{"id":4798,"date":"2010-09-27T08:15:31","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T13:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=4798"},"modified":"2010-09-27T09:05:52","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T14:05:52","slug":"return-of-the-%e2%80%98contract-with-america%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/09\/27\/return-of-the-%e2%80%98contract-with-america%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Return of the \u2018Contract With America\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the article <a title=\"Joe Conason article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/report\/item\/return_of_the_contract_with_america_20100926\/#\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Return of the \u2018Contract With America\u2019<\/strong><\/a>, author Joe Conason writes<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Republicans have announced the forthcoming release of the <a title=\"Contract From America\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thecontract.org\/\">\u201cContract From America\u201d<\/a>\u2014a set of legislative proposals presumably intended to replicate the \u201cContract With America\u201d used by their leaders in the historic 1994 midterm when they won control of both houses of Congress.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Republicans seem to have trouble with prepositions.\u00a0 I have always called these things <strong>Contract On America<\/strong>. It seems so much like a Mob hit contract, that my title seemed more appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>For another take on the Contract On America, read Clive McFarlane&#8217;s piece <a title=\"Clive McFarlane's column\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100927\/COLUMN44\/9270336\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>GOP pledge no pathway to future<\/strong><\/a> in the <em>Worcester T &amp; G<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the article Return of the \u2018Contract With America\u2019, author Joe Conason writes The Republicans have announced the forthcoming release of the \u201cContract From America\u201d\u2014a set of legislative proposals presumably intended to replicate the \u201cContract With America\u201d used by their leaders in the historic 1994 midterm when they won control of both houses of Congress. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4798"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4800,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4798\/revisions\/4800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}