RUSH: Here's Richard in St. George, Utah, as we go back to the phones. It's great to have you with us, sir. Hello.CALLER: Thank you. Thank you for taking the call.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: I am a real doctor, not a fake one (chuckles) and I've been watching this very closely, trying to understand the public option and everything. My analysis has been basically what the writers in Bloomberg wrote, but today when I heard that Henry Waxman basically requested records for over 50 insurance companies,...

RUSH: Now, people are asking me, people here on the staff, in the e-mail, "Hey, Rush, hey, Rush, how was it at the Family Guy taping yesterday?" My friends, if I may say so, I nailed it. We had allotted three hours and 45 minutes to tape the segment, and I am the featured star. The premise of the program is the family dog, Brian, gets tired of being a liberal, he stumbles across a book of mine that I've written when I'm in town signing a book, and he becomes this big conservative and he actually...

RUSH: F. Chuck Todd of MSNBC on Scarborough's show this morning, and talking about the health care plan. And F. Chuck said this.TODD: This is what happened to the Clintons in the nineties and what's happening to the Obama White House is that they haven't been able to tell the American people that have private insurance what they get out of health care reform. They're hearing what they're not going to have or what the opposition says they're not going to have. They're not hearing what new they're...

RUSH: This is just fabulous. This is great. I'm watching this doofus, Gibbs, he's doing the White House briefing. We had a big bunch of violence, 95 deaths and injuries in Baghdad, and Gibbs is saying, "This just goes to show that extremists can wreak havoc anywhere." Now, I remember when George W. Bush was president and three people would be injured with an IED and we would get two days worth of reporting about the incompetence of the US military, the incompetence of the Bush administration,...

RUSH: Tom in Maple Grove, Minnesota, you're next, and it's great to have you here. Hi.CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: I just have a general comment on this health care bill. It gets passed, I'm afraid that the language that they use to write these bills is so vague and filled with loopholes. Looking down the road, what happens when lawyers and liberal activist judges start getting involved?RUSH: Well, liberal lawyers have written this, and so forth. What do you mean?CALLER:...

RUSH: Matt, Charleston, South Carolina. It's great to have you on the program, and welcome.CALLER: Rush, I wish I could say "mega dittos" today, but I'm having a hard time doing that.RUSH: Well, what do you think "dittos" mean? You might still be able to say it.CALLER: Okay. Agree just to the bobble-head, Rush, because you are --RUSH: No. You know what? I'm glad you said this. I'm not trying to distract you; you'll have a full complement of time to make your point. "Dittos" simply means,...

RUSH: Folks, I have to laugh. Now, the big story of the Democrats, they're gonna go it alone, to hell with bipartisanship, they gave it a shot, they gave a chance for the Republicans to help compromise here but now they're going to go it alone. Now, that is laughable because the Republicans can't stop them. I'm getting blue in the face pointing this out. The Republicans cannot stop them. And the big word here, when the Democrats say that they're going to go it alone, that's reconciliation, and...

RUSH: I want you to hear some of the sound bites of the flip-flop and the double flip-flops that are happening here with the administration. First off, Gibbs, daily press briefing, reporter says, "What's been the response so far, kinda feedback to this suggestion in recent days that a public option might not be part of health care reform?"GIBBS: The president, his position, the administration's position is -- is unchanged, that we have a goal of fostering choice in competition in a private health...

RUSH: You gotta hear this. Last night in Dartmouth, Massachusetts, Barney Frank was having a health care town hall meeting, a woman stands up and she's holding an Obama-as-Hitler poster. The woman wants to know why Barney Frank supports Obama's Nazi health care policy. And this is what Barney Frank said.FRANK: When you ask me that question I'm going to revert to my ethnic heritage and answer your question with a question: "On what planet do you spend most of your time?" You stand there with...

Rush's Morning Update: BigotryAugust 20, 2009Rush will be broadcasting from LA this week, and so there willbe novideo.Listen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Recently, thelibs went nuts overthat poster ofObama in whiteface and smeared red lips-- a direct takeoff on the Joker character in the Batman movie, The Dark Knight. Printed under the Obama-as-Joker image was one word: "socialism." Liberals pounced, leveling knee-jerk charges of racism,and spinning conspiracy theories about...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Obama has lost the only thing he had going into all this, and that’s the trust of a majority of the American people. And without that, he's got nothing."“We have polls today that show that conservatives outnumber liberals in every state in this country, and we have a poll showing that the Democrat Party approval is under 50%. This is a center-right country, so the path for the Republicans here is crystal clear: no deals,...

Story #1:Some Obama Promises Must Wait? Good!RUSH: Here's another great story, and this is out of Congressional Quarterly Politics. The headline: "Some Obama Promises Must Wait." Well, I say, hallelujah. "President Obama sounded a bit like a weary air traffic controller on Aug. 10, when he was quizzed during a three-way summit with leaders from Mexico and Canada about a promised overhaul of U.S. immigration laws. 'I’ve got a lot on my plate, and it’s very important for us to sequence...