Thursday, September 23, 2010

It's What's Missing That Counts

David Corn takes a look at what's not in the GOP's Pledge To America plan:

Below is a list of words and phrases and the number of times they are each mentioned in the 45-page "Pledge."


Wall Street: 0
Bank: 0
Finance: 0
Mortgage crisis: 0
Derivative: 0
Subprime: 0
Lobbying: 0
Lobbyist: 0
K Street: 0
Campaign finance: 0
Campaign contribution: 0
Campaign donation: 0
Disclosure: 0
Climate change: 0
Environment: 1 ("political environment")
Alternative energy: 0
Renewable: 0
Green: 0
Transportation: 0
Infrastructure: 0
Poverty: 0
Food: 0
Food safety: 0
Housing: 0
Internet: 0
Education: 0
College: 0
Reading: 0
Science: 0
Research: 0
Technology: 0
Bush administration: 0

That's what's really missing from the GOP agenda:  actual plans to address any of those.  Might want to keep that in mind if you think any of those items should be important to America.

The Republicans sure as hell don't.

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