The Pledge

Ezra Klein - The GOP's bad idea:

At the end of the day, America may be an idea -- but it is also a country. And it needs to be governed. This proposal avoids the hard choices of governance. It says what it thinks will be popular and then proposes what it thinks will be popular -- even when the two conflict. That's an idea that may help you win elections, but not one that'll help you govern a country. Republicans would've been better off adopting Mitch Daniels' plan wholesale.

I have not had a chance to read the "Pledge to America" in it's entirety yet, I will most assuredly have a longer post on it soon, but based on what I have read, Klein provides a pretty good summation of the inconsistencies that they present and the hypocrisy of most of their unnecessary cleaving to social conservatism.

This is not a pledge to America, it is a pledge to "conservative" Americans that the GOP has gotten the message, they have to pander to the Tea Party and the Christian right, and they are willing to sell out every other member of their constituency to do so.

I'll take Mitch Daniels or Paul Ryan's plans over this thing any day.