RUSH: Josh in Rexburg, Idaho. Great to have you on Open Line Friday. Hi.CALLER: How you doing? I just wanted to talk to you. My comment, first off, I guess I'd like to say, is currently I don't have health insurance. With that being said, I have an $8,000 baby bill that comes to my house every other day saying I have to pay for it that I can't afford. With that said, I am still very strongly against the national health plan that is going on right now. Let me explain why. This is a power...

RUSH: Do you remember this story from the Associated Press not that long ago: "Eric Holder, the nation's first black attorney general, said Wednesday the United States was 'a nation of cowards' on matters of race, with most Americans avoiding candid discussions of racial issues. In a speech to Justice Department employees marking Black History Month, Holder said the workplace is largely integrated but Americans still self-segregate on the weekends and in their private lives." So are we braver now?...

RUSH: Columbia, Maryland, as we go back to the phones on Open Line Friday. Hi.CALLER: Hello, Mr. Limbaugh. How are you?RUSH: Fine and dandy, sir. Thank you.CALLER: Great. I've been listening to you for about 17 years, and today's the first time I have attempted to call, and I got through.RUSH: Congratulations. That's a major accomplishment. A lot of people have been trying for 20 years and haven't made it.CALLER: Listen, while we're asking the president for apologies, I think the president...

RUSH: Let's bring in our Official Obama Criticizer, Mr. Bo Snerdley. Let me know when the electronics and the technology are ready, because I think... Does the Obama criticizer have something to say about this? Would you like to weigh in? SNERDLEY: Thank you very much, Rush. Official Obama Criticizer Bo Snerdley here. I have a question.RUSH: Wait, wait. You are "officially black enough to criticize," right?SNERDLEY: "Officially black enough to criticize," right on, brother!RUSH: Okay, good.SNERDLEY:...

RUSH: On State-Run Media this afternoon, after the press conference held by Cambridge police officials who demanded an apology from Barack Nifong regarding the incident with Henry Louis Gates, CNN anchor Tony Harris called the police union conference "incendiary." This is exactly... I knew it. I was so hoping this wasn't going to happen, but the flame has been lit. We don't know what's going to be torched here. I want you to listen to two sound bites from the press conference that was "incendiary"...

RUSH: Back to the phones to Fort Worth, Texas. This is Fran. You're next. It's Open Line Friday. Hi.CALLER: Well, hello, how are you? I'm so glad to be able to talk to you.RUSH: Thank you very much. Same here.CALLER: I'm going to lodge a complaint because I would like for it to go around the world and most people listen to you. I'm a 66-year-old great-grandmother. I live the American dream. I'm so old I remember when California was a Republican state. I bought my house; I paid my taxes;...

RUSH: Audrey, 12 years old, Triple Falls, Wisconsin. How are you?CALLER: Good. What? Am I on?RUSH: You're on.CALLER: Oh, I'm sorry. (giggles) Hi, Mr. Limbaugh. I just had a question that I asked my dad and he told me I should call you and ask you.RUSH: Mmm-hmm.CALLER: I was wondering why Obama doesn't lower taxes at a time like this instead of raising them?RUSH: Well, I'm going to... Do you have your own answer, your own theory to this? Why you think he doesn't?CALLER: Well, kind of but...

RUSH: I've got some bites from the Greta show last night. I always put them at the bottom of the stack because unlike the president, this isn't about me. (interruption) Who was? Greta, is that what she looked like? Greta looked incredulous, she couldn't believe some of the things I was saying 'til I explained it? Yeah, yeah. By the way, grab audio sound bite number one, Mike. We put together a loop here, folks, that we're going to be using at random when necessary.OBAMA: This is not about...

RUSH: This cop that has been criticized by Obama is a police academy expert on racial profiling. Now, Obama's pulled back from the racial profiling. What we got from Obama at his presser on Wednesday night was not a presidential reaction. We got the reaction of a community agitator. We got the reaction of a community organizer. We got the reaction of an ACORN leader, and everybody asking, "Is the president going to apologize?" ACORN members don't apologize for what they do. ACORN doesn't...

RUSH: Yes, Rahm Emanuel is up twisting arms. We know what the problem is now with health care in the House. It's not the Republicans. Look, you gotta understand something. The Republicans can't stop this. I heard it said today, even if every member and their parents voted against it, they can't stop this. The Democrats have the votes in both chambers, the House and the Senate. The problem is the so-called Blue Dog Democrats. But don't think that these are a bunch of conservatives, these...

Rush's Morning Update: Legal Two-FerJuly 27, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Back in 2004, eight anti-war types showed up at a West Point Army/Navy basketball game wearing T-shirts which read: "US out of Iraq." The building manager offered them a choice: remove the T-shirts,or leave. The lefties refused to remove the T-shirts, so military police removed the lefties. The garrison commander banned the protesters from West...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"What we got from Obama on this Gates thing on Wednesday night was not a presidential reaction. We got the reaction of a community agitator.""There's also some news that another governor has been tagged as a client of the same hooker that Eliot Spitzer used. Well, I know who it is, but I don't have a source that's firm enough. Yes, it's a blue state, Snerdley, and there's lot of eagles in this state." "We will know when theWhite...

Story #1:Rasmussen: Obama Approval Rating Sinks to 49%RUSH: Obama job approval is below 50% for the first time. "The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Friday shows that 30% of the nation's voters now Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Thirty-eight percent (38%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -8. … Overall, 49% of voters say they at least somewhat approve of the President's performance....