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nicecakes Donating Member (126 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 10:45 PM
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What if we took the WH, Senate and House
What short list of "must do laws" would take precedence?
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Hippo_Tron Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 10:50 PM
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1. Well...
1) healthcare

2) healthcare

3) healthcare

4) healthcare

5) healthcare

Basically, that's a MUST even if we need 60 votes in the senate to break a fillibuster. Secondly are social security, fix the crappy medicare bill, change the tax code to keep jobs from being sent overseas, stop corporate welfare. That's just a short list.
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Cleita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:18 PM
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9. And healthcare.
Not only that we would have to sacrifice a virgin in thanksgiving to
God.

I'm kidding!
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porkrind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 01:04 AM
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13. Don't forget healthcare
Did I mention that our healthcare sucks in the U.S., mainly because of right-wing anti-humanist GOP corporatist f*ckers?
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 10:51 PM
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2. First, overturn everything the chimp enacted....
Edited on Wed Mar-17-04 10:52 PM by webster_green
Every law, program, policy, proclamation or whatever smirky accomplished must be repudiated and eliminated.

Then we start marching the cabal into the war crimes tribunal. It will be lots of fun!

More fun than Watergate even!

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coloradodem2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 12:27 AM
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12. Undo everything except...
...The Federal No Call Bill.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 01:11 AM
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15. You got a point with that one
the one good thing bush signed into law .

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goclark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 10:51 PM
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3. Undo Every Law Made by Repubs 02-04

Every thing they have touched has been unjust.

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brokensymmetry Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 10:55 PM
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4. End free trade.
Healthcare is another. And get started on sustainable energy.
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leyton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 10:57 PM
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5. Balanced budget amendment.
I am young, and I'm sick of seeing politicians - GOP and Dems alike - squander my not-yet-earned money.
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ramapo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:09 PM
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6. Would that mean that....
God was on "our" side?
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:16 PM
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7. WAR CRIME TRIALS! And lot of them. Treason trials. And lots
of them. Put the bastards in jail. Every single last one of them
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:18 PM
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8. Take a deep breath, inventory the damage, ...

and start picking up the pieces. There's a lot of repair in the wake of this wrecking crew.
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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:21 PM
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10. What the fuck have you won after the Bush crowd gets through...
with it? We need to start lowering expectations of the American people right now, I can see. They have created such a mess that not even Houdini could escape from it. It doesn't matter if we have the House, Senate and the WH if the same group is going to be there to clog up the works, as only they can do.
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porkrind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 01:10 AM
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14. *'s "slash and burn" policy
You're right, the public needs to be made fully aware of the "slash-and-burn" history of the * administration. They have gutted America to feed their greedy corporate masters.

It will take *years* to undo the harm they have done. :argh:
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Pobeka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-17-04 11:30 PM
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11. Voter verified paper ballots.
That's number 1. Without that, anything else risks never seeing
the light of day as long as republicans own the voting machines.
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 01:18 AM
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16. U.S. Companies need to start paying their fair share in taxes
using a P.O. Box in the Cayman Islands to aviod
paying taxes while our Soldiers lack the proper
equipment is a disgrace .

Fair Trade Not Free Trade ..Time to start protecting
American Workers as well as all workers employed by
U.S. Companies .

Laws That would of Stopped Enron from
ebbezzling their stockholders and employees .



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tinanator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 01:42 AM
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17. media reform
unfortunately, that WILL have to happen first.
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tinanator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-18-04 02:31 PM
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18. nobody seems interested in the possibility?
is that the case?
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