RUSH: They had all the living presidents in the Oval Office yesterday. They had H.W. Bush, and they had Obama in there. I thought this was funny, too. They asked some of these guys, "What do you think is going to go on in this private lunch?" "Oh, I'm sure Obama will be asking a lot of questions." I said, "You do not understand. Obama is not going to ask anybody anything. He doesn't think he's got anything to learn. These guys are all goofballs to him. He's going to be telling them what-for."...

RUSH: Last night on CNBC Reports, John Harwood was interviewing The One, The Messiah, the Most Merciful, Barack Obama. He said, "The notion that the United States tolerates torture, do you expect it to be difficult and complicated to effect that change, to define exactly what is and isn't torture?"OBAMA: Guantanamo, I'm going to close. How we do that is NOT simple, because we have people who have been detained there, many of them who may actually be dangerous. So we've got to do very careful...

RUSH: To Big Stone City, South Dakota, this is Dana. Nice to have you here.CALLER: Yes, thank you, Rush. I think there's one thing that everybody is leaving out of the situation on the economic problem, and -- and if it wasn't for 9/11, where...? Would we be in this problem today? Would we have this economic problem? And then they demonize --RUSH: Yes. We would.CALLER: (snorts) Well, they've demonized the war on terror.RUSH: Do you think giving loans to people who can't afford to pay 'em...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, as a powerful, influential member of the media, I, of course, have access to things that other people do not, and I recently received the first four episodes of the new season, season seven, of "24," which premieres on Sunday, two hours on Sunday, two hours on Monday, a total of four hours. I watched these four episodes. Everybody thought last season kinda slacked off a little bit, and then we had the writer strike, so we went a whole year, a whole TV season without...

RUSH: Last night on CNBC. The correspondent John Harwood was interviewing Obama, and he says, "Is the deficit going to get bigger?" Now, Harwood used to be with the Wall Street Journal. Of course it's going to get bigger! Obama has said it's going to get bigger by a trillion dollars a year, but here's what the Bamster said last night.OBAMA: We are going to use this money, uh, to temporarily boost our economy to create or save three million jobs --RUSH: Stop the tape! How do you calculate a...

RUSH: I want to take you back to late in the campaign, the presidential campaign. Barack Obama had an economic speech, and in the economic speech he announced a partial plan to create jobs in the small business sector. One of the plan's details was a $3,000 tax credit for every new hire. In other words, a small business (and maybe businesses that even are a little bit larger than the way government defines small business) would be given a $3,000 tax credit for every new employee hired. This...

RUSH: Barack Obama, ladies and gentlemen, has launched a war to save the US economy. That's what he wants us to believe with his speech today, which is just a rehash of his campaign rhetoric, which was empty platitudes. Remember with Obama, it doesn't matter what he says, it's how he says it. Now, how is Obama going to launch this war to save the US economy? He's going to do this by occupying the private sector with government forces. This is how you must look at this. He pretty much made...

RUSH: Mr. Snerdley has advised me -- and I think Mr. Snerdley may have a point here -- Mr. Snerdley advised me during the top-of-the-hour break here that what with the fact that the point of view, the analysis of this coming socialism, massive government expansion is only occurring here, other places, too, but I mean this is the biggest -- the Drive-By Media is just in total swoon mode here. Not analyzing this at all in terms of whether it will work or not, in real terms. They're examining it,...

RUSH: We'll start in North Canton, Ohio. Mark, I'm glad you called. Great to have you here.CALLER: Thanks, Rush. My question is: How did 40% of -- approximately 40% of -- the population end up not paying any federal income tax, and what would need to be done for that to be reversed?RUSH: Well, the original intention of this, to go back to where this all started, first, the 38% or 40% figure is pretty accurate, but it includes the people who are in the poverty quintile.CALLER: Okay.RUSH: So,...

RUSH: Sometimes I cringe at playing sound bites of myself. Well, because I could say it myself rather than going to the bite, but we'll go to the audio. This is November 5th last year. This is what I said about President-select Obama.RUSH ARCHIVE: Obama's campaign will never end. His governance as president will be as a constant campaign. Clinton never stopped campaigning. The war room mode never shut down, and I think it's going to be the same thing with Obama.RUSH: Well, it is. This speech...

RUSH: Well, the insanity that we spoke of yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, continued this morning with a campaign speech by President-select Barack Obama, a rehash of campaign rhetoric from his successful presidential campaign on the economy. And it is pure insanity, as we discussed yesterday. Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, at 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com. I just heard something that, frankly, surprises me. I was watching a little post-speech commentary from...

Rush's Morning Update: Details!January 9, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Ladies and gentlemen,a development has occurred in Drive-By news coverage of the Bamster. An AP info-babe,Jennifer Loven, noticed and reported that our incoming president is offering no details at his daily press conferences. While the Bamster talks of restoring "financial discipline," he's also promising trillion-dollar deficits are far as the eye...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"This plan, if it happens, as designed by Obama, is Jimmy Carter times a trillion." "Obama's economic speech was a laundry list that just kept going, and I could just see the typical Obama voter swooning. I could see Oprah Winfrey jiggling so much in happiness that she loses 20 of the 40 pounds she gained last year.""Hezbollah has announced that they are investigating who fired the rockets from Lebanon into Israel. This is an...

Story #1: Hezbos Join Gazookas in War Against Israel RUSH: By the way, rockets were fired at Israel today from Lebanon. When rockets are fired from Lebanon, it's the Hezbos. So the Hezbos and the Gazookas are now teaming up against the Israelis. Hezbollah. Hezbollah has announced that they are "investigating." This is an O.J. Simpson line. Hezbollah is "investigating" who fired the rockets. The Drive-By Media lapping up, saying, "We'll help try to find out who fired the rockets from Hezbo locations...