RUSH: There's this Democrat judge in South Dakota. Now, the Democrats are out there saying that the US attorney imbroglio is just about politics. They're trying to criminalize it. There's a story today, AP has it, a judge in South Dakota, an aging judge cannot perform his work load anymore. He's a Democrat, he's a federal judge, and other judges in the courthouse are picking up the slack for this guy so he won't have to retire and let Bush appoint his replacement. So you got a Democrat judge who's not able to work a full load any more hanging on trying to make it 'til 2008 when hopefully for him the Democrats win the White House and he can quit and have a Democrat appoint his successor. Now, you tell me that that's not political. Probably a couple of US Supreme Court justices are doing the same thing. Just trying to gut it out and hold on as long as they can, don't to want retire while Bush would have the opportunity to replace them. 

These guys, they're purely political. They're out there charging the Republicans politics as criminal. It's breathtaking to behold. These guys, the Democrat Party, I'm going to tell you something, folks. The way they conduct themselves, going after Republicans is a way of life for them. It's even pathological to the point they believe all the lies they tell. They actually got themselves believing the election results in November were to set a date to get out of Iraq, they believe it. They've told themselves this so much they believe it. They spend every waking hour plotting against the Republicans how to advance their agenda. Republicans don't do this. They don't look at government this way. The libs do. You know, government is their house; government's their home; government is their religion; it's their everything. The days that they're not working on the floor of the House or the Senate or whatever, they're coordinating with their associates all over the country to make this as unified as they can, this constant, never-ending approach. It's just who they are and what they do. 

 

 

The "patriotic display" involved the flag, the American flag, and people at Sea World were standing up and applauding it. "The story caught the attention of syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh. Since then, officials at Skidmore say Isler has received upsetting e-mails and other messages from around the country.   She resigned last week after just three months in her position as director of Skidmore's student diversity programs. The bus driver has since been fired." Well, we knew that. That was in the original story. These Turkish Muslims had gone to SeaWorld to see Shamu and so forth and they also saw the American flag and they flipped out. We did read the story. Apparently she's been pressured now to split the scene and has resigned from Skidmore College as the head of diversity for students. I laugh.

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Story #4: Generic Republican Still Beats Democrats in '08 Poll 

RUSH: TIME Magazine, TIME.com, has Jay Carney writing in Washington. "Poll: A Surprising G.O.P. Edge for '08"  (Gasp!) "Could things be any worse for George W. Bush and his beleaguered party? In the new TIME poll, the President's job approval rating continues to wallow near his all-time lows, at 33%, while his disapproval rating breaks the 60% barrier for the third consecutive survey." It goes on and talks about all this polling data that he's got and how bad it is for Bush out there, and then said, "It's hard to know exactly why respondents who are generally unhappy towards -- and in many cases fed up with -- the GOP might still prefer a Republican for president over a Democrat. Much of it has to do with the individual candidates involved. In Clinton's case, as TIME pollster Mark Schulman points out, 'with Hillary the Democratic front-runner, most voters have made up their minds about her, both pro and con. Jay Carney is surprised about this. The subtext of this is that despite all this polling data they've got about how Bush is supposedly hated and despised, same poll projects Republicans as the preference over Democrats generically in the '08 presidential race because Republicans are perceived to be stronger on national security. Of course the Drive-Bys can't believe this. Why, they've done their job, they've got that approval rating down to 33%, they think they've got half or more of the American people hating the war in Iraq and wanting out of there, and now this? It's right in front of their face, and here the Democrats have voted to de-fund the war and to pull the troops out starting in March of 2008, and they're scratching their heads over why it might be that Democrats are not trusted in the area of national security?

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Story #5: Illinois Decides to Leave Kids Behind

RUSH: Here's a story out of Chicago. This is just sad. "Almost 300,000 reading and math tests taken by Illinois students in 2006 weren't counted because the state relaxed a rule under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, allowing some schools to dodge a warning they were failing." (Gasp!) The left the children behind! The kids weren't doing well, so they didn't count the tests. "The tests most likely to be discounted were low-income and minority students, The Chicago Tribune reported Wednesday. Almost one in four black students and one in five low-income students didn't have their scores counted. According to federal guidelines, a school's progress under the law is evaluated on tests taken by students enrolled for a 'full academic year,' which each state defines." It could be 180 days, 185, whatever it is.  Look at who's tests are thrown out. Why do they score badly on the tests in the first place? Yet these are the people that won't let us close these schools. "Oh, no, no, no, we gotta keep these schools open, diversity, teachers union requirements," or what have you. It is no wonder that parents of black kids and minority and poor kids are fed up with the public school system. But I also think there's a little conspiracy. I think one of the objectives of liberals running the public education system is to keep kids dumbed down, they grow up as adults dumbed down, and therefore more easily made dependent. This a serious matter. 

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Story #6: Rudy's Wife in Cabinet Meetings?

RUSH: Tell me I did not see that. I did see that? I couldn't possibly. I have to be hallucinating here. Well, I saw it, I didn't believe it, but I have seen it. MSNBC just ran a graphic saying that Rudy Giuliani says he wants his wife to sit in on cabinet meetings. Let's wait for the quote. This is MSNBC, all right? You know, these things can just get blown and distorted. MSNBC is in the throes of depression right now because the Gonzales hearings fell apart, and they're looking at anything to make themselves feel better here.

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Story #7: NAGs Want Piece of Fatherhood Initiative 

RUSH: The NOW gang, not only have they endorsed Hillary, the NAGs, is our favorite acronym for them here, the National Association of Gals, they're upset over something called the Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Initiative.  "The Bush administration doles out up to $50 million annually to fund its programs to build job skills and help fathers connect better with their children. But the National Organization for Women says the effort is illegal because it's only about men.  NOW and Legal Momentum, another advocacy group, filed complaints yesterday with the Department of Health and Human Services alleging sex discrimination in the initiative that is funding about 100 programs this year."  Now, of course, the NAGs love WIC.  What is WIC?  The Women Infants and Children program.  Yeah, no men are involved in the WIC program, but here's something called the Promoting Responsible Fatherhood Initiative, and the NAGs, they're fit to be tied over this.  NAGs are flexing their muscles, feeling their oats out there.

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