When Newt Grinchwinch put the contract on america...

[butterfly77]

didn't they say they were the party that stays out of our business. Seems to me everyday that are making another law that helps them to get more and more into our personal lives. I just heard about the one where you have to report your real name on internet websites. ``

[napi21]

1. Newt would agree with you! He'd also tell you it happened AFTER

HE left! Did you hear his interview last week? He said the Pubs in Congress MUST change or they'll for sure lose the house in 2006!

I think he's planning on running for Pres in 08, and he again is proposing CHANGE!

[tatertop]

4. Scary, but I think the GOP is thinking about Newt in 08'.

He is being presented as the voice of reason.
A call back to the Old Time Republican values American
dummies long for.
Bush voters will back him. Hillary haters will back him.
Idiots with very short memories might even back him
on the basis of his new platform of lies.
I believe he could beat Hillary.

[butterfly77]

5. I know this is what I have been watching...

how he is slowly showing up every week on some show pretending to be the voice of reason when in reality, he is one of the head devils of dirty deeds.

[Arkana]

11. Solution: Don't nominate Hillary.

Seriously. I have the utmost confidence in Hillary that she will realize a campaign for President will divide the country even more than Dumbass has. She's a bright woman, and I think she will serve the country well--as a Senator from New York.

Newt couldn't beat any of the other candidates if he tried, though. He's damaged goods.

[tatertop]

13. Good idea.

[sweetm2475]

2. Correction: Took A Contract Out On America

And the answer is they're fu**in liars.

"The Facts Are Biased Against Republicans"

[Sydnie]

3. He is linked to Abramoff too

Almost from the start, Abramoff struck some rival lobbyists as a strange figure who operated on the margins. He even turned up as a representative of the Pakistani military when Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto went to Washington in 1995 to seek the return of $600 million the Islamabad government had paid for 28 F-16 fighters. The sale had been blocked by the U.S. government over concerns about Pakistan's nuclear program.

Bhutto's Washington lobbyists were at the Pakistani Embassy savoring her successful meeting with President Bill Clinton when a man in a suit made a mysterious entrance.

"Suddenly, this portly guy steps in and sits down. He says nothing," recalled one of the lobbyists. The Americans asked him to introduce himself. He folded his arms and refused.

"Finally, he says, 'I am Jack Abramoff,' " recalled the lobbyist, a well-connected Democrat. They had never heard of him. Abramoff explained that he was "close to Newt."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/28/AR2005122801588_pf.html

[napi21]

7. I've been hunting a connection Newt/Abranhoff for a week. Haven't found

anything concrete. I tried campaign contribution and found nothing. This would be a gold mine find right now, if we could find it.

The short quote from the WP isn't enough. I live in Ga. and I can tell you, Newt is a very clever politician. This guy can come back as easily as Clinton did. People will forget what he did. The only way to stop him is to prove him a liar NOW, while the Abramoff case is still on the front burner.

I
ll keep looking, but I need the help of every DUer too. In my gut I think there IS a link between them, we just have to find it!

[butterfly77]

6. Newts plan is to pretend to be the voice of reason...

in the republican party. It is the job of dems to let it be known for new and young voters who this sneaky wife leaving hypocrite is ,spread the word everyone.

[tatertop]

8. He has been out of the limelight a long time.

I am guessing most people don't recall his past or never
knew it. He is being presented as a rational human being.
He is being re-invented in front of our very eyes.

Bush had more skeletons in the closet
than this dimwit when they ran him.
And they beat us twice.

[butterfly77]

9. He and the rest of the crew will get away with it if we..

don't start reminding people who he is and informing those who don't know who he is. Others who are players in the background are starting to show up to take the place of Delay and the rest. I heard earlier this year they have training and seminars on how to be a hateful repug.

[Yupster]

10. The Contract With America concerned mostly

procedural items. They promised to vote on a line item veto, a balanced budget amendment, term limits for committee chairmen, the end to proxy voting in committees.

It really didn't have much to do with policy positions.

[bvar22]

12. THIS is "The Contract with America".

On the first day of the 104th Congress, the new Republican majority will immediately pass the following major reforms, aimed at restoring the faith and trust of the American people in their government:

* FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;
* SECOND, select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
* THIRD, cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
* FOURTH, limit the terms of all committee chairs;
* FIFTH, ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
* SIXTH, require committee meetings to be open to the public;
* SEVENTH, require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
* EIGHTH, guarantee an honest accounting of our Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.

Thereafter, within the first 100 days of the 104th Congress, we shall 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.

1. THE FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT: A balanced budget/tax limitation amendment and a legislative line-item veto to restore fiscal responsibility to an out- of-control Congress, requiring them to live under the same budget constraints as families and businesses. (Bill Text) (Description)

2. THE TAKING BACK OUR STREETS ACT: An anti-crime package including stronger truth-in- sentencing, "good faith" exclusionary rule exemptions, effective death penalty provisions, and cuts in social spending from this summer's "crime" bill to fund prison construction and additional law enforcement to keep people secure in their neighborhoods and kids safe in their schools. (Bill Text) (Description)

3. THE PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY ACT: Discourage illegitimacy and teen pregnancy by prohibiting welfare to minor mothers and denying increased AFDC for additional children while on welfare, cut spending for welfare programs, and enact a tough two-years-and-out provision with work requirements to promote individual responsibility. (Bill Text) (Description)

4. THE FAMILY REINFORCEMENT ACT: Child support enforcement, tax incentives for adoption, strengthening rights of parents in their children's education, stronger child pornography laws, and an elderly dependent care tax credit to reinforce the central role of families in American society. (Bill Text) (Description)

5. THE AMERICAN DREAM RESTORATION ACT: A S500 per child tax credit, begin repeal of the marriage tax penalty, and creation of American Dream Savings Accounts to provide middle class tax relief. (Bill Text) (Description)

6. THE NATIONAL SECURITY RESTORATION ACT: No U.S. troops under U.N. command and restoration of the essential parts of our national security funding to strengthen our national defense and maintain our credibility around the world. (Bill Text) (Description)

7. THE SENIOR CITIZENS FAIRNESS ACT: Raise the Social Security earnings limit which currently forces seniors out of the work force, repeal the 1993 tax hikes on Social Security benefits and provide tax incentives for private long-term care insurance to let Older Americans keep more of what they have earned over the years. (Bill Text) (Description)

8. THE JOB CREATION AND WAGE ENHANCEMENT ACT: Small business incentives, capital gains cut 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. (Bill Text) (Description)

9. THE COMMON SENSE LEGAL REFORM ACT: "Loser pays" laws, reasonable limits on punitive damages and reform of product liability laws to stem the endless tide of litigation. (Bill Text) (Description)

10. THE CITIZEN LEGISLATURE ACT: A first-ever vote on term limits to replace career politicians with citizen legislators. (Description)

The Democrats would be SMART to copy this format, and produce a document that features Voting Reform (no BBV), Workers Rights, Job Protections, Retirement Protections, Universal HealthCare, LIMITS on Corporations, Strengthen US Internal Security (Ports and Borders) NOT fighting senseless, expensive FOREIGN Wars of Occupation.
These issues RESONATE with the MAJORITY of AMERICANS, not just Democrats.