Get Well, America! II

[IDemo]

More paving stones in the road back from hell

BILL COPE - Boise Weekly
FEBRUARY 1, 2006

As you recall, the purpose of "Get Well, America!" is to compile suggestions on what we can do to mend our nation once the Bush administration is through kicking the crap out of it. To that end, there is a dual function involved in every item on the list: 1) to make things better, and 2) to assist in the election of Democrats who--even if they ignore every suggestion on the list--couldn't possibly make things worse.

Not that Democrats should ignore these suggestions. I believe each and every proposal to be a common-sense, populist remedy to an issue facing Middle America, and if adopted as a platform, I believe Middle America will respond favorably. And for those who ask, "Heck, couldn't Republicans enact these improvements just as well as Democrats?" ... the answer is, "No." While some parents have had limited success in getting children to clean up their own messes, there is no evidence that indicates you can do the same with Republicans.

Besides, Democrats are being accused of not offering a unified, coherent alternative to the Bush agenda other than their overwhelming opposition to him and everything he stands for. Personally, I believe this to be an unfair criticism. I mean, if a rat is gnawing off your leg, you shouldn't have to worry about what to replace the rat with before you stop it from chewing your flesh. Right?

But if it's an alternative they want, it's an alternative they'll get. Here are a few more antidotes to the poison that goes by the initials G-O-P.

http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A158190

[OneBlueSky]

1. also check out Part I of this series . . .

Get Well, America!
http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A154846

suggestions include:

- Double the budget for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

- Set the minimum wage based on an equation derived from minimum expenditures

- Amend the Constitution to say, specifically and without even the hint of a loophole, that a woman is entirely in charge of her own reproductive decisions, period!

- Tax churches, oh yeah!

- Give Texas back to Mexico

- Rewrite the Endangered Species Act the Republicans have been busy rewriting

- Build, maintain and continually update national awareness of how awful things get when we allow right-wing fools to rule the roost

sounds good to me . . .

http://www.boiseweekly.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A154846