Ivins: "Start with a long, long list of things that need to be undone."

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1022-24.htm

AUSTIN, Texas — You can only sit around wringing your hands and moaning about what a mess the Bushies have made of America. Sooner or later, even the gloomiest doom-meisters are bound to get beaned by an acorn on the noggin, leading to the startling and productive thought, "So, what could we do that would make things better?"

For those mired in loathing the Bush administration, the program would start with a long, long list of things that need to be undone: repeal the bankruptcy bill, repeal the tax breaks for the rich, and fix the farm bill, the transportation bill, the energy bill, etc. Or you could start with a list of gentle suggestions, such as:

Making a rude jerk with a bad temper ambassador to the United Nations, probably not a good idea

Putting a veterinarian in charge of women's health policy, maybe not.

Making someone with a background in Arabian horses the disaster-relief czar needs reconsideration.

Invading a Middle Eastern country with no provocation, a country that posed no threat and had no connection to 9-11 ... perhaps not a shrewdie.

She's the only Democrat so far to come up with a plan.

I hope the potential candidates for 2008 read this.

It's a start, and a brilliant one .......................

That was exactly what I said to myself when I finished reading her plans. Molly Ivins for President!!

Not sure we could really talk her into it, but she sure does know how to hit the nail on the head every time!

-chef-

A very common sense article as usual. I just finished her book "Who Let The Dogs In". I need to go get her book Bushwhacked. She really tells it like it is.