RUSH: Listen to this. This is Joe Biden last night with Chris Matthews on Hardboiled. Matthews says, "Why did we invade Iraq? Senator Biden, we were we threatening World War III with Iran, why did this administration, Cheney and the president, keep pushing the war? Why do they always want to fight or scare somebody? What is it about if it's not weapons?"BIDEN: I can't prove it. I think it's about our ability to try to dominant that region of the world to control oil. The only thing I can...

RUSH: The president flew to Omaha today in a campaign appearance, got off Air Force One and had more to say about Iran and the National Intelligence Estimate.THE PRESIDENT: It is clear from the latest NIE that the Iranian government has more to explain about its nuclear intentions and past actions, especially the covert nuclear weapons program pursued into the fall of 2003, which the Iranian regime has yet to acknowledge. The Iranians have a strategic choice to make. They can come clean with...

RUSH: Jennifer in Hemet, California, I'm glad you called. I really appreciate your patience in waiting. Welcome.CALLER: Hi, Rush. I'm glad to get to speak to you. What I'm calling about is the NIE, and having read it, I wanted to comment on it as an intelligence document. The bottom line on it is that it offers no accountable assessment of what Iran's intentions are. What it does do, it's structured to imply that that first sentence is an indicator of what Iran's intentions are.RUSH: Right:...

RUSH: To the audio sound bites of the Democrat debate on NPR yesterday. It was in Des Moines. The moderator said, "Senator Obama, do you agree with the president's assessment that Iran still poses a threat, and do you agree that the NIE's news shows that isolation and sanctions work?"OBAMA: What I've been consistent about was that this saber rattling was a repetition of Iraq, a war I opposed, and that we needed to oppose George Bush again. We can't keep on giving him the benefit of the doubt,...

RUSH: Americans are angry, there's no question about it, Americans are angry and in a foul mood, but why? Democrats and the media have put the whole country in a foul mood because Democrats in the media are in a foul mood, and they want everybody to be as miserable and angry as they are. They think that's the key to electoral victory. And guess who has created it? If I'm Obama, and I look at the Zogby poll, I do one of my ads, say this is Hillary Clinton, you know, put a mug shot-type picture...

RUSH: I'm getting so many e-mails from people. "Look, Rush, you don't know what you're talking about. Shakin' All Over is not by The Guess Who. It's by The Who." No, it's The Guess Who. Look, I am the former top-40 deejay, my friends. I know this. They covered this in 1965. They were Chip something or other and the Excelsiors back then, and they were The Guess Who. In fact, The Guess Who is all excited I've added their song to the bumper rotation. I got an autographed picture of the band....

RUSH: Listen to this. This is Joe Biden last night with Chris Matthews on Hardboiled. Matthews says, "Why did we invade Iraq? Senator Biden, we were we threatening World War III with Iran, why did this administration, Cheney and the president, keep pushing the war? Why do they always want to fight or scare somebody? What is it about if it's not weapons?"BIDEN: I can't prove it. I think it's about our ability to try to dominant that region of the world to control oil. The only thing I can...

RUSH: Last night on Charlie Rose's show on PBS, former Senator Fred Thompson is the guest. Charlie Rose says, "You constantly say in this campaign that you're a conservative. What does that mean today?"THOMPSON: It means things that are consistent with God's design for man. It's consistent with human nature. It's consistent with the lessons of history and the lessons of the ages. They found form in the Constitution, I think, and what our Founding Fathers believed. They understand that man can...

RUSH: Because of this NIE report that came out on Monday, the key judgment -- find out, here in 2007, is that the Iranians halted the development of a nuclear weapons program in 2003. We find out four years after the fact. In 2005, there was another intelligence report, not an NIE report, which states just the opposite of this. Two years ago we knew what we thought we know now. Now, here's the question. Do we find out, say in 2009, that they actually developed a bomb when another NIE report...

RUSH: The Democrat reaction to the NIE was predictable, as it always will be predictable. We have a montage here of Dingy Harry, Joe Biden, Rahm Emanuel, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Jay Rockefeller.REID: I would be very surprised if, when this report came out yesterday and was made public, that the president didn't already know all about it.BIDEN: The president raised the specter of World War III with Iran because, as he said, its pursuit of a nuclear weapon, months after he had been...

RUSH: The president flew to Omaha today in a campaign appearance, got off Air Force One and had more to say about Iran and the National Intelligence Estimate.THE PRESIDENT: It is clear from the latest NIE that the Iranian government has more to explain about its nuclear intentions and past actions, especially the covert nuclear weapons program pursued into the fall of 2003, which the Iranian regime has yet to acknowledge. The Iranians have a strategic choice to make. They can come clean with...

RUSH: First some lifestyle stuff to start off today. It's been about a month, two months ago maybe, that we had a report that being overweight is better for you than being skinny. You're going to live longer if you're overweight. New news: "When it comes to living longer, fitness may trump fatness, US researchers said on Tuesday. Men and women who were fit, as judged by a treadmill test, but were overweight or obese had a lower mortality risk than those of normal weight but low fitness levels,...

Rush's Morning Update: You're Screwed!December 6, 2007Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Within hours, three new stories about oil hit the wires:• From the Beltway: Democrat Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, ignoring threats of a Presidential veto, vowed that Democrats would push through $21 billion in tax increases -- targeted at the oil industry. The money would supposedly be used to "foster development" of "renewable...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"If Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shut down Iran's nuclear program in 2003, isn't he more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than Algore?""Somebody has to do something to get around the obstacles posed to growth and freedom in this country by liberal Democrats and the Democrat Party in general today.""This is a world that runs on fossil fuels, folks, and it's going to run on fossil fuels long after you and I and your grandkids are dead.""Would...

Story #1: Drive-Bys Discover Illegals on Romney's LawnRUSH: How about this AP headline: "Romney Fires Landscapers Over Illegals -- Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Tuesday fired a landscaping company for using illegal immigrants to work on his lawn a week after a tussle with rival Rudy Giuliani over this issue." You know what struck me about this? Do you know what struck me about this? Not that he fired an illegal, was that they used the word "illegal" in the headline. This is...