The New GOP House announces their agenda!!!!

[Bullwhip Daze]

What are the Republicans going to cut?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

What are the Republicans going to cut?

Progressives off at the knees for starters

 

[rdean]

What are the Republicans going to cut?

American jobs. They have plans to move even more to China.

From 2001 to 2008, Republicans moved 2.4 million jobs to China and set up subsidies and tax breaks to help move millions more. But the jobs not done. There's still some left.

 

[Revere]

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.

The economy grows itself. It always has, in the absence of government interference.

Ending Obamacare and tax increases would be a big help.

 

[Revere]

China will want something in exchange for taking more and more of Obama's increasingly worthless debt.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Obama moved 500,000 jobs to China in a year! We even paid them $1.3 Trillion for that!

 

[barenakedislam]

Where's the part about destroying Obama for the next two years?

 

[uscitizen]

The first contract with America did not turn out so great.

 

[loosecannon]

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

You may be right, or not.

I suspect the vast majority of today's conservatives are just brainwashed no nothings from backwater nowhere USA.

 

[Revere]

How can you be free if government takes 50% of your money?

 

[loosecannon]

The economy grows itself. It always has, in the absence of government interference.

An absolute myth proven false by 97 years of overwhelming evidence to the contrary.


I asked for a serious "A" game answer and that is all you have? Do you even have an "A" game?

So will the teaparty congress keep their vows, die trying or piss off American's in the process?

 

[loosecannon]

Obama moved 500,000 jobs to China in a year! We even paid them $1.3 Trillion for that!

liar.

 

[barenakedislam]

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

Not exactly, when a liberal says 'freedom,' he means somebody else's money.

 

[loosecannon]

How can you be free if government takes 50% of your money?

OK, try to be free without a government protecting you.

Are you a clown, a serial liar or an idiot?

BTW the government OWNS 'your" money. It belongs to them, they just allow you to use it.

Your money, in all legal reality, belongs to me every bit as much as it belongs to you.

Your property is more secure in your person, but still not entirely.

In the end you are born with nothing, die with nothing and no government can or will ever change that. It violates their monopoly on power.

 

[Revere]

Government needs 50% of your money to defend the country?

Your money is evidence of your private property. Governmentn doesn't own that.

 

[shintao]

Dems are so bitter and frustrated.

They have been set on "Lose" since the Clinton Impeachment, and they are getting exactly what they deserve. Until they grow a backbone and become agressors, they will remain set on "Lose." They have given the American people National Health Care, and through their own corruption came out with a program they are ashambed to talk about. It is the greatest American program since SS, and they didn't use it for a campaign point.

 

[shintao]

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

Not exactly, when a liberal says 'freedom,' he means somebody else's money.

Really? And how did you come to that conclusion?

 

[Big Fitz]

Liberty is not a government entitlement.

Correct. It is a God Given Right. The liberty of GOVERNMENT is what the constitution restricts.

 

[Big Fitz]

What are the Republicans going to cut?

American jobs. They have plans to move even more to China.

From 2001 to 2008, Republicans moved 2.4 million jobs to China and set up subsidies and tax breaks to help move millions more. But the jobs not done. There's still some left.

Just because it pees in your cornflakes: The Dept. of Education and all University funds. To zero if they charge tuition.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

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!

If they don't attempt to keep to the standards of those who elected them the republicans will lose in 2012.

The problem for the democrats is to not obstruct legislation this new house tries to pass. If the dems make it so the republicans can't do what the people elected them to do then the democrats instead will lose more in 2012.

No matter how much spin you hear this is truly how it is. The people are awake!