RUSH: To the phones we go, Kathy, Williamsville, New York. Glad you waited. Welcome to the program.CALLER: Hi, Rush. How you doing?RUSH: Fine. Thanks much.CALLER: My husband was having a bowl of cereal this morning, and he commented to me that, you know, we had to start socking away more for our retirement. And I said, "No, we're not going to do that," and he stopped eating, and he looked up and he said, "What do you mean?" I said, "If we do that, by the time we are ready to retire, they...

RUSH: In the Senate this afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, the Senate today is voting on two versions of the Fairness Doctrine, starting in 24 minutes, if they're on time. The first bill in the Senate on the Fairness Doctrine is authored by Dick Durbin of Illinois. His bill proposes these contrivances that I wrote about in the Wall Street Journal op-ed. "Localism," meaning local content, "a notice to broadcasters they must ratchet up and increase the local content on their radio stations. Other...

RUSH: Margaret in Appleton, Wisconsin. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you so much for taking my call.RUSH: Yes, ma'am.CALLER: I am calling for a couple of reasons here. I was thinking earlier when you were saying that the press is all about, "Well, we all should support or president and we should never, you know, deride things that he's doing, and all that." As a Christian, Rush, I do totally believe what the Bible says about praying for our leaders, but I pray for this man's wisdom, if there...

RUSH: Rick Santelli back on the Today Show today with Matt Lauer. We have two sound bites here. Matt Lauer said, "Rick, Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, commented -- called you out in the briefing room -- and after you heard his comments, you said he was threatening you. Are you serious about that?"SANTELLI: Let's put it this way, Matt. Matt, you're married, are you not?LAUER: Yeah, I am.SANTELLI: Okay. This is more about the feelings my wife had when she watched the body language...

RUSH: Now cap and trade. Obama is going to use cap and trade to redistribute wealth to poor people. A lot of people don't know what cap and trade is. I have 'splained it on this program on a couple of occasions, but basically here's how it's gonna work. Any company that spews carbon emissions in the process of doing what they do will be assigned an allowable level of emissions, and if they exceed it, they will have to pay for it. They might be able to trade with a company that is underusing...

RUSH: The Wall Street Journal today, a brilliant, brilliant piece that any of us who understands taxes, trickle-down, supply-side, economic growth understands without reading but there's some interesting data in it that I still want to share with you. "President Obama has laid out the most ambitious and expensive domestic agenda since LBJ, and now all he has to do is figure out how to pay for it." See, that's the first mistake. He doesn't have to figure out how to pay for it. If he were worried...

RUSH: I want to go to the Early Show yesterday. Joe Biden and the co-host Maggie Rodriguez have this exchange.RODRIGUEZ: The Republican Party came out with their own charismatic, young, dynamic, ethnic spokesperson after the speech and said, "We don't buy it. We're not on board." Are you taking any of their objections into account?BIDEN: What I don't understand from Governor Jin-dell (sic) is, what would he do? I mean in -- in Louisiana, there's 400 people a day losing their jobs. (sic) What's...

RUSH: There are several teachable moments about Obama's budget, about tax increases on the so-called rich, and it's an opportunity for that. It's just an opportunity to arm you with more information to get the truth of what is happening right before our very eyes. I don't want to use the word "dictator" here, but do you realize that there is no traditional debate going on with any of this legislation? There probably will be with the budget that he submitted, but there's no debate, there are no...

Rush's Morning Update: BudgetFebruary 27, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Okay, folks:this is as serious as politics gets. The scope and reach of the $4 trillion budget released by President Obama represents a fundamental break with the America that is-- and the America that will be created --if it's passed.The $4 trillionas a dollar figureis insignificant from the perspective of Obama and the Democrat Party. This budget...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Obama and the American left are in the midst of totally turning America upside down. Do I want that to succeed? Nope. I want it to fail.""When somebody goes to the floor of the Senate and says, 'I'm not trying to muzzle Rush Limbaugh,' yes, they are. It's like when somebody says, 'Look, it's not the money' -- it's always the money!""People checked their intellects at the door during the whole campaign, and they saw something other...