RUSH: I want to take a stab one more time here at this philosophy that I have of the court, because a lot of people continue to ask me, both in the e-mail and we've had some phone calls, "What do you want this fight for? Who needs a fight? That's not going to accomplish anything! What do you need a fight for?" By the way, I'm grateful for all these questions, because it gives me an opportunity to explain it again, and I will take as long as I need to try to make myself clear. It's one of the beauties...

RUSH: I have received some e-mails from some of you great members in my audience, and if you were here yesterday you heard some of the phone calls from people, "You know, Rush, you're usually the one that's all optimistic. You're usually the one that's telling us don't get all down in the dumps and don't anticipate the worst, and it's not like you to go pessimistic on this." I was thinking about this last night after the interview because there are always things in an interview you wish you had...

RUSH: Charleston, South Carolina. This is Ben, who told the call screener he is a liberal. It's great to have you with us, sir.
CALLER: It's good to talk to you, at least. I just wanted to say that the same people that say that we can look to the Constitution, things like this, this 300-[sic]-year-old document, are the same -- and answer all modern-day questions you could possibly have, as far as this country is concerned, it's the same kinds of people that said you can look to the Bible...

RUSH: There are just a few more things that I want to address you on regarding the nomination of Harriet Miers to be an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, and we can couple this with this fun little exercise that I want to present to you today to help illustrate a point. Now, the Supreme Court this morning heard oral arguments in a big case. This is a case about the assisted suicide law in the state of Oregon. The people of Oregon have twice voted by pretty substantial margins...

RUSH: Let me give you a couple of interesting stories from foreign countries, shall I say. The first one is from the Netherlands. Now, for those of you from Rio Linda, that's the Dutch, the people with the wooden shoes and fingers in the dike. The Netherlands, if you remember, they "led the way" in making same-sex marriages legal. They were the forerunners there. They were the pioneers taking the arrows, so to speak. They were the virgins in this idea of same-sex marriage and the idea as you...

RUSH: Gregg in Clearwater, Florida. It's great to have you on the program. Welcome.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. It's a pleasure speaking with you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I called today to, um, to express my opinion, uh, on this doctor-assisted suicide. Uh, I think that more dying patients are afraid of pain than they are afraid of death, and I think it's really, a cop-out by the medical community to in essence ignore their pain until they become depressed, and suicidal, and then instead...

RUSH: I want to take a stab one more time here at this philosophy that I have of the court, because a lot of people continue to ask me, both in the e-mail and we've had some phone calls, "What do you want this fight for? Who needs a fight? That's not going to accomplish anything! What do you need a fight for?" By the way, I'm grateful for all these questions, because it gives me an opportunity to explain it again, and I will take as long as I need to try to make myself clear. It's one of the beauties...

RUSH: I have received some e-mails from some of you great members in my audience, and if you were here yesterday you heard some of the phone calls from people, "You know, Rush, you're usually the one that's all optimistic. You're usually the one that's telling us don't get all down in the dumps and don't anticipate the worst, and it's not like you to go pessimistic on this." I was thinking about this last night after the interview because there are always things in an interview you wish you had...

RUSH: Charleston, South Carolina. This is Ben, who told the call screener he is a liberal. It's great to have you with us, sir.
CALLER: It's good to talk to you, at least. I just wanted to say that the same people that say that we can look to the Constitution, things like this, this 300-[sic]-year-old document, are the same -- and answer all modern-day questions you could possibly have, as far as this country is concerned, it's the same kinds of people that said you can look to the Bible...

RUSH: There are just a few more things that I want to address you on regarding the nomination of Harriet Miers to be an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, and we can couple this with this fun little exercise that I want to present to you today to help illustrate a point. Now, the Supreme Court this morning heard oral arguments in a big case. This is a case about the assisted suicide law in the state of Oregon. The people of Oregon have twice voted by pretty substantial margins...

RUSH: Let me give you a couple of interesting stories from foreign countries, shall I say. The first one is from the Netherlands. Now, for those of you from Rio Linda, that's the Dutch, the people with the wooden shoes and fingers in the dike. The Netherlands, if you remember, they "led the way" in making same-sex marriages legal. They were the forerunners there. They were the pioneers taking the arrows, so to speak. They were the virgins in this idea of same-sex marriage and the idea as you...

RUSH: Gregg in Clearwater, Florida. It's great to have you on the program. Welcome.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. It's a pleasure speaking with you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I called today to, um, to express my opinion, uh, on this doctor-assisted suicide. Uh, I think that more dying patients are afraid of pain than they are afraid of death, and I think it's really, a cop-out by the medical community to in essence ignore their pain until they become depressed, and suicidal, and then instead...