RUSH: Here's Dave in western Pennsylvania. Nice to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thanks-for-taking-my-call dittos.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Rush, I would like to know who Obama is beholding (sic) to or who he owes all this to because in any circumstance like this I mean there's gotta be somebody that's gotta have a payback on this.RUSH: Yeah, I have thought for the longest time that somebody chose Obama to run and was a secret sponsor, if you will.CALLER: Right.RUSH:...

RUSH: A little program note, ladies and gentlemen. It won't affect anything, but we're going to New York and we'll be doing the program from New York Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Is it tomorrow, H.R., we're doing the thing with Barbara Walters? Tomorrow. Yes, that's tomorrow. Barbara Walters has named me -- unbeknownst to me, a clear surprise -- one of the Ten Most Fascinating People of 2008. I know I'm told I'm fascinating, but one of the top ten? I've been one of her top ten one time,...

RUSH: There have to be, folks, some hurt feelings out there among the left-wing kook base. In fact, I know that because of this Lieberman thing, there already are. The left kooks, they are fried. They wanted Lieberman strung up and flogged. After all the public threats Harry Reid walked out to the cameras, he said nothing was going to be done to Lieberman for leaving the reservation and backing McCain, and Lieberman is still chairman of homeland security, no punishment, no nothing, and it was...

RUSH: I had a long weekend with my golf buddies in town, and I had a chance -- I even got some solitary time, and I've been thinking, because I have detected, even to myself -- I was examining how we dealt with Obama during the campaign and how we dealt with Clinton during the campaign in 1992, and both methods of dealing with both candidates didn't work. Direct criticism of Bill Clinton did not work; Bill Clinton got elected. Direct criticism of Barack Obama did not work; he got elected. For...

RUSH: Let me give you a possible scenario to this Hillary Clinton for secretary of state thing. Obama's got this huge questionnaire, 63 questions. There is no way the Clintons passed this. Look, Clinton, you talk about his wife being secretary of state and here's Slick Willie with all this money he's taken from the ChiComs back in the nineties to the present, all the money he's taken from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, with his wife sitting there, and they're going to have to...

RUSH: Joe Lieberman ends up keeping his committee chairmanship on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. Let me tell you the truth about this. Dingy Harry wanted Lieberman out of there. Dingy Harry wanted to punish Lieberman. He wanted to take away his committee chairmanship. He wanted to put him, if anything, on some meaningless subcommittee. He wanted to punish him for running around campaigning for McCain and being against Obama. Apparently what happened... Now,...

RUSH: It is sad and funny at the same time. It was predictable, a lot of people did predict it. They were right. What is going on on Capitol Hill today is a testament to the cluelessness of the people in charge of supposedly saving this economy. It is absolutely absurd to watch all this go down. Barney Frank is mad that the money is not being spent to buy out mortgages. He's mad that the money is not being lent by the banks. He's mad that the money is not being used as it should be used. The...

Rush's Morning Update: Cold Kooks!November 19, 2008Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Trust me on this, folks; don't doubt me. Today thereare some hurt feelings among the far left-wing kook-fringe base. First, after all the public threats, Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry walked out to the cameras and said nothing was going to be done to Joe Lieberman for leaving the reservation and backing John McCraz -- McCain. He's still...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Paulson and Bernanke are fighting the market and the market will always win.""What if Obama says, 'You know what? We can't put Hillary in there as secretary of state. There's just too much in her husband's background that makes this problematic, that does not fit my guidelines'? This would be a brilliant strategical move.""One thing we know about every damn one of these people up there in Washington: They've got what it takes...

Story #1: Commuter Tax: New York City Eyes "Free Money" RUSH: You know... Look, with all the other taxes that we've heard emanating from the wizards of smart in New York City, they're adding another commuter tax. Everybody that goes to work in New York -- whether bridge or tunnel -- is going to pay a commuter tax. Let me read you a quote from the budget director as to why he's excited about this. "As New York City's budget director I am always eager for money that we don't have to pay for that...