RUSH: John in southern Illinois, which is not far from southeastern Missouri where I was born and grew up. John, welcome to the program. Nice to have you.CALLER: Semper Fidelis dittos, and happy marriage. You may or may not remember me. I called you in March of 2005 to thank you for ten years of wedded bliss with my wife. You were the catalyst that put us together. We're going on 16 years now, and I hope you and Kathryn and Wellesley and Abbey the same kind of happiness that we have. I do...

RUSH: Ann in Houston, great to have you on the program, welcome.CALLER: A privilege to talk to you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: You, I'm sure, remember the old Charles Atlas ads. Well, I think that Obama is skinny at the beach, and you are kicking sand in his face.RUSH: (laughing) CALLER: But, Rush, in Obama's speech he said that the United States represents 2% of the world's population and has 20% of the world's resources.RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: And I think that drives him crazy. I think he wants...

RUSH: Now, I have been promising all week -- well, since Tuesday -- to share with you a column Art Laffer wrote, published June 7th in the Wall Street Journal. And I want to start this hour with the column because if there's one thing that you want to bone up on as the future is prepared to unfold before your very eyes it would be the information here in Art Laffer's piece. The headline is: "Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse -- Today's corporate profits reflect an income shift into 2010....

RUSH: Patty in Memphis, welcome to the EIB Network, great to have you here.CALLER: Hello, Rush.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: It is an honor to speak to you.RUSH: Thank you very much.CALLER: Congratulations. Congratulations on your wedding. I'm just thrilled to talk to you, and I thought you were the best person to talk to about this subject of our programs Lost and 24.RUSH: Oh, yeah.CALLER: I have loved these programs, I have just been part of them, and what are we going to do, Rush? What are we going...

RUSH: Here is Scott in Jacksonville, Florida, as we kick off our round on the phones today. Great to have you with us. Hello, sir.CALLER: Hello, Rush. Sleep Number mega dittos.RUSH: Thank you very much.CALLER: And just wanted to ask you a question. It seems like when the Nigerian oil minister wakes up in the morning and sneezes, oil goes to $200 a barrel. But we have over, what, a million gallons of oil spewing out from the Deepwater Horizon every day, and oil and gas is staying about the...

RUSH: You want to hear how the regime operates? Let's go to the audio sound bites, Henry Waxman doing all the talking. The Democrats, they couldn't wait to slice and dice. They couldn't wait to question Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP. Here are three sound bites, Henry "Nostrilitis" Waxman.WAXMAN: It's clear to me that you don't want to answer our questions because isn't it true that you've served your life in the -- in -- in BP, you've only recently become the CEO, but haven't you been in this...

RUSH: The Wall Street Journal today on the op-ed page: "The drilling experts speak out on the Obama Deepwater moratorium." Now, what this piece does is explores yet another ugly facet of the Obama regime, namely its daily load of lies. Now, the case in point here is the use of the names of a number of drilling experts who the White House claimed were in support of its drilling moratorium. In fact, the experts were not asked about the wisdom of such a moratorium. They have said forthrightly that...

RUSH: Yeah, you know, it's kind of amazing. I did a short little three-minute interview this morning on The Golf Channel at ten o'clock eastern. They're out at Pebble Beach for the US Open kicking off today. I'm going to be on a new program that airs in January, gonna start taping it next month, The Haney Project. Hank Haney, Tiger's former coach, is taking me on as his third pupil to try to turn into somebody that can play the game. First it was Charles Barkley, then it was Ray Romano, now...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"For the Democrats, big government sometimes makes mistakes. The private sector, though, commits crimes.""The Democrat Party from Obama on down is literally a bunch of thugs now. The United States government may as well be a branch of organized crime the way that it is being conducted and the way it's doing business --and the way it's looking out for itself and no one else.""Hank Haney, Tiger's former coach, is taking me on as his...

RUSH: John in southern Illinois, which is not far from southeastern Missouri where I was born and grew up. John, welcome to the program. Nice to have you.CALLER: Semper Fidelis dittos, and happy marriage. You may or may not remember me. I called you in March of 2005 to thank you for ten years of wedded bliss with my wife. You were the catalyst that put us together. We're going on 16 years now, and I hope you and Kathryn and Wellesley and Abbey the same kind of happiness that we have. I do...

RUSH: Ann in Houston, great to have you on the program, welcome.CALLER: A privilege to talk to you.RUSH: Thank you.CALLER: You, I'm sure, remember the old Charles Atlas ads. Well, I think that Obama is skinny at the beach, and you are kicking sand in his face.RUSH: (laughing) CALLER: But, Rush, in Obama's speech he said that the United States represents 2% of the world's population and has 20% of the world's resources.RUSH: Yeah.CALLER: And I think that drives him crazy. I think he wants...

RUSH: Now, I have been promising all week -- well, since Tuesday -- to share with you a column Art Laffer wrote, published June 7th in the Wall Street Journal. And I want to start this hour with the column because if there's one thing that you want to bone up on as the future is prepared to unfold before your very eyes it would be the information here in Art Laffer's piece. The headline is: "Tax Hikes and the 2011 Economic Collapse -- Today's corporate profits reflect an income shift into 2010....

RUSH: Patty in Memphis, welcome to the EIB Network, great to have you here.CALLER: Hello, Rush.RUSH: Hi.CALLER: It is an honor to speak to you.RUSH: Thank you very much.CALLER: Congratulations. Congratulations on your wedding. I'm just thrilled to talk to you, and I thought you were the best person to talk to about this subject of our programs Lost and 24.RUSH: Oh, yeah.CALLER: I have loved these programs, I have just been part of them, and what are we going to do, Rush? What are we going...

RUSH: Here is Scott in Jacksonville, Florida, as we kick off our round on the phones today. Great to have you with us. Hello, sir.CALLER: Hello, Rush. Sleep Number mega dittos.RUSH: Thank you very much.CALLER: And just wanted to ask you a question. It seems like when the Nigerian oil minister wakes up in the morning and sneezes, oil goes to $200 a barrel. But we have over, what, a million gallons of oil spewing out from the Deepwater Horizon every day, and oil and gas is staying about the...

RUSH: You want to hear how the regime operates? Let's go to the audio sound bites, Henry Waxman doing all the talking. The Democrats, they couldn't wait to slice and dice. They couldn't wait to question Tony Hayward, the CEO of BP. Here are three sound bites, Henry "Nostrilitis" Waxman.WAXMAN: It's clear to me that you don't want to answer our questions because isn't it true that you've served your life in the -- in -- in BP, you've only recently become the CEO, but haven't you been in this...

RUSH: The Wall Street Journal today on the op-ed page: "The drilling experts speak out on the Obama Deepwater moratorium." Now, what this piece does is explores yet another ugly facet of the Obama regime, namely its daily load of lies. Now, the case in point here is the use of the names of a number of drilling experts who the White House claimed were in support of its drilling moratorium. In fact, the experts were not asked about the wisdom of such a moratorium. They have said forthrightly that...

RUSH: Yeah, you know, it's kind of amazing. I did a short little three-minute interview this morning on The Golf Channel at ten o'clock eastern. They're out at Pebble Beach for the US Open kicking off today. I'm going to be on a new program that airs in January, gonna start taping it next month, The Haney Project. Hank Haney, Tiger's former coach, is taking me on as his third pupil to try to turn into somebody that can play the game. First it was Charles Barkley, then it was Ray Romano, now...

Rush's Morning Update: The CostsJune 18, 2010Watch It! Download Morning Update Video in QuickTimeListen to It! Windows Media Player|RealPlayer An article in The Economist magazine highlights the trouble thatFrance is having trying to reform its bloated pension system,which is a major factor driving them toward insolvency. The system is billions of dollars in the hole,while the country is running a budget deficit of 8 percent; that's close to the 9 percent deficit has that plunged Greece...

You're Missing Out on Thousands of Rush Quotes! Join Rush 24/7 NOW!"For the Democrats, big government sometimes makes mistakes. The private sector, though, commits crimes.""The Democrat Party from Obama on down is literally a bunch of thugs now. The United States government may as well be a branch of organized crime the way that it is being conducted and the way it's doing business --and the way it's looking out for itself and no one else.""Hank Haney, Tiger's former coach, is taking me on as his...