On September 27th, the nation will be stumbling across a very significant and illustrative anniversary -- and yet the very people who need to be enlightened remain clueless. It is the 20th anniversary of the rollout of the Contract with America, a document that nationalized a Congressional midterm election for perhaps the first time. This nationalization of the ‘94 election was the key component – though not the only one – in an historic landslide wave election. The Republicans swept 54 Democrats out of the House, including Speaker Tom Foley, and eight from the Senate, and took control of both chambers. This broke a 40-year drought in the House, by the way. No one thought at the time that drought would ever end. At least no one not named Newt Gingrich. Now say what you will about what the GOP did with control, history is pretty clear that they indeed forced Bill Clinton to govern more conservatively in a lot of ways. Welfare reform and some other regulatory...(Read Full Article)