Newt Gingrich: Beyond the Presidency: Renewing, Revitalizing and Relaunching Conservative America

newt.org ^ | January 27 2007 | Newt Gingrich

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

Newt leading the Contract With America back in 1994...ah, the good memories! :-)

[ConservativeStLouisGuy]

REPUBLICAN CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

http://www.house.gov/house/Contract/CONTRACT.html

 

As Republican Members of the House of Representatives and as citizens seeking to join that body we propose not just to change its policies, but even more important, to restore the bonds of trust between the people and their elected representatives.

That is why, in this era of official evasion and posturing, we offer instead a detailed agenda for national renewal, a written commitment with no fine print.

This year's election offers the chance, after four decades of one-party control, to bring to the House a new majority that will transform the way Congress works. That historic change would be the end of government that is too big, too intrusive, and too easy with the public's money. It can be the beginning of a Congress that respects the values and shares the faith of the American family.

Like Lincoln, our first Republican president, we intend to act "with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right." To restore accountability to Congress. To end its cycle of scandal and disgrace. To make us all proud again of the way free people govern themselves.

On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government:

• FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;
• SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
• THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
• FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs;
• FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
• SIXTH, require committee meetings to be open to the public;
• SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
• EIGHTH, guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.

Thereafter, within the first 100 days of the 104th Congress, we shall bring to the House Floor the following bills, each to be given full and open debate, each to be given a clear and fair vote and each to be immediately available this day for public inspection and scrutiny.

1. THE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT: A balanced budget/tax limitation amendment and a legislative line-item veto to restore fiscal responsibility to an out- of-control Congress, requiring them to live under the same budget constraints as families and businesses. (Bill Text) (Description)

2. THE TAKING BACK OUR STREETS ACT: An anti-crime package including stronger truth-in- sentencing, "good faith" exclusionary rule exemptions, effective death penalty provisions, and cuts in social spending from this summer's "crime" bill to fund prison construction and additional law enforcement to keep people secure in their neighborhoods and kids safe in their schools. (Bill Text) (Description)

3. THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT: Discourage illegitimacy and teen pregnancy by prohibiting welfare to minor mothers and denying increased AFDC for additional children while on welfare, cut spending for welfare programs, and enact a tough two-years-and-out provision with work requirements to promote individual responsibility. (Bill Text) (Description)

4. THE FAMILY REINFORCEMENT ACT: Child support enforcement, tax incentives for adoption, strengthening rights of parents in their children's education, stronger child pornography laws, and an elderly dependent care tax credit to reinforce the central role of families in American society. (Bill Text) (Description)

5. THE AMERICAN DREAM RESTORATION ACT: A S500 per child tax credit, begin repeal of the marriage tax penalty, and creation of American Dream Savings Accounts to provide middle class tax relief. (Bill Text) (Description)

6. THE NATIONAL SECURITY RESTORATION ACT: No U.S. troops under U.N. command and restoration of the essential parts of our national security funding to strengthen our national defense and maintain our credibility around the world. (Bill Text) (Description)

7. THE SENIOR CITIZENS FAIRNESS ACT: Raise the Social Security earnings limit which currently forces seniors out of the work force, repeal the 1993 tax hikes on Social Security benefits and provide tax incentives for private long-term care insurance to let Older Americans keep more of what they have earned over the years. (Bill Text) (Description)

8. THE JOB CREATION AND WAGE ENHANCEMENT ACT: Small business incentives, capital gains cut and indexation, neutral cost recovery, risk assessment/cost-benefit analysis, strengthening the Regulatory Flexibility Act and unfunded mandate reform to create jobs and raise worker wages. (Bill Text) (Description)

9. THE COMMON SENSE LEGAL REFORM ACT: "Loser pays" laws, reasonable limits on punitive damages and reform of product liability laws to stem the endless tide of litigation. (Bill Text) (Description)

10. THE CITIZEN LEGISLATURE ACT: A first-ever vote on term limits to replace career politicians with citizen legislators. (Description)

Further, we will instruct the House Budget Committee to report to the floor and we will work to enact additional budget savings, beyond the budget cuts specifically included in the legislation described above, to ensure that the Federal budget deficit will be less than it would have been without the enactment of these bills.

Respecting the judgment of our fellow citizens as we seek their mandate for reform, we hereby pledge our names to this Contract with America.

[StockAyatollah]

Is this Newt the same "constitutional scholar" who, along with Slick Willie, transfered 30 billion taxpayer dollars to Mexico? The same Newt who in 1994 said he was going to get rid of the departments of education and commerce? Gingrich is just another Republicrat fraud and a pudgy one at that. No one gets that high in DC without being a socialist or mercantilist.

[WhiteGuy]

newt.org....sort of self absorbed imho.............

[jcparks]

I agree!!!
However, the vast majority of this country's citizens know NOTHING of history. They have a greater knowledge of the sex life of Paris Hilton than how she has the freedom to place her ugly mug on our computers.
The vast majority of this country's citizens know NOTHING about the Constitutional limits on our government. They have a greater knowledge of who is f#%&ing who in Holleywierd.
They will read the NY Times, always believing that they always "have to print the truth".

They will watch TV ads, convinced that all they see is true.
They watch the Super Bowl, World Series, or any other sports event and can tell you anything about any player or his/her life and not know the first name of their elected representative or senator.

It doesn't matter if the next "Ronald Reagan" is offered to the citizens of this country, the media will not allow it to happen.
THEY destroyed Newt, THEY destroyed Tom Delay, THEY destroyed Dick Armey, everyone of them 1200 times more American then the scotch guzzling senator from MA. Or the murdering bitch from NY. Or the con-artist from NV. They destroy anyone who stands in their way of socializing the American economy and they provide FREE ad campaigns to the socialists. (did anyone notice we are to call the Democrats, Democratics ? Bulls#$^) Can we say "Hugo Chaves?"
They abhor personal responsibility. Let the government tell us how to live, where to live, what to eat, and for God's sake, don't inhale ANYTHING!!! because you're going to die.
The government's job is to PRESERVE our ABILITY to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...not to supply it to us.
The media is the enemy. If you control the media, you control the message, therefore you control the people...


We are treated as slaves. We are only "resources" to their end.

[jcparks]

"I'll sum up her platform as I've seen presented so far"

This bitch has been designated to do what her "wife" did not do and that is totally socialize America.

That is, to bring her into the NWO...

[hosepipe]

[.. The media is the enemy. If you control the media, you control the message, therefore you control the people... We are treated as slaves. We are only "resources" to their end.. ]

Hard to argue against that.. America is getting DUMBER by the minute.. Even the republican party is barely to the left of Ted Kennedy.. and Gramski(hildebeast)

[Valin]

I don't think he could win (too much baggage, personal and otherwise) but I'd like to see him run if only to watch him debate the other candidates.
I'd love to sit down with him and just talk, I think it would be interesting, I like to talk to people that are smarter than I (not that, that's hard to do), it's how you learn.

[B Knotts]

Newt '08 PING

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[jim35]

There's no way I will cast a vote for that little egotist, afraid I'll just have to play the "I'll stay home if he's the candidate" game. He gets way too much credit for the wins in 1994. I think the change occured more because of people's disgust with Clinton and the dims and the emergence of the conservative media, ie. Rush Limbaugh, than the so-called "contract with America." BTW, this is Jim's wife here, not Jim.

[MadIvan]

Newt is an excellent diagnostician for what ails conservatism these days. I suggest, however, that his personal life would be used against him - he will not be the nominee in 2008; VP, perhaps.

Regards, Ivan

[beckysueb]

Me, too. Its funny how Freepers worry so much about "baggage" that the Republicans carry but America seems to give the Democrats a complete pass, so I wonder if the voters even care about the baggage anyone carries as much as the Freepers seem to care.

[beckysueb]

The media is the enemy. If you control the media, you control the message, therefore you control the people...

Great rant! Thats it!