New gop Contract With America nearly done but candidates won't sign it

[babylonsister]

New Contract With America nearly done but candidates won't sign it
By Molly K. Hooper and Bob Cusack - 09/16/10 05:21 PM ET


Republicans will not sign the new “Contract with America,” and GOP candidates won’t be invited to the document’s unveiling, unlike in 1994.

Sixteen years ago, more than 300 Republican congressional candidates marched up the Capitol steps to sign the original pledge, which called for fiscal responsibility, term limits and a crackdown on crime.

But this year, according to several sources, candidates will not be asked to attend — because the new Contract is being pushed as a governing effort rather than an electoral one.

Brendan Buck, a spokesman for the effort, stressed that the new Contract will be a guide for how Republicans would run the House and said signing such a document is not necessary.

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), who is playing a leading role in the formulation of the Contract, said, “This is a government document. We're writing these bills now. Candidates are out campaigning. This is about legislation — doing it right now."


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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/119319-new-contract-with-america-nearly-done-but-candidates-wont-sign-it

[Gman]

1. What? Their ususal half page double spaced alternative bill?

[islandmkl]

2. including...

circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each
one was to be used as evidence...

[BlueIdaho]

3. Nice... 500 bonus points for Arlo Guthrie reference.

[anarch]

4. is this going to replace their current "Contract on America"?

[Hawkeye-X]

5. Their idea of Contract of America

Leader of Senate: All fellow members of the Roman senate hear me. Shall we continue to build palace after palace for the rich? Or shall we aspire to a more noble purpose and build decent housing for the poor? How does the senate vote?

Entire Senate: FUCK THE POOR!

[BadgerKid]

6. Not an electoral effort...so

the GOP is resigned to having to entrench against opposing legislative majorities?

[LiberalAndProud]

7. My head hurts. They have nothing new, nothing fresh, and nothing that means anything.

Let me guess.

We are committed to opposing any initiative Obama proposes. We will say NO at every opportunity.
We brook no allegiance to equal rights or equal opportunity and will oppose any initiative not favoring white, anglo saxon, christian males and their female paramours.
Those who are sick and poor deserve to die. If they didn't, they wouldn't be sick and poor. And they're not bonafide amurikans anyhow.
We will give our war-profiteering cronies the last remaining IOUs in the treasury and FUCK YOU if you really expect to get your Social Security money back.
Women, your right to make decisions regarding your own bodies, health and welfare is forsworn forever and ever.
Think of the children. amen.

They have been retained well past their shelf life. Fuck them all.