RUSH: Morning Joe today, MSNBC, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the father of the cohost on that show, Mika Brzezinski, Scarborough said to Zbig, "We are talking about the disappearance of the middle class, something you've been concerned about, but you also talk about the possibility of class conflict."BRZEZINSKI: You know, I don't stop worrying about it because, look, we're going to have millions and millions of unemployed, people really facing dire straits. At the same time there is this public awareness...

RUSH: Morning Joe today, MSNBC, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the father of the cohost on that show, Mika Brzezinski, Scarborough said to Zbig, "We are talking about the disappearance of the middle class, something you've been concerned about, but you also talk about the possibility of class conflict."BRZEZINSKI: You know, I don't stop worrying about it because, look, we're going to have millions and millions of unemployed, people really facing dire straits. At the same time there is this public awareness...

RUSH: We found this is from Breitbart TV. It's a 1998 C-SPAN forum at the Brookings Institution, a state of the cities forum. Barack Obama tells us plainly that he disagrees with the 1996 warfare reform bill signed by Bill Clinton and wants to do away with it, which he has done in the stimulus bill. To set it up, a question from an unidentified liberal wearing wire rims.WOMAN: Just the other day when the House budget resolution was prepared to cut billions of dollars from the welfare block grant...

RUSH: Kearney, Nebraska. Jennifer, welcome to the program. Hello.CALLER: Hello, Rush. How are you?RUSH: Just fine. Thank you.CALLER: I wanted to congratulate you on your MSNBC award. Keith Somebody, he put you at the worst person last night. You were #1. So congratulations to you.RUSH: The, what, worst person or something?CALLER: Yes. I believe it was. It was a very unfunny bit, and it was a horrible impersonation of you, but congratulations. RUSH: Well, you're the one watching!CALLER:...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I mentioned this story yesterday, and here are the details. It's an AP story from Helena, Montana: "A new national limit on lead in children's products -- which has toy makers scrambling for new testing methods and retailers for storage space for inventory they're not sure they can sell -- also is forcing motorcycle dealers to pull dirt bikes off showroom floors. It became illegal Tuesday to sell off-road machines geared for children younger than 12 because parts in...

RUSH: This is Joe in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Great to have you here, sir. Thank you.CALLER: Hi, Rush. How you doing?RUSH: Just well, just fine.CALLER: Hey, Rush, I wonder if you remember me from over a year ago. I called you in '07 complaining about George Bush, and I likened him to our Jimmy Carter in the Republican Party. I was just really complaining about his support for Specter, and now I'm just so angry to see what we have today with Specter supporting the stimulus bill and everything....

RUSH: I want to give a lot of attaboys to the Republicans in the California assembly. I don't know if you know what's going on out there, but the Democrats are veritably holding the Republicans hostage. They are one vote short in the California assembly of being able to raise taxes, and the Republicans are holding firm out there. They are putting up with insults, all kinds of efforts to keep 'em in the assembly without letting 'em get outta there. The Associated Press has a story today in the...

RUSH: I got a couple notes from a friend last night that have caused me, ladies and gentlemen, to do some serious recalculating, and I'm not sure just where I fall in on this now. A guy, friend of mine in Kansas City was out to dinner, and he overheard two people at the table next to him just praising Obama to the hilt, on the basis, "You know, it's good we finally have somebody in the White House doing something about this," meaning the economy. My friend was a little incredulous because they...

Rush's Morning Update: GOP OnionsFebruary 18, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer My friends, a few items today – starting with a plan to replace the state gas tax in Mass'chusetts. If the governor signs off, drivers would be tracked by a GPS device and taxed a quarter cent for each mile they drive. Republican Senator Scott Brown is fighting the plan, which he calls "outrageous." He says if it's implemented, the government...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Bipartisanship only happens when one side gives in. That's why we despise bipartisanship here at the Limbaugh Institute. We never quit.""Do you realize people can do whatever they want and say it's in the stimulus bill and who's going to know? Nobody has read this thing. So the stimulus bill can be pretty much what anybody wants it to be.""We have a mining operation for the truth. We dig deep; we find it; we proclaim it; we cause...

Story #1:Hassan Chop Update: Wife Had Filed for Divorce RUSH: Yesterday we had the story of the Muslim guy, bought a TV network in Buffalo to enhance the image of Muslims. He was under arrest for removing his wife's head. There was a picture of the loving couple in the TV control room "in happier times, before her head had been removed." I guess it's sort of like, you know, unscrew it, maybe put it back on. It's a strange word to use if somebody's been beheaded. [Break] We have an update, ladies...