The House GOP Pledge to America was unveiled last week. \u00a0The Pledge was intended as a reprise to the 1994 Contract with America. \u00a0The response to it has been surreal.<\/p>\n
First have been the retorts from the Democrats. \u00a0\u201cWarmed over.\u201d \u00a0\u201cNothing new here.\u201d \u00a0You\u2019ve heard it all. \u00a0And you\u2019ve seen the mainstream media following behind like trained dogs, which, to a large extent they are.<\/p>\n
You might have expected the MSM to ask, didn\u2019t the President and the Democratic leadership in Congress bolster their case for the widely reviled Obamacare legislation saying that it had first been proposed by Theodore Roosevelt, next by Harry Truman, last by Bill Clinton? \u00a0If that\u2019s not warmed over, what is? \u00a0And if you, the MSM, get all tingly about warmed over Obamacare, why do you dismiss tax cuts, reduced and predictable regulation, and control of spending as warmed over?<\/p>\n
We know the answer, of course. \u00a0In Democrat and MSM world, more spending, more taxing of entrepreneurs and investors, more capricious regulation: these all qualify as bold and new — no matter how many times they are trotted out. \u00a0And no matter how disastrous the results, they qualify as visionary and making things better than they would have been otherwise.<\/p>\n
And we know the flip side that the MSM directs at Republicans. \u00a0How can you afford the current lower taxes? \u00a0How can you cut taxes and balance the budget?<\/p>\n
Aren\u2019t the right questions, how can you afford all that spending? \u00a0And regarding taxation, how can we afford a stagnate economy? \u00a0And in a world driven by entrepreneurship, how can we afford to tax entrepreneurs into financial impotence? \u00a0How can we throw paralyzing regulations at all areas of business?<\/p>\n
And wouldn\u2019t it be worth a moment of the MSM noting that the totality of the administration\u2019s program of the last two years may well have the long-term effect of suffocating the private economy even as it puts on steroids the public sector. \u00a0Is such a policy sustainable?<\/p>\n
I am dreaming, of course. \u00a0The MSM would never think to ask such questions. \u00a0 So on Sunday\u2019s Meet the Press, for example, David Gregory badgered, belittled, and spoke over again and again Congressman Mike Pence, but let Democrat Chris Van Hollen run on uninterrupted.<\/p>\n