What's the FIRST thing you want Pres. Kerry to do?

My favorite is to enact real election reform, including outlawing ballot less e-voting. I've got a few others high on my list. Add your own. It's time to dream the now possible dream!

they're all good things, and all things he's likely to do, but I really want a 9/11 investigation. I think it's vitally important something like that doesn't happen in this country again.

The most important thing is a 9/11 investigation, but I desperately want to make sure those Pukes can never steal another one.

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.....LITERALLY....preferrably 6 ft or so...after they're tried for and found guilty of TREASON by definition of the Constitution! :nuke:

Arrest Bush, Cheney, Rummy, Rice, and Powell and try them all for war crimes and treason.

Other important unfinished business that would be taken care of in a just world - which we'll never see:

Arrest and thrown the book at Kenny boy.
Conduct public 9/11 hearings.
Cancel the "Patriot" Act and "No child left behind."
Get the hell out of Iraq and pay war reparations.

I'll settle for knowing the bastards are out on their asses, though. At this point, anything Kerry does willl be an improvement.

use Lysol on the floors, cabinets, etc,,, and make sure that all the towels are still there

then start the wrangle with Congress

Number one reason I supported him, and Americans and dying because of the looming crisis in healthcare.

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have no insurance, HAD no insurance even tho' they were working OVER 40 hours' per week...no dental, and had to decide between food and a visit to the doctor.

This makes me so angry...


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to have him pimp slap carl rove

He's going to issue an executive order overturning Bush's edict that no money can go to any international health organizations that educate women on reproduction or adminster to birth control needs or abortion services.

Next he's going to give governments around the world exactly 100 days to open up their records and banking books to anti-terror initiatives that target their illegal funding. Just like he intended post BCCI. After 100 days he promises to start naming names. (And he knows exactly who they are and who they are connected to - This will insure headaches for the BFEE.)

Then overturn the abortion gag rule, like Clinton did in '93.

Thats number 1. Includes redoing the tax cuts, corporate taxes, incentives for jobs, jobs programs like Wes Clarks.

Number 2, is money for education, college grants.
Number 3, is Iraq.
Number 4 is energy policy.

Good post!

people need to wake up.

But some need to grow up first, then wake up.

To fix this broke ass sham of a democracy.

Only in America does bribery equal free speech.

Only in America can a child be denied health care due to poverty and then have the parent charged with neglect for not providing health care.

Only America has 50% of the people not caring who takes their money and sends them to war.

Only in America can a man say 'there ought to be limits to freedom' and then be elected president.

Only in America can an election be stolen in broad daylight with nary a peep.

The Constitution was a great document, but corrupt 'interpretations' and blind indifferance by Americans have allowed it to be shredded.

November.

Is that too much to ask?

There are many issues that should be in the forefront, but health care should be on the top of his agenda. With so many families uninsured and the skyrocketing cost of care, its my number 1 concern.


I hope he wins!

but I agree that having a real investigation into 9/11, as well as Cheney's secret energy meetings that resulted in price gouging here in CA, should be a priority. Also, the repeal of the abortion gag rule that * implemented as soon as he took office. Oh yeah, health care is a MAJOR issue that he should definitely start on right away. And then the mess in Iraq.....oh my......poor Kerry.

Then abolish Diebold, then investigate 9-11.

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by sending out an executive order releasing the Reagan/BushDaddy presidential papers.

Followed by exec. order suspending Patriot Act, if it hasn't been allowed to expire.

but the first thing I want Kerry to do is rescind all of Bush's executive orders on the environment. That is something he can do the very first day he steps into the Oval Office.

Maybe now we can rejoin the world community and sign Kyoto and the Land Mine ban.

...for the International Criminal Court.

the entire stinkin' NeoCon lot of 'em for treason.

j/k folks

Reportedly, it was through the Patriot Act that investigations of Mush Limpdick's illegal "business transactions" regarding Oxycontin were conducted. I'm not a big fan of this fascism being applied to things that have nothing to do with terrorism, but since Limpdick yelled on his radio show about "hysterical liberals distorting the Patriot Act", it serves him right to have it used against him.

so that the GOP has little to no time to axe them.

Pull the curtain off the statue of Justice!

I'd buy a ticket to see that!

The first thing that needs to go is that stinking pile of monkey dung BushCo foisted on an unsuspecting public in the gung-ho bloodthirsty months immediately following 9/11. That single "Act" has done more to destroy liberty in this country than all previous civil liberties threats combined.

Get rid of PATRIOT. If there are some "good" parts of this act (I'm very skeptical of that), then rewrite them into a new bill.

After that, Single-Payer Universal Health Care-- not "insurance"-- but a guarantee that if you live in this country you CANNOT be denied healthcare as a basic human right.

There's more, but you could probably guess those already...

If so. I agree on axing the exec orders against reproductive education.

What a great bi-partison gesture! And since they haven't been charged with anything, damns them at the same time.

Say that they are susspected terrorists and use the Patriot Act to spy on them. Then after they are in prison, repeal the Patriot Act.

Forget it. Bush has stuck us there for several years at least.

However after Kerry Internationalizes it, our troops will be a Lot better off.

crap Bush has thrown at the environment...

and rev up the lawsuits about power plants again, shut down all the mining/logging etc in the monuments Clinton created; stop drilling here in the Otera Mesa and the Rockies; etc etc.
reopen Kyoto....

We need it NOW. It is the most important issue facing our country right now, easily.

And then get to work. He'll do the right things.

Jobs, 9/11 commission, Iraq War commission, election reform, overturn all Bush enviro & interior shams, in particular endangered species,
allow stem cell research, redo patriot act, no more harassing for medical records, etc.

And that would be good for the 1st week!

I don't think any pres. will have had a harder clean up job.

I second Leilani's post!

....and either bring all the people held captive there back to the US and put them on trial or release them to go back to their home countries.

It is a national shame what has been happening down there and it must end.

start campaigning on that, I hope he does because it's beyond disgraceful.

If our votes don't count, we can't elect the right people to do all the other things that need to be done (and this has to become effective immediately so there is time for all states to prepare to stop ballotless voting for the next election cycle).

After an executive order banning paperless ballots, we must close the deal in Iraq, get out, and repair our alliances.

Texas

issue a deck of most wanted cards with Tom Delay as the Ace of Spades. Arrest all of the worst offenders and try them for crimes against humanity.

Then patiently work on building the foundations for democratic institutions in the state, and instructing those poor savages in how democracy works.

<just joking, not meant as an insult to any Texans.>

hehhehhehehe

very funny

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and "UN in, US out" of Iraq!!

Then, he can take a breath.

we must stop Global Warming, if we can't nothing else will matter anyway.

Go before the UN and apologize for the actions of "Dictator" Bush and regain the support of the International community.

a REAL 9/11 commission. But because I think it is so important, I voted for alternative energy anyway.

I think Kerry is going to be working 18 hour days for awhile just getting the absolutely necessary stuff fixed.

'the first thing that needs to be done'

and

'the highest priority thing that needs to be done'

I know he's for "free" trade, but I think he can get us out of these BS agreements and start over with some fairer trade measures.

The responses citing that issue have been many. I think Kerry is open to making NAFTA a lot better for our workers and the environment. Something definitely needs to be done to help our own citizens, rather than big international corporations.

Then get to work trying to get us out of this mess

I know, I'm dreaming.

and also get right to work on developing alternative energy sources.

He'll have a hell of a fight doing either of these things, because the Establishment has so much to lose in $ and power.

And start the shredding process on all the bad legislation * and pitbull Ashcroft has put into effect.



And then the health care and environmental and tax cut reversals, not necessarily in that order. Then 9/11-gate. Then Iraq-gate. But first thing is he has to clean up the anti-Constitutional mess * left us.

I don't know *what* he's going to do in Iraq itself.

Assuming he's still alive and well come November.

and curb global warming. We need to reduce our greenhouse emissions exponentially or we're headed to a planet that's just as hot as an oven. What Kerry also needs to do after fixing up Dubya's mess is to put a lot of money into alternative energy research, perhaps through NASA or some other company.

The threat of global warming is serious and I hope that we all can realize that before it's too late.

Most of that named in the poll cannot be done unilaterally

However, I suppose Kerry could follow in Clinton's footsteps and revoke a particularly odious executive order. Bush has issued so many that it is hard to find just one that merits the honor.

I might suggest the Presidential order of November 13, 2001, authorizing military tribunals for the Guantanamo detainees. The proposed tribunals are secret, beyond public scrutiny. The defense lawyers must be approved by the government, limiting a defendant's right to council. The tribunals are questionable under international law.

This order makes a good candidate.

we lose our choice. It's our most fundamental right as citizens, and our most important. I'm dismayed that more people don't feel the same way on this issue. This is very depressing, I'm going to go tinker with my database.

Then tackle the rest of the list:

- AN IMMEDIATE REPEAL OF THE PATRIOT ACT IN ITS ENTIRETY!
- A REAL 9/11 investigation.
- A REAL energy & transportation bill passed in Congress.
- A REAL plan for domestic environmental standards.
- A REAL plan to cooperate with international environmental programs.
- A ROLLBACK of Bush tax cuts.
- A ROLLBACK of Bush changes to environmental standards.
- A ROLLBACK of privatization in essential services.
- A ROLLBACK of all media consolidation mergers since 2000 and immediate restoration of the Fairness Doctrine.
- A REAL education bill.
- A REAL health care program for everyone.
- A REAL jobs creation program.
- REAL restraints on corporations (including revoking their personhood) and SEC reform.
- REAL enforcement of equal civil rights for everyone.
- REAL election reform (ban BBV, for starters).
- A BAN on any further GMO testing, planting, or marketing.
- A BAN on for-profit corporations running essential services, including public education, public utilities, and health care. (This would be AFTER the initial immediate rollback to pre-Bush status.)

That's just the beginning. Our new president and his administration will certainly have their work cut out for them. WE need to be united, patient, and supportive -- but not passive -- in encouraging the priorities and goals we want him to address.

On edit: Add the first and most important item after the arrests.

Said XOs would reverse a lot of the bullshit XOs that Shrubby signed on *his* first day of office. There are far too many to list here, but you can probably guess which Orders I mean.

...and build real support for the Iraq problem...

Oh, yeah. He likes NCLB. He just wants to "fully fund" it.

Looks like I'm out of luck the next 4 years, or 8 years, whichever way November goes, doesn't it?