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RUSH: Newark, New Jersey, Alex, you\u2019re next, great to have you here, sir. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, big fan.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Quickly, the first point is I really feel that this new Pledge to America is nothing like our 1994 edition of Contract with America. I feel it wasn\u2019t strong enough. It\u2019s not as specific. You know, there\u2019s a lot better — they were much more specific in 1994 and they didn\u2019t have all this ‘we hate the Democrats,\u2019 you know, and it was much more like, ‘We\u2019re gonna do stuff.\u2019 Second, I really feel that when the people were booing Bush and we were all screaming, the Republicans were all up and at it, you know, he\u2019s our president, there\u2019s a certain amount of respect by being our president that we\u2019ll show him no matter what he does, he could do anything and there\u2019s a certain amount of respect, and you getting on the air and calling our president a jackass is just — it\u2019s so not in cue with everything that we as Republicans, you know, and conservatives believe in, you know, that there\u2019s a certain amount of respect that we have no matter what he does. That\u2019s how I feel. I don\u2019t know, you know —<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know you don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, I do.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you said you know you don\u2019t, and I know you don\u2019t. The difference here in what was said about Bush and all the mean-spirited things about Bush and my calling Obama a jackass, I\u2019m telling the truth. All that stuff about Bush was lies, it was made up, it was character assassination. I don\u2019t know what your problem with the Pledge is. Let me ask you, Alex, have you read the Pledge? How many pages are in the Pledge?<\/p>\n

CALLER: There\u2019s 37 pages and there\u2019s a lot of graphics in the new Pledge as opposed to the Contract with America which was two or three pages, all shiny pictures of the Statute of Liberty, there was just, ‘We\u2019re going to do this, this is how we\u2019re gonna do it, how much time we\u2019re gonna do it in and by the first year we\u2019ll have it out.\u2019 I\u2019m a major conservative, I loved that. You know, I live in Newark, New Jersey, I watched that whole debate with O\u2019Donnell yesterday, and, you know, good for her, she was great. I\u2019m a real conservative, but there\u2019s a limit, there\u2019s a limit on how we treat other people, and especially our president, who is our representative. When we insult him, we insult our representative. Whether we voted him in or not, he\u2019s our president.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, let me ask you a question here. People keep reacting to this jackass business. Would you rather me repeatedly say the man is purposefully trying to destroy the United States economy, he has grudge against this country, obviously he doesn\u2019t like it, he wants it to be cut down to size, are you okay with that?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s an opinion. That\u2019s an opinion, I might not agree, I might think that, you know, he\u2019s actually trying to do something good.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, but jackass is not an opinion, jackass is a statement of fact. I don\u2019t know. Here\u2019s some stuff from the Pledge, what\u2019s not specific about this: Permanently extend all the Bush tax cuts, including those on the wealthy. Cancel all unspent stimulus money. Repeal the Obama health care bill, replacing it with Republican proposals. There\u2019s nothing in the Pledge about hating Democrats. I don\u2019t know. I think your priorities are a little out of whack. You\u2019re worried about how people are going to think of you rather than what they are doing to the country. You know, right now, frankly, I don\u2019t care about their feelings. They obviously don\u2019t care about ours, either. And I don\u2019t think this Pledge or even the jackass comment takes away from decorum in any way, shape, or form. In fact, I frankly have been amazed at how it penetrated, out of all the things. And it\u2019s because brevity is the soul of wit. The fewer words you can say to make a point, the more powerful the point. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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