RUSH: Now we have learned, ladies and gentlemen, well, we've learned a lot about Tim Geithner. He's not gonna get away with ignorance. The International Monetary Fund informed Geithner on his taxes, they informed every employee four times a year when the quarterly estimates are due, what their taxes are. They are paid the gross. Oh, you know what else I learned about this? All IMF employees are paid the gross, and then every quarter they have to file estimated taxes based on their earnings...

RUSH: Now we have learned, ladies and gentlemen, well, we've learned a lot about Tim Geithner. He's not gonna get away with ignorance. The International Monetary Fund informed Geithner on his taxes, they informed every employee four times a year when the quarterly estimates are due, what their taxes are. They are paid the gross. Oh, you know what else I learned about this? All IMF employees are paid the gross, and then every quarter they have to file estimated taxes based on their earnings...

RUSH: Now we have learned, ladies and gentlemen, well, we've learned a lot about Tim Geithner. He's not gonna get away with ignorance. The International Monetary Fund informed Geithner on his taxes, they informed every employee four times a year when the quarterly estimates are due, what their taxes are. They are paid the gross. Oh, you know what else I learned about this? All IMF employees are paid the gross, and then every quarter they have to file estimated taxes based on their earnings...

RUSH: Now we have learned, ladies and gentlemen, well, we've learned a lot about Tim Geithner. He's not gonna get away with ignorance. The International Monetary Fund informed Geithner on his taxes, they informed every employee four times a year when the quarterly estimates are due, what their taxes are. They are paid the gross. Oh, you know what else I learned about this? All IMF employees are paid the gross, and then every quarter they have to file estimated taxes based on their earnings...

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RUSH: Here's Danielle in Chelsea, Michigan. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Well, hello. Mega global cooling... No! I'm sorry. Global warming dittos from the great state of Michigan.RUSH: Thanks very much. Great to have you here.CALLER: As I get older, I'm in my thirties, and I see the hypocrisy, the double standards of our government, particularly the Democrats, and it's frustrating. I do it right. You know, my husband has a good job. We didn't borrow too much money...

RUSH: I want to do a little side-by-side comparison here of Obama and Steve Jobs -- he's in the news recently with his health problems -- and what the news of the health problems he's encountering is causing to happen to the stock of his company, Apple, Incorporated. Now, the reason for this is the fear that we all have that the country is slowly becoming a majority slacker country, people who think that they are entitled to things because they're Americans, that America owes them something or...

RUSH: I've mentioned in the first hour that I wanted to share with you off of Andrew Breitbart's BigHollywood.Breitbart.com website. It's a piece posted yesterday by Andrew Klavan. "This is by way of a friendly response," he writes, "to the estimable Jay Nordlinger, Senior Editor at the likewise estimable National Review. Jay wrote a strong column yesterday openly saying what I've been hearing many conservatives express tacitly ever since the election. Reflecting on the media's disgraceful distortion...

RUSH: I happened to glance up at my TV here -- my digital TV that I purchased at full expense without waiting for a voucher from the government for 40 bucks. I'm watching MSNBC and Andrea Mitchell has her show on, and she's interviewing Sandy "Burglar" about Obama foreign policy. And, by the way, about that, I made this prediction last hour that before long the Obama people are going to say, "We're going to have a whole new strategy in Afghanistan. We're going to rework the whole thing. More...

RUSH: Now we have learned, ladies and gentlemen, well, we've learned a lot about Tim Geithner. He's not gonna get away with ignorance. The International Monetary Fund informed Geithner on his taxes, they informed every employee four times a year when the quarterly estimates are due, what their taxes are. They are paid the gross. Oh, you know what else I learned about this? All IMF employees are paid the gross, and then every quarter they have to file estimated taxes based on their earnings...

RUSH: Roland Burris is going to be sworn in as a United States Senator taking the seat of Barack Obama at two o'clock this afternoon. (playing of Movin' On Up song) That happened fast, folks. It was slow going last week. It looked like it might not happen at all. And, lo and behold, Darth Vader, Dick Cheney, will swear in Roland Burris at two o'clock this afternoon.

RUSH: Here is reason 247 why I am not a Republican: "Republican governors, battling climate change in their states and fed up with the GOP’s inability to organize in Washington, are urging their congressional colleagues to start the new Congress with unprecedented dedication to addressing global warming." Ladies and gentlemen, have you seen the headlines out there today? Chicago has the most consecutive days of snowfall since records began in 1884. Chicago is the coldest it's been in a decade....

Rush's Morning Update: MemoJanuary 16, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer My friends, today's update is not directed at you. Nooffense, butI want to deliver a memo to terrorists worldwideto make sure thatour enemies are up to speed on new developments here in America.Memo item No. 1: The incoming administration of The Messiah, Lord Barack Obama the Most Merciful, has let it be known that harsh interrogation techniques will...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Let me make a minor semantic correction. Earlier, I said, 'I would like the tax holiday that Tim Geithner got.' Actually, he didn't 'get' one, he took one." "What has Eric Holder learned so far this morning, based on his hearings? Well, Eric Holder has learned: 'I can do anything I want because I know that you Republicans will do absolutely nothing, except kiss my butt' -- which is exactly what's happening.""I've often said,...

Story #1:Court Rules Prez Has Wire-Tapping Authority RUSH: From the New York Times: "A federal intelligence court, in a rare public opinion, is expected to issue a major ruling validating the power of the president and Congress to wiretap international phone calls and intercept e-mail messages without a court order, even when Americans' private communications may be involved, according to a person with knowledge of the opinion." Glory be! Hallelujah! It has come down from on high. A court rules...