GOP to unveil new ‘Contract with America’ Thursday

Source: RawStory.com / AP

House Republicans are planning to unveil a roughly 20-point election-year policy agenda Thursday at a hardware store in suburban Virginia.

GOP officials said party leaders will go public with a plan focused on jobs, spending, health care, national security and reforming Congress. They'll brief lawmakers on it late Wednesday.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the plan. It comes six weeks before midterm congressional elections in which Democrats are bracing for major losses, possibly big enough to cost them control of the House.

Republicans unveiled their "Contract with America" on Sept. 20, 1994, some six weeks before gaining 54 seats and seizing control of the House for the first time in 40 years.

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20 points! I guess that makes it twice as good as the original Contract On With America.

permanently.

They sort of ignored it after they put it in the 1994 version.

:shrug: I still don't understand why term limits are legal for elected President and vice Presidents but not Congress critters...:shrug:

Yeah it's a gimmick but people eat this shit up.

I wonder which event Fox News would cover live?

A split screen would be 'fair and balanced.'

2. What we plan to accomplish. I think the House has been pretty decent but the Senate sucks ass.

Obama should preempt their dog and pony show. They could complain, but that date was scheduled 6 months ago - it was in the legislation - as 6 months from the day enacted.

what does or doesn't get accomplished after you've swept into office, like the last contract...

The rest will die in Senate filibusters.

Google it. They did nothing other than make promises.

and only in the House. No promise was made that anything would be enacted into law.

I like the congressional term limits plank, for example. A vote was held as promised on the House floor, it failed, and that was that. Not a word about term limits for the next 15 years.

once they actually got INTO office as a majority...

funny, because the two hardest things they ran on were a balanced budget and term limits...

They got the line-item veto through. Unfortunately, a Democratic president used it on a Republican bill and it was declared unconstitutional--because it IS.

But of the things the Constitution allows them to do, they batted .000.

the ink was even dry on their precious contract!! :rofl:

1 - Cut taxes
2 - Cut taxes
3 - Enrich the rich
4 - Pass only laws to benefit corporations
5 - Let the poor and middle class defend for themselves
6 - Cut taxes

Does that cover it.......

7. Cut taxes

cut taxes on the wealthy.

WTF did they do in 8 years of dim son? :beer:

If she doesn't know, she'll at least make up something, like a midnight picnic on a bloody altar for her first date.

We're the ones about to get screwed.

OK, I know, enough.

latest scam?

She's gonna run out of room soon....

n/t

This... will not end well.

The first point is cutting taxes for billionaires. The other 19 points are different countries to invade and/or minority groups to persecute.

I hope that President Obama uses that day to trumpet the new improvements in place. It will affect any family with a kid under 26, but over the current cutoff for employee insurance in a very positive way.

He needs to show the families and individuals helped.

This will help people who need it the most - those with a pre-existing condition or people with insurance who, in the past, lost it just because they used it.

There are probably as common, but less drastic gains. For example, I have three girls, 20, 22, and 25. This will give the 25 year old grad student and the 22 year old Americorps volunteer, when she starts graduate school, insurance - and will insure the youngest insurance if there is a gap between graduating college and getting an elementary school job. There are likely twenty somethings here, under 26, who will now be able to get insurance from their parents' plans. You do not need to be living or financially dependent on that parent. (You can even be married!)

:rofl:

Not another Contract on America. Don't think we'll buy that shit twice. How many republicans will be a part of something that back in 1994 they vowed term limits.

Think about it!