RUSH: I have a question for you moderates out there. You moderates, we're told that any criticism... In fact, the American Thinker had a piece yesterday that if you're out there trying to persuade a liberal, don't mention my name. You mention my name and the liberal will shut down. Don't cite my show as where you heard a fact. If it's true, doesn't matter, liberals will shut down. So you moderates, you are going to go ape bananas if Republicans are critical, right? Well, here's Roland Burris....

RUSH: Now, I am being criticized in the Drive-By Media, "He couldn't even give her a day. I mean, he couldn't wait. It was not even 90 minutes and Limbaugh is out trying to say these horrible things about Sonia Sotomayor." Forty-five minutes after the Reagan administration announced the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, Ted Kennedy took to the floor of the Senate and said this: "Robert Bork's America is a land in which women would be forced into back alley abortions, blacks would...

RUSH: Try this on for size. The old guard blue-blood country club Republicans are scared to death that if they oppose Sonia Sotomayor, that they will forever be casting aside the chance to get the women and Hispanic vote. Now, I know I've said this countless times today, but I want to understand why it is -- I need somebody to tell me why it is that the Democrats can be literally mean, extremist, try to destroy people and that never hurts 'em. They can criticize any of us in any way; they can...

RUSH: "US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday the Obama administration wanted to paint roofs an energy-reflecting white, as he took part in a climate change symposium in London. The Nobel laureate in physics called for a 'new revolution' in energy generation to cut greenhouse gas emissions." You know, the air is fizzling out of the global warming movement. ABC's going to be running a show by Mike Judge that's going to be making fun of an environmentalist nut family in the Midwest. It's an...

RUSH: You know what my problem is, folks? I want to be very honest. I have never been an oppressed minority, even though I am in a minority. I don't think like one. Conservatism is an oppressed minority today. The Republican Party is an oppressed minority. The only problem I have is I don't think that way. But they all do. When you're an oppressed minority, what do you do? You willingly go to the back of the bus and you willingly shut up and you willingly don't make waves. If ever a civil...

RUSH: Here's Obama on a Chicago FM radio station in 2001. The interviewer says, "Joined by Barack Obama, Illinois state senator, 13th District, senior lecturer at a law school, University of Chicago." And in this bite, Obama discusses redistribution of wealth and how the Supreme Court's never gotten into it.OBAMA: If you look at the victories and failures of the civil rights movement and its litigation strategy in the court, I think where it succeeded was to vest formal rights in previously dispossessed...

RUSH: H.R. asking me if the Republican Party was afraid of offending Hispanics back in '97 by opposing Sotomayor, you have hit a button. Let me ask a question. When Clarence Thomas was nominated to be an associate justice of the US Supreme Court, did the Democrats worry about angering the black vote when they opposed him? Why not? Do you recall that when Miguel Estrada and Alberto Gonzales were nominated for positions in the Bush administration, they were opposed by Democrats specifically because...

RUSH: I had forgotten this. The Hill, Capitol Hill newspaper, recalled that in 1997 I predicted that Sonia Sotomayor was on a "rocket ship" for the US Supreme Court. Yes, we have posted the story at RushLimbaugh.com. It's a flashback. The headline here: "'Limbaugh Foresaw Sotomayor Pick in '97.' -- Rush Limbaugh all but predicted 12 years ago that Sonia Sotomayor was headed to the Supreme Court. In 1997, when President Bill Clinton nominated Sotomayor to become a US Circuit Court judge, Limbaugh...

Rush's Morning Update: In DefenseMay 28, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer I have a simple question for you today:What do you believe is worth defending?Since January, we have been told that our way of lifeis going tochange-- like it or not. Government officials will impose harsh taxes on businesses,and unelected, unaccountable Ivy League-educated bureaucrats will determine the proper compensation for high achievers....

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"If the GOP allows itself to be trapped in the false premise that it's racist and sexist and must show the world that it isn't, then the GOP is extinct.""You know what we need? We need somebody on the Supreme Court who was a bondholder for either General Motors or Chrysler who can sympathize with how the bondholders are getting shafted here. We need somebody with empathy." "I just got an e-mail: 'Rush, we have to choose our battles....