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Pledge to America

Posted on | September 26, 2010 | 1 Comment

It seems to be quite fashionable to knock the new GOP Pledge to America, a blueprint released by House Republicans of their legislative agenda going forward. Why such a rush to criticize? Perhaps for the same reason they are bashing Tea Parties & Conservative candidates – they’ve seen or heard someone else do it. How better to appear hip than to parrot what you think the hip kids are saying.

But there isn’t anything bash worthy in the pledge itself. Far from it. It lays out in clear terms steps that can & should be taken to shrink the size of government.

Dan Riehl lays it out clearly:

It is, in essence, the standard we’ve been issued to get behind and march on toward November, when America faces one of, if not the, most important election of our times. If there’s some other side worthy of fighting on, I haven’t seen it. And I’m not the least bit interested in entertaining it, even if I did. So, I’m going to defend this pledge against the Democrats and an often complicit media and any one else if I have to. Because I know what side I’m on and how desperately America needs our side to prevail.

Might there be other battles or complaints come January? I assume there will be. But now is not the time for wasting energy, or misdirecting our efforts on them. The candidates have been selected. The political battles lines have been drawn between Left and Right, Democrat and Republican. I know which side I’m on, along with the importance of this document in terms of shaping the battle space in front of us and as we move through.

And he takes on those who are mocking it, simply because it exists.

I’m not kidding myself into thinking this pledge is perfect. I’m not pretending it has everything I would like, or that I like everything it has. I’m not so naive as to think we won’t have to keep the pressure on whichever GOP candidates manage to make it to the House, to ensure this pledge is not broken.

But I know which side I’m on.
And I know the election looms large.



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Category: politics

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One Response to “Pledge to America”

  1. sis
    September 27th, 2010 @ 12:07 am

    ….and I know SHE votes!!

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