1994: The Republican Revolution Betrayed
Writing in TechCentralStation, Radley Balko marks the tenth anniversary of the Contract with America. Republicans, he argues, have "succumbed to the very seductions and trappings of power that they ran and won against in 1994. They now control the White House too. And since the GOP began both passing the laws and signing them in 2001, the federal government has grown at rates unseen in nearly a half-century."