A Pledge To America

[frontrange]

Source: Fox News

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

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/pledgetoamerica.pdf

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Fox News has released a draft copy of the GOP's new Contract on America for 2010.

[dave29]

1. Fool me once

fool me thrice

[ProSense]

2. A

Contract on America

[applegrove]

7. Oh that Dem Logo again. It looks like a bull's eye.

[davidinalameda]

3. there's nothing new in it

same old crap they've been pushing since Reagan

[SalmonChantedEvening]

4. Smells like lemon to me,

[Tx4obama]

5. It's all over the internet. You don't have to go to Fox. OTHER links below

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TPM Brings You The GOP 'Pledge To America' Governing Agenda (In Draft Form)
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/09/tpm-brings-you-the-gop-pledge-to-america-governing-agenda-in-draft-form.php?ref=fpblg

GOP Set To Roll Out “Pledge To America”
http://www.alan.com/2010/09/22/gop-set-to-roll-out-pledge-to-america/

CNN - link to document in the article
http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/09/22/gop.pledge.to.america/index.html?hpt=T1

[alp227]

6. NY Times: "G.O.P. Cites Tax Cuts and Health Care as Main Focus"

WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Thursday will issue a legislative blueprint called “A Pledge to America” that they hope will catapult them to a majority in the November elections. Its goals include a permanent extension of all of the Bush-era tax cuts, repeal of the newly enacted health care law, a cap on discretionary federal spending, and an end to government control of the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

With control of the House, the Republicans said they would seek to immediately cancel any unspent money from last year’s $787 billion economic stimulus program, to freeze the size of the “non-security” federal workforce, and to quickly slash $100 billion in discretionary spending. But the blueprint, with echoes of the 1994 Contract with America, does not specify how the spending reductions would be carried out.

While the agenda is drafted broadly, offering bullet points of overarching objectives rather than detailed proposals — and any legislation championed by Republicans in the next Congress, of course, could be subject to a veto by President Obama — the document represents the most concrete presentation of Republican goals so far this year.

Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/23/us/politics/23repubs.html

[Patsy Stone]

8. Only half a page in, but I had no idea this was about the Bush Administration!

"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 long-standing laws and institutions and scorning the deepest beliefs of the American people."

[Patsy Stone]

9. Okay, on closer inspection

Rah! Rah! Liberty! Rah! Rah! Freedom!

Read my lips: NO ONE PAYS ANY TAXES -- EVER!

[truthisfreedom]

10. *yawn* n/t

[unkachuck]

11. Pledge to America?

....there is an amazing amount of lies in that document....it reads more like a Republican 'Plague on America'....Republicans suffer from Meltdown Amnesia....

[katty]

16. more... F/U America

[Zoeisright]

12. What a bunch of total tripe.

Lots of pretty-sounding words that mean absolutely nothing. Wouldn't expect anything more from those morans (sic).

[meegbear]

13. Too many words, not enough pictures of flags and Ronald Reagan

[nxylas]

14. Short version:

More for him

Less for you

[katty]

15. agree: whenever the 'agenda' of guv'mt becomes destructive,

YOU SHOULD RESIGN or GET SACKED from your so called 'job' (aka job entitlement that never ceases).

[Bennyboy]

17. My Idiot Rep sent it to me a minute ago

Dan Lungren.