Among the services Pawlenty would cut: Amtrak, the U.S. Postal Service, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the Government Printing Office. Pawlenty said those organizations "were all built for a time in our country when the private sector did not adequately provide those products. That's no longer the case." Interpreted broadly, the test could spell the end of federal involvement in the storage of nuclear waste, environmental clean-up efforts and disaster relief -- all services that a Google search reveals are offered by private sector firms. - CNN
GOP presidential contender and former pizza executive Herman Cain . .. promised the audience that as President, he would never sign pieces of legislation that are longer than three pages. . . . Under this bright-line rule, Cain wouldn’t have signed such landmark pieces of legislation as the Civil Rights Act, the Social Security Act, or the PATRIOT Act. In fact, he wouldn’t have even been able to sign the Bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003, which ran 114 and 18 pages, respectively. -Think Progress
Asked whether he would mind having gays in his cabinet, Herman Cain responded, "Nope, not at all. I wouldn’t have a problem with that at all. I just want people who are qualified, I want them to believe in the Constitution of the United States of America. So yep, I don’t have a problem with appointing an openly gay person. Because they’re not going to try to put sharia law in our laws."