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Do Republicans Need Another ‘Contract With America’ in 2022?
Amidst debates among Republicans, such as the extent to which the U.S. should support and defend Ukraine, this has emerged: Do congressional Republicans need a positive, pro-active agenda to run on for the 2022 midterms? You know, like the 1994 Contract With America? Will it help? Is it politically necessary?
We MUST have a new Contract.
Not because we need such a Contract to win. But because without such a public standard, Republicans will lack the stones to do anything except be Democrats-lite.
But if we do a Contract, and win the midterms going away, then there is both a mandate to support, and pressure behind, actually voting on those items. And those items are very important if we are to keep this nation whole.
Some are obvious, of course – I wrote about them in a post last week:
1. Don’t have more COVID lockdowns or mandates of any kind.
2. Maximize natural gas, oil, and nuclear power sources to lower the price at the pump and utility bills.
3. Support parental rights! Change the law to have the money only go to states and jurisdictions where parents have choice/charters/vouchers.
4. Send all departments out to the areas they govern. Drain the swamp by exporting it.
5. Change the law to fire all government employees who play politics or political favorites. No selective enforcement/targeting. Make it EASY to fire government employees by removing unions.
6. Support medical freedoms. No FDA approval should be needed for people to make their own decisions on experimental drugs.
7. Reduce governmental ownership of land. Mandate a max 10% federal ownership of the land of any state. Auction the rest off over the course of four years. (got a lot of pushback on this)
8. Finish the border wall.
Ok with rewording four. But think Rs should stay away from the trans b.s. and other social issues. Just talk about money, kid’s education and energy independence. Let the dems blab about CRT and trannies.
Like Ara Parseghian, the great NDame football coach, said once upon a time. Keep it simple stupid. KISS.
Silence = endorsement. So a terrible idea.
I agree. Especially on the topic of biological men beating women in sports. There are a lot of women in sports who are angry about this, but afraid to speak up. Republicans in Congress speaking up on their behalf will empower them. This is a bigger issue than Congress realizes.
It’s kind of like the CRT stuff — everyone knew it was bad, but afraid to speak out. And then a handful of people started speaking up, the preference cascade began, and we saw what happened in Virginia.
We should concentrate on protecting the right of people to speak freely on the topic and bake cakes according to their beliefs. These wouldn’t be such a problem if they didn’t threaten fundamental human rights. No, that’s not the only problem, but that’s the one that should be of greatest concern to the national government.