RUSH: Steve in Worcester, Massachusetts, it's nice to have you on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.CALLER: Yeah, hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: You know, one of reasons I think the main reason the market, stock market has been ticking up lately even though the employment situation is getting much worse is because the investment community is prospective -- and if they see that cap and trade is going to fall and that they see the health care is going to fail, and that they see...

An Update on Punkin and AbbeyThey're getting along great -- just like cats and dogs.

RUSH: We are working on an audio sound bite of President Obama in an interview last night when he walked out there to girlie toss the ceremonial first pitch and was wearing a Chicago White Sox jacket. Of course, he's from Chicago. Well, actually he's from parts unknown, but he lives in Chicago when he's not in the White House. And everybody knows the Chicago White Sox, the name of the park, the ballpark they play in. Do you know what it is Snerdley? Well, you're not a sports... (interruption)...

RUSH: This is Shannon in Summerton, South Carolina. It's great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Rush, mega dittos. This is a real honor to talk to you.RUSH: Thank you very much.CALLER: I am the wife of a recently retired United States Marine Corps officer, 21 years served, and I am seeing things in this in this country that are absolutely shaking me to the core. I'm in the middle of raising two girls -- who, by the way, do not throw like our current commander-in-chief.RUSH: All...

RUSH: Health care presented by the House yesterday, $1.3 trillion price tag. BS. There's no way they can score the cost of this. Nobody knows. This is an abomination, this health care proposal and they want to ramrod this thing through by August. As I said yesterday, they want to do this before people figure out just how bad all of this is going to make this economy. And, by the way, Kathleen Sebelius is out there saying we can't wait, it has to be done now, it's a crisis, it's an emergency....

RUSH: You want to hear some racism? Dick Durbin, Senator from Illinois, talking to the media. "When we asked questions of the white male nominees of a Republican president, we were basically trying to find out whether -- to make sure that they would go far enough in understanding the plight of minorities, because clearly that was not in their DNA." So Republicans are genetically racist, genetically inferior, Dick Durbin said that yesterday. There is a bunch of racism in this country, and sadly,...

RUSH: Do you know, ladies and gentlemen, that I am the reason Republicans are going soft on Sonia Sotomayor? John King this morning on CNN Live.KING: Republicans, though, will tell you -- members of the committee will tell you they -- privately that they felt hamstrung by the initial reaction: the Rush Limbaugh and the others saying she's a racist she's a reverse racist. And they feel if they get all aggressive, with her that it will backfire.RUSH: So apparently the Republican members of the...

RUSH: You remember, one of the most noteworthy, famous, respected... One of the things that established me as a great thinker in this country was a commentary I did many years ago, over 20 years ago entitled "Ban the Ugly from the Streets During Daytime." People reacted to this in ways I didn't even expect, in explaining and reacted to its brilliance and its poignancy. And just to show you how when I often say, "We're on the cutting edge of societal evolution," it was over 20 years ago I suggested...

RUSH: I want to get this on and off the table quickly as possible. We gotta deal with it 'cause it's its own form of controversy. Obama's pitch did not make it all the way to the plate. It did not make it all the way to the plate. It probably was short-hopped by the first baseman, very unusual, I'll explain why, the first baseman, Albert Pujols was catching Obama's first pitch. The guy throws like a girl. I'm sorry. He throws like a girl, he had a girlie toss. They didn't show you the whole...

Rush's Morning Update: Rich Lib, Poor LibJuly 16, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer The numbers tell the story. Researchers from the PPIC, the Public Policy Institute of California, examined Census Bureau datato answer a question of immense concern to state legislators. They wanted to find outif the rich are fleeing the state due to high taxes.Answer? Some rich are leaving California. But the poor are leaving at a much higher...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"We need to stop calling it health care 'reform.' It's not about reform. Like everything else in Obama's agenda this is about health care destruction.""I played baseball all the way up until high school, when I got cut. Well, I don't know why I got cut. I complained to my dad because my dad knew the coach, but he just said, 'Well, life lesson, son. You must not be good enough. That's it.'""Okay: eyewitness report. My cousin Jim...

Story #1:Thomas Jefferson on Honesty and WisdomRUSH: Sonia Sotomayor. You remember that convoluted, twisted question-and-answer business on wisdom yesterday where she said Sandra Day O'Connor couldn't have meant what she said. And I said, well, if Sotomayor can say that Sandra Day O'Connor didn't mean what she said then she can say it about any of the founders who wrote the Constitution. "It doesn't mean what it says." That all led to a discussion of wisdom. White judge, female judge, Sandra...