Posted on 09/23/2010 6:56:19 AM PDT by CJBernard
Attorney General Eric Holder’s frightening refusal to even acknowledge the existence of radical Islam as an example of precisely why the House GOP’s Pledge to America is relevant and will work to effectively define GOP policy going forward. Certainly, with the Democratic Party virtually imploding on their own, there was a considerable risk in saying or doing anything at all over the next six weeks, even considering the left’s mantra, equal parts meritless and clueless, that the Republican Party is little more than the “party of no.”
Play Holder’s video again. Please. Internalize, if you will, what you feel as you watch him stutter and stagger his way through a politically-correct non-answer to Texas Congressman Lamar Smith’s simple question. What you see there is what the cool kids nowadays are calling a “FAIL.” In this case, it was a “National Security EPIC FAIL.”
What the Pledge to America does, folks, is assess exactly what has emerged as the statists’ most notable FAILs and confront them with common sense. Notably missing from the Pledge to America is any reference to social policy — while social policy has been and always will be important to the conservative movement, I find it difficult to classify in the context of this particular time and election cycle the Democrats’ policies on abortion and gay marriage, for example, as an EPIC FAIL. Besides, when effectively boiling down each and every issue to a core argument involving the proper size, scople, role and function of the federal government, it is difficult to equitably argue minimal government involvement in the private sector while simultaneously arguing in favor of expanding government involvement in the private lives of Americans.
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I like the idea of a Pledge to America from the Republican Party. The only thing I have issue with is that they hedge on whether they will repeal Obamacare. The pledge says something like “repeal all or part of. . .”. That’s a heck of a lot of wiggle room.
It doesn’t matter what the Republicans say because they can’t be trusted to keep their word. If they behave well in the next Congress, it will only be because the Tea Party Movement has kept up the pressure.
My pledge is to pray to the God that made this country and to ask for Godly leaders.
Pledge to America
Well after they downsized and outsourced the original "Contract with America" to China,
it's pretty obvious that they're now trying to sell us a cheap imitation they must've picked-up at WalMart.
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