Pelosi's Preposition Proposition

California Conservative has the scoop on the Democrats' big plan to take over the House and Senate this Fall. Clueless crone Nancy Pelosi, whose angry antics are part of the Democrats' leadership problem, has probably overreached a preposition too far. Read the CC:

"We took a good concept that offered bad policies, and brought our progressive ideals to it," said Rep. Pelosi. "We wanted a name that capitalized on the success of the previous plan, but made it clear that our goals are quite different."

The Democrat 'Contract on America' will be launched within the next several weeks, she said, “and it’s destined to pull our party together, give a us a sense of mission and meaning, and to inspire some really amazing bumper stickers and buttons."
Mrs. Pelosi said the key difference between the old 'Contract with America', and the new 'Contract on America' is captured in the preposition.

The always tone-deaf Pelosi probably never even dreamed of what an alert CC reader noticed when he/she said that it "sounds like a mafia hit." You just can't make this stuff up, as the press blurb continues:

The phrase was suggested by progressive linguist [as in a "Fool's Progress"?] George Lakoff, the U.C. Berkeley professor who consults with Democrats on "how to say what they mean without using traditional, culture-bound words that people understand."

Good, the Democrats are going to convey meaning without using words people understand? Sure, I get it.

"The word 'on' in the 'Contract on America' denotes something positive and active," said Mr. Lakoff. "It indicates that Democrat ideas are not off, they’re right on. It’s much stronger than the word 'with', which always sounded passive. The 'Contract on America' says Democrats are progressively leading America onward in a single, inevitable direction."

As in that sensationally successful MoveOn.org campaign?

Maybe the learned professor is simply too brilliant for mere mortals like me to comprehend, but it still smacks of a contract to sell out America. Did this untrammelled genius foresee the fodder he is providing to Jon Stewart, Steve Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, David Letterman, and, oh yeah, Jay Leno?

That even an occasionally loyal acolyte like Bill Maher might take liberties with the multiple connotations the Berkeley don obviously foresaw when he deconstructed the mindset of the average American?

By the way, if the direction is "inevitable," why do we need the Democrats to lead us that way? Maybe their social engineers can remove the speed bumps? Or wisely guide us with a not-so invisible hand? Like a clenched fist?

Oops, a little too much Marx in this "inevitable" march?