Why can't the Dems do what Newt did in 1994?

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40. Ending corruption? What an impossibly generalized goal.

The Contract On America had specific shitty Repuke goals, not vague ones. That was the key to it:

On the first day of their majority in the House, the Republicans promised to bring up for vote, eight major reforms:[5][6]

Require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply to Congress;
Select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
Cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
Limit the terms of all committee chairs;
Ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
Require committee meetings to be open to the public;
Require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
Guarantee an honest accounting of the federal budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contract_with_America