Paul Ryan and crew put out 'A Pledge to America' in 2010, and didn't follow it.
2. "Broken Windows" law enforcement. Fund the police so that they can enforce ALL laws. Require bail on ALL violent of firearm offenses. Build more prisons/jails/tent cities.
etc, etc, etc.
I’m on board with a ‘NEW’ contract.
There is only one that I really care about (and won’t get): devolving federal powers to the states.
Kev aka Karen has a plan that won’t be followed through on.
*** Downsize Fedzilla.
If they can’t stop the spending there is little hope they can fix anything else.
*** Start holding unelected bureaucrats accountable for their corruption and abuse of power.
If they can’t do that the ruling apparatus will keep expanding their power over us.
BRING BACK THE HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE!!
I’d settle for some semblance of common sense in public policy.
And, people who actually know what they’re doing if I get two wishes.
ok i’ll bite:
1. no health mandates ever. informed consent only.
2. in person or affidavit voting by paper ballots only with id. one day elections and counts. no machines except dumb tabulators. published registration rolls 3 mos before elections.
3. build the wall. immigration moratorium. repatriation of all illegal immigrants.
there’s my first three.
At the least, anyone running for the Senate should be required to pledge that they won’t vote for McConnell as leader.
I wouldn’t sign on unless it included the phrases “border-wall completion”, “mass deportations”, and “Constitutional originalism”...
Comprehensive Immigration Reform:
1. Illegal aliens are to be detained upon detection and deported within twenty-four hours.
2. Any citizen knowingly employing, sheltering, concealing, or otherwise assisting (other than emergency medical care) an illegal alien shall suffer forfeiture of all property, real and personal, all assets, businesses, business licenses, and any other thing except his/her physical freedom and two changes of clothing; after which he/she may seek employment and start over.
3. Any non-citizen legally resident, acting as described in para 2 above, shall suffer the same penalty and be deported to his/her country of origin within 48 hours.
4. Any public official, in any branch of government, at any level, who under color of clemency, legal discretion, or other official privilege, shall obstruct, alter, or modify the swift application and extent of paras 1-3 above to any degree soever, shall suffer the same penalty and be summarily removed from office.
(That’s to keep judges from saying “ooooo, that’s too harsh” and governors etc. from handing out pardons to business-owner buddies.)
A bad idea, it would never work now. We must concentrate our efforts locally, statewide, and push the agenda from home.
A modern “Contract With America” would be just the bullseye a national media and deep state need to run against. We’d be handing them a single talking point to run on, and our message would, of necessity, be all over the place.
This is a very, very, bad strategy. What with many population shifts from poorly run states to still-yet-hanging-by-a-thread rationally run states, we need to work extra hard to preserve the republic in our states.
I really wish to emphasize: W. Bush was Governor before he was President. The lesson of the Trump years is, it literally doesn’t matter who captures Washington. The Deep State rolls on, crushing all.
We’ve GOT to capture our states, with REAL constitutional conservatism, to make a difference.
If DC, today, ordered a roundup of political dissidents, what would happen in Texas? Gov. Abbott would file a complaint in court, lose, and begin rounding up dissidents. But, hey, he tried, right? That’s all the confidence I possess in Austin, and THAT is where the change has to happen.