Do Your Show Prep: Everything Rush reads to prepare for the show.

Some of the topics we're loaded with today: President’s Budget Would Increase Taxpayer Losses on TARP || Rubio: Obama's Budget Nothing More Than A "Campaign Document" || Get Ready for $5 Gas || Pentagon May Oust Troops Involuntarily

A Monday Politico headline screams: “Wall Street Turns Wrath, Cash on Obama.” It’s written from the perspective that Obama is the innocent victim of a Wall Street conspiracy.

RUSH: I really don't know where to begin.  I do not understand why somebody doesn't characterize this payroll tax cut for what it is, gutting Social Security.

RUSH: I'm gonna read it to you exactly as it printed out here: "A preschooler at West Hoke Elementary School ate three chicken nuggets for lunch Jan. 30 because a state employee told her the lunch her mother packed was not nutritious. The girl’s turkey and cheese sandwich, banana, potato chips and apple juice did not meet US Department of Agriculture guidelines, according to the interpretation of the agent who was inspecting all lunch boxes in her More at Four classroom that day."

RUSH:  We're no longer talking about abortion.  All of a sudden, now it's Republicans who want to stamp out contraception, that's what the attempt last week was all about.

RUSH: There's nothing better than the internal combustion engine right now.  And until market forces require the innovation and invention of a free people, there won't be.

RUSH: Washington Post, New York Times, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, LA Times. It's all oriented toward two things: advancing the Democrat Party and whoever runs it -- in this case, Barack Obama -- and, at the same time, defeating, embarrassing and humiliating the Republicans and conservatives.

RUSH: Democrats are running for reelection, not trying to hide who they are, folks.  They are in our faces as they seek to reelect Barack Obama.

RUSH: Let me try answering my question, why is contraception so important that it must be paid for by somebody else?