RUSH: Terry in Mesa, Arizona, great to have you with us. Hi.CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush, from the only desert Southwest red state.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: Hey, earlier you had said there were certain people that had kind of ruined I think it was the Republican Party? McCain, Colin Powell --RUSH: No, there's a story today in USA Today, and it's based on a Gallup poll that suggests that the party's in trouble because its leader, me, and all the other so-called leaders, according to the poll,...

RUSH: Here's Mike in Darien, Connecticut, as we go back to the phones. Great to have you with us today on the EIB Network. Hi.CALLER: Rush, it's a pleasure to speak with you.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: One of the things I wanted to point out, I've been an auto analyst for 25 years and one of the things that's been missed by the media --RUSH: Wait, wait, wait just a second. What is an auto analyst? Like, where do you work, what's your job? CALLER: I'm an analyst. I analyze the auto industry...

RUSH: Timmy Geithner, the tax cheat, held a press conference to talk about the Obama administration's plans to "rework" executive compensation rules. Geithner tried to pull an Obama. He tried to do doublespeak, like Obama does. Let's listen together and see if Little Timmy was able to pull it off.GEITHNER: Looking forward, we're going to support giving SEC legislative authority for say-on-pay legislation. What we're not doing, we're not proposing ongoing government role in setting policy on...

RUSH: I got an e-mail last night from a friend of mine in Detroit at our blowtorch affiliate there, WJR. He said, "Did you talk about this today?" I looked at it and I said, "No."This was yesterday in the Detroit News, a story by Gordon Trowbridge, who I don't think wrote the headline, but the headline is: "Right-Wing Radio Hosts Hewitt and Limbaugh Back GM Boycott -- A pair of right-wing radio hosts says there's only one choice for conservatives angry about government involvement in the auto industry:...

RUSH: Ty in Woodbridge, Virginia, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Mega dittos, Maha Rushie.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: I was just calling to sound the alarm on the election in Virginia for governor being just like the election for Obama for president.RUSH: Well, how?CALLER: Well, in Virginia, they're trying to raise our taxes as much as they can, as quickly as they can. We're one of the only viable states left in the country, and they're gonna come in and raise our taxes just...

RUSH: Ted in Ann Arbor, Michigan, great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. How's it going? RUSH: Well, pretty good, sir. Nice to have you with us.CALLER: Well, I just wanted to call, and I -- I listen from time to time, and I wanted to call and ask you based on your characterization of Letterman's comments how do you view what you do every day to the Democratic leaders and whatnot with the same kind of comments? How are you different than Letterman? So aren't you pathetic...

RUSH: Last night CNBC, they have a show called CNBC Reports, the co-host, Dennis Kneale, said this...KNEALE: This, uh, Republican attack machine in full force once again. Outspoken Republican brass like Newt Gingrich and Rush Limbaugh weighing in. Newt said President Obama's "stimulus has already failed." Rush Limbaugh is comparing the president to Mikhail Gorbachev -- and he means that in a negative way. So they're mounting a vigorous and informed opposition. Now, I think that's part of democracy....

RUSH: I think Obama, all this stuff here about he's gonna get paygo, we're going to be responsible, except for health care, all this is just infuriating. President Obama is admitting he cannot be trusted to spend our money wisely and carefully without a law. He wants Congress to pass a paygo law after he's robbed the United States for 25 years. Every criminal who has ever served time could learn something from Barack Obama when it comes to stealing money. The hell with Willie Sutton, for crying...

RUSH: What do Obama and God have in common? Neither has a birth certificate. How do they differ? God does not think he's Obama. And there's another difference between God and Obama, and that is that liberals love Obama. BREAK TRANSCRIPTRUSH: We have some more differences for you here between President Obama and God. God asks for only 10% of your money. God gives you freedom to live your life as you choose. God's plan to save us is actually written down for people to read.END TRANSCRIPT*Note:...

BREAK TRANSCRIPTRUSH: Let's go back to me, myself, on this show March 30th, I said this.RUSH ARCHIVE: He doesn't know anything about the automobile business. He doesn't know how to change a tire. The automobile business needs car guys, people that love grease, get in there, manufacture these engines and cars, great designs, lines, make people want to go out and buy these cars. Car companies have to be run by financial people today because they're basically health care and retirement funds.RUSH:...

RUSH: Yes, I saw it. I'm going to talk about it, the USA Today cover story today. It's kind of interesting in a way. I'm going to get to it here in just a second. They keep recycling this garbage. Here's the bottom line: Obama is hurting. His policies are crumbling. He is in panic mode in the White House and yet the State-Run Media, government-controlled media focused on the GOP and how hurting it is and in what pain it is. Where is the cover story on the failed policies of Barack Obama,...

RUSH: Reverend Wright is back. Yes, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is back. The Hampton Roads Daily Press has a little blurb today. "The Rev. Jeremiah Wright says he does not feel any regrets over his severed relationship with President Barack Obama. … Wright also said that he had not spoken to his former church member since Obama became president. … 'Regret for what... that the media went back five, seven, 10 years and spent $4,000 buying 20 years worth of sermons to hear what I've...

Rush's Morning Update: HealthJune 11, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Under one of the plans Democrats are floating to nationalize our health care system … employers would be forced to offer health care benefits to their employees – or face government fines. The bill would also provide wealth-transfer payments; those who supposedly can afford it would subsidize those too poor to pay. That would include –...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"There is a palpable fear throughout this country of speaking out against Obama, from the Republican Party on down through the rest of the country.""My comments on Obama are based on love: love of this country, love of my job, love for the opportunity that I have each and every day to come in here and do this. No program would be as successful as mine for as long as it has been if it were based on hate.""What paygo will actually...

Story #1: Every Diet Works: Rush Down 62 PoundsRUSH: For those of you -- (interruption) What's the look on your face, Mr. Snerdley? Snerdley, you want to distract my opening of the program with a comment on my shirt and how you think it's starting to look too big on me already. You know, you keep bringing this up. You keep forcing me to talk about it. I got people, hundreds, maybe thousands now asking me to post the diet. I can't. I mean even if I wanted to, I can't. It's too complicated. There's...