RUSH: Timothy Geithner. I can't let this go. He's the Treasury secretary nominee, and he didn't pay taxes. It is said that Timothy Geithner... By the way, Obama... Oh, I should tell you, Obama has "cleared" Geithner, just like Obama "cleared" himself. You know this? Obama has cleared Geithner, just like Obama cleared himself and his staff in the pay-for-play talks with Blagojevich. (laughing) By the way, Blagojevich today is swearing in the newly elected Illinois Senate, which will vote to...

RUSH: Lots of stuff in the news today. This Geithner, the guy that's been appointed Treasury secretary, failed to pay his taxes and his nanny's taxes, too. "No big deal. Oh, no, we need this guy so much, we can't let these little technicalities hold him back." He didn't pay his taxes! He was audited by the IRS. Now one of the things about this that's curious to me, he worked at the IMF, the International Monetary Fund and apparently when you work there you're an independent contractor, you...

RUSH: Timothy Geithner. I can't let this go. He's the Treasury secretary nominee, and he didn't pay taxes. It is said that Timothy Geithner... By the way, Obama... Oh, I should tell you, Obama has "cleared" Geithner, just like Obama "cleared" himself. You know this? Obama has cleared Geithner, just like Obama cleared himself and his staff in the pay-for-play talks with Blagojevich. (laughing) By the way, Blagojevich today is swearing in the newly elected Illinois Senate, which will vote to...

RUSH: Lots of stuff in the news today. This Geithner, the guy that's been appointed Treasury secretary, failed to pay his taxes and his nanny's taxes, too. "No big deal. Oh, no, we need this guy so much, we can't let these little technicalities hold him back." He didn't pay his taxes! He was audited by the IRS. Now one of the things about this that's curious to me, he worked at the IMF, the International Monetary Fund and apparently when you work there you're an independent contractor, you...

RUSH: Timothy Geithner. I can't let this go. He's the Treasury secretary nominee, and he didn't pay taxes. It is said that Timothy Geithner... By the way, Obama... Oh, I should tell you, Obama has "cleared" Geithner, just like Obama "cleared" himself. You know this? Obama has cleared Geithner, just like Obama cleared himself and his staff in the pay-for-play talks with Blagojevich. (laughing) By the way, Blagojevich today is swearing in the newly elected Illinois Senate, which will vote to...

RUSH: Lots of stuff in the news today. This Geithner, the guy that's been appointed Treasury secretary, failed to pay his taxes and his nanny's taxes, too. "No big deal. Oh, no, we need this guy so much, we can't let these little technicalities hold him back." He didn't pay his taxes! He was audited by the IRS. Now one of the things about this that's curious to me, he worked at the IMF, the International Monetary Fund and apparently when you work there you're an independent contractor, you...

RUSH: Timothy Geithner. I can't let this go. He's the Treasury secretary nominee, and he didn't pay taxes. It is said that Timothy Geithner... By the way, Obama... Oh, I should tell you, Obama has "cleared" Geithner, just like Obama "cleared" himself. You know this? Obama has cleared Geithner, just like Obama cleared himself and his staff in the pay-for-play talks with Blagojevich. (laughing) By the way, Blagojevich today is swearing in the newly elected Illinois Senate, which will vote to...

RUSH: Lots of stuff in the news today. This Geithner, the guy that's been appointed Treasury secretary, failed to pay his taxes and his nanny's taxes, too. "No big deal. Oh, no, we need this guy so much, we can't let these little technicalities hold him back." He didn't pay his taxes! He was audited by the IRS. Now one of the things about this that's curious to me, he worked at the IMF, the International Monetary Fund and apparently when you work there you're an independent contractor, you...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, can we all agree that many aspects of the Obama administration are simply recreations or continuations of the Clinton presidency? Can we also agree the Super Bowl is coming up on February 1st, and that will be the end of many fun and exciting weekly office pools. Well, we need something to continue the office pool game, because, you know, for a lot of people, when football season ends, it's worse than the month of February setting in living in the northern climes....

RUSH: Let me change subjects real quickly to Obama for a second. I want to go back to this dinner that he had, because one of the things we're hearing about the dinner with the conservative pundits last night was that they did say tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts. And Obama said he's open to ideas that work, right? Which, you know, is just PR smoke and mirrors. But how about this? I'm going to give Obama a test here. I'm going to offer him an idea. I'm going to offer him an idea without...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, can we all agree that many aspects of the Obama administration are simply recreations or continuations of the Clinton presidency? Can we also agree the Super Bowl is coming up on February 1st, and that will be the end of many fun and exciting weekly office pools. Well, we need something to continue the office pool game, because, you know, for a lot of people, when football season ends, it's worse than the month of February setting in living in the northern climes....

RUSH: I think this is worth pointing out, ladies and gentlemen, reminding people: that is my observation of the TARP law as written. As far as I know, I am the only one who made anyone aware of what the Democrat Congress authorized in legislation authorizing TARP. Let me just read it to you once again. "Section 1. Short Title. 'Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.' Section 2. Purposes. Provides authority to the Treasury Secretary to restore liquidity and stability to the US financial...

RUSH: Mary in Kingsford, Michigan. You know, it's good to know there are still people in Michigan who can afford a phone call. Mary, welcome to the program. Nice to have you here.CALLER: Thanks, Rush. I'm calling to make a comment about our current president and about the president-elect.RUSH: Yes, ma'am.CALLER: First of all, let me qualify by saying I am an independent, since labels seem to be the coin of the realm on your program, but I'm 65 years old, so I voted for a lot of presidents,...

RUSH: UK Daily Mail online: "Bush Declares a 'State of Emergency' in Washington as Cost of Obama's Swearing-in Ceremony Soars to 110m." This is over $150 million. Now, I was a little early when I was on the way to the White House yesterday, so I had the driver take me by the Capitol, the side that's set up for the inauguration. I have never seen in my life so many Port-A-Potties all over everywhere. They're surrounding the Washington Monument; they're all the way down The Mall; they are on...

RUSH: Timothy Geithner. I can't let this go. He's the Treasury secretary nominee, and he didn't pay taxes. It is said that Timothy Geithner... By the way, Obama... Oh, I should tell you, Obama has "cleared" Geithner, just like Obama "cleared" himself. You know this? Obama has cleared Geithner, just like Obama cleared himself and his staff in the pay-for-play talks with Blagojevich. (laughing) By the way, Blagojevich today is swearing in the newly elected Illinois Senate, which will vote to...

RUSH: Audio sound bite time. This is laughable. I wasn't even here yesterday, and yet the Drive-By Media were still obsessed with me. Let's go PMSNBC on Hardball, Chris Matthews talking with Democrat strategerist Steve McMahon and the Republican strategerist Todd Harris. Matthews said, "Todd Harris, so are we gonna go back to the two kinds of parties we had in the sixties and seventies where you're going to have two parties which are both partially centrist parties, not left-right? Left party,...

RUSH: Lots of stuff in the news today. This Geithner, the guy that's been appointed Treasury secretary, failed to pay his taxes and his nanny's taxes, too. "No big deal. Oh, no, we need this guy so much, we can't let these little technicalities hold him back." He didn't pay his taxes! He was audited by the IRS. Now one of the things about this that's curious to me, he worked at the IMF, the International Monetary Fund and apparently when you work there you're an independent contractor, you...

RUSH: Yes, I know, ladies and gentlemen, even when I'm not present at an event, I hijack it, I upstage it. Greetings, my friends, great to have you with us. It's Rush Limbaugh, back in action behind the Golden EIB Microphone here at the distinguished and prestigious Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies. The telephone number, if you want to be on the program today, is 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. Okay, ladies and gentlemen, I think I owe you a little...

Rush's Morning Update: MissingJanuary 15, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Last Sunday, Saudi Arabia's Human Rights Commission (which is a joke) condemned the practice of young girls getting married in the Kingdom. That prompted Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric, Sheik Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh (Skyhook), to issue a pronouncement. Sheik Sheikh declared: "It is wrong to say it's not permitted to marry off girls who are 15 and younger....

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"There's one reason why Obama will not seek a meeting with me: I'm the only guy who might be able to change his mind.""Unbeknownst to me, a corner of my napkin dipped into a bowl of ranch dressing yesterday at the White House. The president looked at me with horror on his face: 'Limbaugh, you're going to ruin your blue suit! This is the White House! Shape up, man!'" "How many people would admit to you that they dipped their napkin...

Story #1:AP: Islamic Law Would've Stopped Financial CrisisRUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, according to AP-Obama today, do you realize all we needed to do to make sure our economic crisis didn't happen was to become Islamic? Yes, ladies and gentlemen!"Big financial institutions..." By the way, the Dateline on this is Detroit. The two AP-Obama writers are Jeff Karoub and Sebastian Abbot. "Big financial institutions have been battered by mortgages gone bad. But a tiny Michigan bank is getting attention...