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Originally Posted by MTI
Michael Steele & Co are here in Honolulu for the GOP Winter Meeting starting tomorrow at the Hilton Hawaiian Village. Yes, on the agenda is the Purity Test:
(1) Smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama's "stimulus" bill;
(2) Market-based health care reform and opposing Obama-style government run health care;
(3) Market-based energy reforms by opposing cap and trade legislation;
(4) Workers' right to secret ballot by opposing card check;
(5) Legal immigration and assimilation into American society by opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants;
(6) Victory in Iraq and Afghanistan by supporting military-recommended troop surges;
(7) Containment of Iran and North Korea, particularly effective action to eliminate their nuclear weapons threat;
(8) Retention of the Defense of Marriage Act;
(9) Protecting the lives of vulnerable persons by opposing health care rationing and denial of health care and government funding of abortion; and
(10) The right to keep and bear arms by opposing government restrictions on gun ownership.
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oddly, hawaii has some kind of health care system in which just about everyone is covered, mostly by employers? (though you can obviously tell us more)
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