RUSH: Bud in Red Wing, Minnesota, thanks for waiting and welcome.CALLER: Thank you very much, sir. It's nice to speak to you. Happy birthday, by the way.RUSH: Thank you very much.CALLER: I just wanted to call and talk to you because just before you went on vacation for the Christmas holiday, you had done this brilliant monologue in response to comments by the Archbishop of Canterbury.RUSH: Oh, yes.CALLER: I was highly impressed with that. I mean, you're always impressive, but this was so...

RUSH: Nick in Tallahassee, nice to have you, sir, on Open Line Friday.CALLER: Yes, sir. How are you doing today?RUSH: Good, sir.CALLER: I actually had some questions or just a thought -- or wanted to know your thoughts on some stuff. Bobby Bowden being the most winningest coach in college football and everything, I was just wondering what your thoughts were on him and whether he needed to retire or whether he should try to stick it out and hopefully turn this program around --RUSH: I played...

RUSH: Let's do some predictions. This is the semifinals, the division rounds. Let's see if I got these point spreads off the top of my head correct. We've got the Packers hosting the Seahawks in Green Bay, 3:30 Central time tomorrow. It will be 26 degrees, with temperatures falling. The Seahawks kicker is going to wear heated pants underneath the football pants, heated underwear, a little hand warmer in there because kickers don't get much activity, gotta run around on the sidelines, practice...

RUSH: Steve in Middleburg, Virginia, nice to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hey, well, Rush, three calls, you act like it's your show.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: (laughter) Anyway, happy Friday to you today, and happy birthday tomorrow.RUSH: Appreciate that, sir. Thanks.CALLER: In any case, I wanted to let you know that last week I participated in a man-on-the-street with ABC News. I was in DC, and it was about the economy generally, and she asked me about, the news babe asked...

RUSH: All right, Adam in Riverdale, New York, thank you for waiting, sir. Welcome.CALLER: Hi, Rush. How you doing?RUSH: Good, sir.CALLER: Listen, since you're somewhat of an historian --RUSH: Yes.CALLER: -- and you're a Godsend on, you know, letting everybody know exactly who the Democrats are, how they're bordering on communism, I wanted to ask you something. I admired presidents like Truman, and even Roosevelt, and I was wondering what you thought of them, Truman as far as how he would...

RUSH: Now, I want to call your attention to a piece written by, of course, my good friend Mark Levin. He's posted this at National Review Online, and it's "The Real McCain Record," and he starts by saying this is "a reason some of John McCain's conservative supporters avoid discussing his record." Now, we're talking about supporters here. The reason that I want to share this with you that "Flee" wrote is nobody laid a glove on McCain last night, and he's the quasi-, so-called Republican front-runner....

RUSH: To the audio sound bites of the Republican debate. This is in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. We'll start with Huckabee. The Fox moderator, Carl Cameron, said, "Governor Huckabee, your advisor, Ed Rollins, recently said the Reagan coalition of economic, social, and national security conservatives is gone. You've been quoted as saying that you're not running for another Reagan term. Tell us, sir, what part of the coalition is gone and what has it been replaced by?"HUCKABEE: The Reagan coalition...

RUSH: I have to update you on a love story. Do you remember it was last week, I think, I told you that a friend of mine told me that out of the blue he got an e-mail from his high school sweetheart that he hadn't seen in 30 years. He was just falling.I said, "How in the world did this woman get your e-mail address when you haven't spoken to her for 30 years?"He said, "Well, she found it on a high school site, one of these reunion things. Everybody puts their contact information in and so forth."...

RUSH: Dan in Crescent City, California, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Thank you, Rush.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: Okay. You are wrong with the Clinton-Obama routine. Here's the situation. Where's Hillary from? Chicago. Where's Obama from? Chicago. This is all Clintonesque. He's designed as her Mt. Everest, if you'll forgive the pun, to conquer -- and after she wins the whole enchilada, she will magnanimously take him as her running mate. It will be the black, Obama, vice...

RUSH: The Hillary tears continue to evoke commentary from women. There is a blistering piece at the American Thinker by Pamela Meister: "Female Voters Give Themselves a Bad Name." She touches on the whole subject. A lot of people, well, I can't say a lot, but there are an interesting number of people talking about what's happened to the country since women got the right to vote. No, no, no, no. Stick with me on this. Nobody is saying take it away from them, it's not going to happen, nobody's...

RUSH: Now the economy. I noticed after the debate last night, I did get home in time to watch the post-debate roundtables, the wastes of time on the Drive-By cable news networks last night, and I detected a theme. The Democrats are doing two things. They're bringing back, not the Iraq war, but the surge. Nancy Pelosi has issued a press release yesterday proclaiming the surge to be a total failure, on the same day that we're told we're about being ready to be able to turn over Anbar province...

RUSH: Let me just tell you what's happening. It is absurd and you're going to have to really gut it up here because the Drive-By Media is doing everything it can to disqualify the true conservatives on the Republican side. They're saying, "Romney, he can't win. If he loses Michigan, he's done." They said that about Romney in Iowa, they said that about Romney in New Hampshire. Now Fred Thompson apparently scored. Did you watch it last night, Mr. Snerdley? Fred Thompson was just fabulous, and...

Rush's Morning Update: Stimulus!January 14, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Well, Democrats are making all kinds of election-year noise proposing economic stimulus programs-- which, of course, will notstimulate anything but their own political fortunes. Senator Clinton'sapproach is to stick a knife into the wounded housing sector by freezing foreclosures,which would plunge banking and mortgage holders further into debt.Congressional...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"The Drive-By Media will always tell you who is and who isn't a conservative, by who they try to prop up and who they try to destroy.""Those of you who were alive, do you remember the Carter years? They were so bad we had a misery index to measure it. Plus, Jimmy Carter created the modern Islamic Republic of Iran with the Ayatollah Khomeini by getting rid of the Shah. And you think things are bad now?""How can I appear human when...

Story #1: Rush Plans to Spend Birthday Watching Football RUSH: I'm getting a lot of e-mails: "Rush, what are you doing for your birthday? Your birthday is falling on a Saturday, big weekend, what are you doing?" Snerdley asked me the same thing. I'm doing nothing! I am watching football. I had three different friends who said, "We wanted to throw you a party." Nope, I'm watching football. I don't want a birthday party. I don't want any of this stuff. I don't want to have to get dressed up, don't...