Gene Healy: GOP 'Pledge' lacks both cuts and courage

“Each of us is endowed by their Creator” with certain unalienable rights, the House Republicans’ “Pledge to America” begins, in a grammatically challenged homage to the Declaration of Independence. “Whenever the agenda of government becomes destructive of these ends,” the prose plods on, “it is the right of the people to institute a new governing agenda and set a different course.”