RUSH: I got a lot of e-mails today after the president's press conference, his opening remarks on immigration. One of those e-mails stood out, they were all of the same variety, had the same theme. "Rush, you know, I can't dislike the president on this." I got a lot of those that say they do, but the ones that intrigued me, "I just can't dislike the president. He seems to really believe that this is the right thing for the country and the right thing to do, and it's hard for me to work up any...

RUSH: We go to Philadelphia. Steve, you're up. Nice to have you here.CALLER: Hey, Rush. Pleasure to speak to you, sir.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I'm actually for this immigration bill. At first I was against it but thinking about it, I'm for it for two reasons. I think if the Republicans don't pass it, and we get a Democrat president next time around, and they pass the immigration bill, the Republicans are going to pay for it because the Hispanic people will remember who made them citizens,...

RUSH: I got a great e-mail after yesterday's brilliant monologue performed by me on the free market that exists in gasoline and oil. It's Robert Davis. "Dear Rush: Listening to your caller yesterday who claimed that there is no free market in the oil industry reminded me once again how many economic ignoramuses there are in this world. I found myself wishing that you would challenge the caller to a homework assignment. Ask him to study chapter two of Thomas Sowell's book 'Basic Economics: A...

RUSH: You might have missed this. Bob Shrum's got a new book out, and it's just a soap opera about the Democrat Party. He ran Kerry's losing campaign. He hasn't run a winning Democrat campaign ever. His memoir, as it's titled, "No Excuses: Confessions of a Serial Campaigner." And he's dumping all over John Edwards in this book, and one of the excerpts that I've read, Shrum recalls asking the Breck Girl at the outset of the 2004 presidential campaign, "What is your position, Mr. Edwards, on gay...

RUSH: Let's talk about Barack Obama. Here we go again. This time the story is in the Chicago Tribune. I have lost count now how many stories there have been in the liberal Drive-By Media oriented around the subject: "Is Obama black enough?" This one tackles the subject from a different direction: "Is he too black?" I can't help but laugh. These people who think they're conducting a serious investigation of the effect, impact of Barack Obama and the problems he's going to have? If the people...

RUSH: We go to Philadelphia. Steve, you're up. Nice to have you here.CALLER: Hey, Rush. Pleasure to speak to you, sir.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I'm actually for this immigration bill. At first I was against it but thinking about it, I'm for it for two reasons. I think if the Republicans don't pass it, and we get a Democrat president next time around, and they pass the immigration bill, the Republicans are going to pay for it because the Hispanic people will remember who made them citizens,...

RUSH: We go to Philadelphia. Steve, you're up. Nice to have you here.CALLER: Hey, Rush. Pleasure to speak to you, sir.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I'm actually for this immigration bill. At first I was against it but thinking about it, I'm for it for two reasons. I think if the Republicans don't pass it, and we get a Democrat president next time around, and they pass the immigration bill, the Republicans are going to pay for it because the Hispanic people will remember who made them citizens,...

RUSH: We go to Philadelphia. Steve, you're up. Nice to have you here.CALLER: Hey, Rush. Pleasure to speak to you, sir.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I'm actually for this immigration bill. At first I was against it but thinking about it, I'm for it for two reasons. I think if the Republicans don't pass it, and we get a Democrat president next time around, and they pass the immigration bill, the Republicans are going to pay for it because the Hispanic people will remember who made them citizens,...

RUSH: We go to Philadelphia. Steve, you're up. Nice to have you here.CALLER: Hey, Rush. Pleasure to speak to you, sir.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I'm actually for this immigration bill. At first I was against it but thinking about it, I'm for it for two reasons. I think if the Republicans don't pass it, and we get a Democrat president next time around, and they pass the immigration bill, the Republicans are going to pay for it because the Hispanic people will remember who made them citizens,...

RUSH: You might have missed this. Bob Shrum's got a new book out, and it's just a soap opera about the Democrat Party. He ran Kerry's losing campaign. He hasn't run a winning Democrat campaign ever. His memoir, as it's titled, "No Excuses: Confessions of a Serial Campaigner." And he's dumping all over John Edwards in this book, and one of the excerpts that I've read, Shrum recalls asking the Breck Girl at the outset of the 2004 presidential campaign, "What is your position, Mr. Edwards, on gay...

RUSH: All right, the gasoline price. Today on CNN's American Morning, the cohost John Roberts was interviewing Lynn Westfall, who is the chief economist at the Tesoro Corporation. Roberts says, "As we try to get to the bottom of why gasoline prices are so high in this country, critics are pointing fingers at the refining industry," which is this guy's industry, "saying that you people are the ones responsible because the price of a barrel of oil isn't as high as it was a couple years ago when...

RUSH: I got a great e-mail after yesterday's brilliant monologue performed by me on the free market that exists in gasoline and oil. It's Robert Davis. "Dear Rush: Listening to your caller yesterday who claimed that there is no free market in the oil industry reminded me once again how many economic ignoramuses there are in this world. I found myself wishing that you would challenge the caller to a homework assignment. Ask him to study chapter two of Thomas Sowell's book 'Basic Economics: A...

RUSH: Marilyn in Salem, Oregon, that you get. Welcome to the show.CALLER: Thank you for taking my call.RUSH: Yes, ma'am.CALLER: And I'll get right to my question. I would like your view on the idea that maybe it would further embolden terrorists in Islamic countries if Hillary, heaven forbid, became president. And also, would she get her choice of burqa colors?RUSH: (Laughing.) Black. I get this question a lot. 'Hey, Rush, we got this problem we face out there in the Middle East, and these...

RUSH: Let's talk about Barack Obama. Here we go again. This time the story is in the Chicago Tribune. I have lost count now how many stories there have been in the liberal Drive-By Media oriented around the subject: "Is Obama black enough?" This one tackles the subject from a different direction: "Is he too black?" I can't help but laugh. These people who think they're conducting a serious investigation of the effect, impact of Barack Obama and the problems he's going to have? If the people...

RUSH: I'm struck. I want to go back to what the commerce secretary, Carlos Gutierrez, said. He was marveling over the fact that such a deal, the immigrants are coming in for free, we don't have to pay them to come in. That's not true. That is erroneous. If they were coming in for free, there wouldn't be as many complaints about this. Our forefathers came here for free. They came here for nothing but hope and opportunity. But the problem is that many of these people entering the country...

RUSH: Let's go to Crestwood, Missouri, outside St. Louis, and Martha, great to have you here. I love that name, by the way, Martha one of my top 50 favorite female names.CALLER: (Laughing) Top 50.RUSH: Actually, it's in the top ten.CALLER: Well, I would hope so. (Laughing.) Listen, I'm calling about the monologue you gave yesterday which was brilliant and --RUSH: Which one? They all are. I'm trying to remember, which one are you talking about?CALLER: Oh, one of the many, the one that really...

RUSH: I got a lot of e-mails today after the president's press conference, his opening remarks on immigration. One of those e-mails stood out, they were all of the same variety, had the same theme. "Rush, you know, I can't dislike the president on this." I got a lot of those that say they do, but the ones that intrigued me, "I just can't dislike the president. He seems to really believe that this is the right thing for the country and the right thing to do, and it's hard for me to work up any...

RUSH: Let's go to the president's press conference. The first question I want to play for you is from David Gregory, who I have a new nickname for: Brave Dave. Here is the question from David Gregory. It's about Iraq, that happened mere moments ago at a Rose Garden press conference.GREGORY: Mr. President, after the -- mistakes that have been made in this war, when you do as you did yesterday, when you raised two-year-old intelligence talking about the threat posed by Al-Qaeda, it's met with...

RUSH: Mrs. Clinton, a staffer, puts out a memo that was unsolicited they all say, that she ought to just bypass Iowa because she's not doing well in Iowa, and Hillary says, "I'm not going to by pass Iowa. I'm going to be in there all weekend." Anyway, the point of this is that the inevitability of Mrs. Clinton's candidacy is starting to be felt now in real terms. She's polling very poorly in Iowa, and you don't want to go in there and lose. That's what happened to Howard Dean if you recall and...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"We can put a man on the moon,we can play romantic, classical music for sharks, but we can't find 12 million illegals?" "I love that name, by the way: Martha. It's one of my top 50 favorite female names. Well, actually, it's in the top ten.""The Breck Girl saying that the war on terror is nothing more than 'a bumper sticker slogan' scares me. The United States is a great nation at great risk in a dangerous world, and if we elect...

Story #1: Mood Music Played to Make Sharks Mate RUSH: We have more shark news here today. Now, given the news yesterday, that female sharks can fertilize themselves, this next story is a bit puzzling. "Scientists desperate for reluctant sharks to mate plan to pipe the romantic music of Mozart, Beethoven and Puccini into their north-west England aquarium tank." What, Mr. Snerdley? How can you call this Mozart, Beethoven and Puccini porn? This is not shark porn. This is romance! "Display supervisor...