RUSH: Andrew in Amarillo, Texas. Hello, sir. It's great to have you with us.CALLER: Hello, Rush. Thanks for the line. Like I said, I'm from Amarillo. I just have a quick question for you. I mean, I am all for people protesting. I mean, it's their constitutional right. But as a young registered Democrat, what I do not get -- and I was hoping you could explain this to me -- is why people are protesting our president, and a policy, more importantly, that it seems to have already have positive...

RUSH: Robert Gibbs, the most brilliant, the brightest, the most effective press secretary ever in American history, according to the Drive-By Media, had his White House press briefing this afternoon. We have some sound bites. Question from Jake Tapper at ABC News: "Does the White House have any response to the tea party protest going on across the street and in other parts of the country?"GIBBS: I don't know if there's a specific response to protests as much as there is, uh, I think you saw the...

RUSH: Staying with the phones. We go to Lincoln, Nebraska. This is Melanie. I'm glad you waited, Melanie. It's nice to have you here on the EIB Network.CALLER: Hey, Rush! Dittos from a stay-at-home mom back in Lincoln, Nebraska, thankful that you're speaking the truth.RUSH: Thank you, madam, very much. I'm honored and happy to still be able to do that.CALLER: You bet. I was calling about the old tea parties, and I found out about our local tea party here and called my state senator to...

RUSH: I want to share with you Obama's flourish yesterday. This was the end of his big speech yesterday on -- what was the speech on? What the hell was it about? That's right, the economy. All of his speeches are about how he's going to rebuild America and so forth. But this was the flourish. "It is that house upon the rock. Proud, sturdy, and unwavering in the face of the greatest storm. We will not finish it in one year or even many, but if we use this moment to lay that new foundation;...

RUSH: On the Today Show today, Matt Lauer has this exchange with Obama's chairwoman of the Council of Economic Advisors, Christina Romer. And, by the way, before she was appointed to this position, Christina Romer posted on one of her websites that every dollar in a tax cut will generate a dollar-and-a-half in increased economic activity. After she was appointed, they scrubbed that and replaced it with every dollar of government spending will increase economic activity by a dollar-and-a-half....

RUSH: I have a couple of audio sound bites from President Obama's tax day message which basically was "Suck It Up and Pay Up." He brought a parade of victims up there who we all support with our taxes.OBAMA: I know that April 15th is not exactly everyone's favorite date on the calendar.RUSH: Damn right about that.OBAMA: But it is an important opportunity for those of us in Washington to consider our responsibilities to the people who sent us here and who pay the bills. Across America, families...

RUSH: You know, I want to go back to this DHS, homeland security report on the "right-wing extremists" and the dangers that they pose to the Obama administration and the United States of America, because I thought... There's a portion of this thing that looked familiar to me. By the way, as I point out yesterday, this is not from Janet Napolitano. This DHS report that maligns and impugns conservatives as "right-wing extremists" is straight from Obama. It's straight from his heart. It's straight...

RUSH: You know, I need to have direct access to the White House. I need an e-mail address. I could just send 'em an e-mail, "Okay, I'm on the air, it's time to send the president out." Second day in a row, Obama, big, major speech when this program starts. This is not coincidence. Obama talking about taxes, simplifying the tax code. A bunch of BS. Greetings, my friends, and welcome. It's Rush Limbaugh, and this is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. Great to have you here. Telephone...

Rush's Morning Update: Earf DayApril 16, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Folks, lookout. In less than a week, the environmentalist wackos will be celebrating Earf Day. Already the Drive-Bys are peppering us with news articles to promote the cause.AP already ran a story devoted to "Earth Day Bags." Supposedly, a lot of you people have "moved beyond" the agonizing decision of choosing between paper or plastic grocery bags....

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Obama said he wants to redo the 'foundation' of this country. If he succeeds in this, the dream of our founders will have been killed.""It is difficult to find, ladies and gentlemen, a time in American history when so many liberals have spent so much time slinging so much mud on an embryonic movement. They are petrified and scared to death of the 500 tea parties!""Obama made it plain yesterday in his speech that he wants an entirely...