Republicans Pledge

On Thursday, the Republicans announced the Official "Pledge To America." The claim is that it will create jobs, cut the spending, and put the people back in charge. It also serves to end the rumors that they are the Party Of No. So, it's a failure on one count. And the jury is still out on how these would be implemented, or if they would even work. Forty Five pages. That's it. Forty five pages, less if you count the pictures on the American ideal, some quotes. Some of the most specific things in this "brand new plan" sound awfully familiar, such as permanent tax cuts. Because wealthy people have to have money. There are other ideas, however, such as repealing ObamaCare (because people need to be screwed), canceling TARP, AKA the bank bailouts (which actually worked), and canceling unspent stimulus cash (we have some money left?). The problem is, some of the ideas just don't go far enough to bringing down the defecit. In the cases of the tax cuts, the defecit might even be added to. Same with repealing the health care reform law, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which is a nonpartisan group that studies if and how much bills add to the defecit. Health Care reform is expected to take off 140 billion over ten years. And by sticking with national security, you just know the defense budget won't be trimmed (because war makes money). Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security reforms are also very vague. But not every Republican says it goes far enough. Boehner, for the most part, has said that missing specifics are nothing to worry about, that it was not a "party platform." So, why was it released at all? Isn't the point of something like this to tell what you would do? The Tea party has not been too keen to jump on board with the plan. For one, it lacks specifics. But also, partiers doubt whether Republicans will actually follow through on it. Some say it doesn't go far enough and is just PR to get them elected. It may be enough to hand power over to the Republicans, but it doesn't do enough to show why that should be. And in 2012, everything goes back to the Democrats.