Guest Host Ken Matthews
Check out these stories from Ken Matthews’s Stack of Stuff — and remember, Rush 24/7 Members can enjoy all three hours of this or any broadcast via audio streaming or as a podcast.
read moreHold Firm, Mr. President
RUSH: I'm not gonna let any government shutdown keep me out of here and I'm not gonna let the EIB Network be closed if I want to be here. And I definitely wanted to be here.
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Trump Can Build the Wall Without Congress
RUSH: If using his executive power angers many people in the country to vote against him and his party, that's the price he pays for doing it!
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The Stock Market Slide Isn’t Trump’s Fault
RUSH: Trump is exactly right about this. The Federal Reserve is doing great damage to this economy by raising rates.
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Trump’s Populism and the Republican Base
RUSH: The Trump base is not monolithic on certain issues, and this is one of them.
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My Thoughts on Steelers-Saints and Tony Romo
RUSH: It's frustrating. I did decide to watch it. I caved.
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11-Year-Old Wants More Rush Revere
RUSH: I'm really glad you got to hear the program. I'm glad I came in to do it today.
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Callers Have Their Say on the Shutdown
RUSH: It's Christmas Eve — I want to find out what's on your minds, chat with you.
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Rush 24/7 Stack of Stuff
RUSH: The Stack of Stuff is updated in real time with specific things I got to, and also any things I intended to get to but didn’t have time: The Holdover Stack. If I don’t talk about it, you don’t need to know about it.
read moreRush’s Famous Quotes
"Folks, it's safe to say in 30 years of doing this program there has never been a month of December like this. There has never been a Christmas season like this, and there has never been a Christmas Eve like this, with this much important news going on. And I was fretting all weekend that I was gonna miss today."
"I'm not gonna let any government shutdown keep me out of here and I'm not gonna let the EIB Network be closed if I want to be here."
"Depending on the day, depending on the issue, I'm the titular head of the Republican Party, conservative movement, and the next, 'Ah, he's just an entertainer.'"
"I have a lot of emails, by the way, 'I wish you were running the country.' Which I , of course, understand. But it's not the case."
"The effort to destroy President Trump is in full swing. It's being waged on many different fronts. It has eventuated now that many in the Drive-By Media think it is a foregone conclusion, it's just a matter of time now."
"Chris Matthews said, 'There's some guy in a golf shirt down in Palm Beach telling the president what to do. This is crazy.'"
"The government has been shut for three or four days. How many of you are suffering in pain that you cannot deal with because of this? How many of your lives have been temporarily ruined or destroyed because your government shut down? Zilch, zero, nada."
"The president got word to me that the news stories we all had that said he was gonna sign this continuing resolution were not true. He wasn't. It wasn't that anybody had changed his mind."
"The Drive-Bys are trying to tell you that I changed the president's mind on signing this continuing resolution. The real truth is that there are people in his administration trying to get him to sign this thing with no deal for him."
"There are all kinds of departments and bureaucracies and areas of the executive branch with unspent money, and Trump can go get whatever he needs from any of those different departments and allocate it, and he can get started building the wall."
"If the president believes that open borders are resulting in the infiltration of the country by all kinds of undesirables -- including terrorists and gangs and whatever -- then he is perfectly within his rights to go get money already allocated to the executive branch and build the wall."
"What do you think the Donald Trump of the campaign would be doing right now? I think he would already have amassed a pile of money, unused, from other areas of the executive branch and the various budgets. And I think that he would have already started on the process of building the wall and the Democrats and the media would be going absolutely bonkers."
"Dick Turban said that all we need is technology along the border like drones instead of some medieval wall. This is such caca. You will find walls around every important business or every important wealthy person's estate, because they do work."
"I think it's time to illustrate that the Democrats are acting like a bunch of spoiled brat little kids when it comes to an issue of national security and prosperity and the rule of law."
"You're gonna get polling data that backs up the Democrats during every controversial issue there is. You're gonna get polling data that shows Republicans are in the minority on everything. Ignore it!"
"Rush, are you sure that Trump can go get unspent federal dollars somewhere and allocate it to whatever he wants?' Let me ask you all a question: Where did Barack Hussein O get his $150 billion to drop on the tarmac at Tehran International Airport in the midst of the Iran deal negotiations?"
"It's the Democrats willing to damage the country rather than support the president. It's the Democrats willing to put the country in great peril because they are refusing to shore up the border. It needs to be demonstrated. And to me this is a golden opportunity."
"I love being here on Christmas Eve. You know, one little three hour dose of normalcy while everybody else is immersed in the holiday stuff, which is great too. But thank you so much for being here. I hope everybody has a great rest of the day, night and day tomorrow, and back next year, depending on what might happen."
"Merry Christmas from some guy in a golf shirt down in Palm Beach. Thank you, Chris Matthews, for that characterization as the guy actually running the country."
