RUSH: Linda in Brighton, Michigan, nice to have you on the program. Hello.CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. I'm just thrilled to death to talk to you.RUSH: I have about one minute, but I wanted to get to you.CALLER: Well, listen, what I had heard today on Fox television -- and I almost fell right through the floor, I couldn't believe it -- where there's some talk now that Obama is wanting to change the Constitution so that a president can live forever as a president. And I'm really concerned about...

RUSH: Dustin in Indianapolis, as we head back to the phones. Great to have you here. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Mega dittos from a state not in financial distress thanks to a conservative governor.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: Just wanted to point out real quick here, kind of quick hit before I get into the real jobs number, I think I may have figured out where Obama is getting this "saved" number when he talks about jobs.RUSH: It's made up.CALLER: Well, it may be because of how many employees...

RUSH: I want you to hear this. June 25th, a week ago, Senate Judiciary Committee, Eric Holder testifying, and this is the question. "Jeff Sessions presents a hypothetical where a minister gives a sermon, quotes the Bible about homosexuality and is thereafter attacked..." You know what the media didn't pick up yet? Whether liberalism is chosen or whether you're born with it. Once they get through the fog of the Jackson death, Media Matters will get that to 'em. I'm sure they have it. It's just...

RUSH: Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut. Keeping with the comedic theme of today's program, ladies and gentlemen, we have news out of Washington, Barney Frank and TARP profits. This is the Banking Queen. (playing of Banking Queen song) I'm still thinking here, ladies and gentlemen, about the community food alliance of Palm Beach County and 211. That's what you call up here, anything from suicide to out of food stamps. And I'm thinking for $83 million, you get a live human...

RUSH: Dawn was reading the Palm Beach Post. I don't read it but she does, and she sent me this most amazing story. The headline: "Hungry Palm Beach County Residents Failing to Claim..." and Port St. Lucie is in Martin County, right? I'm sorry, St. Lucie County. St. Lucie County, yes, but it's not in Palm Beach County. "Hungry Palm Beach County Residents Failing to Claim $83 Million in Food Stamp Aid." Now, the first thing wrong with the headline is "hungry." If they were hungry they'd be collecting...

RUSH: This morning on CNBC Squawk on the Street, the guest here is the research chief economist from Argus, his name is Richard Yamarone. Might be Yamarone, I didn't hear the name pronounced. The cohost, Mark Haines, says, "You, sir, are a pessimistic?"YAMARONE: I've been traveling the country a lot in the last four weeks talking to small businessmen all over the country in different degrees. Chambers of commerce, rotary clubs, they're all telling me there's no stimulus, there's no reason to...

RUSH: This is Dick in St. Louis. Hi.CALLER: Hi. Rush, just think how bad things would be if Obama had not proposed with his stimulus and his bailouts and all these proposed programs that he's going to put out. Things could be a lot worse without that. And all the jobs he saved? My goodness!RUSH: Dick? (laughing)CALLER: (laughing)RUSH: Are you for real?CALLER: No, not really.RUSH: I was going to say (laughing) you're pretty good because that's what he's going to say in a half hour.CALLER:...

RUSH: I'm noticing more and more in advertising the phrase "you deserve." You deserve brighter eyes. Have you seen that commercial? It's all over cable, the female doctor who uses the product, "You deserve brighter eyes." Now, this is not a selling job. I don't care whether you use the product or not. That's not my point here. There's a phrase that's recurring more and more in the age of Obama: "you deserve." In the last few days I've heard four different ads telling you what you deserve....

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, when the Mark Sanford news broke, I lamented he could have been our JFK. And over at the garbage network, MSNBC, they didn't get it. They actually thought I was comparing JFK and Sanford's policies, not their philandering. Yesterday I knew they'd get it but they wouldn't understand it, and I was right. I know these people. Yesterday I went through the timeline of the Michael Jackson career, and I pointed out that Michael Jackson flourished, I mean, Michael Jackson...

RUSH: Here is an amazing story, and I want to share the details of this story with you, within the context that Obama is saying, that government's going to mandate the invention of solar power and wind power. All these new green technologies, all this magical new energy, Washington and Obama are just going to dictate, just going to say, "Go do it," and it will happen. And, of course, that's not how things happen. This is a story of 11-year-old Owen Voorhees. "[F]or the last nine months he climbed...

RUSH: Yesterday on CNN's Newsroom, the anchor, Melissa Long, has this exchange with Wall Street correspondent Susan Lisovicz about the economy.LONG: Nearly half a million jobs lost during the month of June, but is it possible to find a silver lining in all this? We want a silver lining! Susan Lisovicz at the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with more. Is there one?LISOVICZ: The silver lining, if you will, is that May was revised... Uh, the previous month I should say, uh, was revised lower...

RUSH: Unemployment is now at 9.5%; 467,000 jobs were cut in June. This is "far more than what was expected." Since President Obama took office, over two million jobs in less than six months, or close to six months, have been lost -- and it is astounding, it is hilarious to read State-Run Media today try to go through the contortions of making this sound not as bad as it is. Here is... Let's see. This is Reuters. "The June job losses were more than 100,000 greater than the 363,000 consensus of...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, for 232 years, on July 4th, America celebrated Independence Day. I mean, that's what it was about. Sadly, for too many Americans, it just became a cookout. But for 232 years on July 4th -- and it might be 233, you know, my numbers guy is sometimes off by years or months, but if it's 233, I don't care. Since the beginning of this country we have celebrated Independence Day. And now we have to ask ourselves, are we heading to Dependence Day? Not if I can help it....

Rush's Morning Update: UnrealJuly 3, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer My friends, if you're driving,pull over. If you're standing,sit down.Some of the financial institutions that took bailout money from the governmentwant to pay back the TARP funds as soon as they canto get out from under Obama's thumb. In fact, thehurry to repay the money is so greatthat the government has already earned over $6 billion in so-called...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Wouldn't you want chaos if you wanted more people to depend on government? This is a purposeful destruction of the economy by Obama.""I'm taking next week off, and people are already starting to give me grief: 'How can you leave during DEFCON 1?' It's already DEFCON 1, folks, from now until the end of Obama time." "Yeah, I know, I'm fighting a little fatigue today. I was up late last night teaching the new puppy how to go up and...

Story #1:Norks Light Off Four Missiles Ahead of 4th of JulyRUSH: So I went to bed last night safe and confident in the news that the Pentagon said that the Norks were not going to launch any missiles, that they'd gotten cold feet. I wake up this morning, I find out the Norks have lit off four of them. So then I said, "Well, I wonder what Obama's going to do?" He'll probably call Hugo Chavez to find out what to do about it except Hugo is in the hills marshaling forces to invade Hondurans, and...