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Some of the topics we're loaded with today: Barney Frank to Retire ||
Newt Wins NH Endorsement || Now Syracuse Child Rape Charges

RUSH: If having a prostitution ring being run out of your basement couldn't embarrass you into retiring, you have to wonder what did it.

RUSH: The Obama coalition is saying, "If you work, we don't want you. If you work, we know you don't want us. If you work, you're the targets. If you work, you are the people we are gunning for. If you work, we are coming after you to make sure that the other elements of our constituency are able to eat."

Thomas B. Edsall: Democrat Party "Will Explicitly Abandon the White Working Class"

RUSH: I wonder if the coach's name were Paterno -- or if Bernie Fine had criticized the media hype surrounding Donovan McNabb -- if ESPN woulda sat on the tape for nine years.

RUSH: When Republicans are looking to get strong and the conservative side of the Republican Party is asserting itself, guess who happens to show up on the Sunday shows and put it down? The titular head of the Republican Party, General Powell.

CALLER: Why is it that people can pitch tents outside of Walmart, riot over $2 waffle irons and almost trample their fellow citizens to get a deal on some stuff, but kids who peacefully link arms on a college campus get covered in military-grade pepper spray?

RUSH: Self-interest will feed more mouths every time it's tried. It's not even close.

RUSH: I'm fully willing to acknowledge my role in this, as Lisa said, but there has to be something else going on at same time, because this is a fast conversion. You just don't go from a union member loving Obama to hosting Michele Bachmann in your house!

The latest news about MF Global Holdings, the now-bankrupt derivatives broker, is stunning. James Giddens, the trustee in charge of liquidating MF, says estimates of how much cash investors were screwed out of have doubled. Regulators are now talking $1.2 billion.

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