the proposed checklist for getting GOP backing, from http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6736356.html
1. Smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama's “stimulus” bill. 2. Market-based health care reform and oppose Obama-style government run health care. 3. Market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation. 4. Workers' right to secret ballot by opposing card check. 5. Legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants. 6. Victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges. 7. Containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat. 8. Retention of the Defense of Marriage Act. 9. Protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion. 10. The right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership. [why not add these following?] 11. Opposition to "climate change" hysteria and the promotion of clean coal and nuclear power. 12. Opposition to the teaching of Darwinism in public and private schools. 13. Opposition to the misguided view that the Earth is a sphere. 14. Putting gay and lesbians in stocks or dunking stools. 15. Mining the border with Mexico. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
