RUSH: Well, if you look at the last couple of polls that I have seen where the so-called generic congressional ballot, where they go and they ask people, "If the election were held today, who would you vote for, for Congress?" without mentioning a candidate's name, it's tied, Republicans and Democrats. And I saw something the other day where as many people today identify themselves as Republicans as identified themselves as Democrats. You know about the Pew poll, and you guys at Fox even had a poll...

RUSH: Listen to this from Mrs. Clinton. Andy McCarthy, if you still have the radio on (laughs) buckle up.HILLARY: We are being out-communicated by the Taliban and Al-Qaeda. We have to have do a better job of getting the story of the values, ideals, the results of democracy out to people who are now being fed a steady diet of the worst kind of disinformation.RUSH: This is unbelievable. Hillary Clinton, secretary of state, says the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are out-communicating us, that we have to...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, I seldom talk about the broadcast business or people in it because in my mind there's nobody else in it but me. But secondly it's Inside Baseball. You know, we do what we do here. We don't talk about how we do it. The only time we talk about how we do it is when people are doing profiles and they want to know the ins and outs of procedures and philosophies and so forth. But I must break from this tradition today because there's controversy raging out there over the...

RUSH: Tina in Baton Rouge Louisiana great to have you with us on the EIB Network hello.CALLER: Oh, hi, Rush. It's such an honor to speak to the Last Man Standing.RUSH: Thank you very much. I am no longer, by the way, the Last Man Standing. That is General Colin Powell. I have resigned as titular head of the Republican Party.CALLER: Okay. Anyway, my question is, do you think that the rank-and-file Democrats really want to nationalize, like Obama does, all of the private sector?RUSH: The...

RUSH: Dingy Harry "became the latest Democrat to stray into rhetorical trouble Tuesday, botching statements on three subjects in one news conference -- including the fragile health of the chamber's most senior members." Before the program ended yesterday, I saw Drudge had it up there that Senator Kennedy's cancer was in remission, and it was a story from TheHill.com. It cleared at 2:44. I didn't have a chance to mention before the program ended. Then when I got home and I fired up the computer...

RUSH: As any of you and all of you who have been paying attention to the Drive-By news media the past number of months have heard, I am the titular head of the Republican Party. I have been anointed to this position by members of the Drive-By Media, and, of course, the Obama White House. I have not been named the titular or any other head of the Republican Party by anybody in the Republican Party. And so I hereby, ladies and gentlemen, today announce that I am resigning. I am resigning as the...

RUSH: I have admitted on this program countless times, I left New York in 1997 strictly to get away from the onerous taxation. I don't want to talk numbers, but it was humongous. And there was nothing that I was getting for that money in New York that I couldn't get somewhere else, and I could spend that money on things that I considered more worthwhile than propping up the New York City and New York state welfare states, which are independent of the federal welfare state. So I used my mobility...

RUSH: All right, a quick question, folks. Be honest with yourselves. How many of you are genuinely thrilled, genuinely excited about the California election results from last night? I know a lot of people are. I got e-mails from all over the country today: "Rush, you see what California did? Wow, this is great, this is fabulous, California said no to all of this." I have another take. I mean they did say that, that's correct. Greetings. Great to have you with us. Rush Limbaugh on hump...

Rush's Morning Update: Mo' Power!May 21, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Obama officials are about to give a federal agency the power to police mortgages and other financial products. According to the Wall Street Journal, just a few issues still need to be resolved. One is the new agency's scope,determining just how much deeper government will intrude into the insurance industry and mutual funds. Another is whether to create...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"If the Republican Party is not willing to pick up what happened in California and run with it, it may as well have not happened.""The Republican Party today is not the Republican Party of Ronald Reagan. The Republican Party today is led by people who think tax cuts are a bygone issue, and they're going to look at these results in California and see a problem.""Do you think the feds are going to allow California to go bankrupt?...

Story #1: World's Richest People Hold Super-Secret MeetingRUSH: : Interesting story today in the New York Post: "A group of the world's richest people met earlier this month in New York City in secret, apparently to discuss their philanthropic efforts in the midst of the severe recession, ABCNews.com reported. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett ... are said to have invited the others to the meeting. Attendees included Mayor Bloomberg, [The] Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner, George Soros and David Rockefeller....