RUSH: Pompano Beach, Florida. Bob, you're next. It's nice to have you here with us, sir.CALLER: Thanks for taking my call. I appreciate it.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: Merry Christmas to you, and thanks for the enlightenment.RUSH: I appreciate that.CALLER: I have a problem, a very serious problem. I'm a fourth generation American and what's happening to the American automobile companies is, to me, beyond belief. I just can't believe that three companies that made this country what it is -- and...

RUSH: I want to expand my thought process on this whole Madoff thing and take it into the realm of the current economic crisis, because, quite naturally, all this fascinates me. It's about money. Well, it's all of our money here, folks, that's literally being tinkled away, and I've been asking myself, "How in the world did we get to this point when it all seemed to happen so overnight?" Now, I understand that there were foundational problems that we were being told of as far back as last summer...

RUSH: Virginia in Bristol, Tennessee. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Yes. Hello, Rush. Merry Christmas to you -- RUSH: Same to you.CALLER: -- and major dittos from a longtime listener when I can listen, and I have several members who also listen to you faithfully.RUSH: Great. Thank you.CALLER: I'd like to bring up two things. First of all, I noticed in the news that there is still a lot of negativity associated with Governor Palin -- who, I just wanted to mention, served both...

RUSH: I just asked the staff here on the other side of the glass if they have seen a movie from 2003 called Love Actually. They all said no, except for Snerdley who looked at me incredulously, said, "Are you kidding?" What, does it sound like a chick flick? Well, I happened to watch it recently. It's been heralded by some liberals as a classic Christmas movie. It's British. It has an ensemble cast. So I watched it on the basis of I love Christmas. I watched on the basis that a bunch of libs...

RUSH: You know, for all the talk, ladies and gentlemen, about the Bush administration and George Bush personally trying to manage his legacy with the automobile bailouts and other things, you can see here that the Democrats are already building Obama's legacy before he takes office. Wall Street Journal today: "Democrats Try to Lower Expectations -- Even as they depict a massive stimulus package as indispensable to turning the economy around, U.S. Democratic leaders..." Oh, by the way, speaking...

RUSH: The crisis, the controversy over the eventual selection of Caroline Schlossberg to replace Hillary Clinton in the United States Senate continues, ladies and gentlemen. Over the weekend, we had some sound bites that happened out of this. Gary Ackerman was up yesterday on Slay the Nation. Gary Ackerman, congressman, Democrat-New York. Bob Schieffer: "A lot of the Democrats in New York, elected officials, have said that they think this is a good idea. So far, you have not been one of those...

RUSH: By the way, an update, ladies and gentlemen. We had the shocking and frightening news last week that the northern hemisphere is losing two minutes of sunlight every day, and if this crisis continues, we will be in total darkness by June or July. Frightening new information has surfaced from Daylight Change Research. The data indicates drastic changes to the environment that have already started. Many species of birds, millions of individual birds have left the northern hemisphere. The...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I want to illustrate something. Many people can go on the radio and just tell you what they think, many people can give you their opinions, right, wrong, informed, uninformed, what have you. One of my most recent suggestions to all of you as a means of helping you to keep your sanity through the next, well, two years, four years, 16 years, 20-years, whatever the reign of Obama ends up being, you will go crazy, I said, if you listen to what he says. You will go nuts...

RUSH: Barney Frank is fit to be tied out there, ladies and gentlemen, trying to put his finger in the dike out there, trying to -- (interruption) what is so funny? What did I say? What did I say? Barney Frank's put his finger in the dike, trying to stop all this economic hemorrhaging. He's trying to stop Rick Warren from showing up and giving the prayer, he's really upset about that at Obama's inauguration. The Democrats are now again lowering expectations. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ain't going...

Rush's Morning Update: UAW BailoutDecember 23, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Well, that didn't take long, folks.Hours after President Bush announced that U.S. automakers would get a federal bailout, the bellyaching began. In exchange for the $18 billion, automakers' labor costs have to be made "competitive" with those of foreign car companies with plants here in America like Nissan, Toyota and Honda. The "jobs bank" program...

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