RUSH: All right, Lillian in DuBois, Pennsylvania, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hi. Thank you for taking my call.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: My comment is that I agree with the sugar tax due to the expense and damage sugar does. I feel all sugary items should be taxed, just like alcohol is regulated, like hard drugs are illegal and so forth.RUSH: Well, now that's just mind-blowing.CALLER: Well, as I said, um, sugar has been proven to kill more Americans every year than hard drug...

RUSH: Jennifer in Bloomington, Indiana. We start on the phones with you, and great to have you here. Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh program.CALLER: Thank you for taking my call, Rush. It's an honor to talk to you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I'm fairly new to the daily monitoring of politics. I probably only been paying attention for the last year. And I find myself feeling fairly defeated on a daily basis.RUSH: What spurred your interest a year ago to get involved in this daily?CALLER: Well,...

RUSH: I want to move on to Obama's next takeover of health care. He's going to have a couple of meetings today, and after these meetings, it will be fixed. Health care will be fixed. Here is, after he participated in the roundtable with business leaders, about a dozen of them, Obama went out and said this.OBAMA: The country is geared up. Businesses are geared up. Families are geared up, uh, to go ahead and start solving some of our extraordinary, uh, health care system problems. Yesterday we...

RUSH: Okay. The media, Colin Powell, Dick Cheney and me. I have a montage here of Drive-By Media elites just upset that Dick Cheney continues to speak out. They are saying things to him like, "Shut up!" The question I have here: "If the Democrats are telling us the truth when they say the Republican Party's committing suicide, and the Republican Party is a party of 13% of the American people," why wouldn't they want what they believe to be the architects of this demise to continue speaking? You...

RUSH: Barack Obama, Chrysler, what is it down to now, GM down to $1.10, down 34 cents. They're saying it was a good day for Barack Obama, he's convening another health care summit. It's amazing, you know, health care experts in this country have been trying to find ways for years to reduce costs. Obama has a couple days worth of meetings and figures out a way to do it. Automobile makers have been trying to figure out a way out of their mess for years. Obama convenes a task force, a couple...

RUSH: What a great zinger that Donald Trump threw at Obama. Oh, it was fabulous. And I'll tell you what, this Miss California, Carrie Prejean, she stood up at a press conference today and she delivered some excellent in-your-face defense of her position on things, Miss California, the controversy over the pictures and the gay marriage question. Anyway, great to have you with us, folks. El Rushbo, Rush Limbaugh, behind the Golden EIB Microphone once again to hear, execute flawlessly assigned...

Rush's Morning Update: Compassion?May 13, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer You know, folks, I havelong chronicled how certain liberals have defined compassion toward the homeless. When New York City hosted the Democrat presidential convention,the mayor, General David Dinkins, instituted a homeless "sweep." They were rounded up by the score and transported to other parts of the cityto save out-of-town liberals the embarrassment...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Practically everything you eat has some sugar in it. What business is it of these nannies if somebody wants to eat a donut or drink a Gatorade?""Health care experts in this country have been trying to find ways for years to reduce costs, but Obama has a couple days worth of meetings and figures out a way to do it. Isn't it amazing what Obama can do, in just a couple days? And then rest on the seventh one?""Oprah Winfrey did the...