RUSH: This is hilarious. This is Meet the Press on Sunday. During the roundtable David Gregory spoke with Thomas Friedman of the New York Times about the resignation of Van Jones, and Gregory says, "In this information age, you could be a target real fast."FRIEDMAN: David, when everyone has a cell phone, everyone is a photographer. When everyone has access to YouTube, everyone's a filmmaker, and when everyone's a blogger, everyone's in the newspaper. When everyone's a photographer, a newspaper,...

RUSH: Let's go back and relive August 28th, 2009. On this program, I made a prediction about the Ted Kennedy funeral.RUSH ARCHIVE Lots of storms in the East Coast. You got Tropical Storm Danny moving up there, and you got other storms moving in. I'm just waiting. In fact, I'm going to make a prediction to you. Somebody like Andrea Mitchell (NBC News, Washington) or Chris Matthews (who on Wednesday proclaimed Barack Obama the last remaining Kennedy brother)... I will predict to you that sometime...

RUSH: I want to review some things that happened while I was gone sound bite-wise. August of 2009, what we have here first up is a conference call between the editorial page's Kerry Picket at the Washington Times, and the spokesman for the National Endowment for the Arts, Yosi Sergant. And the conversation here is about a conference call in which the NEA tried to recruit artists to push the Obama agenda. And the Washington Times' Kerry Picket says, "I understand there was a conference call on...

RUSH: CBS News: "President Obama has said in recent weeks that he still supports a government-sponsored health insurance option." By the way, Steny Hoyer is out there today saying, "Ahhhhh, we may not need to have a public option in there." Steny Hoyer. (interruption) I'm sure she knows. It's all part of the game. Pelosi is out there saying, "Oh, we're definitely going to have a public option." Steny Hoyer is number two saying, "Oh, we don't have to have a public option." Obama is out there...

RUSH: We'll start on the phones here in Port Byron, Illinois. Sherry, thank you for waiting. You're up.CALLER: Thank you, Rush. Mega dittos. I just want to know if your listeners and just the rest of the country has fury over the fact that our president chose to be advised by a communist. Van Jones is a communist, and his divisive speeches were not unknown to President Obama. Just because he wasn't vetted by Congress doesn't mean that Obama didn't know who he was dealing with. He selected...

RUSH: Every time the American people rise up and protest something that Obama does, in this case the parents of America getting all upset over the speech to their kids in school today, the White House insults them. Here's Robert Gibbs yesterday on board Air Force One en route to the AFL-CIO picnic in Cincinnati. By the way, I watched a little bit of that. Obama yesterday was livid. Did you see that speech at the AFL-CIO? He was mad as hell about things. You can tell that some of this stuff...

RUSH: I'm glad I'm back from vacation, there's no question about it, but I wish Congress was still on vacation. I wish Obama was still on vacation. I mean we are in deep, deep peril. We are in deep peril every second. I know, the speech, the little indoctrination speech to the young skulls full of mush starting right at the moment my first words were uttered. After being gone for a little over a week there's Obama indoctrinating the young skulls full of mush. The timing is not a coincidence....

Rush's Morning Update: New DealSeptember 9, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer A new conventional wisdom has taken hold among the pundit class – that it's Republicans who are the big stumbling block on passing health care legislation.Case in point, an article by Jonathan Cohn, senior editor of The New Republic. He lists past compromises Republicans made with Ted Kennedy, including so-called immigration reform, the Medicare...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"If Barack Obama really wants to help kids in school he will cut their parents' taxes and he will cut the taxes of their employers.""I'm glad I'm back from vacation, there's no question about it, but I wish Congress was still on vacation. I wish Obama was still on vacation.""It's the middle of the day so I couldn't do a drinking game, but if Obama gave this speech at night and I took a drink for every time he said the word 'I,'...

Story #1: Baucus Plan Imposes $3,800 Fine on UninsuredRUSH: From a very approving Associated Press comes this little blurb: "A top senator is calling for fines of up to $3,800 on families who fail to get medical insurance after a health care overhaul goes into effect. The plan from Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana would make health insurance mandatory, just like auto coverage." This is in the House bill already. The fine's not as high as it is in the Senate bill. Make it mandatory, make it...