Reply #16: There's too much else to do. For a start:

[TygrBright]

1. Restore habeas corpus
2. Election reform and redistricting reform
3. Overturn the "Patriot" Act and set some REAL national security priorities, including port security and security for chemical plants and critical infrastructure installations like water and power and communications. And FUND THEM with cash pulled out of the pork-bloated no-bid contracts and sweetheart deals for war profiteers.
4. Investigate those same war profiteers and the elected scoundrels who enabled them.
5. Repeal tax giveaways to the wealthiest 1/10th of one percent of Americans, and investigate the IRS's auditing and enforcement of corporate income tax collection. Eliminate or reform the Alternative Minimum Tax.
6. Set some meaningful rules that REQUIRE two-party participation in the legislative process and put teeth into enforcing ethics violations.
7. Challenge "signing statements" and demand a Supreme Court ruling thereon. If the Supremes wimp out, pass a Constitutional Amendment outlawing "signing statements."
8. Break up communications/media monopolies with new rules limiting ownership per market, and investigate the FCC's enforcement of all existing rules. Strongly recommend the FCC re-institute the Fairness Doctrine or a reasonable facsimile thereof.
9. Investigate the Dept. of the Interior's shameless giveaways of publicly-owned resources to rapacious corporate polluters.
10. Pass a meaningful minimum wage.

Those will do for a start. Other stuff can be added as we head into the 2008 cycle, depending on how these sort out.

If a scoundrel uses a system to perpetrate mayhem and destruction, what is the most urgent priority once that scoundrel has been ineffectualized and has a finite (and short) time horizon for being able to use that system?

I say, fix the system so the NEXT scoundrel can't pick it up and wield it as a weapon against the Constitution and the American people.

Let Whistle-Ass sit and stew in his own bile and craft weaselly "signing statements" for another 26 months. We got better things to do.

militantly,
Bright