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"Rush never misses an opportunity to bash the President."

That's simply not true, OldFriend...Rush continues to be a major supporter of Dubyuh, just not his willingness to coopt the Left's agenda. This is what I just pulled from Rush's website...

"President Bush has dismissed the EPA report on global warming "put out by the bureaucracy." That's a key word, "bureaucracy." It's a telling way to refer to the Environmental Protection Agency. This report blind-sided the White House, folks. This wasn't supposed to happen. With all that's going on, this is not a front burner issue to them right now and somebody made it one. We may never know who did it, but if heads roll, don't be surprised. Christie Todd Whitman runs the EPA. It's a cabinet-level department. If the president isn't responsible for the administration's position, then who is? This is a legitimate question because this whole thing was reported, not as "the EPA says," but rather as, "the Bush administration says." And now the president himself, the head of the Bush administration, is dismissing the EPA report. So who put it out? Did some low-level bureaucrat do it on his or her own? What about Christie Todd Whitman? Did she release the report? Folks, if this is a screw-up, then someone needs to be held responsible, because this report received an enormous amount of press and that's not by accident. Somebody put this out, because this report was sent out last week under the cover of darkness. Nobody knew about it. All of a sudden, the EPA puts it on its website, and lo and behold, the New York Times picks it up, runs with it, and the fracas that resulted ensues. These are interesting questions - so we'll have to see if we eventually get answers, but we're left to believe here that this is a bureaucratic screw-up that somebody tried to sneak past everyone and into reality. Regardless, the president did the right thing by dismissing it."

Now, if Rush hadn't said anything, would Dubyuh have felt the need to distance himself from this Socialist report?! I have my doubts, and believe Limbaugh's attention to the matter alerted Bush to something he doesn't believe in being released as Bush Administration policy. This is what I call CONSTRUCTIVE Criticism and its invaluable, IMHO...deep down, I think Dubyuh appreciates this sort of comment much more than the sycophancy we see all too much of on this supposedly-Conservative Forum.

FReegards...MUD

There was no doubt in my mind that Rush was going to take credit for the President's dismissal of the EPA report. Rush is a political force in his own mind......since I didn't have a world of respect for his intellectual prowess in the first place I am not surprised at his bloviating.

You and I will have to disagree when it comes to Rush.

If Rush was such a fan of Bush-why would he have called him George W. Algore? And made Bush into a cartoonish buffoon on his website? The only one who blew this whole thing out of proportion,was Rush. If Rush truly cared for Bush, why didn't he call the WH first? A humble person,someone who had feelings for Bush, would have given them a heads up, behind the scenes and allowed Bush to be the one to make the first remarks on the report.Fred Barnes last night, read excerpts from the report and Rush totally,completely misled his audience. It was a shabby publicity stunt.