RUSH: Reading, Pennsylvania, Bill, thank you for waiting. You're next on the program, sir, hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush, I wanted to ask you whether with the way the economy is being hurt by the higher gas prices and really being squeezed and the truckers are complaining, when the heck is Congress going to get off its stuff and do the right thing for the optional fuel, that is the oil that's right under our nose in the offshore Alaska, enough is enough.RUSH: Got me. The very people standing in the...

RUSH: Reading, Pennsylvania, Bill, thank you for waiting. You're next on the program, sir, hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush, I wanted to ask you whether with the way the economy is being hurt by the higher gas prices and really being squeezed and the truckers are complaining, when the heck is Congress going to get off its stuff and do the right thing for the optional fuel, that is the oil that's right under our nose in the offshore Alaska, enough is enough.RUSH: Got me. The very people standing in the...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, it is time once again here on the EIB Network to turn to our Official Obama Criticizer, Bo Snerdley.SNERDLEY: This is Bo Snerdley, official Barack criticizer, certified black enough to criticize. I have a statement. Senator Obama, the conversation about race that you asked your fellow Americans to have is well underway, and perhaps you can rejoin it by explaining how your former pastor, Reverend Wright, is moving into a neighborhood which is sadly exclusionary, with...

RUSH: When I go out and make speeches these days, folks, I usually do a little riff on the founding of this country. I ask the question of the audience that you've heard me ask you on many occasions: "What is it about us as a people -- less than 300 million of us in less than 230 years, how is it that we -- no different than any other human being ever on the planet, DNA-wise, run rings around civilizations and nations that have been around thousands of years, hundreds of years longer than we have?...

This is from Chelsea Clinton. She got the question again about Monica Lewinsky. This was at North Carolina, Chapel Hill, at a campaign event. The student said, "Last week you were asked a question about how the Monica Lewinsky scandal affected your mom. You responded, saying that it was none of that person's business. And I'd like to briefly say, whether or not it's our business and why that's so."CHELSEA: It's none of your business.MALE STUDENT: Right. But I would like to know, because unfortunately,...

RUSH: Yesterday in Pennsylvania, Barack Obama held a press conference, and he gets a little testy here with a reporter. This is happening more and more frequently to The Messiah. This exchange is with ABC's David Wright.OBAMA: John McCain said perhaps a hundred years. I mean, I'm just quoting back what he said. Uh, ahd -- uh, unless you tell me that that's a misquote.WRIGHT: I just wonder if it's... You've been critical of Senator Clinton for distorting, for taking the political and sort of...

RUSH: Louisville, Kentucky, J.T., welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Yes, sir. I heard the caller that called yesterday, I believe it was, brought up the antique law about not being able to switch after December and still be able to vote, but I registered in 2001 as an independent, sir, and am waiting for orders from you.RUSH: So you're not encumbered in Kentucky by that law that said you had to be registered to vote by December 31st because you're an independent?CALLER: Yes, sir....

RUSH: You want to hear Hillary Clinton's April Fools joke today? This was in Philadelphia this morning. This is audio sound bite number 25, Mister Broadcast Engineer, and Hillary Clinton's April Fools joke.HILLARY: Today I am challenging Senator Obama to a bowl-off, a bowling night right here in Pennsylvania, winner-take-all. I'll even spot him two frames. It's time for his campaign to get out of the gutter and allow all of the pins to be counted. And I'm prepared to play this game all the...

RUSH: Let's go back to me on this program yesterday about Senator McCain and the Republican Party.RUSH ARCHIVE: Let's pretend the election is today and that McCain wins it and he wins it with a sizable margin, and he does so by attracting Democrats, liberals, and independents to his otherwise Republican coalition. Do you know what's going to happen then, folks? I'm not trying to depress you; I'm trying to prepare you. You know what's going to happen then? We are going to have a revival of...

RUSH: New York governor Mario Cooomo who was on -- where was this? -- The Situation Room. For those of you new to the program, "Rush, it's Cuo-mo." I know that. But a long time ago, I heard the Reverend Jackson pronounce his name "Cooomo." You know, it's not stylish and it's not classy to correct somebody's pronunciation of things, especially when the mistake is made by a man of the cloth and a respected, revered Rev. So if he thinks it's Cooomo, then on this program, it's Cooomo, and that is...

RUSH: Politico.com, another story. This by David Paul Kuhn. "'Clinton's Convention Strategy in Doubt' -- If the fight over whether to count the results in Florida and Michigan makes it to the Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton will not have enough pledged votes on the 169-member Credentials Committee to deliver a majority decision in her favor, according to an analysis conducted for Politico. Her only hope of getting the key committee to vote out a 'majority report' supporting her...

RUSH: Look at me. I have noticed a battlefield report regarding Operation Chaos at Politico.com. For the purposes of this Operation Chaos update, I'm going to refer to this story as Politico Rose, a propaganda mouthpiece of the enemy. Here is the headline: "Primary Shenanigans Could Backfire." And here's how the story starts: "Could Rush Limbaugh be responsible for tipping the election outcome in a key Republican primary to fill the seat vacated by former Rep. Roger Wicker in Mississippi?...

Rush's Morning Update: Business as Usual April 2, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer A report by America’s Promise Alliance -- that's a group founded by former Secretary of State Colin Powell -- looked at high school graduation rates in America’s 50 largest cities. In 17 of those cities, not even half the kids attending high school finish.In large metropolitan areas, you may as well draw a target around inner cities....

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"McCain was in the Hanoi Hilton longer than we've been in Iraq, and never gave up. Obama wasn't in the Senate for two years, and got bored.""If Obama maintains his lead and they find a way on the Clinton side to steal the nomination -- and that's a 50-50 proposition or greater -- I'm having dreams about what Denver is going to look like during the Democrat National Convention. I'm literally having dreams about it.""If I were the...

Story #1: Fascinating Democrat Popular Vote Totals: Obama's Lead Is Almost All in Cook County, Illinois! RUSH: I've got some startling numbers regarding the Democrat primary popular vote. I heard Tony Blankley discussing these recently. Hillary Clinton right now is 700,000 or so popular votes behind Obama. Six hundred thousand of those 700,000 she's behind are in Obama's home state, Illinois. Four hundred thousand of the 600,000 are from Cook County. I want to review these numbers, by the way,...