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Some of the topics we're loaded with today: Big NFL Weekend || Huntsman to Drop Out, Endorses Mitt || Cruise Ship Horror

Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry Reid is the Democrats' third most powerful elected official – if you count Joe Bite Me as No. 2. This past weekend, Reid went on NBC's "Meet the Depressed" to claim he understands "the frustration of the American people."

RUSH: I run the risk of being accused of racial insensitivity by showing up here.

RUSH: I was right. I said, "Pick the home team. If you bet all four, pick the home team. You're gonna have a 75% winning ratio."

RUSH: Huntsman ran on McCain's strategy for winning the general election: Screw conservatives, make the media your best friend and do everything you can to be civil and moderate and attract independents. That's what Huntsman did, and that's why he lost.

RUSH: If Mitt Romney's the nominee, get ready, because the media, the Democrats, are gonna be attacking him as a wishy-washy moderate.

RUSH: There's a new law in the District of Columbia that governs how pest control operators must handle rats. You used to kill them. Not in the District of Columbia.

RUSH: I'm actually glad that I have a conspiracy now that I can call my own. It's been a while since I had a conspiracy I was in charge of.

RUSH: Mitt Romney gave away his inheritance. He donated his inheritance to BYU's George W. Romney Institute of Public Management.

RUSH: Dr. Alveda King said that were her uncle, Dr. King, alive today, he would be a pro-life social conservative.

RUSH: "Oh, my God, mouse!" That, to me, equals filth, dirt, poison. "Oh, my God! I gotta get rid of this," but I'm not gonna take this trash can out. I can't just dump it because the neighbors will see that I got a mouse in here. (sigh) So I called my mother. She said, "Oh, no, mice are cute." I said thanks and hung up.

RUSH: "Sumter, SC -- Mitt Romney reached into his pocket Saturday after a rally here and gave a handful of bills to an unemployed woman who started volunteering in his campaign offices this week."

JARRETT: Teachers and firefighters and policemen, whose jobs are now in jeopardy because Congress -- well, let me be specific -- because of the Republicans in Congress.

RUSH: Is Harry Reid really trying to help us beat Obama?  Is Harry Reid really trying to tell us how to beat him in the Senate? You really think that's what he's doing?

RUSH: I'm thinking about the concept of "the lesser of two evils" here and throwing Obama into that mix, and I just need to think about it a little.

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