RUSH: I want to start with Mitt Romney today, Mitt Romney's speech. Frankly, I thought what we saw today, folks, was a Republican candidate for president giving an inspiring speech. It was an inspiring speech about American values, including religion. Mitt Romney did this because he has been relentlessly attacked as something less than a true American. I watched this. I had seen some excerpts from the speech published before he made it. I thought he was inspiring, folks. I think he set exactly...

RUSH: I want to start with Mitt Romney today, Mitt Romney's speech. Frankly, I thought what we saw today, folks, was a Republican candidate for president giving an inspiring speech. It was an inspiring speech about American values, including religion. Mitt Romney did this because he has been relentlessly attacked as something less than a true American. I watched this. I had seen some excerpts from the speech published before he made it. I thought he was inspiring, folks. I think he set exactly...

RUSH: Katherine in Ohio. Welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Hi, Rush, how are you? RUSH: Fine, thank you.CALLER: Good. You guys are a national treasure and I think Mr. Snerdley is possibly one of the most delightful people I've ever spoken with.RUSH: Well, I'm sure he thinks the same thing of you today.CALLER: (laughter) I hope so. Rush, I wanted to talk about Mitt Romney's speech.CALLER: Yeah?RUSH: And I just wanted to respectfully disagree and hopefully bring up a dialogue, a dynamic...

RUSH: I want to start with Mitt Romney today, Mitt Romney's speech. Frankly, I thought what we saw today, folks, was a Republican candidate for president giving an inspiring speech. It was an inspiring speech about American values, including religion. Mitt Romney did this because he has been relentlessly attacked as something less than a true American. I watched this. I had seen some excerpts from the speech published before he made it. I thought he was inspiring, folks. I think he set exactly...

RUSH: I want to start with Mitt Romney today, Mitt Romney's speech. Frankly, I thought what we saw today, folks, was a Republican candidate for president giving an inspiring speech. It was an inspiring speech about American values, including religion. Mitt Romney did this because he has been relentlessly attacked as something less than a true American. I watched this. I had seen some excerpts from the speech published before he made it. I thought he was inspiring, folks. I think he set exactly...

RUSH: I want to start with Mitt Romney today, Mitt Romney's speech. Frankly, I thought what we saw today, folks, was a Republican candidate for president giving an inspiring speech. It was an inspiring speech about American values, including religion. Mitt Romney did this because he has been relentlessly attacked as something less than a true American. I watched this. I had seen some excerpts from the speech published before he made it. I thought he was inspiring, folks. I think he set exactly...

RUSH: There's a teachable moment here. We have two audio sound bites from oral arguments yesterday at the Supreme Court. Lawyers are trying to get the inmates out of Club Gitmo. Lawyers and constitutional rights and all this sort of stuff. Here first is Justice Antonin Scalia, who just buries the lawyer for the terrorists, pointing out that they have no precedent in 220 years for giving foreign citizens and enemy combatants the right to trials in US courts.SCALIA: Do you have a single case,...

RUSH: Here's Brian in Norfolk, Nebraska. Brian, glad you waited. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir.CALLER: Hi there, Rush. It's an honor to talk to you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I have a question that's kind of completely different than what you've been talking about, but I hope you'll listen to me.RUSH: By all means, sir.CALLER: I wanted to talk about that big catastrophe in Omaha the other day in the mall, where the shooter went and shot all those people and -- sorry, I'm a little nervous...

RUSH: John in Canton, Ohio, glad you called, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network. CALLER: Yes, hello, Rush. RUSH: Hi. CALLER: I was calling about President Bush's call for a freeze on subprime loans. I'm just wondering if there is a magic number of people being heard that triggers a government intervention. RUSH: That is an excellent question. You know what, that is an excellent question. I'm going to ask you one in return. CALLER: Okay. RUSH: You are obviously watching all of the stuff on...

RUSH: Let's go to the audiotapes, Mrs. Clinton on CNBC yesterday afternoon with the Money Honey. That would be Maria Bartiromo, who said, "Where was Congress during all this?" This is about the mortgage crisis. "Where was Congress during all this? We had a lot of nonbanks in on the scheme with crazy proposals, no documentation, no interest for several months. Did Congress understand what is going on here?"HILLARY: No. And under the Republican Congress, they didn't want to understand, you...

RUSH: Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut! Trumpet fanfare, time for an update, an incredible Global Warming Stack today. Here's Paul Shanklin, well-known white comedian, as Algore: I Started a Joke. (playing I Started a Joke song) That makes me chuckle. "I showed them my slides." So we had this new prime minister elected in Australia, Kevin Rudd, and one of the first things he did, said, (paraphrasing) "We're going to sign on to Kyoto. This global warming is a problem and we're going...

RUSH: We have Greg from Texas City, Texas, back. We ran out of time with Greg yesterday. He was our last call. He lived in Iran. He was making some points about the NIE, and I felt very bad we ran out of time. Why don't you start at the beginning of the point you wanted to make because we have a little bit more time now than we did yesterday. CALLER: Thank you very much, Rush, and I appreciate your taking my call, and I agree with what you just said and the lady about Romney, by the way....

RUSH: Katherine in Ohio. Welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Hi, Rush, how are you? RUSH: Fine, thank you.CALLER: Good. You guys are a national treasure and I think Mr. Snerdley is possibly one of the most delightful people I've ever spoken with.RUSH: Well, I'm sure he thinks the same thing of you today.CALLER: (laughter) I hope so. Rush, I wanted to talk about Mitt Romney's speech.CALLER: Yeah?RUSH: And I just wanted to respectfully disagree and hopefully bring up a dialogue, a dynamic...

RUSH: I was called on the carpet and criticized last night at PMSNBC for my take on the NIE. Dan Abrams all upset that I am attacking the bureaucrats who wrote the NIE, because suddenly now, see, when the intelligence comes out and it fits their worldview, fits their political view, what they want things to be, then it's unquestionably accurate, and it's just not right to assail it. Here's a portion of Dan Abrams and my take on the NIE.ABRAMS: So upset by the finding of the 16 US intelligence...

RUSH: Don Surber: "The War is twice as popular as Congress. Under Democratic leadership, the 110th Congress is the least popular Congress since pollsters began measuring this. Various polls peg the disapproval at various numbers at various times. But one thing doesn’t change: Worst Congress ever. Democratic apologists say that this is because Congress has failed to end the war. Well, that may explain the low marks on the Democratic end. But the 63 votes so far this year on the war obviously...

RUSH: Let's dip our toe in the hot box, folks, and see what's lurking out there on the telephones. Mr. Snerdley reports a very tough first half hour screening phone calls. I'll give you an example, one guy actually called and wanted to get on the air because he heard me say that evangelicals are a bunch of missing-front-teeth-hayseed hicks with gun racks in the back of the pickup truck. Of course, I did say that, but I was repeating and reminding evangelicals and the Christian right, that's what...

John Bolton today has a great op-ed in the Washington Post. He basically makes the observation here that this NIE that was released on Monday, the key judgment, is essentially rolling out a diplomatic -- oh! Oh! Wait, wait. Before, before that, folks, oh, there's something even more important than that. Remember yesterday we had the report that the three primary authors of the NIE key judgment were State Department officials, and one of them disgruntled with apparently some kind of grudge specific...

RUSH: I want to start with Mitt Romney today, Mitt Romney's speech. Frankly, I thought what we saw today, folks, was a Republican candidate for president giving an inspiring speech. It was an inspiring speech about American values, including religion. Mitt Romney did this because he has been relentlessly attacked as something less than a true American. I watched this. I had seen some excerpts from the speech published before he made it. I thought he was inspiring, folks. I think he set exactly...

Rush's Morning Update: Fire!December 7, 2007Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer On Wednesday, a federal appeals court ruled that the Bush administration’s Healthy Forests Initiative violates the National Environmental Policy Act. The Bush Forests Initiative came in response to the wildfires seven years ago, which destroyed over eight million acres. The policy made it easier to clear out underbrush, shrubs, and trees that could...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"If JFK were alive today, and if JFK had remained consistent to his beliefs, they wouldn't let him into a Democrat convention.""Mitt Romney took the long view of this country, from its founding to its future, farther than we can see, and he described what it is that binds us together and defines us as Americans. It is crucially important that people understand this.""I thought what we saw today, folks, was a Republican candidate...

RUSH: I want to start with Mitt Romney today, Mitt Romney's speech. Frankly, I thought what we saw today, folks, was a Republican candidate for president giving an inspiring speech. It was an inspiring speech about American values, including religion. Mitt Romney did this because he has been relentlessly attacked as something less than a true American. I watched this. I had seen some excerpts from the speech published before he made it. I thought he was inspiring, folks. I think he set exactly...

RUSH: Katherine in Ohio. Welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Hi, Rush, how are you? RUSH: Fine, thank you.CALLER: Good. You guys are a national treasure and I think Mr. Snerdley is possibly one of the most delightful people I've ever spoken with.RUSH: Well, I'm sure he thinks the same thing of you today.CALLER: (laughter) I hope so. Rush, I wanted to talk about Mitt Romney's speech.CALLER: Yeah?RUSH: And I just wanted to respectfully disagree and hopefully bring up a dialogue, a dynamic...

Story #1: Double-O Show Moves to Larger Stadium RUSH: The Double O: Obama and The Oprah, an 18,000-seat stadium is not big enough for an Oprah event; they gotta move it somewhere. Story #2: Hillary Fires Staffer for Obama/Muslim E-mail RUSH: Some chairwoman of Mrs. Clinton in Iowa sent out an e-mail accusing Obama of being a Muslim, a stealth Muslim who's going to take over the country and turn it into Sharia law or something. So the woman gets fired, and Hillary of course didn't know anything...