A Contract With America Retrospective

Intellectual Conservative ^ | 22 June 2008 | Steven D. Laib

[DLfromthedesert]

How involved are you in the political process? Do you make phone calls, knock on doors, attend political meetings, etc.?

It’s obvious that you can spout pie in the sky, but you have no idea how to communicate with the masses who are politically uneducated to get your point across at a level people can relate to.

[DLfromthedesert]

They promised to put each of the ten items up for a vote, which they did. Term limits, needing a change in the Constitution, needed a 2/3 vote, and the votes were just not there. (The GOP had a slim majority)

[DLfromthedesert]

Yes it was, but it required 2/3 not a majority because it would have changed the Constitution.

[sirchtruth]

Term Limits wasn't in the CWA!

I'm wrong it was in the contact, and I meant voted on anyways, not enacted. All those things in the contract were brought up for a vote.

The term limits was "The Citizen Legislature Act" and it was voted on by congress but needed 2/3 majority to pass because it was an admendment to the constitution.

[narses]

Technically correct. Nonetheless a shell game was played out. The cynical (who are still there) used the idealists and played a shell game. Had the GOP as a whole kept the implied promise and rotated power, the corrupt mess that is the Congressional GOP would not be in office now.

[sirchtruth]

Narses, you can not remove Bush from the equation! He is a moderate and the GOP took his bait hook, line, and sinker. That's why we are in this current mess because too many conservatives thought they were doing the right thing by sticking by Bush during his spending spree!

Now all we have to look forward too is moderate rino's as far as the eye can see unless conservatives get off their asses and do something about it!

[Man50D]

It’s obvious that you can spout pie in the sky, but you have no idea how to communicate with the masses who are politically uneducated to get your point across at a level people can relate to.

Oh I see, you communicate with the "politically uneducated" as you put it, by making promises that are already in the Constitution in order to deceive them to obtain power only to renege on those promises once power is obtained. If citing the Constitution as the one and only true contract with America is being pie in the sky then I have no problem with that label.

[PhilCollins]

I agree with you about the justice system. Republicans should promise that they would pass a law which would ensure that the justice dept. would obey the 10th Amendment. The Constitution doesn’t mention alcohol or tobacco, so the BATF is unconstitutional.