RUSH: Shannon, East Springfield, Pennsylvania, hi, and welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Hey, Rush. I was listening to your first hour monologue, and you were talking about how they're trying to direct welfare to the middle class. Well it's already happening here in Pennsylvania. My mother called me about two, three weeks ago, she said, "Oh, there's something in the Times, you know, I think you qualify for heating assistance." And I went, "What?" I was a bit offended, but then I got something...

RUSH: Moving on to Chris Matthews. This is hilarious. Normally, I don't play any sound bites from Hardball. Saturday Night Live did a skit on the Republicans meeting after Obama's press conference and so forth, and they had an argument between two Republican House leaders over who's the smarter, Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. So Matthews plays the skit. He's obviously jealous that he wasn't in the mix being discussed: "Who's the smartest?" They were making fun of us. I don't care. I saw it....

RUSH: The other day I happened to mention on this program the correct way to pronounce the name Brzezinski and that I had heard that Mika Brzezinski, the daughter of Zbigniew Brzezinski... By the way, it's another one. His name ends in I-E-W. In Poland, that's "yeff." Zbigniew Brzezinski. Here in America, his name is Zbig-new Br-zezinski, but a Polish friend of mine in Kansas City said, "You want to be accurate on this. The Polish pronounce it Brzezinski." Then I heard that Mika Brzezinski...

RUSH: Before we get to the Eric Holder sound bites, in the last hour, a woman from Rockford, Illinois called, and she said, "Why buy a house?" Obama is out there saying don't expect it to increase in value, so why should we go out and buy a house? And I replied, "There are some deals to be had right now because of the foreclosures and you can probably get a fairly decent mortgage rate if you really try." California home prices have plunged a lot. There are some people getting into the market,...

RUSH: Elizabeth in Washington, DC, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hey, Rush, dittos.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I'm calling about the cartoon. I finally got to see it because my newspaper reprinted it today. And the cops who shot the chimp, that's not a racist cartoon, that's sexist. That's old Nancy Pelosi lying there on the sidewalk.RUSH: Yeah, let me describe, for those who haven't heard it, or seen it. In fact, I have a Dittocam, for those of you unaware of it we televise...

RUSH: This is Gretchen in Butler, Pennsylvania. Great to have you here, Gretchen.CALLER: Rush, it's such a pleasure to speak with you. I am so honored. I have to say, I am so incredibly frustrated with these liberal Democrats who want to change our free market system, that same system that has made our country what it is. And in comparison, our country is so young compared to all these European countries and all these socialist systems that have proven not to work. Why do they want to squelch...

RUSH: Last night on Charlie Rose he interviewed Larry Summers, the National Economic Council director. They had this short little exchange, it's ten seconds.ROSE: What idea, what person has most influenced your thinking on how to deal with this crisis?SUMMERS: Keynes. Keynes and all that followed from him.RUSH: John Maynard Keynes, Keynesian. There's a quick definition for Keynesian economics: Government prints money; government spends money; government picks winners; government picks losers;...

RUSH: Mayor Bloomberg, state and city revenues in New York are falling because of the Wall Street collapse. State lawmakers are considering income tax increases for households earning between $250,000 and $1 million. They already pay a 6.85% income tax rate. Mayor Bloomberg, who as recently as six months ago would have supported this, had something different to say about it recently on the radio. It's sound bite number 11. BLOOMBERG: One percent of the people that live in the city, the households...

Rush's Morning Update: Culture of Democrats IIFebruary 20, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer In one of these updates about three weeks ago, I talked about the "Culture of Democrats." I detailed a few of the corruption charges that elected Democrats, on the local and federal level, are facing. Now, it's a little bit late, butthe AP has come up with their own coverage of the problem... in the form of a warning to Democrats...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"The government of Barack Obama doesn't even like you.""Could it be that the pulse of revolution began today? What is apparent to me, ladies and gentlemen, is that President Barack Obama cannot kill the spirit of America -- it cannot be silenced.""It's Atlas Shrugged: the people who are making this country work are the targets, and the people who are the losers and slackers are the beneficiaries." "I love the Constitution. I...

Story #1: How Many Democrats Evaded Taxes in Swiss Banks?RUSH: This just in. The Obama administration is now going after Swiss bank accounts. "The curtain is being peeled back on the infamous secrecy of Swiss banks. The largest bank in Switzerland, UBS, agreed Wednesday to reveal the names of wealthy Americans whom the authorities suspect of using offshore accounts to evade taxes. The change in policy is the result of UBS' admitted role in conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service. As...