RUSH: Jack in Glenford, Ohio, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hello, Rush. Keep up the good work.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I surely enjoyed this month's Limbaugh Letter, December, about Economics 101, and especially this article about Governor Bobby Jindal.RUSH: Yeah, the interview with Bobby Jindal. Was that not great in this thing? And those questions that I asked were among some of the finest anybody's ever been asked, and they drew him out.CALLER: That's for sure --RUSH:...

RUSH: Presidential politics here, dirty tricks are starting. This is so classic. This is from HillaryClinton.com: "Campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle just sent the following message out to Hillary supporters in key early states.Dear Friend,I wanted to let you know immediately about reports our campaign has received about possible dirty campaign tactics in Iowa and New Hampshire -- and ask for your help. In Iowa, we have heard reports that Hillary supporters are getting calls that tell them incorrect...

RUSH: Here is Jeff, Grand Junction, Colorado. Welcome, sir. Glad you waited.CALLER: Dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I just want to take issue from what you said on Friday, it's been eating at me all week. First, I want to compliment you because you're blessed genetically to be in such great shape without exercise, that your blood work comes out -- and I just wanted -- the statement you made, that you took kind of in the light of the Drive-By Media, you took a fatally flawed clinical study...

RUSH: I want you to listen to how James Lewis at the AmericanThinker.com characterizes the National Intelligence Estimate. "Suppose you're a cop, and you have to stop a well-known Mafia hit man on a dark night, driving his Cadillac. You know he's recklessly dangerous -- he's threatened you every day, in public, for the last 30 years. (What do you think 'Death to America!' really means?) So you call the dispatcher and ask them to tell you as much as they know about the suspect. Specifically, does...

RUSH: I'm sure you've seen the poll from USA Today and Gallup. "Significant Drops in Support for Clinton and Giuliani --'National support for [Hillary and Rudy] significantly eroded over the past month,' USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page writes. Meanwhile, Republican Mike Huckabee's standing in the national poll has shot up -- to the point where he leads a group of four GOP contenders basically tied for second place behind front-runner Giuliani. Susan adds that results of the latest...

RUSH: I went back to Mr. Snerdley's office during the break. He said, "That was a smoking hour, smoking hour!" I said, "I know." I exhaled. I said, "But you know, every day -- every day -- we have to come in here and defend this country against the Democrats and the libs! Every day, it's what we have to do here."I hearken back to before this program existed, prior to 1988, how this kind of stuff today would go unchecked, unchallenged, and everybody would believe it. This NIE stuff and so forth....

RUSH: I might actually grant, ladies and gentlemen, that diplomacy played a small part in forcing the Iranians to cease the production of their nuclear weapons program, if indeed they have. I remain unconvinced simply because of the erratic nature of previous NIEs and I also remain dubious because of what Mr. Podhoretz thinks, that there are people in the NIE and in the intelligence community who are hell-bent on undermining George W. Bush, and they've been doing it for his whole administration....

RUSH: The big news today: "The National Intelligence Estimate is concluding that Iran's nuclear program, its weapons development program, has been halted since the fall of 2003 because of international pressure." Come on! This NIE business, there are 16 different agencies, they're all over the lot with each report that they issue, and it says here: "This is a stark contrast to the conclusions US spy agencies drew just two years ago. The finding is part of a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran...

Rush's Morning Update: Political CourageDecember 5, 2007Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer With sagging... Oh!Poll numbers! (I was thinking of something else.)With sagging poll numbers and the Iowa caucus less than a month away, the real Mrs. Bill Clinton has emerged, andit'sno more Mr. Nice Guy.Mrs. Clinton has accused fellow Senator Barack Obama of running a political slush fund, of being too ambitious(because in kindergarten...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"I guarantee you we have more evidence that manmade global warming is a hoax than we do on what Iran's doing with nukes. Don't doubt me.""The administration needs to keep the pressure on Iran, and Bush will. We don't want Iran in a position where it has all the tools and the know-how to build a bomb, just waiting for the right time to complete it -- such as when we have a Democrat in the White House.""I don't care if it's Hillary...

Story #1: New York Times to Achievers: Don't BotherRUSH: Here is the latest from the New York Times. Just let me give you one sentence here from the New York Times: "Several recent studies stand as a warning against taking the platitudes of achievement too seriously." In other words, don't try to be your best. It's only going to upset you because you can't be your best. You'll end up becoming a perfectionist and nobody can be perfect, and you will be disappointed. So stop trying to achieve,...