RUSH: Ilsa in Raleigh, North Carolina, you're up next. Nice to have you on the EIB Network.CALLER: Thank you for taking my call.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: I'm originally from Vienna, Austria, and I've lived all over this country, and this plan for Obama will never work, socialized medicine. Vienna has the most sophisticated -- you get a chance, go on the Internet -- Vienna has the most sophisticated plan, which goes back to 1920, okay? Now, the way that works, you have a voucher, everybody has an...

RUSH: Ben in Milwaukee, you're next. It's Open Line Friday. We're happy to have you with us. Hello.CALLER: Yes, sir, Rush, and thank you for everything that you do.RUSH: Yes.CALLER: Rush, I have a question, and I need your perspective on this as the great teacher that you are, but I can't help but sit back and think that our current president is really... He's so caught up in building his library that you can't see that he's self-destructing. I mean, the people that he has surrounded himself...

RUSH: Bridget in Greenwich, Connecticut, you're next on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush, how are you?RUSH: Fine. Thank you very much.CALLER: Hey, I'm calling because I just wanted to make a comment about the hypocrisy regarding Don Imus versus David Letterman, and Don Imus several years ago was excoriated for the comments that he made about the women's basketball team at Rutgers, and yet occasion and Les Moonves didn't hesitate to fire Don Imus, and yet David Letterman is getting a...

RUSH: Robin in Houston, you're next on the EIB Network. Hi.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.RUSH: Yes, ma'am.CALLER: I'm calling, the monologue you gave a while back about how when we get back in power, that we're going to basically use all the tactics that they've used against us on them --RUSH: I was kind of having fun that day.CALLER: Yes.RUSH: I was warning them, okay, you guys are putting in all these laws and privileges for the government to wreak havoc on people, wait 'til...

RUSH: We'll start in Champaign, Illinois. This is John. Great to have with us, sir, hello.CALLER: Mr. Limbaugh, hi.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: I've got a quick question about health insurance.RUSH: Yes, sir.CALLER: The government already mandates auto insurance, and there are hundreds, if not thousands of profitable auto insurance companies. Why wouldn't the same thing work for health insurance companies?RUSH: Have you been reading the Wall Street Journal today?CALLER: No, I have not.RUSH: Well,...

RUSH: The inspector general of AmeriCorps has been fired. The inspector general... There are inspector generals for every federal agency, and they are not political, and they are there to investigate any malfeasance, any fraud, waste, theft, what have you. And they are not subject to -- theoretically they are not subject to -- political pressure. Firing one is a big deal. Firing an inspector general is a big deal. If you'll remember, Alberto Gonzales as attorney general fired a couple of US...

RUSH: I don't know if you've been keeping up with this, but it's about the prison abuse photos at Abu Ghraib and the Club Gitmo and so forth. And it's taking a meandering path here. Obama originally says he's going to release the photos. Then there's an outcry. He says he's not going to release the photos 'cause he's talked to the generals. And the generals say, it would put troops at risk, it would serve no purpose. Then the Democrats, the leftist Democrats in the House, many of them who...

RUSH: There is an "election" -- and I say election in quotes -- in Iran today. The turnout, we hear, is astronomically high. It is so high that they had to extend voting by a full hour. President Mahmoud -- listen to this from the government-run media, Reuters: "A representative of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the conservative president was ahead in Friday's presidential vote." Note, the conservative president, the conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Why, yeah, there's no difference between Mahmoud...

RUSH: I know most people don't like tobacco products and you're all excited the government got hold of this, going to reduce nicotine in the amount of cigarettes, so forth and so on, which is only going to increase the number of cigarettes people smoke. It's an addictive substance. In fact, nicotine is probably the most addictive substance on earth. A lot of people think it would be heroin or cocaine or crystal meth, but it's nicotine. Nicotine is the most addictive substance on earth. And...

Rush's Morning Update: PrioritiesJune 15, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer A recent Washington Post article starts like this: "Casting about for a cause, the Young Activist Club at Piney Branch Elementary settled on something close to hand: the 250 polystyrene trays and plastic utensils discarded daily in the school cafeteria."The story details the Young Activist Club's struggles - trying to get rid of Styrofoam trays at...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Letterman has just sunk to a shadow of himself. He used to be genuinely creative and funny back in his NBC days, but he has now just degenerated into an angry old man, filled with cynicism, not humor. It's a sad thing to see, actually, because he was so good at one point and apolitical.""Barack Obama is destroying health care. He is destroying the American private sector. He is destroying the solvency of the United States government....