Hostess Brands, Inc. -- makers of Wonder Bread, Ding Dongs, and Twinkies -- are closing three bakeries in response to a nationwide strike by its bakers union. Over 30% of Hostess workers decided to walk off the job. The message to 627 workers in Seattle, St. Louis, and Cincinnati was: ding-dong, your jobs are gone!

RUSH: Senator McCain, Lindsey Graham and Kelly Ayotte, the senator from New Hampshire, had a press conference in which they called for a select Senate committee to investigate what happened at Benghazi...

RUSH: If Petraeus goes in there and says anything different than what he said on September 13th, do you know the world of hurt that he's in? 

RUSH: Hillary's in Australia. She's sipping wine, and she's over there with Panetta.  And you know who else is in Australia?  The Woz.  Steve Wozniak.  He's establishing residence in Australia. Look, I think there's some people who know things we don't.  

RUSH: Boehner offered to play ball on new "revenue," $800 billion. Obama has come back in this new spirit of bipartisanship and a new tone that he promised us during the campaign and that the American people voted for. He now says, "You know, screw that $800 billion, Boehner! Screw you and screw the $1.6 trillion now. What are you gonna do about it? I won!"

RUSH: Eight years of Bill Clinton, this has been the modus operandi. Four years of Barack Obama, this has been the modus operandi. We see it happen each and every day. 

RUSH: When you think about the things in your life, the nostalgic things that make you happy or you have fond memories of -- it's always about the relationships you have with people you love. It's not the things you acquire or the places that you've been necessarily. It's really about people that you've known and who you've had great relationships with that have meant the most to you. Stan's one of those people for me.

RUSH: It's nothing more than a campaign speech. It's nothing more than the perpetual campaign.

CALLER: As of November 6, 2012, I am the first black conservative Republican elected into our House of Representatives, and I have to say, a lot of it is due to being a student of your advanced conservative studies.

RUSH: If you want to get down to brass tacks, you can talk about the get-out-the-vote operation on Election Day, and clearly it's relevant.

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