What’s so “radical” about the “Lefty” blogosphere?

Kevin Drum takes on the right-wing and Mainstream Media lie about the so-called “radical” leftwing blogosphere. From Atrios he posts this listing of what most will accept as major positions of the left-wing of the blogosphere.

• Undo the bankruptcy bill enacted by this administration
• Repeal the estate tax repeal
• Increase the minimum wage and index it to the CPI
• Universal health care (obviously the devil is in the details on this one)
• Increase CAFE standards. Some other environment-related regulation
• Pro-reproductive rights, getting rid of abstinence-only education,
• improving education about and access to contraception including the morning after pill, and supporting choice. On the last one there's probably some disagreement around the edges (parental notification, for example), but otherwise.
• Simplify and increase the progressivity of the tax code
• Kill faith-based funding. Certainly kill federal funding of anything that engages in religious discrimination.
• Reduce corporate giveaways
• Have Medicare run the Medicare drug plan
• Force companies to stop underfunding their pensions. Change corporate bankruptcy law to put workers and retirees at the head of the line with respect to their pensions.
• Leave the states alone on issues like medical marijuana. Generally move towards "more decriminalization" of drugs, though the details complicated there too.
• Paper ballots
• Improve access to daycare and other pro-family policies. Obiously details matter.
• Raise the cap on wages covered by FICA taxes.
• Marriage rights for all, which includes "gay marriage" and quicker transition to citizenship for the foreign spouses of citizens. (Personally I think the government should get out of the marriage business, and restrict itself to the legal rights of personal partnerships. Marraige is a religious issue. Inheritance is a legal issue. The problem comes from mixing the two.)
  

Then he asks what is so radical about these positions?

In my opinion, the right-wing opposition to these positions is what is radical and out of the mainstream of American political beliefs. Where is the "radical lefty" set of views and who supports them?

Is there any left-wing equivalent of Grover Norquist, famous for stating that he want to starve the beast of government of funds until it gets so small he can drag it into the bathroom and drown it? THAT's radical! So is a preemptive attack on a small Middle Eastern Nation which is of no threat to America just so the fall-out would be to impress the rest of the Middle Eastern nations that they better shape up and do as America demands of them.