RUSH: This is big. Democrats' health care legislation polling worse than President Bush's effort to reform Social Security did in 2005. A CNN poll asked the question, "As you may know, the US Senate's considering a bill that would make major changes in the country's health care system. Based on what you've read or heard about a bill, do you favor it or oppose it?" Sixty-one percent oppose it, 36% support it. Those are worse numbers than for Social Security reform. And, remember, it was polling...

RUSH: Don in Morgantown, West Virginia. Great to have you, sir, on the EIB Network. Hello.CALLER: Hey, Rush, it's cool it talk to you.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: Got a question for you.RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: I'm only partly being cynical, I don't know the answer. Why don't you have a Democrat counterpart? Why is there no liberal El Rushbo?RUSH: There is, except it takes about a hundred people. There's CBS, there's NBC, there's ABC, there's MSNBC, there's CNN, there's New York Times, there's...

RUSH: You gotta hear this. Ed Markey from Massachusetts, member of Congress, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Washington, asked him, "Let's talk about climate change and the whole conflict between the deniers and those of you who believe that this is a self-evident thing."MARKEY: The evidence is overwhelming. There are a few people who are still fighting it in the same way that there were people still fighting the science of whether or not tobacco caused lung cancer but we could not rely upon that small...

RUSH: Emily in Hillsdale, Michigan, welcome to the EIB Network.CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.RUSH: You bet.CALLER: I go to Hillsdale College and this is one of my goals I wanted to do before I graduate, to call you. I am calling about a children's book that I ran across while babysitting this semester. It's called "How to Get Married ... by Me, the Bride," and it's by Sally Lloyd-Jones and Sue Heap. And it's full of --RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, hold it. You're speaking...

RUSH: All right, now, folks, let me give you a heads-up out here because I have once again today, in response to my name being besmirched on the Senate floor by Sheldon Whitehouse and Dingy Harry Reid, I have confirmed I want to hand Obama a defeat. So the heads-up is that that likely will be a headline and a talking point later tonight on all the chat shows and perhaps through the weekend on the Sunday shows. Knowing that, let me explain why that will happen. The only thing Obama has going...

Algore. I mentioned yesterday, maybe it was a couple days ago, Algore has written a poem that is in his book. What is the title of that book, Last Choice, First Choice, Only Choice? There's something choice in there, it's not pro-choice. Don't look it up. Our Choice. He's written a poem and CNN.com has a web series called The Halls, which, I guess they go out and anybody roaming the halls of CNN they stop 'em and ask them questions. And I guess Algore was roaming the halls at CNN. Unidentified...

RUSH: Now, William F. Buckley Jr. once wrote a piece for Playboy -- I actually read Playboy -- and the title of the piece, it was brilliant. I read Playboy, I actually did. The story in Playboy was: "How Do You Define Smart?" And I think it is a brilliant question. And the answer to it -- well, obviously the answer would be multifaceted. But just on the surface, how in the world can a guy who's gotten everything wrong for 15 years in any way, shape, manner, or form be called smart? How does...

RUSH: All right, the health care debate on the Senate floor yesterday, I was actually mentioned by Sheldon Whitehouse, Debbie Stabenow, and Dingy Harry. Dingy Harry is all upset, ladies and gentlemen, at me because I criticized McConnell. McConnell said, (paraphrasing) "No, we're working this weekend. You're not taking the weekend off, Dingy Harry, and so you can't go to your fundraiser down in Louisiana with Mary Landrieu." So Dingy Harry is all upset that he can't go to his fundraiser with...

RUSH: Now, Tiger Woods. New York Daily News today. It actually looks like an AP story: "Tiger Woods was into threesomes and shelled out more than $60,000 to cat around with high-priced hookers, a Hollywood madam claimed Thursday. 'One of his favorites was Loredana Jolie,' Michelle Braun told the Daily News, describing the gorgeous blond as a Playboy model from Sicily who's been living in New York since age 14. 'She's a stunning girl,' said Braun," who I guess is the madam here. "'He went out...

RUSH: Things are not going well in Copenhagen. They are not going well. The G77 -- and don't ask me. We got the G8; we have the G7; we have the G20. I have a G550. We're now talking about the G77, and they have walked out of the COP 15 meeting. "The chief negotiator for 134 developing nations left the UN Climate Change Conference (COP15) yesterday in anger. Lumumba Stanislaus Di-Aping from Sudan, the G77 group’s top negotiator, is also accusing Denmark of driving the climate summit into...

Rush's Morning Update: SetupDecember 14, 2009Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer The State-Controlled AP reports that "a steady flow of new immigrants is giving a population boost" to cities "that have been seeing serious declines, including Chicago, Miami, New York, and Los Angeles."That assertion is from a study by the liberal Brookings Institution. The report finds that over the last decade, 20 out of 40 cities – like Boston,...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"Senator Whitehouse, who died and named you chief of doctors, nurses and hospitals? Who gave you the power over our health decisions?""You ever heard of stoplights freezing over? Well, they're starting to freeze over up there in Wisconsin, Global Warming Snowstorm Algore. They're new and improved, they use less energy and produce less heat, so the ice doesn't melt and you can't tell whether it's red, green, or yellow, or any color....