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53'Contract' a Failed Strategy
The road to hell, it's been said, is paved with good intentions. While always praiseworthy, good intentions can, if you're not careful, take you down the primrose path. Newt Gingrich took us down that path with his so-called "Contract With America."
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61Obama White House : Antidote for Neo Conservative Contract on Americans
Newt / Time"... porked up Democrats made good eat'n ..." It was nearly 14 years ago, that former Speaker of House Newt Gingrich (R, GA), conservative operative, led the charge (with a Falwell-esque flurry of...
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68Newt, Bob: Just Balance the Budget
It would be great folly for Congress -- and the states (which must ratify amendments by a two-thirds vote) -- to clutter up the Constitution with amendments that thoughtlessly change the balance of power that is now finely balanced among the three branches of government.
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59Did the Voters Buy a GOP Pig in a Poke?
Newt Gingrich, the freewheeling loose cannon who was elected Speaker of the House in 1995, used his position to lord it over the Democrats by bulldozing his so-called "Contract With America" through the lower legislative body of Congress. In the end, it failed.
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