RUSH: Nancy in Columbia, South Carolina. Hello and welcome.CALLER: Thank you, Rush, for taking my call. I really appreciate it.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: I'm a proud aunt and godmother of an Army Airborne Ranger, Michael Behenna, first lieutenant. My question is: How am I supposed to celebrate Independence Day when we send our troops overseas, and then we persecute and then prosecute them for doing their job, and we lock 'em up in Leavenworth. I have a nephew serving 25 years for defending himself...

RUSH: Our official climatologist here, Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville sent me a question after hearing my last dissertation: "Equality of outcomes. How can a senator or congressman, for example -- after working to achieve their station in life, how can a senator or congressman -- then argue that everybody else needs to be the same?" Now, Snerdley, you're acting in there like, "Yeah, right." What do you mean, "Yeah, right"? Do you think it's a good question? It is a good...

RUSH: So, ladies and gentlemen, for 232, 233 years on July 4th, America celebrated Independence Day. And now people rightly ask, "Are we headed to Dependence Day?" Not if I have anything to say about it. "When in the course of human events..." Seven words that started the Declaration of Independence and begot the United States of America: "When in the course of human events..." Independence -- a single word, a glorious idea, a word that guided us and governed us for 233 years or whatever it is....

RUSH: Here's Jerry in Cookeville, Tennessee. Hi, Jerry. Thank you for calling. You're on Open Line Friday. You're next.CALLER: Hi, Rush.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: First off, I'd just like to say to you and all your staff, a very happy Independence Day. Out of 233 years, this might be the last one as we know it to be a real Independence Day. I called to ask you: "What kind of golf clubs do you use?" I mean, are they Pings, or --RUSH: No. My bag is full of different kinds. I have a Cleveland Launcher...

RUSH: I have to think that the Democrat Party, before all this is said and done, is going to destroy itself. They're going to enact things here that the American people, most of whom are going to be blindsided by it, are just not going to understand and put up with. They have no idea it's coming. The question, the only question is: "Will this giant overreaching occur in time, or will it occur after Obama and these people are entrenched and there's nothing that can be done about it?" For example,...

RUSH: Dave in Tucson, you're next. It's Open Line Friday. Nice to have you here. Hello.CALLER: Good morning, Rush. How you doing this morning?RUSH: Good, sir, thank you.CALLER: May your next round be your best.RUSH: You know what? It can't help but be. Well, that's not true. It can't help but be better.CALLER: That's a good way to put it. I've been thinking about a question to ask you for years and there really isn't one. So I have to thank you. You keep saying that we always will remember...

RUSH: Here's Conan, as we go back to the phones. Conan in Charlottesville, Virginia. Nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.CALLER: Fifteen-handicap, two-supporting dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.CALLER: Well, I represent an uncounted and invisible member of the unemployed class: the small business owner that can no longer afford to take a paycheck.RUSH: Well, that's the same thing as being unemployed. How many employees do you have?CALLER: Well, I had about 15. I'm down to...

RUSH: Now, Colin Powell. I've been wondering during all of this job loss and all of this expansion of government: Where are Colin Powell and Tom Ridge? You know Colin Powell and Tom Ridge have both said that I'm not any good for the Republican Party, and people are saying, "Yeah, we need Colin Powell. He's the ideal Republican!" A guy who endorsed and voted for Obama!I'm saying, "Where are these people?" I mean, I guess by their silence they support what's going on here. They support every job...

RUSH: Obama is close to having a number of hospitals, part of a hospital association, on his side now for national care. And I want to tell you how he does this. He calls in each part of the health care industry -- the hospitals, the insurance companies, big business retailers, big business providers -- and he makes it clear that they can join him or he will punish them. So what they do is cut the best deal they think they can and they [the Obama administration] announce that they are supported...

RUSH: We always try to go to the phones earlier than normal today. Normally we don't get to the phones 'til the second hour of this program, but on Friday -- since we're urging people, inviting them to call and telling them the show is theirs, the content's theirs when we go to the phones -- we try to go earlier, and I'm going to do that today. We're gonna start with Edgar in Atlanta. It's great to have you with us, Edgar. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Back in January, you said you were going to let us...

RUSH: I found a quote, by the way, back from May 23rd. Because the last couple of days, the Obama administration has been leaking the possibility of a second stimulus out there. I remember the sobering holiday interview with C-SPAN back on May 23rd. This is during the Memorial Day weekend. Obama said to Americans, "We are out of money." Steve Scully of C-SPAN broke from a week of having Washington press Corps's probing questions for the new president, and Scully said, "You know, the numbers, $1.7...

RUSH: You ought to see the looks I'm getting. If it weren't for me, everybody else in this show would have the day off today.JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it's Open Line Friday!RUSH: That's right, folks. This is an EIB company-wide holiday, and I am EIB. But I didn't declare it an EIB company-wide holiday. It just happened. So I was told yesterday, "We're playing a best-of show today on tape." I said, "No, we are not." It seems this EIB company-wide holiday edict went...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"It's our job -- yours, mine, ours -- to do everything we can to resist the false promises of dependence and to cherish the virtues of independence.""This is the craziest damn recession I can remember being in. Look at that movie Transformers 2 -- that thing is going to rake in $400 million worldwide, in, what? Two or three weeks? And I've read a review of it, and it makes no sense." "I know how much it irritates Democrats and a...

RUSH: Nancy in Columbia, South Carolina. Hello and welcome.CALLER: Thank you, Rush, for taking my call. I really appreciate it.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: I'm a proud aunt and godmother of an Army Airborne Ranger, Michael Behenna, first lieutenant. My question is: How am I supposed to celebrate Independence Day when we send our troops overseas, and then we persecute and then prosecute them for doing their job, and we lock 'em up in Leavenworth. I have a nephew serving 25 years for defending himself...

RUSH: Our official climatologist here, Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville sent me a question after hearing my last dissertation: "Equality of outcomes. How can a senator or congressman, for example -- after working to achieve their station in life, how can a senator or congressman -- then argue that everybody else needs to be the same?" Now, Snerdley, you're acting in there like, "Yeah, right." What do you mean, "Yeah, right"? Do you think it's a good question? It is a good...

RUSH: So, ladies and gentlemen, for 232, 233 years on July 4th, America celebrated Independence Day. And now people rightly ask, "Are we headed to Dependence Day?" Not if I have anything to say about it. "When in the course of human events..." Seven words that started the Declaration of Independence and begot the United States of America: "When in the course of human events..." Independence -- a single word, a glorious idea, a word that guided us and governed us for 233 years or whatever it is....

RUSH: Here's Jerry in Cookeville, Tennessee. Hi, Jerry. Thank you for calling. You're on Open Line Friday. You're next.CALLER: Hi, Rush.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: First off, I'd just like to say to you and all your staff, a very happy Independence Day. Out of 233 years, this might be the last one as we know it to be a real Independence Day. I called to ask you: "What kind of golf clubs do you use?" I mean, are they Pings, or --RUSH: No. My bag is full of different kinds. I have a Cleveland Launcher...

RUSH: I have to think that the Democrat Party, before all this is said and done, is going to destroy itself. They're going to enact things here that the American people, most of whom are going to be blindsided by it, are just not going to understand and put up with. They have no idea it's coming. The question, the only question is: "Will this giant overreaching occur in time, or will it occur after Obama and these people are entrenched and there's nothing that can be done about it?" For example,...

RUSH: Dave in Tucson, you're next. It's Open Line Friday. Nice to have you here. Hello.CALLER: Good morning, Rush. How you doing this morning?RUSH: Good, sir, thank you.CALLER: May your next round be your best.RUSH: You know what? It can't help but be. Well, that's not true. It can't help but be better.CALLER: That's a good way to put it. I've been thinking about a question to ask you for years and there really isn't one. So I have to thank you. You keep saying that we always will remember...

RUSH: Here's Conan, as we go back to the phones. Conan in Charlottesville, Virginia. Nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.CALLER: Fifteen-handicap, two-supporting dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.CALLER: Well, I represent an uncounted and invisible member of the unemployed class: the small business owner that can no longer afford to take a paycheck.RUSH: Well, that's the same thing as being unemployed. How many employees do you have?CALLER: Well, I had about 15. I'm down to...

RUSH: Now, Colin Powell. I've been wondering during all of this job loss and all of this expansion of government: Where are Colin Powell and Tom Ridge? You know Colin Powell and Tom Ridge have both said that I'm not any good for the Republican Party, and people are saying, "Yeah, we need Colin Powell. He's the ideal Republican!" A guy who endorsed and voted for Obama!I'm saying, "Where are these people?" I mean, I guess by their silence they support what's going on here. They support every job...

RUSH: Obama is close to having a number of hospitals, part of a hospital association, on his side now for national care. And I want to tell you how he does this. He calls in each part of the health care industry -- the hospitals, the insurance companies, big business retailers, big business providers -- and he makes it clear that they can join him or he will punish them. So what they do is cut the best deal they think they can and they [the Obama administration] announce that they are supported...

RUSH: We always try to go to the phones earlier than normal today. Normally we don't get to the phones 'til the second hour of this program, but on Friday -- since we're urging people, inviting them to call and telling them the show is theirs, the content's theirs when we go to the phones -- we try to go earlier, and I'm going to do that today. We're gonna start with Edgar in Atlanta. It's great to have you with us, Edgar. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Back in January, you said you were going to let us...

RUSH: I found a quote, by the way, back from May 23rd. Because the last couple of days, the Obama administration has been leaking the possibility of a second stimulus out there. I remember the sobering holiday interview with C-SPAN back on May 23rd. This is during the Memorial Day weekend. Obama said to Americans, "We are out of money." Steve Scully of C-SPAN broke from a week of having Washington press Corps's probing questions for the new president, and Scully said, "You know, the numbers, $1.7...

RUSH: You ought to see the looks I'm getting. If it weren't for me, everybody else in this show would have the day off today.JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it's Open Line Friday!RUSH: That's right, folks. This is an EIB company-wide holiday, and I am EIB. But I didn't declare it an EIB company-wide holiday. It just happened. So I was told yesterday, "We're playing a best-of show today on tape." I said, "No, we are not." It seems this EIB company-wide holiday edict went...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"It's our job -- yours, mine, ours -- to do everything we can to resist the false promises of dependence and to cherish the virtues of independence.""This is the craziest damn recession I can remember being in. Look at that movie Transformers 2 -- that thing is going to rake in $400 million worldwide, in, what? Two or three weeks? And I've read a review of it, and it makes no sense." "I know how much it irritates Democrats and a...

RUSH: Nancy in Columbia, South Carolina. Hello and welcome.CALLER: Thank you, Rush, for taking my call. I really appreciate it.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: I'm a proud aunt and godmother of an Army Airborne Ranger, Michael Behenna, first lieutenant. My question is: How am I supposed to celebrate Independence Day when we send our troops overseas, and then we persecute and then prosecute them for doing their job, and we lock 'em up in Leavenworth. I have a nephew serving 25 years for defending himself...

RUSH: Our official climatologist here, Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville sent me a question after hearing my last dissertation: "Equality of outcomes. How can a senator or congressman, for example -- after working to achieve their station in life, how can a senator or congressman -- then argue that everybody else needs to be the same?" Now, Snerdley, you're acting in there like, "Yeah, right." What do you mean, "Yeah, right"? Do you think it's a good question? It is a good...

RUSH: So, ladies and gentlemen, for 232, 233 years on July 4th, America celebrated Independence Day. And now people rightly ask, "Are we headed to Dependence Day?" Not if I have anything to say about it. "When in the course of human events..." Seven words that started the Declaration of Independence and begot the United States of America: "When in the course of human events..." Independence -- a single word, a glorious idea, a word that guided us and governed us for 233 years or whatever it is....

RUSH: Here's Jerry in Cookeville, Tennessee. Hi, Jerry. Thank you for calling. You're on Open Line Friday. You're next.CALLER: Hi, Rush.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: First off, I'd just like to say to you and all your staff, a very happy Independence Day. Out of 233 years, this might be the last one as we know it to be a real Independence Day. I called to ask you: "What kind of golf clubs do you use?" I mean, are they Pings, or --RUSH: No. My bag is full of different kinds. I have a Cleveland Launcher...

RUSH: I have to think that the Democrat Party, before all this is said and done, is going to destroy itself. They're going to enact things here that the American people, most of whom are going to be blindsided by it, are just not going to understand and put up with. They have no idea it's coming. The question, the only question is: "Will this giant overreaching occur in time, or will it occur after Obama and these people are entrenched and there's nothing that can be done about it?" For example,...

RUSH: Dave in Tucson, you're next. It's Open Line Friday. Nice to have you here. Hello.CALLER: Good morning, Rush. How you doing this morning?RUSH: Good, sir, thank you.CALLER: May your next round be your best.RUSH: You know what? It can't help but be. Well, that's not true. It can't help but be better.CALLER: That's a good way to put it. I've been thinking about a question to ask you for years and there really isn't one. So I have to thank you. You keep saying that we always will remember...

RUSH: Here's Conan, as we go back to the phones. Conan in Charlottesville, Virginia. Nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.CALLER: Fifteen-handicap, two-supporting dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.CALLER: Well, I represent an uncounted and invisible member of the unemployed class: the small business owner that can no longer afford to take a paycheck.RUSH: Well, that's the same thing as being unemployed. How many employees do you have?CALLER: Well, I had about 15. I'm down to...

RUSH: Now, Colin Powell. I've been wondering during all of this job loss and all of this expansion of government: Where are Colin Powell and Tom Ridge? You know Colin Powell and Tom Ridge have both said that I'm not any good for the Republican Party, and people are saying, "Yeah, we need Colin Powell. He's the ideal Republican!" A guy who endorsed and voted for Obama!I'm saying, "Where are these people?" I mean, I guess by their silence they support what's going on here. They support every job...

RUSH: Obama is close to having a number of hospitals, part of a hospital association, on his side now for national care. And I want to tell you how he does this. He calls in each part of the health care industry -- the hospitals, the insurance companies, big business retailers, big business providers -- and he makes it clear that they can join him or he will punish them. So what they do is cut the best deal they think they can and they [the Obama administration] announce that they are supported...

RUSH: We always try to go to the phones earlier than normal today. Normally we don't get to the phones 'til the second hour of this program, but on Friday -- since we're urging people, inviting them to call and telling them the show is theirs, the content's theirs when we go to the phones -- we try to go earlier, and I'm going to do that today. We're gonna start with Edgar in Atlanta. It's great to have you with us, Edgar. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Back in January, you said you were going to let us...

RUSH: I found a quote, by the way, back from May 23rd. Because the last couple of days, the Obama administration has been leaking the possibility of a second stimulus out there. I remember the sobering holiday interview with C-SPAN back on May 23rd. This is during the Memorial Day weekend. Obama said to Americans, "We are out of money." Steve Scully of C-SPAN broke from a week of having Washington press Corps's probing questions for the new president, and Scully said, "You know, the numbers, $1.7...

RUSH: You ought to see the looks I'm getting. If it weren't for me, everybody else in this show would have the day off today.JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it's Open Line Friday!RUSH: That's right, folks. This is an EIB company-wide holiday, and I am EIB. But I didn't declare it an EIB company-wide holiday. It just happened. So I was told yesterday, "We're playing a best-of show today on tape." I said, "No, we are not." It seems this EIB company-wide holiday edict went...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"It's our job -- yours, mine, ours -- to do everything we can to resist the false promises of dependence and to cherish the virtues of independence.""This is the craziest damn recession I can remember being in. Look at that movie Transformers 2 -- that thing is going to rake in $400 million worldwide, in, what? Two or three weeks? And I've read a review of it, and it makes no sense." "I know how much it irritates Democrats and a...

RUSH: Nancy in Columbia, South Carolina. Hello and welcome.CALLER: Thank you, Rush, for taking my call. I really appreciate it.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: I'm a proud aunt and godmother of an Army Airborne Ranger, Michael Behenna, first lieutenant. My question is: How am I supposed to celebrate Independence Day when we send our troops overseas, and then we persecute and then prosecute them for doing their job, and we lock 'em up in Leavenworth. I have a nephew serving 25 years for defending himself...

RUSH: Our official climatologist here, Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville sent me a question after hearing my last dissertation: "Equality of outcomes. How can a senator or congressman, for example -- after working to achieve their station in life, how can a senator or congressman -- then argue that everybody else needs to be the same?" Now, Snerdley, you're acting in there like, "Yeah, right." What do you mean, "Yeah, right"? Do you think it's a good question? It is a good...

RUSH: So, ladies and gentlemen, for 232, 233 years on July 4th, America celebrated Independence Day. And now people rightly ask, "Are we headed to Dependence Day?" Not if I have anything to say about it. "When in the course of human events..." Seven words that started the Declaration of Independence and begot the United States of America: "When in the course of human events..." Independence -- a single word, a glorious idea, a word that guided us and governed us for 233 years or whatever it is....

RUSH: Here's Jerry in Cookeville, Tennessee. Hi, Jerry. Thank you for calling. You're on Open Line Friday. You're next.CALLER: Hi, Rush.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: First off, I'd just like to say to you and all your staff, a very happy Independence Day. Out of 233 years, this might be the last one as we know it to be a real Independence Day. I called to ask you: "What kind of golf clubs do you use?" I mean, are they Pings, or --RUSH: No. My bag is full of different kinds. I have a Cleveland Launcher...

RUSH: I have to think that the Democrat Party, before all this is said and done, is going to destroy itself. They're going to enact things here that the American people, most of whom are going to be blindsided by it, are just not going to understand and put up with. They have no idea it's coming. The question, the only question is: "Will this giant overreaching occur in time, or will it occur after Obama and these people are entrenched and there's nothing that can be done about it?" For example,...

RUSH: Dave in Tucson, you're next. It's Open Line Friday. Nice to have you here. Hello.CALLER: Good morning, Rush. How you doing this morning?RUSH: Good, sir, thank you.CALLER: May your next round be your best.RUSH: You know what? It can't help but be. Well, that's not true. It can't help but be better.CALLER: That's a good way to put it. I've been thinking about a question to ask you for years and there really isn't one. So I have to thank you. You keep saying that we always will remember...

RUSH: Here's Conan, as we go back to the phones. Conan in Charlottesville, Virginia. Nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.CALLER: Fifteen-handicap, two-supporting dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.CALLER: Well, I represent an uncounted and invisible member of the unemployed class: the small business owner that can no longer afford to take a paycheck.RUSH: Well, that's the same thing as being unemployed. How many employees do you have?CALLER: Well, I had about 15. I'm down to...

RUSH: Now, Colin Powell. I've been wondering during all of this job loss and all of this expansion of government: Where are Colin Powell and Tom Ridge? You know Colin Powell and Tom Ridge have both said that I'm not any good for the Republican Party, and people are saying, "Yeah, we need Colin Powell. He's the ideal Republican!" A guy who endorsed and voted for Obama!I'm saying, "Where are these people?" I mean, I guess by their silence they support what's going on here. They support every job...

RUSH: Obama is close to having a number of hospitals, part of a hospital association, on his side now for national care. And I want to tell you how he does this. He calls in each part of the health care industry -- the hospitals, the insurance companies, big business retailers, big business providers -- and he makes it clear that they can join him or he will punish them. So what they do is cut the best deal they think they can and they [the Obama administration] announce that they are supported...

RUSH: We always try to go to the phones earlier than normal today. Normally we don't get to the phones 'til the second hour of this program, but on Friday -- since we're urging people, inviting them to call and telling them the show is theirs, the content's theirs when we go to the phones -- we try to go earlier, and I'm going to do that today. We're gonna start with Edgar in Atlanta. It's great to have you with us, Edgar. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Back in January, you said you were going to let us...

RUSH: I found a quote, by the way, back from May 23rd. Because the last couple of days, the Obama administration has been leaking the possibility of a second stimulus out there. I remember the sobering holiday interview with C-SPAN back on May 23rd. This is during the Memorial Day weekend. Obama said to Americans, "We are out of money." Steve Scully of C-SPAN broke from a week of having Washington press Corps's probing questions for the new president, and Scully said, "You know, the numbers, $1.7...

RUSH: You ought to see the looks I'm getting. If it weren't for me, everybody else in this show would have the day off today.JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it's Open Line Friday!RUSH: That's right, folks. This is an EIB company-wide holiday, and I am EIB. But I didn't declare it an EIB company-wide holiday. It just happened. So I was told yesterday, "We're playing a best-of show today on tape." I said, "No, we are not." It seems this EIB company-wide holiday edict went...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"It's our job -- yours, mine, ours -- to do everything we can to resist the false promises of dependence and to cherish the virtues of independence.""This is the craziest damn recession I can remember being in. Look at that movie Transformers 2 -- that thing is going to rake in $400 million worldwide, in, what? Two or three weeks? And I've read a review of it, and it makes no sense." "I know how much it irritates Democrats and a...

RUSH: Nancy in Columbia, South Carolina. Hello and welcome.CALLER: Thank you, Rush, for taking my call. I really appreciate it.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: I'm a proud aunt and godmother of an Army Airborne Ranger, Michael Behenna, first lieutenant. My question is: How am I supposed to celebrate Independence Day when we send our troops overseas, and then we persecute and then prosecute them for doing their job, and we lock 'em up in Leavenworth. I have a nephew serving 25 years for defending himself...

RUSH: Our official climatologist here, Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville sent me a question after hearing my last dissertation: "Equality of outcomes. How can a senator or congressman, for example -- after working to achieve their station in life, how can a senator or congressman -- then argue that everybody else needs to be the same?" Now, Snerdley, you're acting in there like, "Yeah, right." What do you mean, "Yeah, right"? Do you think it's a good question? It is a good...

RUSH: So, ladies and gentlemen, for 232, 233 years on July 4th, America celebrated Independence Day. And now people rightly ask, "Are we headed to Dependence Day?" Not if I have anything to say about it. "When in the course of human events..." Seven words that started the Declaration of Independence and begot the United States of America: "When in the course of human events..." Independence -- a single word, a glorious idea, a word that guided us and governed us for 233 years or whatever it is....

RUSH: Here's Jerry in Cookeville, Tennessee. Hi, Jerry. Thank you for calling. You're on Open Line Friday. You're next.CALLER: Hi, Rush.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: First off, I'd just like to say to you and all your staff, a very happy Independence Day. Out of 233 years, this might be the last one as we know it to be a real Independence Day. I called to ask you: "What kind of golf clubs do you use?" I mean, are they Pings, or --RUSH: No. My bag is full of different kinds. I have a Cleveland Launcher...

RUSH: I have to think that the Democrat Party, before all this is said and done, is going to destroy itself. They're going to enact things here that the American people, most of whom are going to be blindsided by it, are just not going to understand and put up with. They have no idea it's coming. The question, the only question is: "Will this giant overreaching occur in time, or will it occur after Obama and these people are entrenched and there's nothing that can be done about it?" For example,...

RUSH: Dave in Tucson, you're next. It's Open Line Friday. Nice to have you here. Hello.CALLER: Good morning, Rush. How you doing this morning?RUSH: Good, sir, thank you.CALLER: May your next round be your best.RUSH: You know what? It can't help but be. Well, that's not true. It can't help but be better.CALLER: That's a good way to put it. I've been thinking about a question to ask you for years and there really isn't one. So I have to thank you. You keep saying that we always will remember...

RUSH: Here's Conan, as we go back to the phones. Conan in Charlottesville, Virginia. Nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.CALLER: Fifteen-handicap, two-supporting dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.CALLER: Well, I represent an uncounted and visible member of the unemployed class: the small business owner that can no longer afford to take a paycheck.RUSH: Well, that's the same thing as being unemployed. How many employees do you have?CALLER: Well, I had about 15. I'm down to ten,...

RUSH: Now, Colin Powell. I've been wondering during all of this job loss and all of this expansion of government:: Where are Colin Powell and Tom Ridge? You know Colin Powell and Tom Ridge have both said that I'm not any good for the Republican Party, and people are saying, "Yeah, we need Colin Powell. He's the ideal Republican!" A guy who endorsed and voted for Obama!I'm saying, "Where are these people?" I mean, I guess by their silence they support what's going on here. They support every job...

RUSH: Obama is close to having a number of hospitals, part of a hospital association, on his side now for national care. And I want to tell you how he does this. He calls in each part of the health care industry -- the hospitals, the insurance companies, big business retailers, big business providers -- and he makes it clear that they can join him or he will punish them. So what they do is cut the best deal they think they can and they [the Obama administration] announce that they are supported...

RUSH: We always try to go to the phones earlier than normal today. Normally we don't get to the phones 'til the second hour of this program, but on Friday -- since we're urging people, inviting them to call and telling them the show is theirs, the content's theirs when we go to the phones -- we try to go earlier, and I'm going to do that today. We're gonna start with Edgar in Atlanta. It's great to have you with us, Edgar. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Back in January, you said you were going to let us...

RUSH: I found a quote, by the way, back from May 23rd. Because the last couple of days, the Obama administration has been leaking the possibility of a second stimulus out there. I remember the sobering holiday interview with C-SPAN back on May 23rd. This is during the Memorial Day weekend. Obama said to Americans, "We are out of money." Steve Scully of C-SPAN broke from a week of having Washington press Corps's probing questions for the new president, and Scully said, "You know, the numbers, $1.7...

RUSH: You ought to see the looks I'm getting. If it weren't for me, everybody else in this show would have the day off today.JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it's Open Line Friday!RUSH: That's right, folks. This is an EIB company-wide holiday, and I am EIB. But I didn't declare it an EIB company-wide holiday. It just happened. So I was told yesterday, "We're playing a best-of show today on tape." I said, "No, we are not." It seems this EIB company-wide holiday edict went...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"It's our job -- yours, mine, ours -- to do everything we can to resist the false promises of dependence and to cherish the virtues of independence.""This is the craziest damn recession I can remember being in. Look at that movie Transformers 2 -- that thing is going to rake in $400 million worldwide, in, what? Two or three weeks? And I've read a review of it, and it makes no sense." "I know how much it irritates Democrats and a...

RUSH: Nancy in Columbia, South Carolina. Hello and welcome.CALLER: Thank you, Rush, for taking my call. I really appreciate it.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: I'm a proud aunt and godmother of an Army Airborne Ranger, Michael Behenna, first lieutenant. My question is: How am I supposed to celebrate Independence Day when we send our troops overseas, and then we persecute and then prosecute them for doing their job, and we lock 'em up in Leavenworth. I have a nephew serving 25 years for defending himself...

RUSH: Our official climatologist here, Dr. Roy Spencer, University of Alabama at Huntsville sent me a question after hearing my last dissertation: "Equality of outcomes. How can a senator or congressman, for example -- after working to achieve their station in life, how can a senator or congressman -- then argue that everybody else needs to be the same?" Now, Snerdley, you're acting in there like, "Yeah, right." What do you mean, "Yeah, right"? Do you think it's a good question? It is a good...

RUSH: So, ladies and gentlemen, for 232, 233 years on July 4th, America celebrated Independence Day. And now people rightly ask, "Are we headed to Dependence Day?" Not if I have anything to say about it. "When in the course of human events..." Seven words that started the Declaration of Independence and begot the United States of America: "When in the course of human events..." Independence -- a single word, a glorious idea, a word that guided us and governed us for 233 years or whatever it is....

RUSH: Here's Jerry in Cookeville, Tennessee. Hi, Jerry. Thank you for calling. You're on Open Line Friday. You're next.CALLER: Hi, Rush.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: First off, I'd just like to say to you and all your staff, a very happy Independence Day. Out of 233 years, this might be the last one as we know it to be a real Independence Day. I called to ask you: "What kind of golf clubs do you use?" I mean, are they Pings, or --RUSH: No. My bag is full of different kinds. I have a Cleveland Launcher...

RUSH: I have to think that the Democrat Party, before all this is said and done, is going to destroy itself. They're going to enact things here that the American people, most of whom are going to be blindsided by it, are just not going to understand and put up with. They have no idea it's coming. The question, the only question is: "Will this giant overreaching occur in time, or will it occur after Obama and these people are entrenched and there's nothing that can be done about it?" For example,...

RUSH: Dave in Tucson, you're next. It's Open Line Friday. Nice to have you here. Hello.CALLER: Good morning, Rush. How you doing this morning?RUSH: Good, sir, thank you.CALLER: May your next round be your best.RUSH: You know what? It can't help but be. Well, that's not true. It can't help but be better.CALLER: That's a good way to put it. I've been thinking about a question to ask you for years and there really isn't one. So I have to thank you. You keep saying that we always will remember...

RUSH: Here's Conan, as we go back to the phones. Conan in Charlottesville, Virginia. Nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hi.CALLER: Fifteen-handicap, two-supporting dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.CALLER: Well, I represent an uncounted and invisible member of the unemployed class: the small business owner that can no longer afford to take a paycheck.RUSH: Well, that's the same thing as being unemployed. How many employees do you have?CALLER: Well, I had about 15. I'm down to...

RUSH: Now, Colin Powell. I've been wondering during all of this job loss and all of this expansion of government: Where are Colin Powell and Tom Ridge? You know Colin Powell and Tom Ridge have both said that I'm not any good for the Republican Party, and people are saying, "Yeah, we need Colin Powell. He's the ideal Republican!" A guy who endorsed and voted for Obama!I'm saying, "Where are these people?" I mean, I guess by their silence they support what's going on here. They support every job...

RUSH: Obama is close to having a number of hospitals, part of a hospital association, on his side now for national care. And I want to tell you how he does this. He calls in each part of the health care industry -- the hospitals, the insurance companies, big business retailers, big business providers -- and he makes it clear that they can join him or he will punish them. So what they do is cut the best deal they think they can and they [the Obama administration] announce that they are supported...

RUSH: We always try to go to the phones earlier than normal today. Normally we don't get to the phones 'til the second hour of this program, but on Friday -- since we're urging people, inviting them to call and telling them the show is theirs, the content's theirs when we go to the phones -- we try to go earlier, and I'm going to do that today. We're gonna start with Edgar in Atlanta. It's great to have you with us, Edgar. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Back in January, you said you were going to let us...

RUSH: I found a quote, by the way, back from May 23rd. Because the last couple of days, the Obama administration has been leaking the possibility of a second stimulus out there. I remember the sobering holiday interview with C-SPAN back on May 23rd. This is during the Memorial Day weekend. Obama said to Americans, "We are out of money." Steve Scully of C-SPAN broke from a week of having Washington press Corps's probing questions for the new president, and Scully said, "You know, the numbers, $1.7...

RUSH: You ought to see the looks I'm getting. If it weren't for me, everybody else in this show would have the day off today.JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny south Florida, it's Open Line Friday!RUSH: That's right, folks. This is an EIB company-wide holiday, and I am EIB. But I didn't declare it an EIB company-wide holiday. It just happened. So I was told yesterday, "We're playing a best-of show today on tape." I said, "No, we are not." It seems this EIB company-wide holiday edict went...

Rush's Morning Update: Compassion?Original Airdate: May 13, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer You know, folks, I havelong chronicled how certain liberals have defined compassion toward the homeless. When New York City hosted the Democrat presidential convention,the mayor, General David Dinkins, instituted a homeless "sweep." They were rounded up by the score and transported to other parts of the cityto save out-of-town...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"It's our job -- yours, mine, ours -- to do everything we can to resist the false promises of dependence and to cherish the virtues of independence.""This is the craziest damn recession I can remember being in. Look at that movie Transformers 2 -- that thing is going to rake in $400 million worldwide, in, what? Two or three weeks? And I've read a review of it, and it makes no sense." "I know how much it irritates Democrats and a...

Story #1:US Gasoline Demand Hits 18-Month HighRUSH: From Bloomberg: "Motorists bought an average 9.695 million barrels of gasoline a day in the week ended June 26, MasterCard, the second-biggest credit-card company, said in its weekly SpendingPulse report. That’s 1.6 percent above a year earlier and the most since the week ended Dec. 21, 2007. The rise 'is pretty consistent with what’s been going on over the past two to three months,' said Michael McNamara, vice president at Mastercard...

Story #1:US Gasoline Demand Hits 18-Month HighRUSH: From Bloomberg: "Motorists bought an average 9.695 million barrels of gasoline a day in the week ended June 26, MasterCard, the second-biggest credit-card company, said in its weekly SpendingPulse report. That’s 1.6 percent above a year earlier and the most since the week ended Dec. 21, 2007. The rise 'is pretty consistent with what’s been going on over the past two to three months,' said Michael McNamara, vice president at Mastercard...