RUSH: Robert in Fresno, California, thank you for holding on. You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program. Hi.CALLER: Thank you, Rush. You're a great American. Thank you for what you do.RUSH: Thank you, sir.CALLER: Appreciate it. Rush, I need you to try and help me out here understanding, you know, the difference in these unions in regards to their representation of employees and (unintelligible) of SEIU, there's -- I understand why. However, is representation not representation, regardless...

RUSH: The name of Rush Limbaugh has been injected into the Illinois Senate race. By the way, do you realize, folks, a Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee has pulled out of the special election in Hawaii to replace the socialist Neil Abercrombie, who quit because I think he wants to be governor. They pulled out. This is Obama's home state! This is where Obama was born. The Democrats have pulled out of -- (interruption) Snerdley said, "Now you did it, now I'm going to get bombarded with...

RUSH: Capitol Hill. Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee where everybody is trying to blame everybody else for the oil spill. Oceana has on its board of directors the actor Sam Waterston, from Law & Order He's the liberal DA. Waterston took the stand and testified today.WATERSTON: As of today at least four million gallons have spilled into the Gulf of Mexico. Until this leak is stopped, oil will continue to harm life, both in the ocean and on the shore. We need to end all new offshore...

RUSH: The two proposed referendum drives challenging Arizona's new sweeping law targeting illegal immigration are being abandoned, organizers said Monday. ...Andrew Chavez, a professional petition circulator..." Where do you go to get a degree in that? Where do you go? "Andrew, what do you want to be when you grow up?" "Daddy, I want to be a professional petition circulator." If your kid told you that he wanted to be a professional petition circulator, where would you tell him to go to learn...

Liberalism Destroyed Los AngelesA great city in a great American state is in ruins.

RUSH: It's all smoke and mirrors, Snerdley. By the way, a brief time-out here for those of you calling the program. If you think you're going to get on this program and start telling me that Elena Kagan is some sweet moderate woman not at all closed-minded like Robert Bork, take it to some other show because I'm not in the mood to put up with you scammers and spammers and seminar callers from the left who know that you've nominated a dud. You ought to be happy about it. You've got an Obama clone...

RUSH: Folks, let me tell you something. Everybody else may be distracted by Elena Kagan, and we're going to get to her again today, but we're going to keep our focus on money. It is really getting dangerous out there. Obamanomics essentially has now spread to Europe. What we had yesterday, the bailout of Greece is essentially the European version of TARP. Obama gets on the phone to Angela Merkel and says, "You're going to melt down at the end of the day if you don't support this." I'm telling...

Rush's Morning Update: Backlog!May 12, 2010Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer On Monday, a middle-aged guy called from Wyoming. He said thathe'd been severely injured at age 18, had steel rods in his back, but manages to go to work every day,even though he could be sitting home on disability. He complained of being surrounded by people who could work but don't -- and won't -- becausehe's paying the bill for them not to.He concluded...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"I don't negotiate contracts. I make demands that are met.""I don't care what people think of government spending and how important it is, if you don't have people investing in things they think are going to show a great profit or return, then you're not going to have any growth of any kind to speak of.""The Obama regime is blazing a trail of destruction throughout this country, and now it has spread and gone viral to Europe.""The...

Story #1:Hillsdale's Folsom: The Tyranny of Good IntentionsRUSH: There's a great piece today by a professor of history at Hillsdale College, Burt Folsom, and this is a question that people ask me often: When did all this entitlement stuff start? Why do people put such faith in government, even though government fails? Why do they do it? Well, Burt Folsom has a theorem. "As we look around us, we are awash in failed government programs. At the state level, California (and other states) are broke...