This Is Not What I Thought the Job Would Be Like After 30 Years
RUSH: If you would have told me that what has happened to me was gonna happen to me 30 years ago — I'm now 65 or 66 — you know what I would have told you? "Well, I'll be working three days a week, flitting around doing this or that. Nothing left to prove." And it's the exact opposite. I have to tell you, folks, attitudinally — and the staff will tell you — it's the opposite of phoning it in. I am more intense about things here every day than ever.
Confirmation Hearing for FBI Director Has Anti-Trump Undertone
RUSH: "Why do you want this job? Why do you want to work for this schlub Trump? Why do you even want the job?"
K Street Lobbyists and Republicans Are Preserving Obamacare
RUSH: By the way, folks, while all of this is going on [with Donald Trump Jr.], the health care bill status over in the Senate's looking very, very bad.
Tom Hazlett’s New Book: The Political Spectrum
RUSH: His book is called The Political Spectrum, and it's written for average, ordinary Americans. It's not in economic legalese. It's a story about how regulation and Washington politics are hurting technology and innovation.
Rush 24/7 Stack of Stuff
RUSH: No longer is this just gonna be a long list of stories that I might mention on the program. Now, you will get specifically the stories that I talk about on the program and a select list of a few others that I intended to get to but ran out of time. It's going to be more of a real-time base feature rather than just a generic list of places that I go to prep the show.
Rush 24/7 Morning Update: Watch the Fight
RUSH: The Politico is reporting tensions between moderates and liberals in California have plunged the Democrat Party into a "civil war."
The Silent Coup Against Trump Is Based on No Evidence
RUSH: There has been an effort, silent, meaning nobody is actually expressing this desire verbally. Nobody is saying this is what's going on. But there is a coup underway, being led by the media with accomplices in the Democrat Party and a number of international players to reject the outcome of the election, to undermine the presidency of Donald Trump, and, if the wish list were realized, to get rid of him.
Rush 24/7 Morning Update: Blame Bernie
RUSH: You angry Democrats want to finally get even with someone for Trump’s victory? Blame Bernie! Chase him out of office! We'd all be better off.
Democrat Lies, Left-Wing Hate and Moderate Republicans Stand in the Way of Repealing the Obamacare Disaster
SANDERS: What experts at the Harvard School of Public Health estimate is that if 23 million Americans were to be thrown off the insurance they currently have, which is what the House bill would do, up to 28,000 Americans every single year could die. That is nine times more than the tragic losses we suffered on 9/11 every single year.
Trump’s Defense of Western Civilization Is Resonating
RUSH: We've been talking about the sheer hatred and panic that Trump's speech was greeted with by people on the left who despise American culture. And I ran into a very, very good piece about American civilization, Western civilization over on Townhall by Kurt Schlichter, and I want to share it with you.
Donald Trump Jr. Is an Ideological Conservative in a Way His Father Is Not (So the Left Must Destroy Him)
RUSH: Folks, he is what his dad isn’t in that he is an ideological conservative — and if you’ve heard him speak, he’s got it down. He knows his stuff — and he can sell it and he can be persuasive with it — and he is the exact kind of conservative they want to destroy before he gets started, especially given that they don’t have a bench of their own. That is an added reason for all this energy in destroying Donald Trump Jr.
Hillary Colluded with Ukraine Against Trump, Sold Russia U.S. Uranium, and Rigged the Election Against Crazy Bernie
RUSH: Hillary Clinton facilitated the sale of, what, 75% of our uranium stocks to Ukraine all in exchange for money to the Clinton Foundation. If there was an election that was rigged, it was the Democrat primaries. And if there was any collusion, it was between Hillary Clinton and Debbie "Blabbermouth" Schultz.
Russia News Coverage: We’re Watching People Lose Their Minds
RUSH: This babe calls Trump Jr. under a false premise, claiming she’s got dope on Hillary Clinton, and they take the meeting ’cause who wouldn’t want to get oppo research on your opponent? … Nothing changed because of the meeting. Not a single thing changed!
Viagra and Cialis Pull Out of NFL
RUSH: Now, these two products, you'd be amazed. They're targeted at not just men; they're targeted at women, too. Big time. And if they're pulling out — well, if they're pulling out of the NFL, this could be just a little, minor — not minor — small indication of a possible trend. Advertising tells us much about our culture.
Rush 24/7 Stack of Stuff
RUSH: No longer is this just gonna be a long list of stories that I might mention on the program. Now, you will get specifically the stories that I talk about on the program and a select list of a few others that I intended to get to but ran out of time. It's going to be more of a real-time base feature rather than just a generic list of places that I go to prep the show.
Rush 24/7 Morning Update: Single Payer
RUSH: Single payer can continue to gain traction among Democrats, but if the day ever comes that it becomes law, you can forget the American economy as you know it. It's over.
Exclusive: Vice President Mike Pence Calls the Show
RUSH: Vice President Mike Pence. Folks, it's time to start sending faxes and emails and making phone calls. Is that what you got? Well, some people wonder if that still works anymore. Some people don't think it does. It depends on the circumstances, but I believe it does work.
Ivanka Attacked for Attending Follow-Up Meeting on Women Entrepreneurs
RUSH: Before they had the G20 last week, they had the Women20 summit as a precedent, and it was — let's see, sometime this spring. And Ivanka was there. She attended on behalf of the administration. It is one of her pet causes!
Keep a Sharp Eye on Charges Comey Leaked Classified Info
RUSH: Yeah, you could say that Comey is trafficking in classified information and wasn't aware of it, but it's not been formally stated so yet. It's a fine point. I don't know if it will be formally stated. Talking about more than half of the memos that he made regarding his conversations with President-Elect Trump and then after he was elected, President Trump after he was inaugurated.
The GOP Is Squandering a Huge Chance to Govern While Democrats Implode
RUSH: The Democrat Party is in a suicide mode. And I'm trying to document just how out of the mainstream they are and further from it they are getting to the point that the people responsible for electing Bill Clinton twice are taking notice. It's a golden opportunity that, to me, is being squandered. We have no reason to be deferring to these Democrats at all. We have nothing in common with them. Or shouldn't.