Here's my 10-point program for sane governance

Senate Republicans will lay out a 10-point election year agenda this spring, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) suggested on Tuesday morning.

McCain said Republicans would craft a list of 10 legislative pledges which they would seek to enact within the first 60 days of taking back control of Congress, if they were to do so in this fall's elections.

"We Republicans have to provide — and we will later this spring — a positive vision with what we want to do for the country," McCain said during an interview on KFYI radio in Arizona.

My take:

1. Abolish the Department of Education

2. Abolish the Department of Homeland Security. Outsource airport security to a corporate collective that can actually get this job done effectively.

3. Abolish the Department of Agriculture

4. Abolish the Environmental Protection Agency

5. Get government out of the student loan business

6. Withdraw the U.S. from the UN and all of its affiliates

7. Make it unlawful to send U.S. troops into action without a formal declaration of war.

8. Propose an amendment to the U. S. Constitution setting term limits for senators and representatives. In the meantime, sharply lower retirement pay after two terms for senators and six terms for representatives.

9. Strip the House apeaker and other grandees of their right to commandeer miliary aircraft to haul them and their relatives wherever they want to go whenever they want to go there.

10. Force candidates for congressional leadership posts to take IQ tests.