Republican Pledge To America Is Not A Pledge But A Polemic

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GOP Pledge To America 2010 Really A Polemic To America: A rollback of Obama, Democratic Agenda.

Pledge To Americas Mere Polemic compared To 1994 Contract With America

• PDF: Pledge To America Full 21 Page Transcript

With 30 days to go before the mid-term elections, the Republican Party unveiled what it is calling a Pledge To America.

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Tapping into the popular Contract With America pdf , that ushered in Newt Gingrich and the GOP during the 1994 mid-term elections sensing victory in the November mid-term elections the Republicans unveiled their Pledge to America on Thursdsay

• Republican, Contract With America, 1994

Whether you are a Republican or Democrat at least the Contract With America was a serious document that committed the GOP to very specific actions such as passing legislation the GOP felt was being held up in Congress. The Contract with America also had details about the process by which the Congress conducts itself.

The Contract With America proposed to do this for example.

• FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;
• SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
• THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
• FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs;
• FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
• SIXTH, require committee meetings to be open to the public;
• SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
• EIGHTH, guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting

By contrast the Republican Pledge To America is a shrill document that engages in just more of the same Obama bashing.

The GOP Pledge To America is more of a Polemic to America - and a poorly constructed one at that full of milk toast and pablum.

Sure there a few specifics (putting the language of any particular legislation online 72 hours in advance) but by and large it does not offer much of substance a safe election style document. 

So as the GOP appears to roll to victory in the mid terms voters still have no clue what their policies are beyond cutting everything. One of the few thoughtful conservatives David Frumm wrote this of Frum Forum