RUSH: Michael in Concord, New Hampshire. Hello. Welcome to the EIB Network. Hi.CALLER: Thank you, Rush, for taking my call.RUSH: Yes, sir.CALLER: My concern is, you mention all the issues that we have regarding the reform of the health system regarding how people are, you know, the overweight people, so to say, and how they're going to regulate what you can eat and so forth and --RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: My question is, are they going to also try to cut costs and basically tell people that they...

RUSH: Barney Frank, last Monday in Washington, National Press Club, unidentified reporter for SinglePayerAction.org had this exchange with Barney Frank. REPORTER: Congressman, real quick: Why is single-payer off the table? FRANK (sped up): Because we don't have the votes. I wish it weren't. I'm all for it. I'm a big sponsor. I've been a cosponsor of single payer for a very long time.REPORTER: Don't you think we should scratch everything and start anew with single payer?FRANK (sped up): No.REPORTER:...

RUSH: This morning on MSNBC -- Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington -- was discussing the new MSNBC Wall Street Journal poll that's not good news for Obama on health care.MITCHELL: You've got 47% of the people at our NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll who have health insurance --ANCHOR: Mmm-hmm!MITCHELL: -- who don't like what the president's doing. The problem he's got, 47% of the people who have got coverage don't want change. They don't like what they're hearing. Now, they may not know what's...

RUSH: We got news, our sales department called me yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, said that the Justice Brothers -- an off-and-on client -- had requested in-program commercial time for today. And I said, "What about?" And they said, "The beer summit." I said, "Well, people are getting, you know -- all right, we'll sell 'em a couple commercials just for Friday, in the program, Justice Brothers on the beer summit. (playing of Justice Brothers spoof) RUSH: That's a nice quick 30,000 bucks from...

RUSH: Greeting, my friends, Rush Limbaugh. This, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies on Friday.JOHNNY DONOVAN: And now, from sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday!RUSH: Oh, no! I'm on a roll here and you're gonna do this?SNERDLEY: Oh, yes! It's 21 years.RUSH: Oh, jeez. DAWN: Wooo!RUSH: Here I am in the middle. SNERDLEY: Yeah? It's 21 years!RUSH: I'm on a roll and the staff is not at their seats. The staff is in the studio...

RUSH: We have the cash for clunkers program, which, after four days, has been suspended. Wait 'til you hear the sound bites on this. I've been doing a little digging to find out what's really going on here. By the way, this billion dollars that they allocated has been the most stimulative thing they have done. And the reason is it's essentially a tax cut. They're giving people their money back. Can you imagine, you look at all the activity in dealer showrooms because of this cash for clunker...

RUSH: "The first 12 months of the US recession saw the economy shrink more than twice as much as previously estimated, reflecting even bigger declines in consumer spending and housing, revised figures showed. The world’s largest economy contracted 1.9 percent from the fourth quarter of 2007 to the last three months of 2008. 'The current downturn beginning in 2008 is more pronounced,' Steven Landefeld, director of the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis." This economy...

Rush's Morning Update: Some PeopleAugust 3, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer A South Carolina man, 50-year-old Rodell Vereen, has been sent to jail for the crime of buggery. No, he was not caught bugging someone's phone conversations; RodellVereen's buggery involved a horse of a different color. Last year, Rodell Vereen was placed on the state's sex offender list after pleading guilty for... uh... sharing intimacies with...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"How many of you today can honestly say that you trust used car salesmen more than congressmen? I can.""Cash for clunkers? We'll soon have health care for clunkers. You could almost say they're the same plan: in one, you get rid of your old clunker car, in the other, you get rid of your old clunker grandparents." "I'm really practicing mature, professional broadcast restraint in not telling you what I really think of people like...