RUSH: Carrie in Grantville, Georgia, I'm glad you waited. Welcome to our program.CALLER: Hi, Rush.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: Hey, can I first say that you are a recognized figure over SpongeBob in our household?RUSH: Really?CALLER: Yeah, we really appreciate that. I also share your humor on the global warming and the Lotto ticket holder.RUSH: Thank you. Thank you very much. I'm a little confused. Did you say I'm a recognized figure over SpongeBob?CALLER: Oh, yes, you are.RUSH: SpongeBob?CALLER:...

RUSH: Here's James in the Bronx. Nice to have you sir on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Rush, a pleasure to meet you. Mega dittos from a conservative lonely guy in the Bronx. I wanted to first of all say the debate last night, I thought was a complete joke, and I finally turned it off out of disgust. But the one point that they haven't mentioned is our economic progress and the tax situation in this country, that's really fueled our economy, and nobody has ever really mentioned it to the extent...

RUSH: Immigration, I mentioned, was one of the hotly contested issues at the top of the debate. I did remember calling for the immigration issue to become part of the presidential campaign and I have thus made it so by forcing the question to Mrs. Clinton. So last night, Anderson Cooper starts out, "Governor Romney, was New York a sanctuary city?" And Romney says, "Absolutely. It called itself a sanctuary city, and, as a matter of fact, when the welfare reform act that President Clinton brought...

RUSH: We do have Huckabee here on what a lot of people thought he won the thing last night, his sense of humor, his presence, his personality. "Governor Huckabee, 30 seconds: three programs that you would eliminate."HUCKABEE: Anderson, the first thing that I would get rid of would be the Internal Revenue Service. You get rid of the IRS, and that would account for most of the problems. Most people in this country are more afraid of an audit than they are a mugging, and there's a reason why.RUSH:...

RUSH: It was fascinating to me, as I said, to watch this because it hit me upside the head -- even though, as I say, I instinctively knew this -- that all of the top-tier candidates, because of these questions... See, there's always a silver lining in everything. There's always an upside. Some of you might not think of this as an upside or a silver lining, but the genuine moderate as opposed to conservative aspects of three of the top-tier, four of the top-tier candidates were on full-fledged display...

RUSH: "Nearly two-thirds of Americans do not trust press coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, according to a new Harvard University survey, which also revealed four out of five people believe coverage focuses too much on the trivial -- and more than 60% believe coverage is politically biased. The findings were among those in Harvard's Center for Public Leadership National Leadership Index." By the way -- sorry for interrupting myself here -- I got three e-mails after the program yesterday....

RUSH: Henry Hyde passed away. I met Henry Hyde a number of times and once socially at the Four Seasons hotel in Georgetown down in the private room. There were a bunch of us down there, Bill Bennett and Bill Kristol. It was a dinner in his honor for a couple things, the way he had always stood fast on the issue of life and the way he conducted the House managers during the impeachment of Bill Clinton. The way he presided over the impeachment hearings was masterful. He was faithful to history;...

Rush's Morning Update: No Warrant!November 30, 2007Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer You know, folks, I purposely waited a few days to see if this item would surface in any of the Democrat presidential campaigns, and it hasn't. On Monday, the Supreme Court refused-- without offering comment-- to take up a case involving government searcheswithout warrants.The case isSanchez vs. San Diego; was brought by the ACLU on behalf...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"This 'debate' was nothing more than a caricature of conservatives as racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes, and other clichd things.""Henry Hyde had a grand, grand sense of humor. He was just a tremendously gracious guy and loved an adult beverage and a cigar. He was articulate, he was compassionate, and sincere, and he's going to be missed.""I'm going to have to do something about my cat. Punkin head-butted me for an hour and...