What's the difference between a $2 hooker and Nancy Pelosi?

At least with the hooker you know up front what the broad is going to cost you.

But I digress ... I was thinking, what would be my "Contract With America?" Perhaps you have a version you'd like to propose. Here's mine, in a nutshell ...

1.) A balanced budget amendment to the Constitution, whose only exception would be a formal declaration of war. You get a "twofer" here. This eviscerates the source of power for those with a left wing / neo-socialist agenda, and if we are ever attacked in the future the response will carry with it the full power of a formal declaration. Fiscally this would be accompanied by an immediate across the board government spending freeze, including all unused TARP funds and stimulus package money.

2.) Taxes - suspend the capital gains tax for 2 years; revoke Zarbaines-Oxly; signigicantly reduce the corporate tax rate (ours is the 2nd highest in the first world); and institute a basket of tax incentive goodies for starting a new business. Then you'll see an employment explosion.

3.) Implement victory strategies in place of "exit strategies" in Afghanistan (and Iraq).

4.) Energy: domestic fossil feul recovery (oil -off and on shore, natural gas, oil shale); nuclear power plant construction; refinery construction - all by the private sector, incentivized by government in an unprecedented way.

5.) Health Insurance deregulation. Allow all 1,300 insurance companies in this country to compete in all 50 states. Currently a state as densely populated as New York only enjoys a choice between 6 companies. Naturally accompanied with this would be portability. In addition, tort reform - caps on malpractice insurance. These two, in my estimation, would go along way towards making insurance affordable for those making too much to get government help, but too little to buy a private policy. Part and parcel with bringing down state health care costs that fund the poor and children (medicaid / SCHIPS), would be securing the Southern boarder. You do that for these South West border states and you'll see rapid closure of budget holes on several fronts, not the least of which is health care.

Now I could go on and on - term limits, gay marriage, privatization of social security, an utter rejection of the farce of man induced global warming, etc etc (although that last is inherint in my proposed energy policy). But I think keeping it to roughly 5 issues, issues that cause bipartisan outrage, is a winning formula.