The Contract With America was released during the 1994 congressional campaign. I most certainly DO remember it.

Bush's spend-happy Congress was also GOP-controlled. It shocked me that so-called 'fiscal conservatives' would produce the Farm Bill, the Prescription Drug Plan and two wars with no way to pay for them.

To me, something happened to the GOP when they got the whole ball of wax (WH, House, Senate). They suddenly made the Democrats look like pikers when it came to spending.