RUSH: Logan, Utah. This is John. Great to have you here with us on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hey, Rush. Dittos. I appreciate everything that you're saying today, and you're exactly right. Both sides are not to blame for the root cause.RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.CALLER: And the House Republicans deserve a lot of credit for not caving. I'm really frustrated, though. But it's not with the media or the House Dems because they're doing exactly what I'd expect, and in fact I even have...

RUSH: I've gotta check the transcripts of the first half hour of this program today. There's a story that's just been posted by Politico and also at CBS News on their website. The headline to this story is: "House GOP Mocked by Rush." Now, as far as I remember, I said, "God bless the House Republicans," today. "House GOP Mocked by Rush." For those of you in the House GOP -- those of you on The Hill listening, those of you who know people on the Hill -- I did not mock the House GOP today. I...

RUSH: I promised that we would continue parsing the Friday night debate between The Messiah and John McCain. Let's pick up here with Obama saying that we took our eye off the ball in Afghanistan.OBAMA: We hadn't finished the job in Afghanistan. We hadn't caught Bin Laden, we hadn't put, uh, Al-Qaeda to rest, and as a consequence, uh, I thought that it was going to be a distraction. Now, Senator McCain and President Bush had a very different judgment. We took our eye off the ball.RUSH: We did...

RUSH: Let's go to the audio sound bites. Barack Obama this afternoon, Reno, Nevada, campaign event.OBAMA: For the rest of today and as long as it takes, I'll continue to reach out to leaders in both parties and do whatever I can to help secure the plan. This morning I talked to President Bush, I talked to Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader -- (cheers and applause) oh, yeah, I forgot, he happens to come from Nevada. To the Democrats and Republicans who opposed this plan yesterday, I say,...

RUSH: Folks, I, your beloved and respected host, can fix the mortgage crisis with one word: rent. I'll say the one word again: rent. What is the mortgage crisis? A bunch of people that have no business being given loans to buy houses being given loans to buy houses. There was a time when you and I couldn't afford a house. What did we do? Rent. And what did we hear? "Stop renting. You're throwing your money down the sewer. You gotta get into home ownership. You need equity and you need...

RUSH: Potomac, Maryland. This is Kathy, and you're up first. It's great to have you here.CALLER: Dr. Limbaugh, your lecture today is brilliant.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I thank you for taking my call.RUSH: Thank you very much.CALLER: Love it. I believe there is so much anger and distrust, cynicism out there over the fraud perpetrated at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and especially at the failure of congressional leadership, that what we have is a crisis of confidence in government, not the markets....

RUSH: I'm going to tell you why we're having fun here, because we're getting the truth out. This is a program exclusively devoted to the truth, a relentless, unstoppable pursuit of the truth. I don't say this bragging even though I can because it ain't bragging if you can do it. I'm watching everywhere, there's one exception, there's a couple people on Fox and one person on CNBC that's getting this right. Other than that, this program and other similar programs on talk radio are the only place...

RUSH: I want to dedicate today's Dow Jones Industrial Average, it's at about 269, up at the moment, to the Republicans in the House of Representatives for their boldness yesterday. Greetings, ladies and gentlemen, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, and three hours of broadcast excellence, as you have come to know, love, and expect, straight ahead for the next three hours. Telephone number, 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. I was going to say, I can't...

Rush's Morning Update: Opportunity!October 1, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Well, amid all the uncertainty in our financial markets, we have an opportunity to reclaim a core American valuethat has been denied to many of our fellow citizens.The United States of America became a superpower --not as a result of government programs or intervention, but rather the absence of it. Our entire history bears this out. From our...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Partisanship is tough because everyone comes after you. Bipartisanship is just like liberalism. It's gutless.""I was going to say, 'I can't believe how wrong everybody's getting this', but then I thought, 'Yes, I can believe how wrong everybody's getting this, because the Drive-Bys are in the tank for Obama and they're dumb and don't understand economics.'""People disagree with me, and I understand this. Well, no, I don't understand...

Story #1: Federal Workers Get 3.9% Pay Raise for 2009RUSH: By the way, there's a temporary spending bill -- has nothing to do with this thing that was voted on yesterday -- that Congress is working on, 3.9% average pay raise for federal employees in 2009. So don't worry about, folks, the federal bureaucracy is going to be taken care of here no matter what. Whether the bailout happens, whether it's done right, doesn't matter, our precious bureaucrats that we salute and sing to and bow down and...