Conservatives echo Armey’s criticism of GOP
October 20th, 2006 by Brendan SteinhauserA blogger in Wisconsin has posted his thoughts about Armey’s comments to the New York Times regarding the problems with big-government Republicans.
Excerpt:
My increasing disaffiliation with the Republican Party has everything to do with the manner in which Republicans have come to be the whimpering servants of the forces of evangelical extremism. Goodness, how things have changed in the 12 years since Republicans swept their way back into power, in large part because of a little document that Armey largely wrote himself.
You might remember it. It was called the Contract with America. It helped to galvanize those Republicans fearful of the big government agenda pushed by the Clintons and the Democratic Congress. It gave the wide swath voters in the middle who vote primarily on pocketbook issues a workable alternative.
The result? A 52-seat pickup in the House. Nine seats in the Senate.
What’d the Contract talk about? A balanced budget amendment. Line-item veto. Welfare reform. Tort reform. Middle class tax cuts. Term limits. Truth-in-sentencing.
