First order of business when Democrats retake Congress:

[Rex_Goodheart]

National voting system reform outlawing all methods which do not employ recountable, auditable paper ballots. Every other issue in our Republic depends upon the legitimacy of the citizen's vote.

Other priorities:

Federal law to protect whistleblowers from prosecution and harrassment where they divulge criminal political activities.

More?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

1. Win the elections first

that should be enough trouble for the once-great Democratic party

[ima_sinnic]

2. hanging traitors and war criminals in public gallows

-- guillotines would be a nice touch, too.

As in the Olden Dayes we could have a faire with jugglers and other festivities.

[Sherman A1]

4. Like the jugglers, nice touch

will we have booths with brats and beer?

[ima_sinnic]

11. LOL! every form of festivity, every bacchanalian indulgence,

whatever you want, it will be the Celebration to End All Celebrations

[Sherman A1]

21. Let there be burgers and brats for all!

[CrushTheDLC]

12. And for a list of the first week's hangings....

www.newamericancentury.org

Everybody whose name is on a document there. No exceptions.

[rocktivity]

3. Reinstatement of Fairness doctrine

Roll back multi-media ownership

Force GE to divest interest in NBC

Bring in Katherine Harris for questioning re: selection 2000 (rejecting insanity plea0

Reject signing statements

impeach Supreme court Five.


rocknation

[elehhhhna]

6. Do-over of the 911 investigation.

[Initech]

27. Ding ding ding!!!!

[asthmaticeog]

7. Fairness doctrine - bingo.

Even though it wouldn't apply to cable news, right wing hate radio would be crippled, and that's a damn fine start.

[CrushTheDLC]

14. You mean impeach Supreme Court three?

It's a little late to hit Rehnquist, and Sandy O'Connor already quit.

[elehhhhna]

26. There is no reason we cannot ADD justices to the USSC & dilute the

Freepr "justices" influence.

Look it up. We can have 12 if we want.

[Blue Belle]

20. Bring up Ken Blackwell for questioning in the 2004 Election.

Instate campaign Financing laws.

Reopen 9/11

Pull the troops from Iraq

Repeal Bush's tax laws.

Investigate the Intellegence and circumstances leading up to the Iraq war.

Send Bush & Co to the Hague

[bluestateguy]

32. That's not a priority for me

I like turning on Air America radio and knowing that there will be a liberal host on the air.

We should focus on building up own own media, not trying to bring back an outdated law.

[elehhhhna]

5. National Audit Initiative:

A new American job & training program that pays for itself;The American Audit and Recovery Initiative!

It pays for itself with recovered stolen money, taxes, interest, fines, awarded damages etc. as it uncovers and brings to justice all the THEFT this Republican Administration and their cohorts have perpetrated in the US and Iraq.

Here's an off-the-cuff staffing list:

Accountants, from clerks to CPAS,

Data entry & document clerks to sort, file, scan, label, index, bates stamp, retrieve, redact, etc. etc. etc. zillions of docs.

Warehouse/moving storage staff for all that paper, disks, etc.

Security staff to assist in document retrieval.

Attorneys. Lots of them.

Paralegals, ditto.

PROGRAMMERS! Thousands! On deadlines! Hallelujah.

A/V techs to record testimony, investigation interviews, etc.

IS tech support (to untangle the internets tubes)

What have I forgotten?

This program would employ & train THOUSANDS of Americans for jobs that fit virtually every expertise, education and skill level. It will more than pay for itself, buoy employment & the general economy, give America justice, and recover money we can use to retire a portion of the Republican Debt.

What's not to love?

[flyarm]

8. equal time back on media!! take back the media..

break up the conglomerate ownership!

fly

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Impeach Cheney then Bush then anyone who failed to uphold

the Constitution of The United States Of America...like they took an oath on the Bible to do. Including federal Judges, Congress and all!

[Eric J in MN]

10. Ban growing pharmaceuticals in plants used for food, such as corn,

Gentically-modified crops contaminate other crops.

In the case of GM crops used to produce pharmaceuticals, this is more dangerous.

If companies want to grow pharmaceuticals in plants, they should be restrticted to plants people don't eat. Not corn.

[ima_sinnic]

13. totally revamping laws/regulations of corporations -- no more

"personhood," no more offshore tax hideouts, no more tax breaks, no more subsidies/bailouts of businesses that flop

[Eric J in MN]

28. Also, replace the legal requirement for coprorations to put

...shareholder profits first, with a legal requirement for corporations to put workers and the environment first.

More on this in the movie, The Corporation.

[mopinko]

15. smash the cia, the dia, the nsa,

etc, etc.
no more black budgets, no more secrets.
and i am down with the hangings, etc. jugglers are good.

[ima_sinnic]

16. strict regulating of lobbyist activities

--no more "buying" of Congresspeople. I guess it's supposed to be in effect now, but ENFORCEMENT would be nice.

[Rex_Goodheart]

18. I was actually thinking of things

that would have more than a snowball's chance in hell at passage.

[Kaleidescope Cassie]

19. Like getting out of Iraq?

[Kaleidescope Cassie]

17. Take care of the troops and the veterans.

[jmowreader]

22. Forget hangings. Seppuku is the only way

I know that Seppuku was thought of as an honorable method of execution, but it also forces the person committing it to take an active part in his demise.

Hanging? No good.
Shooting? Unless the person being shot does it himself, still no good.
Lethal injection? There have been some seppuku-like lethal injections--several junkies asked for and received permission to insert their own needles because they knew exactly where the veins were--but in general, they strap you to a table and stick you with two needles, you fall asleep and you don't wake up. Not very engaging.

I think they should lead Bush into the White House Rose Garden, hand him a tanto and ask him to kneel and disembowel himself with it. He's caused enough pain to the world, he needs to feel some of his own.

[oscar111]

23. How to recall what we must rollback:

The MUD Puppy .. capital letters stand for what must now be corrected

T.... Taxcuts for the rich... over three hundred fifty billion

M.... Monopolies

U... Union busting

D... Deregulation

P... Priviatizing


mud puppies are slang for salamanders, by the way.

[ThomWV]

24. John Conyers Appointment To The House Judiciary Committee

You know where it goes from there.

[Rex_Goodheart]

30. I love that one.

[Initech]

25. Re-regulate capitalism!

AND ESPECIALLY THE FUCKING ENERGY INDUSTRY. They're the biggest offenders. Health care next.

[Eric J in MN]

29. Limit the number of broadcast radio stations a company can own

...to a hundred, for example.

(Clear Channel owns over 1200 radio stations.)

[bluestateguy]

31. Rescind the Clinton impeachment articles

Formally repeal them in the House and expunge them from the record (now let us never speak of this again).