RUSH: Dallas and Louis. Louis, thank you for calling. Great to have you here with us.CALLER: Hi, nice to meet you.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: I guess my comment is, I voted for Obama, and I actually thought that we were going to, you know, take this government into moving forward. And I'm just watching, I'm watching a power grab, not watching any of these problems that, you know, I voted for him to solve some of these issues, and I just don't see anything, I don't see anything, I'm disappointed.RUSH:...

RUSH: We've got a couple Obama sound bites from his first-ever cabinet meeting at the White House today. Here's the first of two.OBAMA: (camera shutter clicks throughout) Veterans Affairs has canceled or delayed 26 conferences, saving nearly $17.8 million, and they're using less expensive alternatives like video conferencing. Uh, the USDA, under, uhhhhhh, Secretary Vilsack, is working to combine 150, uhhh, 1,500 employees from seven office locations into a single facility in 2011 which we estimate...

RUSH: Reckless releasing CIA interrogation memos. It's reckless. Michael Hayden... Let me look at the sound bite roster. I want to see if I have Mike Hayden from Fox News Sunday yesterday. Doo-dee-doo-dee... Yes, we do. Grab sound bite 16. Mike Hayden, the former CIA director, says we have just totally blown up national security. Releasing the interrogation memos was very reckless thing to do. And, folks, I have to tell you something. Now, this is just me, but I'm born and raised in the...

RUSH: Here's Tim in East Moline, Illinois. Tim, thank you for waiting. You're up next. Great to have you here.CALLER: Yes. Good afternoon, sir. How are you?RUSH: Fine and dandy. I appreciate it.CALLER: Pleasure to speak with you. Just a couple quick points, Rush. First of all, I find it deplorable that the president of the United States is palling around, shaking hands with communist dictators, like Mr. Chavez. It also gives credence to the associations with Tony Rezko, Blago, Daley,...

RUSH: Amarillo, Texas, this is Andrew. Andrew called us, what was it, last week, Andrew, that you called us?CALLER: Yes, sir, last week, the day of the tea party.RUSH: That's right, called the day of the tea parties, and you weren't quite certain what their point was because you were convinced that most people loved Obama because you thought that's what the media was saying. So to what do we owe this great pleasure of your calling back?CALLER: Well, I would just like to tell you, coming from...

RUSH: Lots of people are e-mailing and wanting to know the outcome of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Cure-A-Thon last Friday. I've got some numbers, but they're not all in yet. There's still a lot of donating going on and a lot of registering at RushLimbaugh.com. But suffice to say records were set during the Obama Recession. The total donors, as of this morning, were up over 45%. We had a 45% increase in the number of donors (which, again, is also an indication of the rapid audience growth...

RUSH: Our first caller, the only caller we've had today, Mel from Saratoga, New York, said, "Hey, Rush, we're not going to understand our enemies unless we go talk to them. We gotta go out and talk to them. We gotta show 'em we mean 'em no harm," blah, blah. "We can't be hurt. Obama knows Chavez needs our money for his oil," blah, blah, blah, blah. Look, we have to talk to one another, right? I keep hearing this from the left. Reagan didn't talk to the Soviets until 1986! He knew what their...

RUSH: Now, as we mentioned, Hugo Chavez gave our president, Barack Obama, an American-bashing book, blaming America for all of the problems from colonialism to the CIA to all the economic problems, all the political problems of the Western Hemisphere. He gave Obama the book. There's a picture of Obama smiling, accepting the book, looking at the cover of the book. And, of course, the book shot up the Amazon list. I think he looked at the cover of the book because he had a copy. He probably had...

RUSH: I'll tell you what's become abundantly clear to me, and that is that I don't care whether you're talking about domestic policy or foreign policy, it's not about the United States anymore, it's about Barack Obama. I really do believe the guy's got a God complex. I really do think he believes he is The One. We've got some audio sound bites coming up to illustrate this, but perhaps the most outrageous or, depending on how you look at it, the funniest story to me coming out of the weekend from...

Rush's Morning Update: Freedom!April 21, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer While speaking at a business forum in China, the action-movie star Jackie Chan questioned whether freedom is beneficial for the people of China."I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not,"he said. "I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled," or "we'll just do what we want." He said having freedoms in Hong Kong and...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Obama's either a useful idiot, or he's worse. I, frankly, think he's worse. I think he's stupid, but he's been trained well.""I'll tell you what's become abundantly clear to me (and I don't care whether you're talking about domestic policy or foreign policy): it's not about the United States anymore, it's about Barack Obama. I really do believe the guy's got a God complex.""So now our president has been compared favorably to a...

Story #1:NY Times Gets Waterboarding Story from Lib BlogsRUSH: The New York Times today has a story that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded six times a day, 183 times, over 200 times total, and their source for this is a left-wing blogger! Now, I'm going to give you the New Media model before I go on to this waterboarding point. The New Media model is going to be this. All these Drive-By Media outlets, the mainstream media, they're cutting back on bureaus and reporters and so forth, and...