Everyone is going on about who the nominees from each party are going to be for president.
I have my favorites, but the truth is I don’t care which one ends up driving the party machine as long as the machine that wins is the one less likely to kill people. (Meaning the Dems of course)
Since I am a hopeful person, I want to think about the things that a Democratic legislature should push through ASAP after electing a Democratic president. It makes me happy (I know- current milquetoast crop of Dems- I’m talking to you Harry Reid!- probably can’t find their ass with both hands, let alone show some fucking gumption – but without hope we are nothing)
Here’s my off the top of my head list
- Get us out of Iraq as quickly and painlessly as possible
- Lift the Global Gag Rule
- Universal healthcare
- NIH funding of stem cell research
- Repeal the Bush tax cuts on the wealthy
- Repeal the Hyde amendment
- Protect net neutrality
- Clearly define torture and re-commit to being a country that does not use it
- Reinstate the Fairness Doctrine
- Repeal the Patriot act and any other measures that have been used to limit our constitutional rights under BushCo.
Like I said- this is just a quick list. Feel free to include anything else that might be missing in comments.
Also, since the republicans have been very good at framing arguments through the use of doublespeak- I am going to take a cue from them.
I will not be referring to the current war in Iraq as the Iraq War any longer. While it is a true technical name- I think we should all start calling it the Bush War. He started it, he wants to keep us in it, he wants it to be his great legacy, I think he should own it.