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Will the Contract Be Rescinded?

By TChris, Section Elections 2006
Posted on Mon Nov 06, 2006 at 12:51:29 PM EST
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Will 2006 finally be the end of Newt Gingrich's Contract on America?

Among those GOP lawmakers in hard-fought races are several vying for seventh terms, first elected in the Republican revolution of 1994. Back then, the party gained 52 seats to end four decades of Democratic control with promises of balancing the budget and enacting term limits.

Of course, any adherent to the Gingrich contract who is still in office has ignored the contract's "term limits" plank. Republicans who don't keep their promises? What a shock.

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    a sad joke (none / 0) (#1)
    by Joe Bob on Mon Nov 06, 2006 at 05:04:51 PM EST
    Term limits ain't the half of it. You could write a book on how the GOP didn't live up to its own rhetoric as spelled out in the Contract on America. Granted, they had to live under Clinton's veto for six years, but for the last six years of one-party rule there are no excuses.

    For illustrative purposes, let's just take policy #1 from the Contract:

    1. THE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT: A balanced budget/tax limitation amendment and a legislative line-item veto to restore fiscal responsibility to an out- of-control Congress, requiring them to live under the same budget constraints as families and businesses.

    Now, how has that worked out? They didn't manage to legislate any of that. I'm a pretty astute political observer and I can't seem to recall any Constitutional amendments concerning the budget or taxes making it out of Congress over the past 12 years. I remember something about gay marriage, but nothing about the budget.

    Meanwhile, they turned a surplus into a deficit and have added trillions of dollars to the national debt. They turned the practice of earmarking from merely tawdry into a sick joke. Ted Stevens' $250million 'Bridge to Nowhere' is the hallmark that will live on forever in political lore. Under Republican rule the public became familiar with the term 'no-bid contract', which has lead to the waste of billions both in Iraq and on the Gulf Coast of the US.

    I'm sure you get the picture, and that's only 1 of 10.

    Not without a fight... (none / 0) (#2)
    by rbottoms on Mon Nov 06, 2006 at 06:32:14 PM EST
    The GOP is not going down without a fight. Their big gun this election cycle is the harassing Robocall.

    Tammy Duckworth gets slimed in this one:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJT4NAA9yB4

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