THE AD FROM THE DNC seeking to link the Republican Party with the (horrors!) tea party presents a 10-item "Republican Tea Party Contract on America" to “frighten the heck out of John Q. Public.” They are:

Item 1: "Repeal Health Insurance Reform."
Item 2: "Privatize Social Security or Get Rid of It."
Item 3: "End Medicare as it Presently Exists."
Item 4: "Extend the Bush Tax Breaks for the Wealthy and Big Oil."
Item 5: "Repeal Wall Street Reform."
Item 6: "Protect Those Responsible for the Oil Spill."
Item 7: "Abolish the Department of Education."
Item 8: "Abolish the Department of Energy."
Item 9: "Abolish the Environmental Protection Agency."
Item 10: "Repeal the 17th Amendment (direct election of Senators)."

Hey, getting 8 out of 10 items right ain’t bad. I’ll leave it to the reader to guess which two of the ten I might have some disagreement with.