Unfortunately, Newt’s Contract took effect the same year Bill Clinton became president. While Newt did take up each item in the contract and bring it up for a vote (which is what he promised) he didn’t have the juice to overcome the Clinton admin, the usual rinos, and the democrat caucus, so much of it was blocked.
I give Newt a lot of credit because in addition to bringing a GOP majority for the first time in decades at least he made the effort to do something, unlike his various successors. People who expect everything to be done overnight were of course disappointed.
There’s always an excuse.
Bill Clinton was actually elected in 1992 and took office January 1993, and “The Contract with America” was in 1994. I paid a lot of attention to it. I was even at a meeting in Washington at the time of the 1994 election.
Newt already knew Clinton was in office when they made their promises.
Stopping the full communist version of Hillary-Care was about the only thing they did, and they barely did that, lifted up that carpet and swept only a little bit of it right under, to dirty our floor again soon.
Taking over both houses of Congress and you don’t have enough horsepower to even get rid of one little symbolic crap “thing” — so much for the 1994, not 1992 promises.
The concrete results? HIPAA (Hillarycare lite, Obamacare-the prequel) and BOB DOLE and his pathetic unnecessary and unconstitutional Federal curb-cutting-where NO ONE even walks “Americans with Disabilities Acts,” pandering yet again to the lawsuit industry, and four more years of BJ Clinton and his hellish wife.
Washington (and its ilk) is the American variety of “the opiate of the people” (really anesthetic of the people) as the continue their fakery.
Here they are — I am not clear which animal is the Rino and which is the Dumkey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECa1toPGth4