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Posted on 09/28/2010 9:55:31 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Last week the House Republicans issued their update of the 1994 "Contract With America." They have labeled it the "Pledge To America," and it was launched to a standing ovation from House Republicans. On Friday I spoke to Representative Peter Roskam (R, Ill.) and asked a few questions about this new effort.
Roskam said that the preamble of the pledge, "which is really, I think, moving," was met with a standing ovation when it was presented to all the Hose Republicans and the representative was pleased that the National Review said that the new pledge was bolder than the original 1994 contract.
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He also threw out a little taunt to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi saying, "our members are game on and ready to go… if the Speaker wants to mock this stuff then the best way for her to deal with it is to call us out, which of course she won't."
As the "intellectual argument is unraveling underneath the left," Roskam said. It is clear, he said, that with all the defections from Obama's economic team it is impossible to raise taxes right now. "They're really out there on an intellectual peninsula and the water is rising high on them," he said of the Democrat's big taxing and big spending plans. "We need to make the [Bush] tax cuts permanent," he said...
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