The fact that the GOP has to create a new contract, or pledge, or whatever they’re calling it this time, only shows that they’re still attached to style over substance.
For a decade, we've been hearing
"Any R will do" when it came to the election.
Well, many of those R's have been in the driver's seat that lead us to where we are today. True, Team Obama have been moving at high speed, but many of those old R's of the previous decade were on the same road, just tripping a bit slower.
Finally, it seems the Tea Party movement has awakened many to the fact that the old
"Any R will do" canard just doesn't cut it. It produces too many Specters, Collinses, Snowes, McCains, Grahams, Browns. Too many too eager to reach across the aisle and sell the rest of us down the river.
Let's just hope that 2010 is the tsunami that helps clean out many in Congress and 2012 is an enema that cleans out the remainder of the old moderates/progressives.
Of course, the new Pledge won't work, unless the electorate hold the electeds' collective feet to the fire. If they, the elected, don't produce in short order, don't give them a chance to entrench themselves in incumbency. Instead, vote them out at the next opportunity. Otherwise, we'll end up right back in the same, if not worse, condition.
“Of course, the new Pledge won’t work, unless the electorate hold the electeds’ collective feet to the fire. If they, the elected, don’t produce in short order, don’t give them a chance to entrench themselves in incumbency. Instead, vote them out at the next opportunity. Otherwise, we’ll end up right back in the same, if not worse, condition.”
Good point. What I would love to see is a ‘100 day’ plan of attack for the GOP Congress (like what incoming presidents often have), to start hammering away at all the important things that need to be changed, and quickly. Obama will veto it all of course, and the MSM will yammer away at how ‘extremist’ the proposed changes are, but it would give the public a feeling that something really is being done, and that this isn’t the lame, ineffectual GOP we’ve known all these years.