RUSH: Gretchen in Long Beach, Mississippi. I'm glad you called. You're on the EIB Network. Hi.CALLER: Hey. Hi, Rush. Listen my point is I'm a nurse -- and from my experience, and I've worked in hospitals, and I know doctors' offices. Besides technology, just setting that aside -- and Americans love technology; I love it -- health care is expensive because the government makes it expensive.RUSH: That's right.CALLER: They are burdensome. If you go to any doctors office, any internist and...

RUSH: At the White House press briefing this afternoon, Baghdad Bob, Robert Gibbs, answered a question from a reporter: "Is Obama going into this netroot online questioning session today expecting to get flak from his base?"GIBBS: I've watched newscasts just this week where people have said illegal immigrants are going to get health care as a result of this bill, despite the fact that the president said six weeks ago that wasn't true and said 26 minutes ago that that wasn't true. We'll see if...

RUSH: And from the ABC The Note website: "A top Obama ally predicted Wednesday in an interview with ABC News that Democrats will lose their congressional majority in next year's midterm elections if they fail to put a health-care reform bill on President Obama's desk. 'I think we're talking losing control of Congress,' said Andy Stern, the president of the Service Employees International Union. '[The failure of health-care reform] would totally empower Republicans to kill all change. It's hard...

RUSH: To Greg in Scottsdale, Arizona. I'm sorry. We got interrupted. You were saying?CALLER: Oh, no worries. Well, so my thing is that this public option keeps getting touted as, you know, "competition" and there's going to be "choice." It will drive down the price and the cost. But that is antithetical to the Dems' ideology. I mean, competition and choice, those are fundamentals of capitalism -- a mother's milk to us. But they think competition is evil. I mean, they screamed about how competition...

RUSH: You know, I feel for the Kennedy family, I really do. Senator Kennedy is dying of the same type of brain tumor that just claimed Bob Novak. However, Senator Kennedy is doing something here that I don't think is excused by his illness. They want to keep their 60 votes in the Senate for health care and a number of other things and Senator Kennedy is worried about a five-month-long vacancy he'll leave after his death that will deprive Democrats of the 60 votes and filibuster-proof Senate....

RUSH: Obama yesterday in Washington had a conference call with the National Council of Churches. He tried to refute four "lies" people are telling about his health care plan. So what we did is we found audio to prove that every one of these "lies" is true. I don't have time to get started with the audio right now but one of the things that he says is... Well, rather than try to summarize this I'm just going to wait 'til we have time in the next segment to actually play these things. But he does...

Amend the Constitution to Include the Separation of God and ObamaThe president thinks he's going to be God's partner.

RUSH: All right, folks, here's the way I see it. And as you know, I see things very clear. Oh, and, by the way, 'cause everybody's concerned, I'm sure that you can hear that my voice sounds normal and energetic and not tired because I got four full hours' sleep last night. So we're back to normal here. Here's how I see this. I see things very straight. I see things very clear. Obama's health care plan will be, one, written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it -- that would...

Rush's Morning Update: Do ItAugust 21, 2009No video while Rush is broadcasting from LA.Listen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Last week,in an attempt to stop the bleeding,Obama sent out his White House minionsto float the notion that he'd accept health care legislation without the so-called public option --the "option" that would put the federal government in charge.But the trial balloon made the liberals bonkers. Nancy Pelosi let it be known she wouldn't be party to it. Former DNC...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Obama said, 'We are God's partners in matters of life and death.' That's audacious even for a guy who's written two autobiographies by age 48.""Here's how I see this. Obama's health care plan will be, one, written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it (John Conyers); two, passed by a Congress that has not read it; three, signed by a president who smokes; four, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes....