RUSH: Now, the jobless rate is now official. Yesterday it was 9.2%. Today they've really officialized it. The unemployment rate is 9.4%. This is a 26-year high! How is that hope and change working for you? How is that stimulus working for you? Biden went on television today while Obama's over there wining and dining his wife in Paris and says, "You know what? We're going to speed up the stimulus spending." They're going to speed it up? What, you're just going to do it by fiat or you going...

RUSH: Jeff in Ft. Lauderdale, hi, and welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Wow. I can't believe I'm on with Rush Limbaugh. Mega dittos --RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: -- from Ft. Lauderdale. And, by the way, Rush, I agree with Sean Hannity, you look great, and keep up the good work.RUSH: Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I have to tell you, though, I look better than I looked on Fox. I didn't look bad, but TV does add ten or 15 pounds to you. I look far better -- I mean I look...

RUSH: Ellen in Essex, Connecticut. We had Ellen on the phone yesterday, when we ran out of time, and she let us call her back. Ellen, thanks for letting us do that. Great to have you back with us today.CALLER: Great to you talk with you again, Rush. It's a rainy day here and I'm glad to talk to you about it again.RUSH: All right. Let's get started from the very beginning of what you were talking about yesterday.CALLER: Yeah. Well, you were talking on and off over the course of several days...

RUSH: Matthew in Fresno, California, you're on Open Line Friday. Hi, sir.CALLER: Hello, sir. Mega dittos. I just wanted to call to let you know that I just graduated from Fresno State as a political science major.RUSH: Congratulations.CALLER: Thank you, sir. I've grown up ever since second grade coming home and watching the Rush Limbaugh show with my dad. I've had Rush Limbaugh around me my whole life. My wife bought my first Rush 24/7 subscription when we got married, and I've used information...

RUSH: Sarah Palin was in Alaska. Michael Reagan went up there for a speech, and she introduced Michael Reagan. Sarah Palin in Alaska yesterday.PALIN: Friends, we need to be aware of the creation of a fearful population and of fearful lawmakers being led to believe that big government is the answer. To bail out the private sector because then, government gets to get in there and control it and, mark my words, this is going to happen next, I fear -- bail out next, debt-ridden states, then government...

RUSH: This is Karna. It's Karna in Washington, our nation's capital. Hi, Karna. It's great to have you here.CALLER: Well, hi, Rush! Delighted to be with you today.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Since it's Open Line Friday, I thought I'd bring up a point about the great amassing of executive power that this new president's been going through that hasn't really gotten a lot of press coverage. I mean, for example, look. The man has now appointed -- I think I'm right on this, I do a lot of research --...

RUSH: Do you know how sick I am of Obama? I'm going to get to Obama. I'm going to get to the sham of a show in Germany. We're going to talk more about the sham of a speech yesterday in Cairo. Did you see Angela Merkel standing next to the guy? Put this in perspective. She was standing there, and she's not happy because they're not getting along and they haven't gotten along ever. So there he is, he's at Buchenwald today, the concentration camp, and he is beating Germany up, he's ripping them...

RUSH: Now, the jobless rate is now official. Yesterday it was 9.2%. Today they've really officialized it. The unemployment rate is 9.4%. This is a 26-year high! How is that hope and change working for you? How is that stimulus working for you? Biden went on television today while Obama's over there wining and dining his wife in Paris and says, "You know what? We're going to speed up the stimulus spending." They're going to speed it up? What, you're just going to do it by fiat or you going...

RUSH: You know Scott Rasmussen has on his polling site... He keeps track of something calls the Rasmussen Presidential Tracking Poll, the presidential approval index, and what he does is, he keeps track of the line of "strongly disapprove" and "strongly approve" of Obama and then comes up with the presidential approval index. Now, since Obama was inaugurated, his approval index has hovered anywhere from plus-20 to plus-2. Today, it's at zero. They're both at 34. Thirty-four percent strongly...

RUSH: Here's the New York Times thing on Sotomayor: "In speech after speech over the years, Judge Sonia Sotomayor has returned to the themes of diversity, struggle, heritage and alienation that have both powered and complicated her nomination to the Supreme Court." What we have found out is that I was right to stick with this notion that she is racist. She makes this reference to wise Latina woman repeatedly over the course of her career, not just twice. It is Obama who needs to retract what he...

Rush's Morning Update: Move BeyondJune 8, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Washington Post columnist David Broder recalled a conversation he had with Democrat Mark Pryor during Sam Alito's confirmation hearings to the Supreme Court in 2005. Pryor – who’s on the Senate Judiciary Committee – complained that the Alito hearings soon turned in a discussion about Robert Bork's confirmation process. Last week,...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule." "A time-honored Obama technique is go ahead and say something that's correct and then 'but, on the other hand,' which then equates what comes next with what he said first." "I love the Israelis. Obama yesterday, in his outreach of love speech at Cairo University, admonished the Israelis to stop building settlements on the West Bank. So the...

Story #1: Defiant Israeli Settlers Construct "Obama Huts"RUSH: I love the Israelis. Even the Israelis in Tel Aviv, even the San Francisco Israelis. I love 'em. Have you heard what they're doing? Obama yesterday, in his outreach of love and "please respect me" and "please raise my approval numbers," in his speech at Cairo University, he admonished the Israelis to stop building settlements on the West Bank. So the Israelis responded today by increasing their construction of what they're now calling...