slave master, and the liberator -- or the pimp, the prostitute, and the preacher -- and you're one of the main preachers that these...

RUSH: We're going to get to the debate here. It starts at four o'clock this afternoon, Chris Matthews is the moderator of the debate, and he was -- I don't know, when did he say this? I guess this morning on MSNBC, he was on with Joe Scarborough on Scarborough's show, and this is what he said about moderating the GOP debate tonight.MATTHEWS: If somebody says I'm not independent it's going to be very hard for me to bite my tongue, because for 20 years now I've paid the price of independence....

RUSH: Look, ladies and gentlemen, what I am doing for you. Not just for you, look at what I am doing for all of America. The phony soldiers smear has tied up the Senate for days. It has kept them distracted with me rather than figuring out ways to control you. By the way, how about this headline here in the New York Times -- I'm going to take partial credit for this -- "Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers." Another disappointment for the lunatic fringe of the Democrat base. The Democrats...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"If I win the Nobel Prize, I promise to run for president.""I told Snerdley, 'No more seminar callers.' I used to have fun with them, but I'm not going to give them the added opportunity to take me out of context. Screw them. They're idiots anyway, and they get boring to listen to unless I, as a brilliant host, can make the whole experience fun.""I am, for all of America, tying up Henry Waxman. Instead of him poking his nose into...

Story #1: How 'Bout That Monday Night Football Game?RUSH: How about that football game last night? Did you see that football game? Five interceptions by Tony Romo, and they still win by one point with a 52-yard field goal! Too bad the game was on ESPN.Story #2: Muslim Terrorists Endorse Hillary for PresidentRUSH: Some stories in the stack about Mrs. Clinton. From our buddies at WorldNetDaily.com: "'It's official: Terrorists endorse Hillary in '08 -- On the record, Mideast jihadi leaders say she's...