It will be interesting to see how conservatives will spin what many might call another Obama/Democratic Congress success -- the passage of financial reform: http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/06/here-are-the-key-points-you-need-to-know-about-todays-big-financial-regulation-agreement.php. If the new plaform from Texas Republicans is any indication, it should be even more absurd then the silliness we've been hearing the past couple of years: http://politicalcorrection.org/blog/201006210004. Among their recommendations:
- Reinstating anti-sodomy laws
- Dropping out of UN and ending all foreign relationships
- Eliminating federal taxes and the IRS to replace with a national sales tax (progressive to regressive and oddly anti-federalist)
- Removal of tenure in colleges and universities (so we can fire them liberal professors)
- Overturn the minimum wage (why pay people enough to live; that's unAmerican!)
- Repeal of hate crime legislation (apparently they like hate crimes in Texas)
- End Head Start (one of the more effective anti-poverty initiatives)
- Elimination of the US DOE and rescinding of NCLB (wow, I agree with one!)
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