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The 5 Craziest Planks in Draft Texas GOP Platform (Original Post) doxydad Jun 2014 OP
What's the difference between the Taliban and the Tea Party? blkmusclmachine Jun 2014 #1
Ha! Care if I use that joke? Lunacee_2013 Jun 2014 #4
Add to those: Return the appointment of U.S. Senators by the State Legislatures, pampango Jun 2014 #2
I would add their anti-vax plank to the list hack89 Jun 2014 #3
The craziest part is the slaps and insults to Hispanics Gothmog Jun 2014 #5
Reparative therapy Gothmog Jun 2014 #6
Tell me this is a joke... sarisataka Jun 2014 #7

Lunacee_2013

(529 posts)
4. Ha! Care if I use that joke?
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 08:43 AM
Jun 2014

Oh Texas, you have beautiful rivers and forests and great food, but there are days when your leaders make me want to flee to Cali. I just hope the Texas GOP hasn't figured out a way to make voting illegal or impossible. Of course sometimes there's no point, not when it's a show down between a republican and a tea-bagger.

pampango

(24,692 posts)
2. Add to those: Return the appointment of U.S. Senators by the State Legislatures,
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 07:22 AM
Jun 2014
We oppose implementation of the UN Agenda 21 Program which was adopted at the Earth Summit Conference in 1992 purporting to promote a comprehensive program of sustainable development projects, nationally, regionally and locally.

...“climate change” is a political agenda which attempts to control every aspect of our lives. We urge government at all levels to ignore any plea for money to fund global climate change or “climate justice” initiatives.

We urge that the Voter Rights Act of 1965 codified and updated in 1973 be repealed and not reauthorized.

We are resolute in our support of the reversal of Roe v. Wade.

We unequivocally oppose the United States Senate’s ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

We support an immediate and orderly transition to a system of private pensions based on the concept of individual retirement accounts, and gradually phasing out Social Security ...

We demand the immediate repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which we believe to be unconstitutional.

We support land drilling and production operations including hydraulic fracturing.

We oppose the implementation of any Cap and Trade (aka “Cap and Tax”) system through legislation or regulation.

We support the immediate approval and construction of the Keystone XL and other pipelines ...

We also encourage the adoption of a National Right-to-Work Act.

We believe the Minimum Wage Law should be repealed.

We believe Congress should repeal the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 there by abolishing the Federal Reserve Banking System.

We support the withdrawal of the United States from the United Nations and the removal of U.N. headquarters from United States soil.

We oppose foreign aid except in cases of national defense or catastrophic disasters, with Congressional approval.

We support United States withdrawal from the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the World Bank.

hack89

(39,171 posts)
3. I would add their anti-vax plank to the list
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 07:45 AM
Jun 2014
All adult citizens should have the legal right to conscientiously choose which vaccines are administered to themselves, or their minor children, without penalty for refusing a vaccine. We oppose any effort by any authority to mandate such vaccines or any medical database that would contain personal records of citizens without their consent.

Gothmog

(144,919 posts)
5. The craziest part is the slaps and insults to Hispanics
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 12:38 PM
Jun 2014

The tea party faction of the GOP really hate non-whites and made the GOP platform really unfriendly to Hispanic voters

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