The Single Most Important Issue?

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Mitch McConnell, and I quote: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president."

Great. Country First, not a chance. Reduce the deficit, nope; cut spending, nope; repair the economy, nope. Immigration reform, nope. Border security, nope.

Continued partisan bickering; you betcha.

Since Obama's policies are only making things worse, I surmise McConnell's most important issue as a Republican politician is to do that. It solves a whole host of problems.

What should his single most important thing be to you? Nothing he proposes will ever get a second look by the President, that has been made clear.
I think McConnell has pretty clearly summed up the Republican plan for the next two years in Congress, discredit Obama. They can have hearings to investigate Obama's place of birth and his relationship with Rev. Write. They can probably come up with a half dozen other issues. They vote to repeal Obama legislation but without a super majority in both Houses, they won't get anywhere. But then again that's not the plan.

What about jobs and the economy? I can think of absolutely no reason why Republicans would want to see the country come out of a recession in the next two years. We all know what their game plan is for the next two years. Do whatever is needed to keep unemployment high and discredit Obama. That's there best hope of defeating Obama in two years. I wonder if the poor jobless saps that are voting republicans are aware of this.
 
Returning to the concepts of Individual Rights and Limited Government Power.

This one is the most important objective to me too, but that will be ongoing for sometime. And it will require somebody other than Obama to accomplish, so McConnell may not be speaking as partisan as you think, Wry.

Right now the most immediate priority is to get people back to work so they can feed their families, keep a roof over their heads, etc. etc. and that means turning the economy around which the Contract With America, if they implement it and Obama doesn't veto it, should happen pretty quick. That is IF the conservative GOP gets back the power for awhile.

which contract with america? You mean the one the right reniged on or is there a new one?
 
Content of the Contract
The Contract's actual text included a list of eight reforms the Republicans promised to enact, and ten bills they promised to bring to floor debate and votes, if they were made the majority following the election.[citation needed] During the construction of the Contract, proposals were limited to "60% issues", i.e. legislation that polling showed garnered 60% support of the American people, intending for the Contract to avoid promises on controversial and divisive matters like abortion and school prayer.[1] Reagan biographer Lou Cannon would characterize the Contract as having taken more than half of its text from Ronald Reagan's 1985 State of the Union Address.[citation needed]

Government and Operational Reforms
On the first day of their majority in the House, the Republicans promised to pass eight major reforms:

1.require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply to Congress;
2.select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
3.cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
4.limit the terms of all committee chairs;
5.ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
6.require committee meetings to be open to the public;
7.require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
8.guarantee an honest accounting of the Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.
[edit] Major Policy Changes
Thereafter, during the 1st one hundred days of the 104th Congress, the Republicans pledged "to bring to the floor the following [ten] bills, each to be given a full and open debate, each to be given a clear and fair vote, and each to be immediately available for public inspection." The text of the proposed bills was included in the Contract, which was released prior to the election. These bills were not governmental operational reforms, as the previous promises were; rather, they represented significant changes to policy. The main included a balanced budget requirement, tax cuts for small businesses, families and seniors, term limits for legislators, social security reform, tort reform, and welfare reform.

[edit] Implementation of the Contract
The Contract had promised to bring to floor debate and votes 10 bills that would implement major reform of the Federal Government. When the 104th Congress assembled in January 1995, the Republican majority sought to implement the Contract.

In some cases (e.g. The National Security Restoration Act and The Personal Responsibility Act), the proposed bills were accomplished by a single act analogous to that which had been proposed in the Contract; in other cases (e.g. The Job Creation and Wage Enhancement Act), a proposed bill's provisions were split up across multiple acts. Most of the bills died in the Senate, except as noted below.

[edit] The Fiscal Responsibility Act
An amendment to the Constitution that would require a balanced budget unless sanctioned by a three-fifths vote in both houses of Congress (H.J.Res.1, passed by the US House Roll Call: 300-132, 1/26/95; rejected by the US Senate Roll Call: 65-35, 3/2/95, two-thirds required), and legislation (not an amendment) provide the president with a line-item veto (H.R.2, passed by the US House Roll Call: 294-134, 2/6/95; conferenced with S. 4 and enacted with substantial changes 4/9/96 [2]). The statute was ruled unconstitutional in Clinton v. City of New York, 524 U.S. 417, 118 S.Ct. 2091, 141 L.Ed.2d 393 (1998).

[edit] The Taking Back Our Streets Act
An anti-crime package including stronger truth-in-sentencing, "good faith" exclusionary rule exemptions (H.R.666 Exclusionary Rule Reform Act, passed US House Roll Call 289-142 2/8/95), death penalty provisions (H.R.729 Effective Death Penalty Act, passed US House Roll Call 297-132 2/8/95; similar provisions enacted under S. 735 [3], 4/24/96), funding prison construction (H.R.667 Violent Criminal Incarceration Act, passed US House Roll Call 265-156 2/10/95, rc#117) and additional law enforcement (H.R.728 Local Government Law Enforcement Block Grants Act, passed US House Roll Call 238-192 2/14/95).

[edit] The Personal Responsibility Act
An act to discourage illegitimacy and teen pregnancy by reforming and cutting cash welfare and related programs. This would be achieved by prohibiting welfare to mothers under 18 years of age, denying increased AFDC for additional children while on welfare, and enacting a two-years-and-out provision with work requirements to promote individual responsibility. H.R.4, the Family Self-Sufficiency Act, included provisions giving food vouchers to unwed mothers under 18 in lieu of cash AFDC benefits, denying cash AFDC benefits for additional children to people on AFDC, requiring recipients to participate in work programs after 2 years on AFDC, complete termination of AFDC payments after five years, and suspending driver and professional licenses of people who fail to pay child support. H.R.4, passed by the US House 234-199, 3/23/95, and passed by the US Senate 87-12, 9/19/95. The Act was vetoed by President Clinton, but the alternative Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act which offered many of the same policies was enacted 8/22/96.

[edit] The American Dream Restoration Act
An act to create a $500-per-child tax credit, begin repeal of the marriage tax penalty, and creation of American Dream Savings Accounts to provide middle-class tax relief. H.R.1215, passed 246-188, 4/5/95.

[edit] The National Security Restoration Act
An act to prevent U.S. troops from serving under United Nations command unless the president determines it is necessary for the purposes of national security, to cut U.S. payments for UN peacekeeping operations, and to help establish guidelines for the voluntary integration of former Warsaw Pact nations into NATO. H.R.7, passed 241-181, 2/16/95.

[edit] The "Common Sense" Legal Reform Act
An act to institute "Loser pays" laws (H.R.988, passed 232-193, 3/7/95), limits on punitive damages and weakening of product-liability laws to prevent what the bill considered frivolous litigation (H.R.956, passed 265-161, 3/10/95; passed Senate 61-37, 5/11/95, vetoed by President Clinton [4]). Another tort reform bill, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act was enacted in 1995 when Congress overrode a veto by Clinton.

[edit] The Job Creation and Wage Enhancement Act
A package of measures to act as small-business incentives: capital-gains cuts and indexation, neutral cost recovery, risk assessment/cost-benefit analysis, strengthening the Regulatory Flexibility Act and unfunded mandate reform to create jobs and raise worker wages. Although this was listed as a single bill in the Contract, its provisions ultimately made it to the House Floor as four bills:

H.R.5, requiring federal funding for state spending mandated by Congressional action and estimated by the Congressional Budget Office to cost more than $50m per year (for the years of 1996-2002[2]), was passed 360-74, 2/1/95. This bill was conferenced with S. 1 and enacted, 3/22/95 [5].
H.R.450 required a moratorium on the implementation of Federal regulations until June 30, 1995, and was passed 276-146, 2/24/95. Companion Senate bill S. 219 passed by voice vote, 5/17/95, but the two bills never emerged from conference [6].
H.R.925 required Federal compensation to be paid to property owners when Federal Government actions reduced the value of the property by 20% or more, and was passed 277-148, 3/3/95.
H.R.926, passed 415-14 on 3/1/95, required Federal agencies to provide a cost-benefit analysis on any regulation costing $50m or more annually, to be signed off on by the Office of Management and Budget, and permitted small businesses to sue that agency if they believed the aforementioned analysis was performed inadequately or incorrectly.
[edit] The Citizen Legislature Act
An amendment to the Constitution that would have imposed 12-year term limits on members of the US Congress (i.e. six terms for Representatives, two terms for Senators). H.J.Res.73[7] rejected by the U.S. House 227-204 (a constitutional amendment requires a two-thirds majority, not a simple majority), 3/29/95; RC #277.

[edit] Other sections of the Contract
Other sections of the Contract include a proposed Family Reinforcement Act (tax incentives for adoption, strengthening the powers of parents in their children's education, stronger child pornography laws, and elderly dependent care tax credit) and the Senior Citizens Fairness Act (raise the Social Security earnings limit, repeal the 1993 tax hikes on Social Security benefits and provide tax incentives for private long-term care insurance).

[edit] Non-implementation of the Contract
A November 13, 2000 article by Edward H. Crane, president of the libertarian Cato Institute, stated, "... the combined budgets of the 95 major programs that the Contract with America promised to eliminate have increased by 13%." [3] However, since the Contract only promised to "bring to the House Floor the following bills, each to be given full and open debate, each to be given a clear and fair vote and each to be immediately available this day for public inspection and scrutiny" [4], the Contract did accomplish its promises, even if some bills failed in votes or fell to presidential vetoes.
Contract with America - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the origional contract with America. I am not sure of the republican voting record on this.
 
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Eliminating corruption

If we eliminate corruption, the debt will be reduced, illegal immigration will be stopped and legal immigration will be encouraged, jobs will be created, There will be much less handouts.

Corruption is the problem. Everything else is just a symptom.

But we shouldn't trust Congress to eliminate corruption. Heck, we shouldnt expect anything from Congress. Their track record sucks no matter what party is in control. If we want to eliminate corruption our government, we have to start with ourselves. Because ultimately, we are the only government we can rely on.

If you care about this country, I encourage you to live honest lives. I encourage you to be honest even if you have to face tough situations. Because the truth will set you free.
 
Replacing this painting the Obama's used to redecorate the Lincoln Bedroom:

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In case you may have missed by earlier remark on another thread sammie boy, you are one fucked up guy.
Your focus on all matters sexual is perverse as well as immature - likely the result of a personal problem.
 

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