Fight terrorism

Start a war against an enemy unrelated to the 9/11 attacks, based on faulty evidence, with a minimal number of troops and no plan to manage the post-war reconstruction; give no-bid contracts to Halliburton; torture prisoners and herd them into concentration camps without trials; send prisoners overseas for extraordinary rendition (torture); accuse anyone who questions the war of weakness; fire honest intelligence analysts; increase government secrecy; engage in illegal wiretapping; ignore the reconstruction of Afghanistan and the pursuit of Bin Laden in favor of fighting both sides in a religious civil war in Iraq.

No more taxes

Turn a healthy surplus into a 8 trillion dollar deficit, by cutting taxes for the rich, giving subsidies to corporate donors, and fighting a botched war; burden each child with a $145,000 birth tax; raise social security taxes for the middle class; allow the infrastructure of roads and bridges in the US to deteriorate.

Support our troops

Send them with insufficient body armor to die in an unjustified, poorly planned, mismanaged war; cut their veterans benefits so the rich can get a cut in estate taxes; let them rot in unsanitary conditions in under-funded medical facilities.

Eliminate waste and fraud

Cut funding for Head Start, FEMA, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Amtrak, the IRS, FEMA, and the EPA; let people too poor to pay for medical care fend for themselves; accept bribes from Abramoff; privatize Social Security; give no-bid contracts to Halliburton; subsidize Big Oil; respond to the Hurrican Katrina disaster by wasting billions of dollars on belated, mismanaged grants.

Less government

$500 billion drug company benefit bill; illegal wiretapping; unfunded education mandates; manned mission to Mars; increased subsidies for Big Oil and corporate agriculture; nation-wide regulations written by corporate donors to undercut local health and safety standards; repressive drug laws; opposition to medical marijuana; national marriage amendment; decreased access to birth control; laws to deny womens' rights.

No Child Left Behind

Unfunded mandates; reduced grants and loans for education; litigation against affirmative action; No Child Left a Dime; No CEO Left Behind.

Pro-jobs

Outsource jobs overseas; cut taxes for the rich.

Energy independence

Subsidies for Big Oil; weaker gas mileage standards; more pollution; an excuse to despoil the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.

Family values

Male chauvinism; anti-gay bigotry; elimination of the social safety net; repression of women; theocracy.

Pro-life

Cut funding for stem-cell research; rollback environmental, health, and safety regulations; eliminate aid to the poor, sick, and elderly; grant easy access to guns; send our kids to die in an unjustified war; become outraged at the abortion of raisin-sized embryos with undeveloped nervous systems (5 weeks) and at the withdrawal of life-support for brain-dead Terri Schiavo; force a woman raped by an escaped convict to bear his child.

A Stronger America

A bankrupt US Treasury from tax cuts, corruption, and a costly, unjustified war; an exhausted, over-extended military; record trade deficits; decreased funding for scientific research and eductation; policy decisions based on ideology instead of sound science; civil war in Iraq; democratic elections in the Middle East (Hamas); inaction on the Palestinan-Israeli conflict; withdrawal from international treaties; go-it-alone foreign policy; a sullied international reputation; increased recruitment for Al Qaeda; lax port security; and Osama bin Laden still on the loose.