To: puborectalis who wrote (656020 ) 5/23/2012 12:08:23 AM From: tejek Read Replies (2) | Respond to Outside-the-beltway extremism Steve Benen breathtaking extremism, you'll have to look outside the Beltway. intentionally questions But Ed Kilgore went further and read the rest of the Iowa Republican Party platform, and discovered that "the birth certificate requirement is far from the crankiest of provisions." It calls for the abolition of the federal Departments of Agriculture, Education, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Health and Human Services, Energy, Interior, Labor, and Commerce. It demands a phase-out of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid and immediate provisions to make Social Security voluntary. Though it's a bit confusing on this point, it seems to call for the abolition of public education, or, as it often refers to them, "government schools." It calls for U.S. withdrawal from the United Nations and the repeal of all hate crimes and non-discrimination legislation. It endorses a Fetal Personhood Amendment. It demands permanent restriction of total federal spending to 10% of GDP (the draconian right-wing Cut, Cap and Balance Act would limit it to 19.9% of GDP), and reversal of the Supreme Court precedents that made possible the New Deal and civil rights laws.
