Is it time for a new contract for America? If you read Newt. org you might come up with that very opinion. Former Speaker Newt Gingrich recently said on his web site and on TV recently suggested just that. As Gingrich said We just can’t be anti Obama or just Being anti democrat, we need to have a set of programs that the will resonate with the American public. A Nine step program that would in effect be a new contract.
1. Repeal the gas tax for the summer, and pay for the repeal by cutting domestic discretionary spending.
2. Redirect the oil being put into the national petroleum reserve onto the open market.
3. Introduce a "more energy at lower cost with less environmental damage and greater national security bill" as a replacement for the Warner-Lieberman "tax and trade" bill
4. Establish an earmark moratorium for one year and pledge to uphold the presidential veto of bills with earmarks through the end of 2009.
5. Overhaul the census and cut its budget radically.
6. Implement a space-based, GPS-style air traffic control system.
7. Declare English the official language of government.
8. Protect the workers' right to a secret ballot. T
9. Remind Americans that judges matter.
As much as I love to listen to Gingrich I must that I have to agree with him However I srill would wish that the curret crop of Republicans would start listen to ther people of this country, certainly the liberals are not.
When I think of inspirational leaders the name John McCain does not come to mind. Unless the Republican Party steps up with an inspirational leader with some ideas and spirit, the outcome of the next election is already cast in cement and the blame belongs to the Republican National Party and President George W. Bush. It will take decades to recover. The leadership need to tackle at longer list then what Newt would like :
Make the tax cuts permanent
Secure the border “for real”
Acknowledge the fantastic job our military is doing and give them a raise (victories in Iraq)
Cut social spending
Save black people from the disasters in their neighborhoods brought on by the left (point it out)
School vouchers for parents
Tax breaks for retirement
Significant tax breaks for healthcare costs
Incentives for businesses to come back to American soil
Offer a real energy policy now that includes conservation and new drilling etc.
Be positive about what we can do
Democrats are not engaged in fair play. It arouses the activism of those who have been disappointed by Republicans and have forgotten how bad a liberal Democratic Presidency would be. Between this country dodging Terrorist attacks we need to look out for this country. The democrats are doing what some Republicans were doing just before World War 2 . A Isolationsit platform is a dangerous one.
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