GOP Pledge ‘steers clear of specifics on important issues’
The plan steers clear of specifics on important issues, such as how it will "put government on a path to a balanced budget." It omits altogether the question of how to address looming shortfalls in Social Security and Medicare, which account for a huge portion of the nation's soaring deficit, instead including a vague promise: "We will make the decisions that are necessary to protect our entitlement programs."Carly Fiorina Owned and Operated by the Looney Billionaire Koch Brothers
Republicans are favored to add substantially to their ranks on Nov. 2, perhaps enough to seize control of the House.
Their new agenda is rife with the kind of grass-roots rhetoric that could appeal both to tea party activists and to independent voters the GOP is courting in its quest for control.
...."Republicans want to return to the same failed economic policies that hurt millions of Americans and threatened our economy," said Nadeam Elshami, a spokesman for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
GOP’s Newly Unveiled ‘Pledge to America’ Is a Destructive Sham
