RUSH: Let me tell you about Missouri. There is a couple that alone has spent $28 million on advertising to get Amendment 2 ratified and passed by the citizens of Missoura -- Missouri -- Missoura -- Missouri. Twenty-eight million dollars. Now, some people are wondering, "Twenty-eight million dollars by two people to get an amendment to the Constitution passed?" So there are people beginning to wonder, "Do people have a financial interest in this?" I've always said, "Follow the money, and you...

RUSH: Ben Cardin and Michael Steele. Michael Steele is running a new ad in Maryland. As one of the posters at the Power Line blog reports today, "I'm pretty confident Michael Steele is going to beat Ben Cardin in Maryland's Senate race in part because Cardin keeps shooting himself in the foot. He's now running one of those disgraceful Michael J. Fox embryonic stem cell research ads which misrepresents Steele's position on the issue, as well as President Bush's." Now, we don't have the audio...

RUSH: So I took a little break here at the top of the hour, and I was walking around the broadcast complex here, and on the way back in to the broadcast studio, I asked the staff on the other side of the glass there, "Do you think I've hit the Michael J. Fox thing hard enough today?" and they always get queasy when I ask them for their assessment of daily performance. They don't want to disagree with the boss. They're not suck-ups, but nobody said anything -- and I knew what that meant. So I...