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February 06, 2006
Democrats' Contract with Al Quada
Democrats' expectations are high that they will take back the Congress this year. There is a lot of talk about a new Contract with America, a la Newt Gingrich's 1994 Contract that resulted in over a decade (and counting) of Republican control. The Contract with America still today stands as perhaps the clearest, simplest, least-nuanced national platform in memory.
Making 2006 into a 1994 will be tall order for them Dems for several reasons. For one, Republicans never expected to take Congress in 1994. The plan was to take both Congress and the White House in 1996. Democrats have been long on electoral hope and short on actual results. More importantly, the Democrats don't have the issues needed to credibly replicate a contract. The 1994 contract had simple issues that appealed to large swaths of America: ending increases in welfare for having more kids, truth in sentencing, and no US troops under UN command.
The Democrats might try to produce a contract, but AJ Strata has done it for them. Read his version of the Democrats' contact here. [via Powerline]
Posted by adrianjo at February 6, 2006 09:51 PM