RUSH: Dan in Columbus, Ohio. Great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.CALLER: Truck driving dittos from Columbus, Ohio.RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.CALLER: In honor of Earth Day I let my Freightliner idle all night long although it was 64 degrees.RUSH: Hubba, hubba.CALLER: So I did my part. Rush, I have a question and then I'm trying to get some information about one of your sponsors. And my question is real simple.RUSH: Yeah?CALLER: When you first made it and made it in quotation...

RUSH: Molly in Carmel, California. What a beautiful place!CALLER: (giggling)RUSH: Now, are you in Carmel Valley or you in Carmel by the Sea?CALLER: No, I'm Carmel by the Sea.RUSH: Ah! Because Doris Day, who is a friend of mine, lives in Carmel Valley.CALLER: I go to her place every Tuesday and Friday night with my standard poodle Bocelli.RUSH: Yeah, she's practically got a zoo there. I know.CALLER: Yeah, she's a wonderful lady. Well, I'm a first-time caller, Rush. I'm so excited to be on...

RUSH: Bill in Philadelphia. Greatly to have you here, sir, on Open Line Friday.CALLER: Captain, my captain! It's actually Gil, not Bill, but mega-consulting dittos from Philadelphia. I just wanted to say that as a consulting engineer, I have a small firm and when I get the system to work for me, I call that "success," and when the system fails me, I call that "failure." So by Barack Obama looking for somebody that the system has failed, isn't he in that sense looking for someone who's a failure?RUSH:...

RUSH: Andrew McCarthy, who is editor at National Review Online, former attorney in the US Attorneys office, the Southern District of New York, which is Manhattan, was invited by Eric Holder, the Attorney General, to participate in a meeting, a Justice Department meeting with Obama's task force on detention policy, and he has declined this invitation in a letter. Now, I'm going to send the letter up to Koko so we can put it up at RushLimbaugh.com, but I want to read you excerpts of Andy's letter...

RUSH: Last night, Campbell Brown, No Bias, No Bull, she's on maternity leave, has some guest host in there. But this is a portion of a report by Jessica Yellin about the new effort by the National Council for a New America to jump-start the Republican Party.YELLIN: Only one in five Americans actually calls themselves a Republican. That's down even since last November's election. One of the problems they're facing is that the press keeps focusing on polarizing leaders like Governor Sarah Palin,...

RUSH: I don't know if you've heard this or not, but I have somehow made TIME Magazine's list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World. I am number 38 in the top 100 most influential people in the world. They have me in the entertainers and artists category. They also have a "heroes" category, which is where Michelle Obama is found. I think that should be where I am, but nevertheless, I'm on the list. Glenn Beck... They asked people to write profiles of the people TIME chooses, and they...

RUSH: This is Grant in Comfort, Texas. Nice to have you on the program, sir. Hello.CALLER: Howdy. Dittos.RUSH: Howdy!CALLER: I'm just a guy out here in the Texas Hill Country trying to figure out how to best contribute to the un-remaking of my country, and it dawns on me to possibly run for office.RUSH: What kind of office?CALLER: Oh, well, heh. To be determined, but I'm thinking the House. It looks like we could use some help there. And I've been thinking about this for some weeks now....

RUSH: In the previous hour, we were discussing the hapless and comical -- I'm still amazed that late-night comics can't find anything to laugh about or make jokes about in this administration. This whole Supreme Court nomination thing is one giant joke! As they've gotta find all the check boxes here, some candidate that fills out every requirement Obama has, and the last requirement on the list is they know anything about the law. They gotta be female, they gotta be pregnant, they gotta be a...

RUSH: A Supreme Court justice can wear $540 tennis shoes like Michelle Obama wore at a feed the poor thing the other day. Yeah, this apparent Lanvin, is that the French -- Dawn, you would know. How do you pronounce the French fashion house, L-a-n-v-i-n, Lanvin? Anyway, she wears some tennis shoes that cost, apparently, according to the New York Daily News, $540 a pair, while she's out there feeding the poor. They asked her office about it, "Come on," they said, they snorted, "It's just shoes."...

RUSH: Now, all this talk about Souter retiring and the fight over his replacement and so forth. The conventional wisdom was that Arlen Specter defecting to the Democrats put them close to a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate which would allow Obama to just skate through his agenda. And on most subjects, it appears to be true. However, Specter's defection may actually end up giving Republicans the ability to filibuster judicial nominees at the Judiciary Committee level so that the nominees...

RUSH: I guess about 45 minutes ago I'm sitting here minding my own business, bothering nobody in the process of doing show prep and I get an e-mail from a Drive-By Media guy that I like, Chris Cillizza, who writes the blog The Fix at the Washington Post. And he says, "I'm doing a story here on Souter and the Supreme Court nomination that Obama's got coming up here, and I want know if you think that the Republicans will be making a mistake by really opposing this or should they not do anything?"...

Rush's Morning Update: StandMay 4, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer During Jimmy Carter's dismal term, federal intervention kept Chrysler out of bankruptcy.Since then, Chrysler tried merging with Daimler-Benz.That failed. Now, after billions of taxpayer bailout dollars were injectedto keep the company afloat,President Obama forced Chrysler into bankruptcy.The move came after some bondholders rejected the terms the White...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"I refuse to be a sheep! I refuse to be a lemming, and I refuse to accept stupid, idiotic, erroneous premises.""So now we have to get a female Hispanic on the Supreme Court? I just sit here and laugh about it, because it's a great illustration of what the left has done to our entire culture. Merit doesn't matter; pandering to minorities is everything.""Even if somebody throws a pie or a shoe at Karl Rove, he'll dive in the audience...

Story #1:If Obama Pressers Were a Show, They'd Be CancelledRUSH: By the way, if Barack Obama's press conferences were an actual television show, they would be canceled. February 9th the pseudo-State of the Union address, 49.5 million watched. His March 24th prime-time press conference, 40.4 million watched, down from 49. And Wednesday night, 28.8 million. He's down from 49-and-a-half million to 28.8 million since February 9th. If this was a reality show, it would be in trouble. Now, if the...