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RUSH: And what time is it and what day is it? Tuesday, it\u2019s show time. It\u2019s only Tuesday, okay. It\u2019s only Tuesday. Yes, greetings, my friends, music lovers, thrill-seekers, conversationalists, I am acknowledged national treasure Rush Limbaugh, hosting a real radio program here from behind the Golden EIB Microphone. Three hours of broadcast excellence straight ahead, and of course we\u2019re looking forward to talking to you. Telephone number is 800-282-2882. e-mail, I do check that during profit center time-outs, e-mail address, Rush@eibnet.com. <\/p>\n

So my brother and his wife and their five crumb crunchers are in town all week. I brought them back with me from Missouri on Sunday. It\u2019s great having them in the house. I mean, they\u2019re all over the property. They\u2019re staying in their own place down the sidewalk, but they come over, they want to hang around Uncle Rush. So last night, it\u2019s 11:30, 11:45, and they come pouring into the library, ‘Uncle Rush! Uncle Rush! Can we watch a movie and have some popcorn?\u2019 Oh jeez. ‘Sure! It\u2019s 11:45, lets fire up the popcorn machine. What do you want to watch?\u2019 So I went through the disc selection. I found that commie lib penguin movie ‘Happy Feet,\u2019 because there\u2019s a three-year-old in the group. We can\u2019t watch The Sopranos. I still haven\u2019t seen the Sopranos! (Laughing) I still haven\u2019t seen Sunday night\u2019s Sopranos. Now, it\u2019s not like I send \u2019em in there and say, ‘Okay, kids, when it\u2019s over turn off the lights.\u2019 The media room is set up, if you don\u2019t — because it\u2019s a Blu-ray player, got an HD DVD and I had to add them to my system and they don\u2019t coordinate well because they\u2019re brand-new machines. They don\u2019t mix with the scaler real well, and it took a real jury rig to get them worked in there. So if you\u2019re gonna use the Blu-ray or the HD DVD, you gotta turn things on in the right order. You gotta put the disc in at the right time, and you shut down the same way. So I had to wait until Happy Feet was over. I think I strolled upstairs about 2:15. It\u2019s great having them in there. It\u2019s fun. They\u2019re having a great time, but I tell you, it was a late night. I got a lot of show prep done. <\/p>\n

For example, there\u2019s a story<\/a> today, Kim Gandy of the NAGs, the National Association of Gals, blaming me for spousal abuse. I\u2019ll give you details as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears. I don\u2019t know how it\u2019s possible she blames me for spousal abuse, predatory male behavior, and she says what really worries her is that there are a lot of progressives out there that she knows — i.e., liberals — who, if you listen to them speak, why, you might think you\u2019re listening to me. I think it\u2019s a totally deranged piece. You just wait for the details, and I\u2019ll give you all of the details. President Bush, either as we speak<\/a> or soon, up on Capitol Hill to meet with GOP senators to try to revive the amnesty bill. I probably will get blamed in that meeting for — (laughing) — so this is my day. (Laughing.) And Dingy Harry, the guy who actually runs the Senate, says he can only get 38 votes. He\u2019s got 51 Democrats in the Senate. He can only get 38 of them. It\u2019s up to Bush to get these 22 other votes and if they\u2019re going to get these 22 other votes there\u2019s going to have to be some compromise in there that Ted Kennedy might not like — well, we\u2019ll talk about all that<\/a>. <\/p>\n

You heard everybody\u2019s going nuts here about this latest poll? It\u2019s a Los Angeles Times\/Bloomberg poll that has Fred Thompson, who hasn\u2019t even announced, in second place now, 27 for Giuliani, 21 for Fred Thompson. McCain, to nobody\u2019s surprise, is slipping. And Romney — let\u2019s see, well, I\u2019ll give you the details as the program unfolds. I\u2019m just going to give you highlights of what\u2019s happening. Congress\u2019 approval is the lowest in a decade. It\u2019s 27%. Congress approval is lower than President Bush. As we mentioned yesterday, Dingy Harry\u2019s personal approval is at 19%. Get this. <\/p>\n

From Evanston, Illinois, ‘U.S. medical scientists say they have discovered a drug that slows — and might even halt — the progression of Parkinson\u2019s disease. Northwestern University researchers, led by Professor D. James Surmeier, found the drug isradipine rejuvenates aging dopamine cells, whose death in the brain causes the symptoms of the disease.\u2019 This is from MonstersandCritics.com website, by the way. It\u2019s a UPI story. Drug may halt Parkinson\u2019s. This is great news because I thought only killing babies would do this. Well, that\u2019s what embryonic stem cells are, and apparently this is going to be — this is exciting stuff. We\u2019ll see what transpires here. <\/p>\n

Try this headline. This is from Marshalltown, Iowa. Listen to this headline: ‘Butts Charged With Stealing Toilet Paper\u2019 (Laughing.) I\u2019m not making it up. AP story. ‘Police blame a woman named Butts for stealing toilet paper from a central Iowa courthouse, and while they\u2019re chuckling, the theft charge could put her in prison. ‘She\u2019s facing potentially three years of incarceration for three rolls of toilet paper,\u2019 Chief Lon Walker said, stifling a laugh as he talked to KCCI-TV about Suzanne Marie Butts. ‘See, I can\u2019t say it with a straight face.\u2019 Workers had noticed the rolls disappearing from the Marshall County Courthouse much faster than usual, Walker said. Butts, 38, was caught last week after an employee saw her taking three rolls of two-ply tissue from a storage closet, Walker said.\u2019 Well, she had to leave a paper trail. That\u2019s how they caught her. It\u2019s like Jackie Gleason in Smoky and the Bandit, goes in the bathroom in the diner and the toilet paper is attached to the back pocket or something and is walking out. Three years. No ifs, ands, or buts about it for stealing three rolls of toilet paper. What do you bet Sheryl Crow is involved in this somehow? I mean, not directly, but if you\u2019re going to blame me for spousal abuse, you blame Sheryl Crow for toilet paper theft from a courthouse, of all places, to get caught stealing toilet paper. <\/p>\n

Anyway, environmental website, the Toyota Prius has become the flagship car for those in our society so environmentally conscious that they are willing to spend a premium to show the world how much they care. Unfortunately for them, unfortunately for you Prius buyers, your ultimate green car is the source of some of the worst pollution in North America. Yes! I love this story. I love it when these do-gooders, these little social little things that are concerned about, they\u2019re not making a difference with whatever they do, I love it when they find out that what they\u2019re doing is — because (doing lib impression) ‘I want to make a difference.\u2019 Well, you are making a difference. You\u2019re polluting the planet, more than a Hummer! This thing, it takes more combined energy per Prius to produce than it does a Hummer. ‘The Prius is powered by not one, but two engines, a standard 76-horsepower, one and a half liter gas engine, just like those found in most cars today, and a battery powered engine that deals out 67 horsepower and a whopping 295 foot pounds of torque below 2,000 revolutions per minute.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Anyway, the story, we\u2019ll have details<\/a> as the program unfolds. It talks about how much it costs to build one of these things, the nickel, the battery and all this that goes into it. It costs more to produce one of these things than a Hummer. Don\u2019t you just love that? I absolutely do. All right, let\u2019s take a quick break. We\u2019ll come back and talk about all the political news that\u2019s out there. We found, by the way — well, I had a friend send me a blurb from YouTube yesterday of Algore back in 1992<\/a> ripping George Bush 41 over the coals because of his Iraq policy. You know what Gore\u2019s complaint was? That Bush 41 wasn\u2019t taking Saddam\u2019s terrorist ties seriously enough, nor his weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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