RUSH: Ray LaHood, transportation secretary -- former Republican member of Congress, Illinois -- was with Andrea Mitchell and he's talking about Cash for Clunkers.LAHOOD: This is good for America, Andrea. It's good for car buyers. It's good for Americans. It's good for American workers. It's a wildly popular program. People that make automobiles are very happy. People that sell automobiles are for the first time in a long time, uh, able to make a living, and, uh, it's a program that -- where 80%...

RUSH: Now the Obama White House is asking informants to send them the names of the people who are being critical of the Obama health care plan. Obama had the Democrats over for lunch today and gave them a Knute Rockne-like pep talk: "Go to the town halls! Go out there and lie, lie, lie." You know, Knute Rockne was, "Fight, fight, fight! We're going to fight. We're going to fight, fight, fight, fight, fight! We're going to going to get out there and fight, fight, fight!" Obama is, "Lie, lie,...

RUSH: This poor guy has been on hold since the show started, two hours and 20 minutes, Wichita, Kansas. Tom, thanks for your patience, great to have you with us. Hello.CALLER: Thanks very much, Rush, for letting me be on your show. I guess my point, I just want to go right into it, I don't want to waste your time, my point is, I was in the military in the early eighties, served eight years, part of that with the 82nd Airborne. I got out because the economy had turned around and there were some...

RUSH: I just saw something at RedState.com. Here's the headline: "If you oppose Obamacare, even in casual conversation, the White House wants to know about it." Jeff Emanuel put this up 1:45 this afternoon. "If you see anybody publicly opposing President Obama’s plan to implement a government-centric overhaul of the health care system, the White House wants you to report that person (or persons) ASAP. From the White House website: There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance...

RUSH: Marilyn in Dripping Springs, Texas. Now, that's gotta be a place.CALLER: It is a fabulous place, Rush.RUSH: Sounds like it, I mean for somebody to name a place Dripping Springs.CALLER: Well, that's what drew us here about 12 years ago.RUSH: Well, it's gotta be dripping something.CALLER: I've gotta tell you, it's a pleasure to talk to you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: We listen to you every day.RUSH: Appreciate that.CALLER: I wanted to give you some information about the town hall meeting...

RUSH: Ronald in Los Angeles as we go back to the phones. Hello, sir, great to have you here.CALLER: Hi, Rush. And thanks for taking my call.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: Let me tell you, I am livid with this Obamacare proposal. I belong to a union in Los Angeles, California, in the entertainment industry, and there is no way I would consider giving up my benefits to have any kind of government-operated involvement health care. I have a 12-year-old daughter, and my union and the health care plans that...

Now to Drudge and the White House. "The White House is turning to the Internet to hit back at a Web posting that claims to show President Barack Obama explaining how his health care reform plans eventually would eliminate private insurance. The 3-minute White House video features Linda Douglass, a former network television correspondent," at ABC, "and now White House Office of Health Reform communications director, sitting in front of a computer screen showing the Drudge Report website." We got...

RUSH: Last Saturday in Minneapolis, North Point Health & Wellness Center, Representative Keith Ellison, a Democrat, held a town hall on health care reform and during the forum a guy said this.MAN: The problem here is when you expect the government to give you insurance to keep you well, to tell you what you can, cannot eat, tell you when you have to exercise, you've given away your personal rights, you've given away your personal responsibility to wellness. Wellness is an individual right and...

RUSH: We welcome to our program Dr. Arthur Laffer, ladies and gentlemen, who has prepared a research paper on the Obama health care plan. I've admired your work, Dr. Laffer, ever since I first heard of you back in the late seventies, early eighties. It's great to have you here.LAFFER: Well, thank you very much, Rush. It's a pleasure.RUSH: By the way, I want to share something with you. You may not know this, but you are partially responsible for Obama becoming a community organizer, from chapter...

Now, I happened to see on Drudge's website today, they got a new health care logo. So I clicked on it, and I went to the White House website, Organizing for Health Care because I wanted to see a bigger version of the health care logo. And it's got the standard Obama logo, the circle with the three red stripes and the blue sky at the top. But then it's got things in it I haven't seen since World War II. First off, this guy's obsessed with crowds. You ought to go look at this. I can't show it...

RUSH: I'm going to tell you what, folks, the libs, the Democrats in this country are now dripping with contempt for the public. The public, who is becoming increasingly active about their own futures, the public who are attending these town hall meetings, and they do so at their own political peril, by the way, these Democrats if they show this contempt too much, they're going to pay big time. These libs and their media cronies have no clue what the public is feeling. They can smear them, they...

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, once again, you are facing a challenge. Who do you believe? Your own life and your at-present experiences and what you see and feel around you, or do you believe President Obama? Well, Washington Post, "Hey America, you've been rescued." "'Economic policy is working,' Obama says. Administration says recovery effort has moved from rescue stage to rebuilding." ... There is no recovery. There has been no rescue. We are in the biggest economic mess we've been in since...

Rush's Morning Update: RationingAugust 5, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Ceci Connolly-- a state-controlled reporter for the state-controlled Washington Post-- just wrote an article called, "Talk Radio Campaign Frightening Seniors...End-Of-Life Counseling Is Described by Right as 'Death Care.'"Ms. Connolly claims a conservative talk radio "campaign"-- "fueled by President Obama's calls to control exorbitant medical...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Democracy doesn't belong only to the leftist agitators -- it also belongs to the people who pay the bills and make this country work.""I'm going to tell you what, folks. The Democrats in this country are now dripping with contempt for the public, and they do so at their own political peril, by the way. These Democrats, if they show this contempt too much, are going to pay big time.""The Democrat Party now has a new slogan for...

Story #1:Bill Clinton Sent to N. Korea to Free Two BabesRUSH: I was just watching television, and I saw Bill Clinton get off the plane over in North Korea where he was going to go meet with Kim Jong-il to get two female journalists released, one of whom works for Algore, and I got to thinking two things. I remember when Jimmy Carter went over to North Korea on his own during the Clinton administration and came out of there saying, "I just finished talking to the little pot-bellied little dictator...