[Rule of Law]

Then what do you suggest? Give up? Anarchy? The Republican "Contract with America" did in fact bring SOME change. Welfare reform. Cap. gains cut. And GWB did in fact get a small tax cut through last year and it was made permanent (by Rep. controlled House) yesterday. Perhaps not anything to brag about, but progress none the less.

Welfare reform? We spend more on welfare today than before the Contract.

Remember the Contract? Remember how they changed the House Rules to make sure that people wouldn't be chairman of a committee forever? What happened when the "term limits" ran out? Did the GOP fulfill its bargain with America? Not on your life. They changed the names of the committees so the chairman could remain in power.

The House did not make the tax cut permanent. The tax law has an automatic sunset provision. To change that, a new law will have to be passed. It won't be done. It wouldn't be done in the GOP controlled the Senate.

[donozark]

Welfare roles were cut by 50% in Missouri. Many other states did likewise as a result of 1996 reforms promulgated by Republicans.

Most all of the planks of the Contract with America were passed. Terms limits? No. But nine of ten ain't bad.

HR586 was passed yesterday. 219 Republicans voted to make the tax cuts of 2001 PERMANENT. Only one did not.Only 9 Democrats voted to make the tax cuts permanent. 196 vote not to.