By Todd Gregory

Rush kicked off his show citing reports that some members of the media in Greece had walked off the job to join protests over government austerity measures and linked this to his previous discussion about China's order that journalists be trained in communist theory. Limbaugh then briefly read from a report on states delaying their refunds of income taxes, as well as a Foreign Policy blog post on some Russians blaming their poor performance at the Winter Olympics on McDonald's.

Rush moved on to procedural issues surrounding health care legislation. He called the possibility that Joe Biden would overrule the Senate parliamentarian “Nagasaki nuclear” and played clips of Nancy Pelosi talking about the legislation.

He mentioned that President Obama has delayed his trip to Asia because of work on health care reform. Rush predicted that if the House passed the legislation while Obama was in Asia, they'd put it in an F-22 and fly the bill to Obama so he could sign it as quickly as possible. Rush continued to predict electoral ruin for House Democrats if health care reform passes. He also said changes to the bill through reconciliation would never happen if the House passes the Senate bill.

Limbaugh then mischaracterized comments Pelosi made last night on television to claim that she said health care reform would be good because it would allow artists to quit their jobs. What was the essence of what Pelosi actually said? That reform would be good because it would make insurance available and affordable for people who don't receive health care from their employers.

After a break, Rush claimed that Obama's trip to Asia is actually a vacation. He went back to calling Pelosi an “idiot” for her comments last night, saying that she “thinks this country is Woodstock or Moscow”:

LIMBAUGH: Now, I want to here -- I want to play this sound bite again from Nancy Pelosi. This is what Democrats are fighting for. This -- this is -- Nancy Pelosi -- this idiot Pelosi thinks this country's Woodstock or Moscow or something. Listen to this.

PELOSI [audio clip]: Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance. Or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risk, but not be job-locked because a child has a child has asthma or someone in the family is bipolar. You name it, any condition is job-locking.

LIMBAUGH: So, so, uh, they're fighting for people to be able to quit work while the rest of us pay for their health care while they go out an be artists and photographers and tend to bipolar kids and, uh, asthma, what have you. And we're gonna pay for this. This idiot thinks this is Woodstock. I mean, it's right out of a San Francisco mentality. I mean it's -- it's -- it's just breathtaking here.

Rush then announced that he had a “spy” inside the House Democratic caucus who was telling him that the health care bill would be voted on next week and that Pelosi was “close” to having the votes to pass it. He also began calling reconciliation “cramdown,” because reconciliation sounds too “nice.” “Cramdown,” incidentally, is a term that has a specific meaning -- it's a court-ordered reduction in the principal of a home mortgage loan.

Rush took another break and came back with more revelations from his “spy” in the House. Rush was surprised that the House planned to rescind some of the state-specific provision in the Senate health care bill, declaring this to be “Indian giving.”

Rush then read from a HotAir post from Allahpundit about Lindsey Graham and immigration reform. He replayed the Pelosi clip and repeated his line about Woodstock. And he repeated his prediction that if health care legislation passes, Obama and Democrats would never mention it again.

Rush moved to the phones, taking a caller from Detroit who predicted that anger over health care reform would manifest itself in losses at the ballot box in November. In response, Rush predicted that we would see that anger manifest itself before November. He didn't specify how and quickly cut to a break.

Rush returned with a rant about Greece, delays in refunds for state income taxes, and his misinterpretation of Pelosi's comment about health insurance for artists.

Rush then read from an Associated Press article about Detroit demolishing empty houses in run-down areas of the city. He declared that this was the same thing Chairman Mao did.

After that, he took a caller who praised Hillsdale College, a major Limbaugh advertiser. Rush said he was proud to have them as an advertiser, especially because they don't take government money. He then made a silky-smooth transition into reading an in-show ad for Hillsdale.

Before the end of the hour, Rush briefly promoted the notion that a health care system that encourages payments for good outcomes, rather than a fee-for-service system, is somehow equivalent to “rationing.”

Rush is upset that artists may be able to afford health insurance

Rush opened the second hour by mentioning an AP article about patients being overtested. Rush blamed this on people constantly hearing a barrage of information on diet and wellness. Rush then read from a Washington Post op-ed from Pat Caddell and Doug Schoen warning the Democrats of disaster if they pass health care reform.

Rush just couldn't get off the Pelosi clip today. He said Pelosi's statement was evidence that the rest of us would be paying for health care for freeloading artists and the 25 million “illegals” who will soon be getting “amnesty.”

Limbaugh then moved to his near-daily reading of the Heritage Foundation blog's "Morning Bell." Lots of bad news for Democrats, unsurprisingly. While reading this, Rush declared that Democrats are ignoring the “avalanche” of negative stories about health care reform and are attempting to pass it anyway.

Back from a break, Rush said that Democrats might as well put “amnesty,” cap and trade, and “card check” into a health care reconciliation bill, because they're already thinking about putting student-loan provisions into it.

He then aired a clip of Rep. Bart Stupak appearing on Fox News last night, talking about how the Democrats could approach reconciliation. Rush again mentioned his “spy” in the Democratic meeting and made various predictions about what will and will not happen with health care legislation.

Before going to break, Rush read from a Washington Post story about discontent with Obama in the Congressional Black Caucus.

Limbaugh returned to relay that the show had gotten complaints about his “Indian giving” remark. He agreed that he should have used the term “Native American giving” instead.

Rush then tried to downplay concerns about Toyota's quality problems, reading from a FoxNews.com article and an NPR blog post about a man who had complained about his Prius having financial problems. Rush blamed this on fame-seeking and, oddly, on Facebook, MySpace, and “SpaceButt.”

Rush went back to the phones, taking a caller who said he was a musician and that the private money that funds the grants that pay for his work was drying up. The next caller thanked Rush for mentoring that helped him get into radio in the '70s. The same caller talked about the difficulty that small-business owners are having in getting loans, which Rush blamed on uncertainty created by the Obama agenda.

Back from a break, Rush read from a Reuters story about a Dutch nurses union launching a campaign “against demands for sexual services by patients who claim it should be part of their standard care.” Rush was surprised that Bill Clinton didn't think of this, saying that we'd already have health care reform if he had.

Between two breaks, Rush took a quick shot at Tiger Woods. He said pancake waitresses and Krispy Kreme doughnuts employees in Augusta, Georgia, are on high alert because of a report that Tiger might play at The Masters this year.

Rush tells boy his mother would have died even with “Obamacare” in place

Rush opened the final hour by complaining about Gawker's coverage of him and reading from a Gawker post about the Bush administration being inspired by the Fox show 24. He also read from an AP story about Americans slowly regaining their wealth. Rush then said there hasn't been a single improvement in the economy since the fall of 2008, when Obama started to influence the economy.

Rush referenced a Howell Raines piece criticizing “honest journalists” for not taking on Fox News. Rush made fun of Raines for hiring Jayson Blair at The New York Times and replied that honest journalists don't take on Fox News because the only honest journalists work at Fox News.

Rush played clips from a Democratic press event about health care in which an 11-year-old boy spoke. The boy's mother had died without health insurance. Rush told the boy that under “Obamacare,” his mother would have died anyway because it doesn't kick in till 2014, which isn't true.

Before a break, Rush again returned to the Pelosi clip.

Rush came back to tell us that the Democratic press event means that they don't have the votes to pass health care reform. A caller then asked Rush which bailouts he thought were necessary and which were a waste. During his response, Rush falsely claimed that TARP wasn't used to bail out banks, but was instead used to help car companies. He ultimately concluded that none of the bailouts was necessary.

Rush returned from a break and read a Seattle Times story about the boy who appeared at the Democratic press event and his mother. Rush claimed that their story is being exploited. He then briefly discussed an exchange between Rep. Elijah Cummings and Andrea Mitchell on MSNBC before taking a call from an artist who complained about the Pelosi clip.

After a break, Rush read from a CNS News report on the State Department's annual country reports on human rights. Rush then took a caller who agreed with him that anger over health care reform will boil over before November, mentioning the tea parties.

Rush pivoted back to human rights, suggesting that Snerdly could submit a complaint saying the damage the Democrats have done to the black family is a human rights violation.

Limbaugh closed out the show by asking Hillary Clinton if Bill Clinton would be part of the State Department's human rights investigations because of the “human rights abuses” he committed against women during the '90s.

Mike Burns contributed to this edition of the Limbaugh Wire.