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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat do you want to see President Obama accomplish in his new term? n/t
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)You know... the usual stuff here at DU.
doc03
(35,364 posts)leveymg
(36,418 posts)barbtries
(28,811 posts)jobs (living wage) jobs jobs
what is the healthy unemployment rate? 4. 5 %? like that.
end of DOMA
2 liberal supremes
lots of green energy development, education, construction, jobs once again
better schools, greater opportunity
i know i'm forgetting something.
DREAM act
Drale
(7,932 posts)jam him hand into his chest, pull out his heart and take a bite out of it on the house floor but since I don't see that happening I want him to fight even harder against the obstructionist house especially now that he no longer has to worry about reelection.
nothing can happen without the house so there is no reason not to offer compromise, but this time start walking left when they balk at it.
The pay roll tax holiday
The Bush Tax cuts
The debt ceiling
The sequestering
There are suddenly a lot of things coming due that doing nothing gives Rethugs the wrong result.
vaberella
(24,634 posts)for the next two years---hoping for a more progressive house---he can pass the Dream Act.
UncleYoder
(233 posts)I used to work for the dept. of insurance liquidators here in Ohio. You know, the guys that go in after an insurance company was caught with their hands in the cookie jar. I had access to all the files and the amount of pure greed and lack of concern for the policy holders that I saw was amazing. I want all the insurance companies to go belly up. No one should be denied care in the name of profits.
SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)The drone program needs to end as well. Killing people is bad, killing by remote control is beyond reproach. The drug war needs to end. Holder needs to be fired and anyone involved in the financial crisis of 08 needs to be removed from any position of financial power.
Also serious dialog needs to be had with Iran. Iran is the Republicans next excuse for a war. Had Romney won I have no doubt we would be invading or at least bombing Iran within the next two years.
What I would like to see from Obama is more liberal positions. He's still got his work cut out for him since the R's still hold congress. But that is no reason not to show the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Many have claimed that there is no difference between the two parties in the 21st century. Obama needs to show them that there is.
GiaGiovanni
(1,247 posts)This means cases like WalMart, where class actions of women paid routinely less than women were rejected by SCOTUS, need to be overturned.
This means liberal SCOTUS nominees.
No compromise.
Shankapotomus
(4,840 posts)What else is there?