Does anyone of you believe a Dem party could reverse all the damage

[Seansky]

* has caused in so many areas of our country (from economy to environment to civil rights and so on) fast enough for the erosion to be stop?

By 08 * would have probably gone thru all the policies just to destroy us 'cause of what seems to be hate toward the Non millionaires.

[noahmijo]

1. Not overnight I fear it will take nearly a decade

But the main thing that will be necessary for progress is to just completely kick every possibly uncooperating Republican the fuck outta office (that means about 98% of Republicans will have to be back at their banker jobs swilling widows out of their land)

I'm dead serious we can do it, but these sons a bitches will work to impeded progress every step of the way. It's what they do it's why they exist. See "The Clinton Years" for a complete case study in how to fuck with progress being made.

[Rosco T.]

4. It won't take that long...the '08 dem can use "executive orders"

to reverse the damage Dimson has done... now, the PHYSICAL changes will be another story.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. The first thing is to stop and minimize any further damage. Repair is

of course a daunting task.

[cdsilv]

5. Clark n/t

[Cocoa]

3. they can improve things greatly

it won't be like magic, it will be work.

[joemurphy]

8. If we roll back the tax cuts and begin doing something for the

middle class then we could have at least 2 terms to repair the damage.

But we'll need to keep the Republicans in a box. We can start that process by ending media monopolies and forcing the diversification of media ownership.

[Kenroy]

6. In 1992

it seemed unthinkable that the deficits could be done away with. 8 years of steady, solid, INTELLIGENT leadership made it happen, and nobody was more surprised than I was.

Yes, problems can be fixed.

[Seansky]

13. but this isn't just deficit we are talking about. The list of things his

policies have affeceted is long. A new gov have that long list to deal with simultaneously, with many items totally destroyed...

[Kenroy]

15. It may be hard to believe

but we have overcome much worse as a nation. It can be done.

[Mel]

7. Think 06

if Democrats can take back the House and the Senate they can slow him down.
Best case scenario is the House because that's where the articles of impeachment come from. We must start with the House in 06!

[orwell]

9. Not that difficult...

We have overcome far worse in our history. All it takes is courage, with a healthy dollop of truth.

[Atlas Mugged]

10. I live in total dread of that

I'm almost afraid that the Republicans will "take a fall" on the next POTUS election just so the Dems can take the blame for the inevitable coming horrors.

[jobycom]

11. Absolutely, no doubt.

Clinton did it. That's why I'm hoping for Hillary or Gore in 2008.

The thing is, the party or the president don't have to fix it. America has an incredible economy. It takes a lot of force to depress it as badly as Reagan did, and Bush is doing. Just remove that force--and by that I mean the capitalistically unnatural process of strengthening the wealthy at the expense of the rest-- and we will begin to bounce back quickly. Higher wages, a lower poverty line, and increased small business ownership (a true owenrship society) will do amazing things for people's outlook.

The rest gets easier as people become more comfortable with their futures.

The point is, the leaders don't have to fix America, just as they don't have to rebuild New Orleans or Mississippi. All they have to do is hand us the tools and step out of the way, and the people will fix the nation.

[indepat]

12. The damage is possibly irreparable: it will take decades to undue the

trillions of dollars damage to the economy, the jobs market, the stock markets, the value of the dollar, the fiscal integrity of the Federal government et al. Literally trillions of dollars have been siphoned from the treasury, social security, etc. and now repose as the extraordinary wealth of a precious few or have been blown up in Iraq and elsewhere.

[Seansky]

14. technology, innovation, civil rights, image, health...I'm feeling down

about this really being the last of the US as a world leader in any kind of area.

[apple_ridge]

16. If, and that's a big if, we regain control, the economy will be in such

a state of ruin that it will most likely be irreparable. * has 3 more years to complete his total devastation of this country. With the combination of his unending and expanding wars along with the coming economic devastation from peak oil, we are completely screwed.

Have a nice day.

[cdsilv]

17. I don't think he's going to get another war.....

...He's got two (and who hears much about Afghanistan these days?).

I know for a fact the military (at the lowest levels), is mightily pissed at Bush - they just can't say so unless they're drunk.

Mutiny?