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The Republican’s new “Pledge for America,” the extended sequel to 1994’s “Contract With America” (anyone else wonder why it took them 16 years to produce a sequel?), attempts to separate Republicans in Congress from the special interests in Washington. Their document, they say, is “one in which the people have the most say and the best ideas trump the most entrenched interests.”

“Entrenched interests.” Ha.

Don’t look too closely at the digital paper trail of this document if you don’t appreciate entrenched interests; otherwise, you’d be shocked to learn that the document’s “author,” Brian Wild, is the epitome of a Washington “entrenched interest.”

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