CBS reports it has obtained an advance copy of the Republican "Pledge to America," summarizing the GOP’s proposals for "Jobs," "Cutting Spending,"" Reforming Congress," and "Defense." Nothing new; just the usual GOP double talk and nonsense.

Unlike the cynical gibberish the Republicans will release today, FDL has compiled a summary of actual Republican policies and beliefs, based on their actual votes, public statements and past performance. So here, after an exhaustive 5-minute search of my memory (feel free to add stuff I forgot), is your 2010 Republican Party:

The Real Republican Pledge to America, based on their actual votes, history and statements:

1.  Create More Jobless, then Screw Them:

– Run the economy into ditch; worst recession since 1930s; put millions out of work

– Deregulate predator financial institutions; then bail them out and shield them from oversight

– Let banks/lenders prey on consumers; oppose, shackle consumer protection

– Use Fed and Treasury to rescue Wall Street, ignore Mainstreet’s recession

– Obstruct jobs programs,

– Oppose and cripple stimulus, then claim credit for the jobs it creates

– Obstruct help to states trying to avoid teacher, firemen, police layoffs

2.  Actual Spending Policies:

– Double debt over last ten years and support $700 billion more deficit next ten years in tax gifts to the richest Americans

– Start two wars (est. cost: $3 trillion) without raising revenues to pay for them

– Support efforts to cripple state revenues, then . . .

– Vote against money to help struggling states avoid teacher, firemen, police, parks, healthcare layoffs

– Deny funding for unemployment benefits

– Deny funding health care; threaten to defund/repeal insurance reforms that stop discrimination and arbitary coverage denials

– Enable worst poverty in 30 years, propose nothing to relieve it

– Create highest number of uninsured, ever; ignore it

– Recreate egregious inequality, in which the richest own most of the wealth; applaud it

– Redirect wealth upwards, to put the middle class under siege

– Curtail investments in alternative energy, infrastructure, public goods

– Cut support for veterans

– Privatize Social Security, Medicare and VA health system

3. Congressional "Reform"

– Ignore pay-go when they’re in charge

– Set records for abuse of filibuster

– Abuse Senate holds to stall nominations for personal earmarks

– Shut down government when they lose elections

4. Defense Policies:

– Create national fear/hatred of a billion Muslims;

– Begin endless wars against a billion Muslims

– Fund every weapon system the Pentagon and contractors ask for; cripple oversight of wasted, fraud

– Destroy Constitutional rights to create fear-based intelligence/terror state

– Endorse kidnapping, rendition, torture, indefinite detention, black sites, assassinations, even of Americans

5.  Family Values

– Lie, make up stories, demagogue about Obama’s birth, religion, beliefs and policies to destroy the legitimacy of a democratically elected Democratic President

– Invent an alternative faux reality based on lies and relentlessly disseminate it via an ideologically controlled media

– Cynically demonize, distort the meaning of common words and issues that might undermine this alternate reality

– Cynically provoke fear of "others," usually immigrants, Muslims, non-Christians, "them," to sustain heightened support for war and executive power over individual liberty

– Undermine religious liberty for any but the preferred Christian religions; encourage religious zealotry and hatred

– Promote religious uniformity via state control over individuals and use of state to establish the preferred belief systems

– Oppose universal health care, student aid, consumer protection, environmental protection

– Teach their children to reject science, climate realities, evolution or anything that might question their alternative reality

– Bully, intimidate, shut down public meetings so we can’t even talk about public issues; convince yourselves the purpose of the 2nd Amendment is to threaten/shoot those you disagree with (h/t Kathryn in MA)

– Listen only to corporate shills who deny actual problems revealed by science where it conflicts with corporate agenda of those manipulating the ignorant

– Oppose federal assistance to those harmed by corporate malfeasance and related economic forces

– Oppose efforts to reduce income inequality; strangle efforts to preserve the middle class

– Oppose efforts to end discrimination against women, blacks, Latinos, gays, or any other "them"

– Oppose efforts to curtail the power of mega-corporations that control how people live, what they buy, what they eat, wear, watch

– Oppose any efforts by the state to regulate corporate power in the public interest

It’s an astonishing record; its [im]morality rivals anything in the Bible’s Old Testament. They’ve become the most irresponsible, ignorant and morally repugnant party in my lifetime.

And based on all that, they say, "Vote Republican."

*Any resemblance to policies, votes or actions of corporate Democrats/conseraDems or the current Administration, is both likely and inexcusable, but it just might explain that "enthusiasm gap" thing.

John Chandley

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