RUSH: Now, Barney Frank was on the Jay Leno Show last night. I am going to be on the Jay Leno Show Thursday night. After I appear on the couch I'm going to drive their little electric car around the track and run over as many pop ups of Algore and a five-second penalty for each hit that I can. So last night, Leno asked Barney Frank, the Banking Queen, "If you had to have dinner with one of the following political conservatives, which one would you choose: Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck or Ann Coulter?"FRANK:...

RUSH: Here's Obama last night, by the way. He was on Letterman. And now there's a story he's out playing basketball in New York this afternoon. Playing hoops with his -- with his best guy friend, a guy named Reggie Love. Out there playing basketball. I thought he was formulating a new strategy on Afghanistan. I thought he was -- troop requests, what are we going to do, need some more time here. Out shooting hoops after warning the world that we're about dead because of climate change. He's...

RUSH: The Club for Growth has highlighted an interview of David Axelrod by Wolf Blitzer in which the CNN correspondent presses Axelrod on why not to allow health insurance to be sold across state lines. We have two sound bites on this. This is from September 9th, twelve days or so ago. Blitzer said, "The cooperative option, a series of health insurance cooperatives that wouldn't be the public option, but would be something in between? Is he going to get into a detail like that and say he likes...

RUSH: You know, there's a big argument raging in Washington now over what is or what isn't a tax. George Stephanopoulos actually brings out a dictionary with Obama and reads from it to define a tax. And Obama says, no, you can't use a dictionary to define tax, George, come on. You gotta listen to what I say. So yesterday on CNBC Street Signs, the cohost Erin Burnett interviewing the chief economist on the White House Economic Recovery Advisory Board, Austan Goolsbee. Erin Burnett said, "When...

RUSH: Ann Arbor, Michigan. Mike, hello, sir. Welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Hello, Rush. How are you today?RUSH: Thank you very much. Very well, sir.CALLER: I got a little bit of a problem hearing you when you're bouncing your hand on the desk.RUSH: Yeah, I wanted to take your call here to provide a proper transition for discussing this, because I've been overloaded with e-mails today from people who say that when I pound the desk (pounding desk) that it is echoing all across the country...

RUSH: Let's play audio sound bite number 16. CNN's Anderson Cooper 180, with hardly any audience, which is why we're going to play this bite for you, spoke with the international correspondent at CNN, Michael Ware. Cooper said, "Everybody seems to admit, look, there's no military solution, and yet politically there's hardly any civilians on the ground in a lot of these areas, and the Afghan government is riddled with corruption. We're trying to bolster in these areas a government which has not...

RUSH: Barack Obama is voting present on Afghanistan. He's not a senator from Illinois anymore. Forty thousand troops is what the general wants and Obama, I don't know, I got my left-wing base to worry about. So put Afghanistan off to the side. Remember, Afghanistan is all they talked about during the Iraq war, "We gotta go in, get Osama. We can't have success 'til we get Osama. We gotta take 'em out in Afghanistan." So we're in Afghanistan, Obama owns the policy and he's putting it on the back...

Rush's Morning Update: Three AmigosSeptember 23, 2009**Note: No video while Rush is in LA.Listen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Last week, Jimmy Carter-- America's National Hemorrhoid-- accused half the country of being racistfor opposing Obama's health care takeover. Well, the peanut-brain peanut farmer is flapping his gums again.Jimmy Carter, the worst president of the last century(until now)has aligned himself with Venezuelan thug-dictator Hugo Chavez --and against his own...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"I cannot wait to hit the first tee today because that golf ball is going to have as many Democrats' faces on it as I can squeeze on it in my mind.""You know what I got to do last night? I was able to go toa Monday Night Football party at William Shatner's house up in Studio City. Great, great, view, and he has a bigger screen than I have. No, no screen envy. It doesn't look as good as mine, but it looks good.""They want to tell...

Story #1:Biden Provides Rallying Cry: 35 Seats is End of RoadRUSH: Now, I think, ladies and gentlemen, the vice president, the bumbling Joe Biden has given us perhaps a new battle cry. "Vice President Joe Biden said yesterday that if Democrats were to lose 35 House seats they currently hold in traditionally Republican districts, it would mean doomsday for President Obama’s agenda. Biden said Republicans are pinning their political strategy on flipping these seats. 'If they take them back,...