RUSH: Scott, Washington Township, New Jersey, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Yeah, hey, Rush, I've been a student of yours, EIB since '91.RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much.CALLER: Yeah. You know how Obama said he wouldn't raise taxes on the average person, only the rich?RUSH: Well, what he said was that we're gonna raise taxes on 95% of the American people.CALLER: (laughing) Well, anyway, you know, cigarette taxes went up 50 cents per pack, and I'm a cigar smoker, each...

RUSH: I want to read to you a quote from President Obama on Sunday at Notre Dame about how we approach disagreements. Now, stick with me on this. Said Obama at Notre Dame: "When we open up our hearts and our minds to those who may not think precisely like we do or believe precisely what we believe, that's when we discover at least the possibility of common ground, when we open up our hearts and minds." Obama pointed to his days as a community organizer on Chicago's south side and Cardinal Joseph...

RUSH: Brittany in Temecula, California. She's 20 years old. It's great to have you with us.CALLER: Thank you. Hi.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: Like my dad says, Rush: I agree with you 1% of the time and the other 99 you agree with me. RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: So dittos from sunny California.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: You are welcome. So I wanted to share with you a little story. Every night my 15-year-old sister and I -- and I am 20 -- spend two, maybe one, two hours talking about current events, news,...

RUSH: I have a little challenge I would like to issue here. I would like to issue a challenge to our good friends over at the cable news network MSNBC. As you know, Michael Steele made a speech today outlining the future of the Republican Party. And apparently he mentioned every conservative's name in the book except mine and Cheney's. This has caused many excited media people to point this out. "Hey! Steele, he mentioned Burke, he mentioned Reagan, he mentioned Buckley, but he didn't mention...

Here we have the governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, agreeing with this, and Arnold is what's being called a moderate Republican, somebody that we must emulate. We need more people like Arnold Schwarzenegger in our party if we are to grow the party. Now, I ask you: "How are we going to grow the Republican Party if more and more moderate Republicans are going to suck up to Barack Obama, show up at his public appearances, endorse him and campaign for him? How in the hell does that expand...

RUSH: We have sound bites from President Obama announcing all these new fuel standards here at the White House moments ago coming up. I want to explain what CAFE is. Snerdley just asked me a very relevant and important question and I thought I should explain it to all of you. And, by the way, for those of you new to the program -- and there are gazillions of people new to this program -- this program is quite often caricatured, comments are taken way out of context. For example, the discussion...

RUSH: All right, now, Obama, Carol Browner. This benevolent administration wants to "work with the auto companies," right? Last night Neil Cavuto interviewed Jim Anderer. He is a Chrysler dealer who's been shut down. Cavuto said, "Long Island, New York, Chrysler dealer Jim Anderer says that they're shutting them down even though his dealership is making them a lot of money. They shouldn't be shutting you down, Jim. What did they say in their letter to you?"ANDERER: They won't give us a solid...

RUSH: Now, yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, I shared with you a story on how ethanol, finally the jig's up here on ethanol. Everybody knows that it's ruining automobile engines. It's costing more to make than it produces...(interruption) What? What are you shaking your head about? (interruption) Well, I really didn't. I didn't get a whole lot of pro-ethanol e-mails last night. I was kind of surprised but I did not get a lot of grief. It's not cleaner. None of it is true. The whole hoax has...

RUSH: "President Barack Obama's new fuel and emission standards for cars and trucks..." This is AP now, and this is not me, so don't confuse this. "President Barack Obama's new fuel and emission standards for cars and trucks will save billions of barrels of oil but are expected to cost consumers an extra $1,300 per vehicle by the time the plan is complete in 2016." Obama's going to make this announcement today. He's doing it right now, always in the middle of this program. "Obama on Tuesday planned...

RUSH: In California today, voters are going to go to the polls to decide the fate of six ballot initiatives. Four of them would, if they pass, raise taxes on Californians. The Governator is not there. The Governator is in Washington along with Jennifer Granholm to celebrate the announcement by Obama today of these new auto emissions rules. They're going to add about -- well, if they're going to say $1,600 to the cost of the American family, double it at least by the time we get to 2016. Schwarzenegger...

Rush's Morning Update: New America!May 20, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer There's rising anger out there, folks,over the decision to force Chrysler to shut down auto dealerships --including profitable ones. Many dealerships are decades-old family-owned businesses. Now they have 100 days to sell every car on their lot,and after that, get lost.There are 44,000 cars sitting in the 800 dealerships that are being closed....

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"We don't need to drive around in these little buggies in order to save oil. All we have to do is drill for our own. We have tons of it!""Obama mentioned Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, the deceased longtime archbishop of Chicago, to the students at Notre Dame. He was a kind and good and wise, saintly man, Obama said. Never mind Obama joined Jeremiah Wright's church after all this influence from Cardinal Bernardin, but that's beside...

Story #1:Monkey Fossil Hailed as the Missing LinkRUSH: Drudge had as a lead item up there this morning on his page a story from the UK, Sky News: "Scientists Unveil Missing Link In Evolution." It's all about how Darwin would be thrilled to be alive today. "Scientists have unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution." It's a one-foot, nine-inch-tall monkey, and it's a lemur monkey described as the eighth wonder of the world. "The...