RUSH: Here is Kenneth in Houston, Texas. It's great to have you on the program, sir. Hello.CALLER: Hey. Thank you for letting me be on your show, sir.RUSH: Yeah, you bet.CALLER: I'm a Democrat and proud of it. What I was really calling about... I don't listen to your show that much because I'm not really around the radio, but I have not really heard you preaching your solution to the medical crisis. I've heard you bash what the Democrats want to do, but have not really heard what you all...

RUSH: Leslie in Jacksonville, Florida, welcome to the program.CALLER: Hey! How you doing, Rush?RUSH: Fine. Thank you.CALLER: I love your show and I love you and I just wanted to share, quickly, a story with you about my ten-year-old son. During the election, they were given a sheet of paper, and they had on there, you know, to vote for Obama, McCain, or "other." And I found out "other" meant, like, Ron Paul or somebody else. Well, Chance put "other,' and he put "Rush 'Baugh'" because he...

RUSH: Bob in San Antonio as we go back to the phones on Open Line Friday. Hello, sir.CALLER: Good afternoon, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.RUSH: Yes, sir.CALLER: I thoroughly enjoy your show and I still thoroughly enjoy a couple ties that I have of yours.RUSH: Well, thank you.CALLER: And I hope we get a chance to bring it on in terms of Sarah. But, you know, part of the reason I think that they fear her is she's not a soccer mom as I heard on the recordings while I was waiting. She's...

RUSH: To the phones. Patrick in Erie, Pennsylvania. I'm glad you called. You are on Open Line Friday. Hi.CALLER: Hey, Rush buddy! This is a real privilege. RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: Thanks for taking my call.RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.CALLER: Hey, listen, I was listening to your show. I think it was this week you were talking about how your earlier days at the radio station in California you kept track of the income that you brought in to the radio station and so forth. I loved the...

RUSH: Do we have time here? Yes, we do. Obama in full campaign mode. Audio sound bite number three. Organizing for America, his website. Nah, I'm not going to have time to get in there; I just noticed the time here. Well, let me set it up because we'll do it early in the next hour. They had a contest over at Obama's website, Organizing for America, and they asked people to make videos that they could use and put on the website to convince people to support Obamacare. They picked a winner and...

RUSH: We go to Milwaukee next. Jerry, you are on Open Line Friday. Hello.CALLER: Hi, Rush. You know, I'm a Democrat and I really want Palin as the nominee. I really want Palin as the nominee because if she became the nominee there's no chance she would get elected. President Obama would basically defeat her in a landslide because the American people know she's an empty suit. They know that she's a coward who hides behind the military; they know about her trying to ban books or looking into...

RUSH: So yesterday afternoon the State-Controlled Media followed Sarah Palin to Grand Rapids, Michigan. They followed her out there in droves wanting to see what the ruckus was at her book signing, and the very brave and courageous Norah O'Donnell of MSNBC grilled a (17)-year-old girl over her support of Sarah Palin. O'DONNELL: Show me your T-shirt. Tell me what it says.SEAL: "The US government handed out $700 billion in Wall Street bailouts and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."O'DONNELL:...

RUSH: By the way, folks, I want to give you a website to go to when you get a chance. It's called ClimateDepot.com. Something fascinating has happened, and I was first alerted to this today by our official climatologist, Dr. Roy Spencer. "A hacker has gotten into the computers at Hadley CRU." That is Britain's largest climate research institute. They're a huge proponent of global warming. The hacker "seems to have uncovered evidence of substantial fraud in reporting the 'evidence' on global warming;...

RUSH: The Gallup poll will announce -- they effectively have announced it -- the Gallup poll will announce that for the first time in their poll Barack Obama's approval rating has fallen below 50%. In fact, a little story about this. This from Ben Smith at The Politico: "His approval numbers have bounced down to the 50% mark several times, driven by weaker support from independents and Republicans, but hadn't crossed it. The slide is worrying for the White House, but it's probably not yet panic...

RUSH: Harry Reid is pulling another Saturday night massacre on the American people, just like Nancy Pelosi did last week. Saturday night, a Saturday night test vote. Here's the majority leader explaining it all to us. (playing of Harry Reid spoof.)RUSH: All right, health care test vote on Saturday night. Let me explain why they're calling it a test vote. There are two stages to a piece of legislation in the Senate, and both stages require 60 votes. The first vote, which is what's going to...

Rush's Morning Update: DismantleNovember 23, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer Oh, folks. Get this. Last week, the Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee passed a measure giving the government power to "dismantle" private financial firms they believe are "too big." We're not just talking about firms that are insolvent or inches away from declaring bankruptcy;the target firms can be healthy and well capitalized....

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Obama appeared weak and small on his trip, and he didn't even leave with anything prearranged to be announced as a positive -- which is hard to believe. Presidents usually don't fly off and ad-lib.""You people don't know this, but Snerdley doesn't even start screening calls until about a half hour into the show because he knows I'm not going to take one right away. So he sits in there and fakes screening calls to make it look like...

Story #1:Oprah Ends Show, Leaves Chicago. Daley Rips PressRUSH: The Oprah, ladies and gentlemen, is leaving Chicago. She's not just quitting her TV show. She's gonna quit her show in September of 2011 and she's going to announce it on her show today, but she's also leaving Chicago. Mayor Daley is upset about it. Mayor Daley is blaming the media for forcing The Oprah out of Chicago. Apparently during her season premiere week in September, they shut down the Miracle Mile up there for a while,...