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If you're a welfare recipient just getting up, and you may have missed the first hour of the program, once again, we're talking about the judicial nomination harangue going on in the Senate. Roll Call magazine is suggesting that Trent Lott, Republican, Ben Nelson, Democrat, are approaching six senators from each of their respective parties with a deal and the upshot of the deal is that the Democrats would get what they want. They get to cream three of the seven current nominees, the other four would be given floor votes and future nominees would not be filibustered unless a...

RUSH: Former President Bill Clinton and Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee today announced the launch of a ten-year initiative to combat childhood obesity; they call it a national epidemic. This is what Clinton said about it today. CLINTON: I think having a lot of support and having easy options and also having parents and school officials regard guide their eating habits. I think the system is now rigged to aggravate obesity, and a lot of school diets and vending machines and the quality and the kinds of food offered in eating establishments, particularly in fast food establishments, we have to change...

What is Hillary going to do? Hillary tried with her renowned national health care program, womb-to-the-tomb health care, that bombed out so she needs a new program, while Clinton is out there fighting childhood obesity. I found a story in the New York Times, right up Hillary's alley, she could fight childhood ugliness. The headline in the New York Times: Ugly Children May Get Parental Short Shrift. Well, this is made to order for Hillary because if you're going to go out there and fight childhood obesity, you've got to actually blame the parents and you've got to get on...

RUSH: I got an e-mail here. I was just trolling the accounts during the top-of-the-hour break. "Dear Rush..." This from a subscriber at RushLimbaugh.com. "How can you say we're winning? Tom DeLay is likely to be forced to resign while McDermott will go free. Bolton will not be confirmed. Bush will never get the ten judges because the weak-spined Republicans will never, ever invoke the constitutional option. The newspapers and media are still as liberal, as always, still exert more influence than you and all the conservatives combined. You guys have helped but the common belief is that you guys...

I know a number of you would like to have an update on our Cure-A-Thon last Friday. We set a record. You people came through. I cannot thank you enough. We set an all-time record. Just as of the close of business on Sunday, the whole weekend, we raised a grand total of over a million dollars, a million sixty-two thousand dollars in three hours on Friday. If you add up the total time in those three hours that we were talking about our Cure-A-Thon, we maybe totaled an hour of the three. You folks are amazing out there, simply...

John Kerry -- who, as I recall, served in Vietnam, and in his life ran for president -- yesterday "yesterday attacked Republicans for having an 'orthodoxy of view' and overly inserting religion into politics, accusing them of using God as a justification for appointing conservative judges." Now, I have sat here and I have said until I'm blue in the face that the Democrats are doing everything they can to keep people of faith off the bench. They don't want religious people as judges. They just don't, and you know why: Because they're afraid of them. They're afraid of their...

RUSH: We have microphones in the Vatican. Let's JIP it. CARDINAL / TRANSLATOR: My dearest brothers and sisters. (cheers) My dearest brothers and sisters. (cheers) My dearest brothers and sisters. RUSH: He's speaking in a bunch of different languages, for those of you in Rio Linda. There's nothing wrong here. CARDINAL: I announce to you a great joy. (cheers) We have a pope! (cheers) The most eminent and most reverent Lord Joseph (chimes) of the holy Roman Catholic church, Cardinal Ratzinger! (roars) RUSH: So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen. From Germany, the new pope is Joseph Ratzinger. He...

This is a New York Times story. "As the Senate heads toward a showdown over the rules governing judicial confirmation, Senator Bill Frist, the majority leader has agreed to join a handful of prominent Christian conservatives in a telecast portraying Democrats as against people of faith for blocking President Bush's nominees. Flyers for the telecast, which have been organized by the Family Research Council and scheduled to originate at a Kentucky Mega Church on the evening of April 24th call the day 'Justice Sunday,' and depict a young man holding a Bible in one hand and a gavel in the...

RUSH: All right, we're going to go to the audio sound bites because at NBC's Today Show, very troubled are they that Jimmy Carter...Can I ask, before I play this audio, just a simple question? Why in the world should George W. Bush take Jimmy Carter anywhere? Why in the world should George W. Bush extend courtesies to Jimmy Carter? Jimmy Carter has his Nobel Peace Prize that he's coveted his whole life for one reason, because he spent a whole year going around the world trashing George W. Bush, his administration; trashed him personally and trashed our foreign policy....

RUSH: We are joined for the next few minutes by the vice president of the United States, Dick Cheney. Mr. Vice President, as always, it's a thrill to have you with us today, sir. VICE PRESIDENT CHENEY: Well, good afternoon, Rush. RUSH: All right. Social Security. That's one of the things that I wanted to ask you about here today, and I'm sensing that there's some trepidation on the Democrat Party side that they're just doing nothing but obstructing and you can see some, I think, preliminary cracks among the Democrats. The main thing I want to focus on with...

"John Bolton is "tough-talking undersecretary of state." He has "often ignited controversy in his dealings with foreign countries," and so President Bush yesterday nominated him "to be the US ambassador to the United Nations and will replace John Danforth." Bolton is a tough talker. He's right out of the Jeanne Kirkpatrick school. She was ambassador to the United Nations during part of the Reagan presidency. I remember hearing her speak once, it was at UC Davis. I snuck in there because I was not a student but I snuck in there, and I'll never forget. She said: "The only difference...

I watched yesterday's hearings, Condoleezza Rice, last week, a couple weeks ago, whenever it was, Alberto Gonzales, and I came away with two conclusions. Number 1, the Democrats on the judiciary committee over there, Patrick Leahy and the boys, seem more interested in defending the rights of Al-Qaeda and Taliban terrorists than they do defending this country. And I watch Condoleezza Rice, and I'm listening to their guys go on and on and on, Barbara Boxer and John Kerry questioning her, and I don't hear one bit of news, not a shred of evidence from these people what they would...