The New GOP House announces their agenda!!!!

[loosecannon]

Republicans unveil their 'Pledge to America'

Republicans on the campaign trail to retake Congress have a new roadmap.

The GOP unveiled its plan to fix the country Thursday, in a document titled "Pledge to America."

Speaking outside a hardware store in a suburb outside Washington, D.C., Republicans vowed to make the country better.

"The land of opportunity has become the land of shrinking prosperity ... Our government has failed us," Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said. "We will take back our country. We will restore for a better future. This is our pledge to you."

The 21-page manifesto gathers familiar talking points for Republicans, such as cutting taxes and slashing government spending.

"A number of people are very cynical about the reliability and the sincerity of either party," Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), the head of the Republicans’ House campaign committee, said.

"We've put things on a sheet of paper."

and here is that piece of paper: A Pledge to America - A New Republican Governing Agenda - GOP.gov

America is more than a country.

America is an idea – an idea that free people can govern themselves, that government’s powers are derived from the consent of the governed, that each of us is endowed by their Creator with the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. America is the belief that any man or woman can – given economic, political, and religious liberty – advance themselves, their families, and the common good.

America is an inspiration to those who yearn to be free and have the ability and the dignity to determine their own destiny.

Whenever the agenda of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to institute a new governing agenda and set a different course.

These first principles were proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence, enshrined in the Constitution, and have endured through hard sacrifice and commitment by generations of Americans.

In a self-governing society, the only bulwark against the power of the state is the consent of the governed, and regarding the policies of the current government, the governed do not consent.

An unchecked executive, a compliant legislature, and an overreaching judiciary have combined to thwart the will of the people and overturn their votes and their values, striking down longstanding laws and institutions and scorning the deepest beliefs of the American people.

An arrogant and out-of-touch government of self-appointed elites makes decisions, issues mandates, and enacts laws without accepting or requesting the input of the many.

Rising joblessness, crushing debt, and a polarizing political environment are fraying the bonds among our people and blurring our sense of national purpose.

Like free peoples of the past, our citizens refuse to accommodate a government that believes it can replace the will of the people with its own. The American people are speaking out, demanding that we realign our country’s compass with its founding principles and apply those principles to solve our common problems for the common good.

The need for urgent action to repair our economy and reclaim our government for the people cannot be overstated.

With this document, we pledge to dedicate ourselves to the task of reconnecting our highest aspirations to the permanent truths of our founding by keeping faith with the values our nation was founded on, the principles we stand for, and the priorities of our people. This is our Pledge to America.

We pledge to honor the Constitution as constructed by its framers and honor the original intent of those precepts that have been consistently ignored – particularly the Tenth Amendment, which grants that all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

We pledge to advance policies that promote greater liberty, wider opportunity, a robust defense, and national economic prosperity.

We pledge to honor families, traditional marriage, life, and the private and faith-based organizations that form the core of our American values.

We pledge to make government more transparent in its actions, careful in its stewardship, and honest in its dealings.

We pledge to uphold the purpose and promise of a better America, knowing that to whom much is given, much is expected and that the blessings of our liberty buoy the hopes of mankind.

We make this pledge bearing true faith and allegiance to the people we represent, and we invite fellow citizens and patriots to join us in forming a new governing agenda for America.

The next two years should be bitchin fun! Let's see if the new GOP can keep their promises!

 

[Revere]

Liberty is not a government entitlement.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

It will be great to watch Reid and Obama stand against tax and spending cuts which will lead to another 60-70 seat rout in 2012

 

[loosecannon]

Liberty is not a government entitlement.

of course it is. Do you have a point to make?

 

[loosecannon]

It will be great to watch Reid and Obama stand against tax and spending cuts which will lead to another 69-70 seat rout in 2012

So you are on record predicting a dem rebound in a mere 2 years?

 

[JimH52]

Republicans Offer Their 'Pledge to America' : It's All Politics : NPR

 

[Revere]

You want gifts, not opportunities.

 

[rdean]

What promise?

24 pages of pictures and 24 pages of "talking points".

 

[JimH52]

It will be great to watch Reid and Obama stand against tax and spending cuts which will lead to another 69-70 seat rout in 2012

So you are on record predicting a dem rebound in a mere 2 years?

Same old Same old...the GOP will continually shut the government down until the average Joe sees it as obstructionism. Then the GOP will begin to lose...again.

 

[edthecynic]

The America hating GOP Pledges to Destroy America with lies just as the GOP always has done.
Nothing has changed at all, CON$ are still gullible enough to believe that THIS time the BIG government, borrow and spend GOP will be different.
First thing they will do is increase the debt ceiling.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

It will be great to watch Reid and Obama stand against tax and spending cuts which will lead to another 69-70 seat rout in 2012

So you are on record predicting a dem rebound in a mere 2 years?

Dems need to move further Left and run more Bearded Marxists. It worked in Delaware why not run with it?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Dems are so bitter and frustrated.

 

[loosecannon]

Dems need to move further Left and run more Bearded Marxists. It worked in Delaware why not run with it?

Speaking of beards: Did you notice that in the house the entire progressive caucus was wiped out (10 of 12 lost) and the blue dogs almost all lost as well? So many blue dogs lost that their caucus will probably be terminated.

But the Tea Party faction rose within the GOP.

Lending new meaning to the phrase "and the parting on the left, is now the parting on the right, and their beards have all grown longer overnight".

Let's hope that you didn't get fooled again!

 

[loosecannon]

You want gifts, not opportunities.

You are lost and you have no clue what I want.

My expectation is that you have no idea what you want either.

Confined to explosions of emotion fanned by the flames of rhetoric and shallow slogans your heroes now have to deliver on their promises.

Should they fail to do so, or piss Americans off even moreso by trying you will be next to reap the wrath of an anti-incumbency populist wave.

You can sport soundbites. Can your rag tag team of partisans govern? Or will they get absorbed into the same business as usual climate that corrupts and pollutes DC?

 

[Revere]

Blue dogs who got rolled by the progressives by Obamacare sealed their own fate. They became no different than the progressives at that point.

 

[Revere]

You want gifts, not opportunities.

You are lost and you have no clue what I want.

My expectation is that you have no idea what you want either.

Confined to explosions of emotion fanned by the flames of rhetoric and shallow slogans your heroes now have to deliver on their promises.

Should they fail to do so, or piss Americans off even moreso by trying you will be next to reap the wrath of an anti-incumbency populist wave.

You can sport soundbites. Can your rag tag team of partisans govern? Or will they get absorbed into the same business as usual climate that corrupts and pollutes DC?

Government does not give you programs to make you prosperous.

 

[loosecannon]

You want gifts, not opportunities.

You are lost and you have no clue what I want.

My expectation is that you have no idea what you want either.

Confined to explosions of emotion fanned by the flames of rhetoric and shallow slogans your heroes now have to deliver on their promises.

Should they fail to do so, or piss Americans off even moreso by trying you will be next to reap the wrath of an anti-incumbency populist wave.

You can sport soundbites. Can your rag tag team of partisans govern? Or will they get absorbed into the same business as usual climate that corrupts and pollutes DC?

Government does not give you programs to make you prosperous.

Then why do you expect government to install policies to grow the economy? Like tax cuts or tax cut extensions? Budget cuts? Etc.

Please restrict your response to serious answers. I haven't seen a credible post from you in 3 days.

Find your A game.

 

[loosecannon]

Blue dogs who got rolled by the progressives by Obamacare sealed their own fate. They became no different than the progressives at that point.

gibberish.

The blue dogs and progressive caucuses that frustrated and hamstrung the dem majority has been replaced with a tea bag caucus that will surely hamstring and frustrate the GOP.

Karl Rove didn't want the tea parties candidates. He loved the movement voting for his GOP, but he wasn't happy about sharing power with that band of undisciplined crazies.

 

[rdean]

Blue dogs who got rolled by the progressives by Obamacare sealed their own fate. They became no different than the progressives at that point.

Only a couple of progressives lost. The Blue Dogs saw their numbers cut in half.

 

[Nosmo King]

In a self-governing society, the only bulwark against the power of the state is the consent of the governed, and regarding the policies of the current government, the governed do not consent.

Elections matter. That's what the addict Limbaugh always said. How then are the policies of the current government against the will of the majority? Against the will of the Right Wing certainly.

An unchecked executive, a compliant legislature, and an overreaching judiciary have combined to thwart the will of the people and overturn their votes and their values, striking down longstanding laws and institutions and scorning the deepest beliefs of the American people.

The will of the people was to elect Barack Obama and a Democrat majority in both houses of Congress in 2008.

An arrogant and out-of-touch government of self-appointed elites makes decisions, issues mandates, and enacts laws without accepting or requesting the input of the many.

Wait for it....

Rising joblessness, crushing debt, and a polarizing political environment are fraying the bonds among our people and blurring our sense of national purpose.

Now, what do you suppose the 'pledge' says about correcting a polarizing political environment? With all the set up they used to demonize their opposition, maybe they believe Democrats are just going to cower in the corner like chastened school kids until all that social agenda they trumpet is RAMMED DOWN THE THROATS of freedom loving Americans.

When a Conservative says "freedom" he means money. When a Liberal says "freedom", he means freedom.