RUSH: Let me get back to the phones. (song fades out) We'll go back to South Holland. South Holland where? Tom, where is South Holland?CALLER: It's in Illinois just about --RUSH: In Illinois.CALLER: -- miles south of Chicago.RUSH: Great to have you on the program. Thank you.CALLER: An honor and a privilege to speak to you. It's a privilege to speak to the leader of Radio Free America.RUSH: I appreciate that, sir. Thank you.CALLER: I have two things I want to get off my chest. The first...

RUSH: Oh, yeah! Music maestro Barry White and the Love Unlimited Orchestra, to accompany $335 million to prevent gonga-rrhea (as my health teacher called it), syphilis, herpes, and other STDs in the "stimulus bill."(Love's Theme continues)RUSH: Not the most romantic Barry White tune.(Love's Theme fades)RUSH: Leave it up there, Mike.(Love's Theme boosts)RUSH: It's not the most romantic, but nevertheless nice dance tune, fast dance Love's Theme, the quintessential STD theme for the stimulus bill,...

RUSH: Audio sound bites, montage. Chris Matthews, Norah O'Donnell, Pat Buchanan, and Mike Barnicle on MSNBC last night.MATTHEWS: Rush has become the day-facto (sic) leader of the Republican Party?O'DONNELL: Is Rush Limbaugh now the face of the Republican Party?BUCHANAN: Rush is emerging as the de facto leader of the loyal opposition.BARNICLE: Rush Limbaugh now has a larger base and more solid base in the Republican Party as a whole.RUSH: This morning on the Fox News Channel, Fox & Friends,...

RUSH: We'd now like to provide a little safe haven for Eric Cantor, congressman from Virginia, who just finished 20 or so minutes with Andrea Mitchell at MSNBC. Congressman, it's great to have you here on the EIB Network for the first time.CANTOR: Rush, it is great to be on with you.RUSH: I was able to read some of the closed-captioning, Congressman, when you were on with Andrea Mitchell, and it's gotta be a little frustrating, but you know, you guys are doing great. You're hanging really, really...

RUSH: Paul in Westerville, Ohio, thank you for calling, sir. It's nice to have you here.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Greetings from snowy central Ohio, your friend John KasichCountry.RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much from 79 degrees and sunny south Florida.CALLER: I have a proposal for you to make a little tweaking on your 54-46 proposal with Obama.RUSH: Yes, sir?CALLER: You had proposed a major change in the capital gains rates, and I would generally agree with you. But because many, many people have...

RUSH: To the phones! We start in Pittsburgh. This is Shelly, and it's great to have you with us. Hi.CALLER: Hi, Rush. What a pleasure to speak with you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I just wanted to call and make sure that you got my e-mail via the Democrat committee website where they encouraged us all to write our comments about your comments, you know, about hoping Obama fails.RUSH: (laughing) Look, there are so many of these. CALLER: (giggles)RUSH: I think the well-wishers using the Democrat...

RUSH: We'd like to welcome to the microphone Georgia congressman Phil Gingrey, who ended up being quoted yesterday by Jonathan Martin and somebody else at Politico.com. Congressman Gingrey asked to come on the program today to address that and we are happy to have him here. Congressman, welcome to the program, sir.GINGREY: Rush, thank you so much. I thank you for the opportunity. Of course, it's not exactly the way I wanted to come on, but I appreciate you giving me the opportunity. Mainly,...

RUSH: I think he's in trouble, and I think, ladies and gentlemen, he knows he's in trouble. Now, you would never know it unless you have a highly trained and experienced eye and ears like mine. Watching the Barack Obama press conference... Well, it wasn't a press conference, because he didn't take any questions, but watching his appearance this morning in the White House with a couple of CEOs, I have an entirely -- and of course, what's odd about this... I have an entirely different take from...

Rush's Morning Update: CultureJanuary 29, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer While Washington Democrats are pushing through their trillion-dollar "porkulus" spending spree,Democrats elsewhere are fighting other battles.Two weeks ago, the Democrat Mayor of Baltimore, Sheila Dixon, was indicted on a variety of charges-- for one, that she stole gift cards donated to the city to help needy kids and used them to buy game consoles...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"I, El Rushbo -- and I say this happily -- have hijacked Obama's honeymoon.""What we just heard at the White House today was smoke and mirrors, and, of course, the Drive-By Media fell for it hook, line, and sinker. I didn't, which is why I remain enemy number one. Pioneers take the arrows, folks.""I just said to Snerdley, 'Don't you get it yet? The media doesn't care what's in this bill. It's His, with a capital 'H.' It's Obama's....