RUSH: There was a hoax perpetrated on the media today about General Electric and Jeffrey Immelt. CNBC ran with the story but it was the AP. AP ran a story that Jeffrey Immelt and GE had decided because of all the bad PR they're getting to give the government the entirety of their $3.2 billion tax refund. It's a hoax. AP was totally taken by it. It's just a bunch of guys with a fax machine. It's like the Center for Science in the Public Interest. It's just a bunch of professional pranksters,...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"If you are productive, if you work, if you are successful, if you create wealth, if you earn wealth, if you create jobs, then you are Obama's target.""If the trend continues, today Obama will propose raising taxes on everybody, and we will agree to a certain percentage of that tax increase, and then elements of our conservative media will write praising editorials on the value of compromise. Snerdley scratching his dwindling supply...

Rush's Morning Update: Demo-RatsApril 14, 2011Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player An article in the political newspaper, The Hill, has this headline: “Debate over raising debt ceiling plays with explosives, says Wall Street.”Apparently, Wall Street is “talking” thorough surrogates. Steve Bell, with an outfit calling itself “the Bipartisan Policy Center,” is quoted in the story. Bell claims his “scholars...

RUSH: I do not waste my time getting offended, and I do notgive people power to make me offended or to offend me. I don't know. I'm weird. I live in Literalville. It is what it is, and no matter how mad I get, it isn't gonna change, so I'm not gonna waste my energy getting mad about it. And I'm not gonna come here and act like I'm mad about it, start huffing and puffing. It is what it is. And, you know, when you live in Literalville, life is a lot simpler. It appears to be complex to people...

RUSH: I think you need to know something, folks. You're all wired and ready for the debt ceiling fight, right? Don't be. The ruling class on the Republican side has decided the debt ceiling is not the next battle. The Ryan budget is. Go to conservative media blogs, yesterday afternoon and last night, you would have said that the message here, the real fight is not the debt ceiling. It's the Ryan budget. What the conservative ruling class, ruling class intelligentsia media is attempting to...

RUSH: I don't have kids and grandkids, but I do have dogs and a cat -- and Abbey is depressed. I didn't think dogs could get depressed. Now, I don't want you dog owners getting upset with me here, but I was out in Hawaii for a while. We put Abbey at a daycare center and we got the other puppy over at an obedience school. Now, this is the first time the two little sheepdogs... Well, "little" -- Abbey is two, and Wellesley, I think her first birthday just happened. But they're inseparable together,...

RUSH: So Nancy Pelosi was at Tufts University in Boston last Friday and she was giving the inaugural Alan D. Solomont lecture celebrating ten years of Tisch College at Tufts. She said a number of things, but this, to me, is the highlight.PELOSI: To my Republican friends: take back your party. So that it doesn’t matter so much who wins the election, because we have shared values about the education of our children, the growth of our economy, how we defend our country, our security and civil...

RUSH: "On Feb. 4, 2010, when the House of Representatives voted to increase the legal limit on the national debt by another $1.9 trillion (lifting the limit from $12.394 trillion to $14.294 trillion), not one Republican voted for the increase." It's amazing how this tracks. It's like I just said: If you go back to 2006, not one Democrat voted to raise the debt limit in 2006. Republicans ran the show then. One year ago, not one Republican voted to raise the debt ceiling when they didn't run the...

RUSH: According to the White House: "1:35, President speaks about balanced approach to reduce the deficit and win the future." So it's gonna be another campaign speech just like all of his other speeches really are: "Winning the future" through tax increases. Now, this little program note, both to you the audience and to our beloved affiliate stations along the EIB Network: We are going to JIP this. We are going to carry it from the beginning. A number of our stations called us, the EIB offices...

Whose Money Is It Anyway? The government must do with less. It's your money!

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