RUSH: In Chicago, the city counsel is poised to send a message to residents: Get rid of your chickens. Get this now. This is hilarious. This is all the New Age, you know, the people who sit around and do their mantras all day, "ohmm, ohmm," that's who are being targeted here. "Coming up for a vote Wednesday is a proposal to ban chickens, a former barnyard denizen that is pecking its way into cities across the country as part of a growing organic food trend among young professionals and other...

RUSH: I have a funny little audio sound bite here as the liberals try to figure out why they love Bill Clinton. It happened last night on Hardball with Chris Matthews. Guests are Elisabeth Bumiller of the New York Times and Houston Chronicle's Julie Mason. Matthews says, "Elisabeth, Bill Clinton says that Hillary did not follow him to Arkansas because he looked like a political winner. He had nothing to do with her calculation." This is where he said -- in fact, grab number nine, because then...

RUSH: Let me ask you a question. How can we ever hope, before I get into the details of the story, let me set up with a question: How can we ever hope to fix anything when liberals keep breaking anything that works? If you listen to the liberals, you would think a Boy Scout meeting is a gathering of homophobes. They are 12-year-old kids! Even if they know what gay means, and they become homophobes? Do they even care? What happens to them in the Boy Scouts is they learn values. They learn public...

RUSH: I have a couple stories here basically illustrating the incompetence on the Democrat side. Actually, it's pretty good news for our side as well. First, in the New York Times: "Muscle Flexing in Senate: G.O.P. Defends Strategy' -- Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader, operates with near-robotic efficiency when it comes to negotiating budget figures in public, consistently refusing to answer questions that would ever commit him to a specific number at the bargaining table....

RUSH: Sandy in Naples, Florida, I'm glad you waited. You're next on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hey, Rush. Merry Christmas.RUSH: Same to you.CALLER: I want to say, "I am a three-issue voter: taxes, taxes, and taxes."RUSH: All right! Right on, right on, right on.CALLER: And I think that you should be talking more about that, because I believe that whoever gets the nomination and who is for lowering taxes, will therefore have the integrity to take care of the immigration situation, the war...

RUSH: Marty in Springfield, Virginia, I'm glad you called, and welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Yeah, look, you're halfway, more than halfway through the show and you haven't talked about the most important news to a lot of us conservatives. I mean we need you to intervene on this squabble between Romney and Huckabee. It's escalating, and I'm afraid it's going to tear up the Christian right coalition.RUSH: Are you talking about Huckabee attacking Mitt's Mormonism? CALLER:...

RUSH: Okay, got Alice in Munich back. Alice, less than two minutes here, but I didn't want to have you wait until the next hour so, go ahead and ask the question. I'm sorry for all the interruptions.CALLER: Okay, I appreciate the opportunity to talk to you again. My question is, since I have to send in my absentee ballot early, I don't want to throw away or waste my vote and I can't wait and find out how things go in Iowa or how things go in New Hampshire, the other early states. My question...

RUSH: The Oprah was on Good Morning America today with the cohostette Diane Sawyer, and Diane Sawyer said, "You've written a speech, which is unusual for you."THE OPRAH: I have written a speech because I didn't trust myself just to stand up there and talk, and this was too important of an issue, I thought, for me to be up there rambling around. Okay, this is the night before, it was 3 a.m. still working on my speech. Yes, I was. And I then -- then I heard somebody say that they -- that his staff...

RUSH: In Chicago, the city counsel is poised to send a message to residents: Get rid of your chickens. Get this now. This is hilarious. This is all the New Age, you know, the people who sit around and do their mantras all day, "ohmm, ohmm," that's who are being targeted here. "Coming up for a vote Wednesday is a proposal to ban chickens, a former barnyard denizen that is pecking its way into cities across the country as part of a growing organic food trend among young professionals and other...

RUSH: I don't know if you heard about this, ladies and gentlemen. "Republicans retained control of two Congressional seats Tuesday in special elections in Ohio and Virginia, thwarting Democratic efforts to expand their control in the House. The elections were held to complete the terms of members of the House who had died. In Virginia, Robert J. Wittman, a first-term Republican state legislator, easily defeated the Democratic candidate, Philip Forgit, a teacher. Mr. Wittman will complete the term...

RUSH: Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut. Global Warming Update. (playing of The Crazy World of Arthur Brown) All right, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown, one of the four Global Warming Update themes. As predicted, (laughing) I love this (laughing) as predicted, "The Bali global warming conference will not result in any targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, now admits would be too ambitious to expect. Said Ban Ki-moon, 'Realistically...

RUSH: Well, the retail season is off to a solid start, folks -- damn it, as far as the Drive-Bys concerned. "Holiday sales are off to a strong start, according to data from SpendingPulse released today. This erases concerns about a possible sharp pull-back in consumer spending." Who had these concerns? Nobody had these concerns except the Drive-By Media. Easing concerns? "Sales, excluding cars, rose eight tenth of a percent in November, following October's anemic two-tenths of a percent increase....

Rush's Morning Update: Global ScreamsDecember 13, 2007Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Well, of course the Drive-By Media is ignoring the new report from NASA that Arctic ice is refreezing at a record pace. Instead, to hype the global warming hoax, AP reports on scientists predicting an "ominous tipping point" for Mother Erf.One scientist speculates that all ice in the Arctic Sea will be gone in five years. Others claim the ice...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"How can we ever hope to fix anything when liberals keep breaking anything that works?" "What is organic? Oh, give me a break, 'free of pesticides'! You can take your lack of pesticides and all that organic stuff and go ahead and throw it in the manure that your organic chickens are eating!""I'm going to give you the definitive answer on Algore and his potential run for the presidency: It ain't gonna happen. And the primary reason...

Story #1: Caffeine Is Bad for You -- Again RUSH: Health news, we're back to caffeine being bad for you. "A state advisory board on Monday called for a study to determine if sodas and energy drinks containing caffeine pose a risk to pregnant women. The review could lead to warning labels on the drinks under Proposition 65, a 1986 ballot measure that requires the state to identify chemicals that could cause cancer or birth defects. 'If I were a pregnant woman or a woman thinking about being pregnant,...