House GOP campaign manifesto lacks anti-bureaucratic oomph

House Republicans should include a battle against bureaucracy among their pledges for the 2022 campaign cycle.

The House GOP held a working “retreat” of sorts late last week to further develop their so-called “Commitment to America.” The Commitment is a derivative but still useful policy agenda akin to the semi-famous “Contract With America” in 1994 that helped sweep onetime back-bencher Newt Gingrich into the speakership. The new iteration, noticeably unconcerned with spending restraint but otherwise identifiably conservative, is intended to find the sweet spot where substantive policy ideas meet popular politics.