RUSH: Here's Walter in Blairstown, New Jersey. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Rush?RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: TV dittos!RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: You're welcome. I know something about health insurance because much of my adult life I've carried my own policy, and Obama is setting up this straw man -- President Obama I should say is setting up this straw man -- about "preexisting conditions." Preexisting conditions is not so much something you have as something you know you...

RUSH: I'm going to go out on a limb here. I don't think Obama's going to get his national health care. We got too many forces aligned up against it. He's got some defections within his own party on this public option business. Plus, the doctors are tired being the villains here. He may get the AMA as a group, you know, like getting a union leader group to endorse what he's doing but the rank-and-file in the AMA, the doctors of this country are tired of being considered the villains in health...

RUSH: All totaled, you know, this past weekend I have to tell you, it was a grand-slam weekend for your host, El Rushbo, what the country learned over the past two days. The stimulus plan is a disaster -- and, by the way, let's grab the sound bite of this. Da ba-da ba-da. Yes, cut number nine, Meet the Press yesterday, Joe Biden was asked by David Gregory, "Dr. Romer from the White House, the assertion that you could keep unemployment at 8% and it'd go down after that. In fact, it's now 9.4%,...

RUSH: All right, Obama. I've had some people watching the speech. I obviously couldn't. I didn't really want to, as I said earlier. It irritates me, but there's somebody watching it. Apparently one of the primary arguments they had -- and of course there were many -- but one of the primary arguments that Obama made to the AMA during this hour-long speech was this. "Without reform, the system will be even more expensive than it already is." Now, this is the way the left sells every government...

RUSH: All right, Obama's approaching 55 minutes on this speech. I don't know who can sit through 55 minutes of a speech and be inspired by it at a conventional. I mean this is not as though you've got a comedian out there doing a stand up routine. This is dry, dull, political garbage. Cookie just sent me the first batch of audio sound bites from Obama's speech. I frankly don't want to listen to it. I was just telling Snerdley, I gotta be very, very careful about this 'cause I'm trying to be...

RUSH: By the way, folks, Vice President Cheney has responded to Leon Panetta, the director of the CIA. Panetta says, "It's almost as though Cheney wants another attack." Here's the official Cheney response: "I hope my old friend Leon was misquoted. The important thing is whether the Obama administration will continue the policies that have kept us safe for the last eight years." Mr. Vice President, I don't think there's much chance of that.Take a look at the Drudge Report, folks. Go to the front...

RUSH: Gallup poll, remember last week the Drive-Bys went all nuts with the USA Today/Gallup show that showed only 13% of the Republicans thought I spoke for them and then Cheney was at ten and they tried to paint this picture of the Republicans in the wilderness. Well, the Gallup people are out with another poll today, and it's very, very cool. Conservatives are the single largest ideology group in America. Forty percent of Americans call themselves conservative. The number of moderates is 35%....

RUSH: Let's get to health care here before Obama's speech starts, scheduled to start in five minutes and I want you to have some information before this speech begins. Back in 1993, when the Clintons attempted Hillary Care, one-seventh of the US economy was health care. It's now one-fifth and they're trying to take it over and they're trying to nationalize it. Even Stan Greenberg, the pollster who works with Clinton and Paul Begala, is out today saying this thing, it could fail, and it could...

RUSH: All right, we're going to talk about this Iranian situation. Did I call this or did I call this? I totally called this and I'm stunned. We've got audio sound bites from the Drive-By Media comparing Iran to Florida 2000. I mean it's just stunning. Everybody who knows anything about Iran and is willing to be honest admits that the mullahs pick the presidential candidates and then they pick which one is going to win, pure and simple, and that was always going to be Ahmadinejad, pure and...

Rush's Morning Update: Defense!June 16, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer A filing by the Obama Justice Department last weeksurprised hardcore supporters. Despite candidate Obama promising the gay community that he would work to overturn the Defense Of Marriage Act(DOMA),his lawyers urged dismissal of the first same-sex-marriage case to reach federal courts.The plaintiffs are two guys who tied the knot when same-sex marriages...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"If you're a Republican and you want to run for office in 2010, be conservative -- and don't make any excuses for it." "Obama's czars do not go through the legislative process or the confirmation process, and that is just statist behavior -- authoritarian behavior. It is Obama basically saying, 'Screw the way we've set this country up as a representative republic. I'm going to rule!'" "You ought to see my friend's dog and Punkin,...

Story #1:Obama's Half-Brother Writing Book in His HutRUSH: Obama's brother, who lives in a hut, is going to write a book entitled Homeless -- er, Homeland. I guess he's still in the hut, but he got an advance from somebody to write a book. He's turned to community organizing now in Kenya. Story #2:Don't Believe It: Obama Says He'll Trim MedicareRUSH: Here's something else I don't believe that Obama talked about. On Friday afternoon, he "outlined measures to trim spending on federal health programs...