RUSH: Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, this is Mary, and I'm glad you waited. Hi.CALLER: Hi, Rush! I have another example for encroachment for you. I live in an apartment, and my property management company has coupled with a local utility to come through our apartments on Monday and replace our incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs.RUSH: Well, you kinda have no choice there because you're not the owner.CALLER: I know. (giggles)RUSH: But have they told you of the inherent dangers? Have...

RUSH: Milan in Mountain View, California. I'm glad you waited. Welcome to the program.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for the call.RUSH: Yeah, you bet.CALLER: I just had an interesting conversation with one of Chuck Schumer's staffers when I called to comment on the tax the oil companies and trust fund are putting. I was told that Senator Schumer only accepted calls from his constituents and that I should talk to one of my two California senators if I wanted to leave a comment.RUSH: Is that right?...

RUSH: Jim in Fayetteville, North Carolina, I'm glad you waited. You're first up today. Great to have you on the EIB Network.CALLER: Hello.RUSH: Hello.CALLER: I'm calling about the people standing up and cheering in South Carolina, and you make it sound like, you know, the Gestapo is going to swoop in and arrest 'em. Have you been to a high school graduation in the last 30 or 40 years?RUSH: Yeah, I've spoken at a couple.CALLER: A-ha. Well, I hadn't been to one since my own in '64, and I...

RUSH: Matt Lauer: "If it's not working, Senator, do you now have a better estimate of when American forces can come home from Iraq?"MCCAIN: No, but that's not too important. What's important is the casualties in Iraq. Americans in South Korea. Americans in Japan. American troops are in Germany. That's all fine. American casualties and the ability to withdraw. We will be able to withdraw. General Petraeus is going to tell us in July when he thinks we are, but the key to it is we don't want...

RUSH: I had a plant today in a Howard Dean breakfast with reporters, and I just got the report from the plant who attended the Howard Dean breakfast, and this is what he said. He said, "Democrats are nervous about Obama's chances in November, but Howard Dean called such unease healthy." I know they're nervous. They have been nervous when the guy started losing primary after primary after primary in major states to the witch. They were bugged by this. They were troubled by it. He did not get...

RUSH: John McCain: Big Oil should return some profit, says prices for gasoline probably won't drop any lower before the election. Big Oil should return some profit. Here he is on the Today Show today with Matt Lauer. Matt Lauer says, "How can you and the other CEOs sleep at night when people are having to choose between feeding their families and filling their tanks? Are those people reacting out of pure emotion, or is there some logic to people who are asking those questions?"MCCAIN: There's...

RUSH: Our buddies at NewsBusters, Mark Finkelstein today, has a post. Andrea Mitchell. It's really funny. Republican operative Frank Donatelli was chatting this morning with a friend, he's e-mailing or IMing, instant messaging with a friend in London, and he's got MSNBC on in the background, Scarborough's show; and he's listening to what he thinks is an Obama campaign worker describe some policy; and he looks at Andrea Mitchell of NBC News. So Donatelli says, "Wow, this is Andrea Mitchell. I...

RUSH: As you know, over the course of the recent past, I, El Rushbo, your host; have been openly speculating that there has to be somebody behind Obama and his campaign, somebody who had the idea. Somebody said, "Obama, you're the guy to deliver us from bondage, the Democrat Party. Hillary can't do it. We don't like the Clintons anymore. You are unassailable because of your skin color. You are articulate. You have this messianic quality. We'll write your speeches for you; we'll put your campaign...

RUSH: I had a great night last night. My friend, Professor Hazlett, was in town. He came by, watched a little bit of the radio program yesterday. He was dazzled. He was fascinated. He said to me last night, "You've really come far from that little shack that you call a house in South Natomas," which is Sacramento. He said, "You did it. You did it without ever going to college. You're almost as smart as I am." And I said, "Well, I appreciate that, Professor." (laughing) His Windows machine...

Rush's Morning Update: Heal Our ChildrenJune 12, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have conducted a study-- the first to look at injuries resulting from outdoor recreational activities. They discovered that snowboarding is the most dangerous, accounting for 25 percent of injuries requiring emergency room visits.Over 200,000 people are injured annually with these...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Johnson quit the Obama VP search team. We've nailed another one, but the guy can't quit because Obama said the guy wasn't working for him.""Have you been watching the television and seeing pictures of this flooding in Illinois and Cedar Rapids, Iowa? Where is FEMA? Where's the president? Where's somebody to go out there and hug some people?""My friend's Windows machine froze on him; he couldn't start it. So he asked me, 'Do you...

Story #1: Where's FEMA at Cedar Rapids Flooding?RUSH: Have you been watching the television and seeing pictures of this flooding in Illinois and in Cedar Rapids, Iowa? Levees have broken in Lawrenceville, Illinois. The town is flooded. Where is FEMA? Where's the president? Cedar Rapids is on the verge of the same thing happening. They got sandbags out there protecting their levees. Where's FEMA? Where's the president? Where are all the people that care? We care. The president's in Europe,...