Do Your Show Prep: Everything Rush reads to prepare for the show.

Some of the topics we're loaded with today: Highest Gas Price Recorded in March || GE CEO "Privately Rooting for Romney" || Obama’s Tax Hikes Threaten a New US Recession || National Debt Has Increased More Under Obama Than Under Bush || At Two-Year Mark, Health Law’s Legacy is Confusion || The Oprah Lays off 30 Employees || Obama Raises Eyebrows with Executive Order

The Lesson of the Fisker Car Fiasco... The Buffett Tax Brings in Little Revenue... NYT Runs Contest: Tell Us Why It’s Ethical to Eat Meat... Mitt to Kid: If You Want Free Stuff, Vote for Other Guy... Obama Still Lying About His Mother's Death...

The only entity liberals want to succeed is government, and that's of course, when they’re in charge of it.

RUSH: It literally is insulting for us to be told that this country can't be run on $2 trillion.

RUSH: It is Obama who has threatened Medicare.  It's Obama who cut Medicare.  It is Obama who is seeing to it that health care costs are skyrocketing.

RUSH: This guy has got this down pat. He knows exactly what's going on here.

RUSH: The White House press secretary blaming the Republicans for the debt deal last summer and saying they could do it again and destroy precious Obama's recovery -- and that again is an out-and-out lie.

RUSH: According to Charlie Gasparino today in the New York Post, "Immelt doesn't think he's had anywhere near as much luck moderating the president's fat-cat-bashing, left-leaning economic agenda of taxing businesses and entrepreneurs to pay for government bloat."

RUSH: Oprah Winfrey would no more do what Barack Obama's doing with this country's economy with her own company than anybody else would.  She's doing what must be done: cutting costs, canceling failed shows, getting rid of employees that she can't afford who aren't doing any work.  'Cause that's the real world.

RUSH: This movie misses the whole point about Palin. Palin is the only thing that gave that campaign a heartbeat, gave it any life.

RUSH: They think he threatens their personal freedom. If anybody's doing that, it's Obama.

RUSH: Persuasion often does not happen by getting in somebody's face and wagging a finger at 'em, telling them they're wrong.

RUSH: That is more money than anybody can comprehend having or spending, and then when you realize that is .006% of the national debt, that puts in perspective just how much money we are spending.

RUSH: You're wise beyond your years, and you're going to become a target because of it as you go further through school.