PDF.
Selected quotes follow below the fold.
No, I'm not making any of this up.
The striking thing reading through this document is just how white these guys think America is. There are 6 people of color depicted in dozens of photos showing hundreds of people.
Update: I call this document "implicitly racist" because it doesn't seem to have even occurred to the authors that America is not overwhelming white. Just page through the PDF and ask yourself: Does that look like the streets in my town?
a new governing agenda built on
THE PRIORITIES OF OUR NATION, THE PRINCIPLES WE STAND FOR & AMERICA'S FOUNDING VALUES
Odd capitalization there.
Big picture of the Statue of Liberty. I am really guessing they won't quote Emma Lazarus in their discussion of immigration policy.
America is an idea – an idea that free people can govern themselves, that government’s powers
are derived from the consent of the governed, that each of us is endowed by their Creator with
the unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. America is the belief that any
man or woman can – given economic, political, and religious liberty – advance themselves, their
families, and the common good.
Sounds good. Does this include teh gayz?
Whenever the agenda of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the
people to institute a new governing agenda and set a different course.
Wonderful! Does this mean you're giving up on waging class warfare on behalf of the wealthy?
We pledge to honor the Constitution as constructed by its framers and honor the original intent
of those precepts that have been consistently ignored – particularly the Tenth Amendment,
which grants that all powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor
prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Tenthers. The GOP is now, officially, Tenthers. May God help us all.
We pledge to honor families, traditional marriage, life, and the private and faith-based
organizations that form the core of our American values.
Uh - does this mean atheists and gays don't share American values? Really? Do you want to go there?
By permanently stopping job-killing tax
hikes, families will be able to keep more of
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their hard-earned money and small
businesses will have the stability they need
to invest in our economy and help grow our
workforce.
Stopping tax hikes? The only tax hikes on the horizon are the ones YOU enacted, in 2001. The Democrats have proposed fresh tax cuts - but YOU are blocking them. Idiots.
We will rein in the red tape factory in
Washington, DC by requiring congressional
approval of any new federal regulation that
may add to our deficit and make it harder
to create jobs.
This is a Constitutional amendment by the back door.
We will also prevent Washington from
forcing responsible taxpayers to subsidize
irresponsible behavior by ending bailouts
permanently, canceling the Troubled Asset
Relief Program (TARP), and reforming
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
I wonder how canceling TARP will play on Wall Street? And note that the GSE need "reform". You'd think that since the GOP claims they caused the recession, they'd do more than "reform". Idiots.
Big paragraph about how bad the President's health care plan is. They claim that it's already a failure - on the same day that the first provisions take effect. Idiots.
Big picture of Mount Rushmore. I guess heads full of rocks approve of this document.
Picture of happy hardworking white people.
Picture of town hall full of white people. I kid you not - there's probably 200 people in the picture, and I see three AA back left and that's it.
Picture of white guy with chart.
Picture of hardworking white people.
Thus ends the preamble.
Table of contents.
More pictures of white people.
Proposals to fix the economy
Tax cuts.
Tax cuts for small business.
End the health care reporting requirement.
Picture of cowboy - can't tell if he's white.
More pictures and OMG there's an Asian woman prominently featured! And a Hispanic soldier!
Proposals to reduce spending
Cut spending to pre-stimulus levels - in other words, go back to their budget.
Cap new discretionary spending.
Cut Congress's budget.
Hold weekly votes on Spending cuts. (actually, not a bad idea if done right)
End TARP.
End the government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. (ARE THEY INSANE? OVER 90% OF MORTGAGES ARE CURRENTLY SECURITIZED BY THE GSEs.)
Net Federal hiring freeze.
And, of course, Root Out Waste.
Chart showing Federal Assistance Programs, by Department. No mention of which are Social Security and Medicare. There's a big block for DoD - that means veterans. You cut those over my dead body, Boehner.
Picture of white guy with chart.
More pictures of white people.
Proposals to Repeal and Replace the Government Takeover Of Health Care
Government takeover? There isn't even a public option, you freaks of grotesque overstatement. So this section should be empty, you lying sacks of lies.
Repeal.
Medical Liability Reform.
Health Savings Accounts.
Strengthen the Doctor - Patient relationship (how?)
Ensure access for pre-existing conditions.
Make it illegal to deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions and eliminate annual and lifetime caps! (THEY PROMISED THIS! Let me ask how they are going to do that without a mandate?)
And, of course, Permanently Prohibit Taxpayer Funding of Abortion.
Picture of the maze of bureaucracy - drawn by them.
Pictures of white guys (well, one's orange if you know what I mean).
Reform Congress
Read the bill (Boy will their lips be tired!)
Any lawmaker can offer amendments to reduce spending. How nice. Any form of "NO" gets a free pass.
Advance legislative issues one at a time. I long to see this applied to the defense authorization bill.
More pictures of white people.
Crap about national security.
Clean troop funding bills.
Keep terrorists out of America.
Demand an overarching detention policy (Hey, I like this! Mine won't look like theirs, but let's have one!)
Fully fund missile defense (That's really good budget cutting, guys)
Tough sanctions against Iran
Control the border
Strengthen immigration laws (code for: throw the brown out!)
Visa Security
More pictures of white people.
Stuff about checks and balances - incredible after Bush, but there it is.
More pictures of white people - wait, there's one AA woman!
The most incredible thing about all this - other than the whole section devoted to getting rid of the Health Care bill - was the overwhelming whiteness of their version of America. I count 6 ... that's right, 6 ... people of color in all their pictures out of literally hundreds.