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To: EricT.
I remember the last time they had control of everything. They didn’t do anything of lasting value back then, either.

El wrongo - at least in part: the Contract with America accomplished a lot. So good was it that Clinton was able to take credit for its successes in 96 against Dole/Kemp - and then take credit again launching Obama to re election in `12 - against Romney. Now I know you're going to bring up the Bush years, and you have a point, but the problem was they didn't want to oppose their own party's President. So 2000-2006 is a phony comparison.

15 posted on 09/28/2014 1:54:18 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

That was not the last time they had control of everything.


19 posted on 09/28/2014 1:55:44 PM PDT by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright

Whatever Happened to the Contract with America?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035771/posts

The Contract with America: Implementing New Ideas in the U.S.
By Jeffrey B. Gayner
http://www.heritage.org/research/lecture/the-contract-with-america-implementing-new-ideas-in-the-us


49 posted on 09/28/2014 2:08:52 PM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
El wrongo - at least in part: the Contract with America accomplished a lot.

Try reading what I wrote. I did not mention the Clinton years.
BTW, the Contract with America was 20 years ago, and that was the last time they did anything useful. How sad is it that their best work was with Clinton as POTUS?

Now I know you're going to bring up the Bush years, and you have a point, but the problem was they didn't want to oppose their own party's President. So 2000-2006 is a phony comparison.

Phony comparison?!?
Talking specifically about the feckless record of the Republican House and Senate, with a Republican president, and a majority Republican-appointed SCOTUS judges is a phony comparison?!? That's not a comparison, that's a statement of fact and history.

112 posted on 09/28/2014 8:20:05 PM PDT by EricT. (Everything not forbidden is compulsory.)
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