A Contract with America

This morning on Twitter, Speaker of the House John Boehner was reliving past glories:

"#OnThisDay in 1994, I joined House Republicans in signing A Contract With America."​

Ohhhhh, right, it must be election time.

Christmas, you put up a tree and tinsel. Halloween, it’s ghosts and ghouls. Thanksgiving, it’s pumpkins and construction paper turkeys. Election Season? Republicans start dragging out A Contract with America.

Thanks for reminding us, John.

A Contract With America. You recall this, right?

Twenty years ago today, Newt Gingrich unveiled A Contract with America. It was six weeks before the election and Republicans solemnly promised America that when they took over Congress, well, they'd do a bunch of stuff. Fix things. Make America better. more . . .

 

Signed 20 years ago and America is still waiting for delivery.

 

it worked great at first. It transformed Clinton into a relatively reasonable president. Curtailing handouts and working towards balancing the budget with Congress.

Then the establishment took over and we have been accelerating towards stupidity ever since.

 

What were the items on the contract (the linked article lists 8)?

 

As you're still waiting for pictures of me masturbating?

 

If it's anything different than the cluster-fuck this country has been put through with Democrats in charge, it will be a welcome relief

 

It was twenty years ago.

 

Been away for a while and not up on ET current events. Are you gay now?

 

Not like you and spike

May 29, 2013

 

No money in it.