House GOP unveils 'change' agenda for fall (change from closet libs to openly lib)

CNN ^ | 5/14/2008 | Ed Hornick

[tobyhill]

If McCain wins it won't be with my help. Just as one was thinking he could be at least slightly to the right he goes and jumps on the Eco-Fraud bandwagon and moves so far left that he can't be trusted with anything he claims he's to the right on.

[Recovering_Democrat]

Anyone remember 1994? Specific pledges...specific promises...

REPUBLICAN CONTRACT WITH AMERICA

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.

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I will not vote for him. None of us will. When I don’t vote, I take our little voting block with me. I will not lend a hand to my country’s downfall.

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Yes, if you hit the login button, you can register & your email will be kept on file and we will forward all new articles and activities to you.

Thank you. I'll go do that now.

[pissant]

Excellent. Thanks.

[dalereed]

Time to kill the Republican party an send it to join the Wigs in the dustbin of history.

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I’m registered!

[Crim]

This legit Pissant?

Got room for a union member that supports:

Ending the drug war

winning the terror war

winning the culture war

winning the ecomomic world war

securing our borders

Elimination of racial preferences

Sane tax policy (read..not “fair tax crap”)

Strong national defense

belief that the life of the unborn is sacred

Demilitarizing our police

National concealed carry permits

National open carry

The end of judicial tyrrany

Placing people before plants and animals or frozen dirt

STRONG support of Isreal

Domestic oil indepenance

New Nukes

New clean coal

Less natual gas electic peakers

REAL oversight of utilities and elimination of “stranded costs” and other huckster rip offs

REAL oversight of multi nationals who may have have the same intrests as America.

Exportation of Liberty to the truely oppressed

Continuation of conversion of US territories to US STATES

Return of the senate from popular vote

Undenialble enforcement of all TEN articles on the bill of rights..

The list is longer..but I’ll stop for brevity...

I dont want to get hooked up with any group and find out later some whack job is a white supremist or religious bigot is involved...

Is this is truely a group that our founders could hook up with?

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No, thank you. I’m honored to be part of a growing party.

[pissant]

Excellent. I’m sure the owners of the site are already snoozing, but you’ll be added to the list.

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You left off the sarcasm tag on purpose - right? lol

[pissant]

I reckon you’ll find most of what you are looking for. I can see a couple things that are not high on FALCON’s agenda that you listed, but then again, the things we stand for we really stand for. It is not just lip service.

[Biblebelter]

The agenda goes on to argue that laws need to be changed to provide American families

Republicans lose if they focus on changing laws or making laws. I think ENFORCING laws would be a good place to start. And they might add CONTROL spending to their agenda. If they did they might get my attention, but as the party stands there is NO ONE who holds elected office in the party that I consider a leader who might get this party headed in the right direction.

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Thanks, I posted a comment on the site.

[Saundra Duffy]

Same old garbage. Ron Paul is looking better every day.

[Crim]

Serious as a heart attack...

How about you list the stuff you have a problem with...and we’ll discuss it...as adults in proper dicourse.

I dont expect anyone to agree with everything on my list...nor do I expect to agree with everything on anyone elses..

If I knew everthing..I wouldnt be hanging around with all you guys...I’d be on my own island bristleing with anti-aircraft guns with my toes in the sand watching my children play without care.

Right now I see my country on the raod to hell...and two parties fighting over who gets to hit the gas peddle.

I want to know if FALCON is legit...

I trust Pissant...I been reading his posrs for years.

[pissant]

It will show up after the webmaster screens it. We get some knuckleheads commenting. But what will do going forward is remove the screening of registered, legit folks’ comments. That will probably happen in a month or so.

[Crim]

Sorry...Paul is a loon....his foreign policy alone is suicide.

[Rome2000]

I have no idea who the current Chairman of the RNC is (which is ridiculous because the others came out of their country clubs once in a while and talked to us peons), but whoever he is sucks.

[Crim]

Thank you.

Good enough....I’m sure we agree on the big stuff...