By Bernie Becker
WASHINGTON — Sixteen years after the Contract With America, say hello to the Contract From America.
On Wednesday, some members of the Tea Party movement released a legislative agenda they want elected officials to follow. The 10 planks of the Contract from America — heavy on fiscal restraint and limited government, light on social issues — were chosen through an online ballot and unveiled the day before a round of Tea Party protests scheduled to be held across the country on April 15, Tax Day.
The contract, to use its own language, asks candidates to agree to: 1) protect the Constitution; 2) reject cap-and-trade regulation of climate-warming gases; 3) demand a balanced budget; 4) enact fundamental tax reform; 5) restore fiscal responsibility and constitutionally limited government in Washington; 6) end runaway government spending; 7) defund, repeal and replace government-run health care; 8) pass an “all-of-the-above” energy policy (referring, in part, to the exploration of domestic energy reserves); 9) stop the pork; and 10) stop the tax hikes.
The announcement of the list came after a seven-week contest that organizers said attracted more than 450,000 votes.
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In order to keep this contract from being used and subverted by the Republican party, I suggest that candidates, current politicians and campaign organizers who sign the contract be made public every 6 wks.I am sure that FoxNews, WSJ, NY Post, Wash. Post and others will publish updated signers. The only way to hold their feet to the fire and keep their pledge, is to make their names public. I am tired of lame, insincere campaign promises. Remember that any Senator who makes the promise will have 6 yrs to recant. All politicians fear public scrutiny especially when that scrutiny reveals broken promises. Just look what has happened to Obama’s favorability.
If it is determined that our government’s intrusion into health care is unconstitutional then why do we need #7 to repeal and replace it?
I wish this includes term limits.
Something happens to many elected officials when they are in office too long. The voices wanting them to waste our tax dollars become louder and it becomes harder to resist the temptation. We can help keep them honest and our country strong by moving them along. The good politicians will find another place to serve.
Term limits will make it easier to get rid of corrupt incumbents with a great deal of special interest money used to fool voters into believing they are good guys.
Social issues aren’t at stake son. How about your right to publish harmless but erroneous. Contest, what contest? Methinks you should have read the contract son.
Comeback and would love to have a dialog on this contract after you get through reading it. It may take you Ivy League folks sever readings but I am a patient man. Yikes another of the ‘useful idiots’. Next up the progressive American Protection League (look it up).
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