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

Some of the topics we're loaded with today: The $5 Trillion Man: Debt Has Increased Under Obama by $5,027,761,476,484.56 || Romney Rips Media, "Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy" || Democrats Punt on Senate Budget Bill for 3rd Year || Inmate Sues Hospital for Performing Circumcision on Him Nearly 30 Years Ago || Secret Service Prostitution Scandal Roils DC || Taxmageddon Coming? Answer Could Cost Americans $500 Billion

Only 84 Million Americans Pay Federal Income Tax... New Yorkers Line Up for Obama Stash...Why the TIME 100 Skips El Rushbo...No More iPhone Irregularities...WaPo Author who Wrongly Tied Romney to KKK Resigns Over Plagiarism... Scott Walker Rises in Polls of Likely Voters...Romney Up Four in Gallup Daily Tracking...Fox News Poll: Most Support Voter ID Laws...NYT Buries Story Debunking Michelle Obama's Food Theories...

RUSH: This makes me extremely uncomfortable. But it's gotta be discussed because Obama's trying to make hay out of the Romneys putting their beloved dog on the roof of the car in a kennel. And now... we have discovered that... Obama, in his own autobiography, writes of having eaten dog.

RUSH: If these people who have analyzed this affidavit are dead right and if this is the product of abject incompetence -- embarrassing incompetence on the part of the prosecutor, Angela Corey -- given our culture, given our education system, might a judge look at this prosecutor as a teacher would and say, "Well, you know, she tried"? And go ahead and let it fly?

RUSH: I made a beeline for the dining room (nobody was in there yet) and I started to light a cigar. "No, no, no, no! You can't!"

RUSH: This is a classic illustration of how you are on the cutting edge of societal evolution if you listen to this program. I mention it yesterday, I bring up the whole subject: "Where is this idea that Obama is so likable, so popular?" And that night, on ABC's World News Tonight, they explore that very thing.

RUSH: It's official.  Obama's deficit spending for his first term, $5 trillion.  This is why there's a Tea Party.

RUSH: There's not a whole lot of passionate excitement behind Romney. But the alternative? People don't want any more of this. They just don't.

RUSH: There really is no commonality between this story and the Sanford, Florida, George Zimmerman case. There's really not. You know, a lesser experienced talk show host coulda walked right into this trap, but not I. (interruption) Well, if I mention a trap, I walk into it. So, sorry. I don't mention the trap.

RUSH: I broke the rules.  Most people said you can't do it the way you're gonna do it, and they wished me well.  So I basically just followed my instincts, trained myself.

RUSH:  Get this.  Fox News is running a Chyron graphic crawl at the bottom of the screen, and it says, "Taking a look at whether Ted Nugent can be charged for rant."  Taking a look at whether Ted Nugent can be charged for his rant.  Are we gonna charge Calypso Louie?  Are we even gonna look into Calypso Louie?

RUSH: We've got to get to these people ideologically. That's why Obama has got to be described as the ideologue that he is. Not that he's a Democrat. Liberalism has to be explained. That's what everybody wants Romney to do!

RUSH: Two groups of four are gonna win a huge, all-expense-paid trip to Boston and a tour of historical sites as we struggle to hold onto our founding. TwoIfByTea.com.