NRO comments on the new Republican program for America:
All year long, conservatives have been pressuring Republicans to release a Contract with America for 2010 — an updated version of the campaign platform that the party unveiled before its 1994 sweep of Congress. Thursday morning, Republican congressmen are responding to that pressure by making a “Pledge to America.” The inevitable question will be: Is the pledge as bold as the Contract?
The answer is: The pledge is bolder. The Contract with America merely promised to hold votes on popular bills that had been bottled up during decades of Democratic control of the House. The pledge commits Republicans to working toward a broad conservative agenda that, if implemented, would make the federal government significantly smaller, Congress more accountable, and America more prosperous…
Which is, of course, what we need. I haven’t had a chance to digest the document, but I am impressed by the steps towards balancing the budget – our debt is the biggest internal threat we face today. If we don’t control our debt, it will destroy our economy…and maybe destroy our country.
This Pledge is just what we need going in to the last weeks of the campaign – everyone knows why they despise the Democrats, but we need to tell everyone why they should support the Republicans. This does the trick – smaller government, lower taxes, greater individual liberty, strong national defense: this is what the people want and expect from their Republican party, and we are now pledged to give it to them.
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