Some of the topics we're loaded with today: Obama, Brewer Have Tense Exchange in Arizona || ‘The Secretary Speaks!’ || Taxpayers Still Owed $132.9B from Bailout || Geithner: Unlikely I Will Stay as Treasury Secretary

A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality must be causing a panic out there. It says more states are looking for flexibility to fire underperforming public schoolteachers; the age-old practice of tenure is being weakened.

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RUSH: I'm not denying it happened. I'm just telling you, this stuff was a total shock to me last night when I learned that Newt had said this stuff.

RUSH: We're having Two If By Tea pop up in various stores out there for the pure fun of it. Today, if you happen to be at Jungle Jim's outside Cincinnati, it's there.

RUSH: Fairly or unfairly, here's what I think is going on.

RUSH: This is a great illustration of how Obama sees himself, who he is, how he operates. My theory, which I have shared on many previous occasions, is this man has had the road paved for him.  He has never been challenged by anyone, anywhere.

CALLER: I have heard you yourself say that if Romney wins the nomination, that you're going to vote for him. Okay?

RUSH: Yeah?

CALLER: That is supporting him. That lends a credibility to a Republican-socialist agenda.

RUSH: I'm gonna vote for any Republican over Obama! So's everybody else.

RUSH: His secretary works as hard as he does and she doesn't make one-tenth of 1%. Look at the gap between the CEO and the worker in Warren Buffett's shop.

RUSH: I hope, at the end of all this, whoever is coordinating this on Newt has the guts and the gumption to go after Obama this way. But I have my doubts.

RUSH: This food group owner says: No way! The parents don't know how to do it.

RUSH: The perception is that everybody in Washington is literally trying to take him out, and the Newtsters are saying, "That's exactly who we want! If they hate him, we love him."

RUSH: This is what happens when you don't build your own stadium.  When you ask the taxpayers to build it, a couple of Republicans will come along and say, "You know what? The state built that with taxpayer money!"