“Establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity“
Go to Wikipedia or google that phrase and see what you find. Almost any of us political junkies and self-described patriots has heard of the Contract with America. Most of us if asked would point to the 1994 mid-term elections. Again they might refer to Newt Gingrich and the Republican sweep in the house that year. Most of us remember seeing Newt stand up before the podium and check off his items of introduced bills one by one as he kept his promise to the American people. I believe that was a misrepresentation of the truth. It was not a “Contract with America”. It was instead a Contract between the Republican Party and those who put them in office. I believe we have lost sight of the big picture.