No. This is not David Letterman's Top Ten. Sorry.
The Republican Study Committee has released its top ten agenda items for 2006. This is the plan they project will help them win the elections this year:
1. Make the Tax Cuts Permanent, including the repeal of the marriage-tax penalty and the death tax and pass fundamental tax reform.
2. Pass Budget Process Reform, which includes budgeting for emergencies with a rainy day fund, instituting a sunset commission for federal programs, instituting a constitutional line-item veto, and making the budget resolution carry the force of law.
3. Pass another Deficit Reduction Bill in the form of budget reconciliation, to reign in autopilot spending, which has risen from 25% of all federal spending in 1963 to 54% today, and is expected to reach nearly 60% in 2014.
4. Pass Ethics Reform that requires transparency and earmark reform that permits Members of Congress to strike earmarks on the House floor.
5. Pass the Marriage Protection Amendment, to ensure that marriage, the union of a woman and a man as husband and wife, is not redefined by activist judges.
6. Pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to put our fiscal house in order.
7. Offset all emergency supplemental spending with spending reductions and offset all new programs with simultaneous, equivalent reductions in, or eliminations of, existing programs.
8. Defend the Sanctity of Human Life, which includes banning all human cloning, passing the Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act, promoting ethical adult stem cell research, and preventing federal funding for destructive embryonic stem cell research.
9. Pass Protections for Religious Freedom, such as the Pledge of Allegiance, the Ten Commandments, and religious expression in the public square.
10. Pass legislation that stops the raid on the Social Security Trust Fund and allows Americans to own a Personal Social Security Account.
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What a bland, predictable, moralistic, and pompous agenda.
Maybe they forgot that the Social Security issue died last year? A constitutional line-item veto? Good luck with that. Enjoining church and state? I don't think so. Getting their fiscal house in order? What a joke. Striking earmarks on the House floor? Is that kind of like painting the sidewalk with chalk to play hopscotch? Because, that's probably what they'll end up doing anyway while they have to kill time waiting for all of their buddies to cut the pork for their pet projects.
Hey, Republicans - why isn't there anything on your agenda about national security and the wars you're fighting? How about a number 11? Finding Osama bin Laden? Or a number 12? Firing all of the incompetent and useless department secretaries? You could start with Rumsfeld and Chertoff. And, speaking of Chertoff, are you sure he's ready for the new hurricane season? What happened to Bush's big Medicare agenda? You mean he's been running around the country speechifying about it for nothing? What about the kids? Why don't you just come out right off the bat and tell us which of their programs they're cutting?
I forgot. You're just going to be too damn busy making sure those darn gay people don't get married. Yes, it's all about priorities, isn't it?
pffft...
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