RUSH: We're going to go to Chicago. This is Charles. Charles, thank you for waiting and for calling. It's great to have you here. Hello.CALLER: Thanks, Rush. Rush, listen I -- I voted the Republican, and, uh, I -- I didn't really want to see Obama get in office, but, you know, Rush, you're one reason to blame for this election, for the Republicans losing. First of all, you kept harping about voting for Hillary. The second big issue is that -- was the torture issue. I'm a veteran. We're...

RUSH: To Houston, Texas, next. This is Paul. Great to have you on the EIB Network, sir, hello.CALLER: Hey, pleasure to talk to you, Rush. And my question for you was, how likely do you think it is that some of our defense cuts that we've made, like the F-22, some of these fast destroyers, are appeasement for the Chinese buying up our debt to sort of empower their -- RUSH: Well, that would require speculation. I would rather put the cuts in defense where they belong. I mean you can blame the...

RUSH: Drive-By Media is suppressing this news. Mark Steyn, I'm told, talked about it yesterday. It's a Pew Research survey that shows that the partisan gap in the Obama job approval is the widest in the modern era. "For all of his hopes about bipartisanship, Barack Obama has the most polarized early job approval ratings of any president in the past four decades. The 61-point partisan gap in opinions about Obama's job performance is the result of a combination of high Democrat ratings -- 88%...

RUSH: Last night on Fox News. As you know, before the end of last week, David Paterson, the governor of New York, in announcing his new millionaires tax -- which will hit people at $300,000 a year and up -- was asked what he thought of my announcement that I'm leaving, finally. This is the tipping point. I'm getting out of there. He said, "If I had known that my tax increase would have gotten rid of Limbaugh, I would have raised taxes sooner." Neil Cavuto decided to do his commentary that closes...

RUSH: Have you seen the story about General Motors making the deal with the makers of the Segway machine? Basically they're going to have a wheelchair with a motor and a passenger compartment in there. You can't call it a wheelchair with an engine. You gotta call it a wheelchair with a motor. They've got their little prototype here zipping around. Top speed, which means it will never be reached, 35 miles an hour. Top range, 35 miles. It's electric. You plug it in. I just shudder to see...

RUSH: "Why did Obama go to Baghdad?" You know, he stopped in Baghdad, surprise trip, stopped in Baghdad, and he sounded very much like George W. Bush, if you ask me. He said that bringing US troops home is tied to making Iraq stable and not a safe haven for terrorists. Talking to military at Camp Victory, he said, "You will be critical in terms of us being able to make sure Iraq is stable, that it is not a safe haven for terrorists, and we can start bringing our folks home." Now, that sounds...

Rush's Morning Update: Think! April 8, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer While the Obama administration sinks trillions of new dollars into social welfare programs that have a track record of failure, there are moves afoot to cut defense spending.Among the cuts Defense Secretary Robert Gates is proposing isthe F-22 Raptor fighter jet program.Secretary Gates is focusing the Pentagon to address the smaller, lower-tech battlefields...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"I'm going to tell you who Obama is in world history: Neville Chamberlain. Neville Chamberlain was as popular as Obama when he got back from visiting Hitler.""Obama's saying that we need to get rid of our nuke weapons because we're the only nation that has ever used them. I bet Putin is looking at Medvedev saying, 'Can you believe this gift? This loco weed is trying to get rid of his nukes, and he thinks we're going to get rid of...

Story #1: GOP Threw Innocent Ted Stevens Under BusRUSH: Ted Stevens' corruption conviction tossed out by a judge just now. We knew this was coming. Now, everybody says, "But, Rush, but, Rush, you can't make a big deal out of this because it was the Bush Justice Department that brought charges." Now, look, we all know that the Bush Justice Department was polluted with career liberals and Clinton holdovers that George W. Bush didn't get out of there as part of the new tone, as part of the effort...