RUSH: Bob Tyrrell, R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. who writes The Continuing Crisis column at American Spectator, it's his magazine, just came up with a whole new way to describe Begala, The Skull, not The Forehead, The Skull, so emaciated that he needs so much makeup before he goes on TV that you can't tell whether he's laughing or frowning. So it just really dices up Paul Begala. Begala was on Anderson Cooper 180 last night and Cooper said, "Are you working with Carville, perhaps Emanuel, others in the...

RUSH: The Democrat National Committee, ladies and gentlemen, has a new project. They are going to erect a billboard that they say is in my backyard. The problem is, I don't live where they are going to put the billboard. They're going to put a billboard somewhere over in West Palm Beach. On their website they are soliciting one phrase. Was it ten words max, is that what it is? I'm not sure, but you can see this at Democrats.org. They are soliciting entries for what the slogan on the billboard...

RUSH: Rush Limbaugh, on a roll. The Last Man Standing. Defending conservatism against the onslaught -- happily, by the way. I want to take a moment here and thank some people who this week have come to my defense in all of this back-and-forth with the White House on wanting the president to fail, who have come to my defense even against people supposedly on my side of the aisle who have taken shots at me. Bob Tyrrell of the American Spectator has a brilliant, brilliant piece today in which he...

RUSH: Yesterday we played audio sound bites from Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesman saying he doesn't have a radio, he doesn't listen to the radio, have to plug in his iPod, said he has to watch some of the cable chatter -- that's a White House term -- he doesn't really like it, he doesn't have a radio. So I said yesterday I'm sure that our buddies at our affiliate in Washington, AM 630 WMAL could arrange for Gibbs to get a radio. Today it happened and I have a picture, I'm holding it here...

RUSH: Let me read to you some excerpts of Jim Cramer, Mad Money, CNBC on a website called MainStreet.com entitled, "My Response to the White House -- Now some, including Rush Limbaugh, would say I am on another enemies list: that of the White House. Limbaugh says there are only a handful of us on it, and if I am on it for defending all of the shareholders out there, then I am in good company. Limbaugh -- whom I do not know personally, but having been in radio myself, know professionally as a genius...

RUSH: I want you to listen to President Obama as he inaugurated the health care summit this afternoon in the White House.OBAMA: There are a lot of people out there who are desperate. There's a lot of desperation out there. Today I want them and the people like them across this country to know that I have not forgotten them.RUSH: Stop the tape. Why does he have to say that? Now, I'm not surprised he's saying a lot of people out there are desperate. There's a lot of desperation out there....

RUSH: Barack Obama just began a health care summit at the White House. Another one of these summits where there will be breakout groups after a couple of opening statements and they'll report back later today to tell us exactly what it was that they all came up with for solutions. So today it's fix health care. Can I give you a very simple health care fix? Seriously, now, very simple without even restructuring the system per se, without going into circumstances and policy where we reorient so...

RUSH: I want to go to CNBC, audio from last night on the Kudlow Report. This is amazing, by the way. Larry Kudlow is talking with Donald Straszheim of Straszheim Global Advisors and Jeff Macke of Macke Asset Management. Kudlow says, "How is China treating capital?" How are the ChiComs, the Chinese communists treating capital, how are they treating money? "Because I would argue," says Kudlow, "the Obama budget is not treating capital very well. In fact, some people believe, and I'm one of them,...

RUSH: Try this. "The Obama administration plans to expand a US program to bolster Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas' security forces in the West Bank." This is in addition to $900 million to Hamas under the guise of it going to broken down citizens in Gaza. So, yeah, some parts of the world love us. Hugo Chavez looks at you today, says, "Wow! I can't believe it. This is cool, what's happening to the United States. They're following in my footprints!" Meanwhile, Barack Obama has now dissed...

RUSH: The Obama Daily Tracking Poll, down 228 points today -- that would be the Dow Jones Industrial Average -- another month of over 600,000 people unemployed. The Citibank share price, Citigroup is fluttering and it's around a dollar. It's been under a dollar at points today. Do you realize that a share of stock in Citibank will cost you less than an ATM fee? I think it's time we start looking at something very seriously. You probably have heard, ladies and gentlemen, two events here, let's...

Rush's Morning Update: Happy?March 6, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer America's new Education Secretary, Arne Duncan, finds himself at war with fellow Democratswho are intent on forcing minority kids to attendbad schools. But it's not really a philosophical disagreement; this is a P.R.dustup.As part of their latest Porkulus spending bill, Democrats slipped in a provision killing off a school voucher program that allowed...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Barack Obama believes in policies that will return the nation's wealth to its (quote, unquote) 'rightful owners.'""The banking system needs some serious help, and while all this is going on, the White House has its chief of staff playing manipulative games with washed up talking heads targeting me on the taxpayer dime." "Hugo Chavez looks at us and says, 'Wow! I can't believe this! This is cool, what's happening to the United...

Story #1: Democrats Grumble over Obama Tax PlansRUSH: There's good news out there. The Democrats are starting to resist Obama's tax plan. Well, some of them are.Story #2: Republicans Try to Reinstate Welfare ReformRUSH: So the Republicans are trying to reinsert welfare reform in the budget bill; good for them. Story #3: Boehner: It's Cool to Criticize Obama by NameRUSH: Republicans are now free to mention Obama's name, thanks to John Boehner saying it's okay. I will take the kudos for that. The...