{"id":2400,"date":"2011-11-27T08:36:49","date_gmt":"2011-11-27T15:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2011-11-27T08:36:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T15:36:49","slug":"proposed-contract-with-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2400","title":{"rendered":"Proposed Contract With Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more pro-active Congress critters (current and wannabes) have made noises about a new &#8220;Contract With America&#8221; ala the 1994 set of promises that breathed life into a moribund Republican Party during the Clinton administration.  <\/p>\n<p>Because I&#8217;m just one of those really thoughty kind of people, I figured that I&#8217;d give my loyal readers an opportunity to develop a new contract between the American people and those they elect to serve them.  So let&#8217;s combine our collective wisdom and come up with the terms of an agreement that spells out the expectations we have for those who are seeking our vote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/images.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"images\" width=\"160\" height=\"107\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2401\" \/><\/ <strong>&#8220;We the People&#8221;, being the party of the first part and all candidates for the United States Senate and House of Representatives (Congress) in 2012 being the parties of the second part, do hereby agree:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Contribute your proposals below]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the more pro-active Congress critters (current and wannabes) have made noises about a new &#8220;Contract With America&#8221; ala the 1994 set of promises that breathed life into a moribund Republican Party during the Clinton administration. Because I&#8217;m just &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/?p=2400\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Xq4i-CI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2405,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/2405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/2helenahandbaskets.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}