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Should the GOP Fight Obama by Refusing to Raise the Debt Ceiling?Your host explains why this is a bad idea politically.

RUSH: This afternoon on PMSNBC live the anchorette, Tamron Hall, spoke with the NASA correspondent for NBC, Jay Barbree about Obama and the Kennedy Space Center. All the astronauts from the golden era of the space program have ripped Obama for ending manned space flight, particularly the revised moon program. They've all come out in unison. So Obama's sort of backed off, "Okay, okay, well, we'll revive," because it would put nine or 10,000 people out of work after the last shuttle flight. So...

RUSH: Brian from New Jersey, on the way to DC. Welcome to the program, sir. Hi.CALLER: Hey, how are you doing? We're here now.RUSH: Oh, you made it. Good.CALLER: Yes, pretty good. I want to know where else you can get a Puerto Rican and Irish guy, middle class who are union members, right-wing extremist tea partiers here to protest a lot of white liberals. What are we, rapists?RUSH: (laughing) Let me see I get this straight. You have a Puerto Rican-Irish guy, you got a middle class union...

RUSH: Christopher Dodd yesterday on the floor of the US Senate, he's almost lost his mind. He claims that people are mischaracterizing his baby, the financial regulatory reform bill. We have two sound bites. Here's the first one.DODD: I've been so dismayed over these last 24 hours to hear members of this body repeat the utter falsehoods concocted by special interests whose jobs and pensions are plenty secure, thank you very much, that this bill would lead to more bailouts. Mr. President, it's...

RUSH: To Chicagoand Verlin, thank you for waiting, sir. Great to have you on the EIB Network.CALLER: Thanks for taking my call, Rush. You have a great show. Okay, now, I don't want you to take me the wrong way because I am a conservative and I mean that from the bottom of my heart.RUSH: All right.CALLER: But the reason why I never voted Democrat is because I'm aware of my history, and I know what the Democrat Party is about since it was founded. Now, I've been voting conservative up until...

RUSH: This is Holly as we go back to the phones to Powell, Wyoming. Nice to have you on the program, and I'm glad you waited, welcome.CALLER: Bitter clinger dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Thank you so much for taking my call. I'm so upset today I don't know whether to sit down and cry or stand up and scream so I thought I'd call you for advice.RUSH: Well, we can do both then.CALLER: I wanted to share with you, I had a call from my son this morning who is in high school, he called me...

RUSH: The tea parties are getting in full swing out there. I just saw a bunch of great signs out there. One of them just said "Regime Change." In Washington, counter-protesters have shown up at a tea party rally, which was to be expected. You know, the regime is not used to this. Throughout his entire pampered life, the leader of this regime has not been protested like this. He has not been opposed like this. It's only going to make the regime angrier, folks. This is not the kind of stuff...

RUSH: All these stories on foreclosure, and they're all over the place. I must have three or four stories on the foreclosures and how they are at a record high and how we're all upset. Let me tell you what this is. A coordinated effort from the White House and in the highest offices of the regime, all the way down to the State-Controlled Media because if it's not happened yet, what has happened, and you're going to notice it, there is a big push to make the banks forgive the principal on mortgages,...

RUSH: So Obama is now putting on his ambulance-chaser hat. He's gonna send inspectors to all these troubled mines. He's always going in to get the credit for compassion, after whatever disaster takes place. Here he is this morning in Washington, DC, in the Rose Garden.OBAMA: This tragedy was triggered by a failure at the Upper Big Branch Mine, a failure first and foremost of management, but also a failure of oversight and a failure of laws so riddled will loopholes that they allow unsafe conditions...

RUSH: With a few exceptions, have you noticed the contempt for all of these tea party people all over the country today? You know, whenever the anti-capitalist, anti-growth people, the anarchists get out there and protest or whenever unions protests or gay activist protests or civil rights, oh, they're great citizens, we must listen to them, we must understand what it is about them that has them outraged, they're minorities. But for the tea party there is veritable contempt for them as people...

Rush's Morning Update: Payoff!April 16, 2010Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Iowa Democrat Tom Harkin -- chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee (how good of ajob is he doing?)-- wants to spend more money that we don't have. He wants another $23 billion to be forked over to skrools and public colleges so they can avoid giving pink slips to union members.The legislation introduced by Harkin matches...

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