Pelosi's 100 Hour Plan- THIS Is What America Voted For. She Has A Mandate!

[KittyWampus]

Repeat this over and over DU'ers... Pelosi had a plan just as Gingrich did and it's posted below. The margins were huge. She has a MANDATE!



Day One: Put new rules in place to "break the link between lobbyists and legislation.

Day Two: Enact all the recommendations made by the commission that investigated the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Time remaining until 100 hours:

Raise the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, maybe in one step.

Cut the interest rate on student loans in half.

Allow the government to negotiate directly with the pharmaceutical companies for lower drug prices for Medicare patients.

Broaden the types of stem cell research allowed with federal funds
All the days after that: "Pay as you go," meaning no increasing the deficit, whether the issue is middle class tax relief, health care or some other priority.

[Danascot]

1. MANDATE! MANDATE! MANDATE! MANDATE!

C'mon DUers, chant it up! 'Til everyone in the country gets it!

[KittyWampus]

5. Memorize her points and repeat! MANDATE

[Kikosexy2]

15. Without Jeff ...

Gannon...I have no Man Date....well someone in drag will have to do...

[Black Adder]

16. Congrats America!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My first post on DU and speaking for most Canadians, I want to congratulate all America for what happened last night...
I must say you had us really concerned for the past few years...
Welcome back...
Now, set your sights on the WH in 2008 and finally put an end to the insanity..

[C_eh_N_eh_D_eh]

18. Welcome to DU, mon ami!

[KittyWampus]

24. Welcome Black Adder, we're working hard! It's nice to gain back a modicum of respect

in the eyes of the world.

[Black Adder]

63. you got that and more.. Congrats... N/T

[newyawker99]

58. Hi Black Adder!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Rose Siding]

2. I was so pleased that the one issue she highlighted last night was Iraq

She said something about how by voting for Democrats, that's one of the things the people spoke loudest about.

[Toots]

3. Day One: She just stated the rules would stay as they are

She said they were rules put into place by the Democrats when they were last in the Majority and that they did not need changing. :shrug: but the others on the list should be a go from the get go.

[IronLionZion]

12. SHIT!

We absolutely need new rules to control lobbying influence because that affects everything else.

When is day one? Has she already broken this very important campaign promise?

[Lil Red]

51. They won't actually take control of the House until January. (n/t)

[Kashka-Kat]

20. Dare I say it... flip floppery.

[Hekate]

46. Enforcement of existing rules would bring huge change

What we've had all this time is three branches of government--and their cronies--that believe that rules do not apply to them. Their attitude all along has been that they don't need no stinkin' laws because they are above the law.

Well, there's a new sheriff in town.

Don't jump on Nancy P before she even gets started.

Hekate

[Kashka-Kat]

47. good point...

[Toots]

61. I am sorry if I appeared to be "jumping on Nancy"

I was just informing people of what I had just heard her say. We will see if she needs to be jumped on by her actions. I have high hopes things are going to remarkably better in America. I know Republicans will say it is all Reagan's policies just kicking in or whatever but the Democrats have always benefited the American people and IMO will continue to do so..

[Greeby]

4. mandate? I thought she was married

:P

[KittyWampus]

6. MANDATE!

[wicket]

7. Give 'em hell Nancy!!!!!

:woohoo: :woohoo: :woohoo:

[MelissaB]

8. Mandate!

:kick:

[johnfunk]

9. I'd LOVE to see Pelosi add revocation of the Alternative Minimum Tax

I know, I know -- it would primarily affect the upper middle class -- but there is a method to the madness:

1) It would affect WAAAAAY more Americans, many of whom lean GOP, than revoking the Paris Hilton Tax (i.e. the estate tax -- hey, if FReepers can call it the "Death Tax"...) -- and co-opt their support.

2) Dems could accurately lay claim to "doing more to lower and abolish taxes" than the GOP

Of course, this should be step one of STEALING the tax issue from the GOP, and adding a plank to the 2008 Democratic platform calling for two things:

-- the abolition ofthe IRS in favor of two smaller agencies, an Office of Receipts in the Treasury Dep't, and an Office of Audit in the Justice Dept.
-- a call to scrap the tax code and appoint a blue-ribbon panel to rewrite it from the ground up.

[johnfunk]

10. Oh, one other thing: MANDATE!

MANDATE!
MANDATE!!
MANDATE!!!
MANDATE!!!!

[Selatius]

11. While you're cutting student interest rates, might I suggest you INCREASE the Pell Grant size?

It will help millions of poor students.

[moodforaday]

13. Anything there about

habeas corpus, military tribunals, torture, extraordinary rendition, Halliburton, mercenaries in Iraq, signing statements?

[KittyWampus]

27. Er, this is the first 100 HOURS. It'd be nice to get American voters fully on our side

by taking on bread and butter issues first.

[adamuu]

44. yes good point

hopefully that is the intent of the 100 hour plan.

[KG]

37. did you really think the dems would take on those really important issues?

heh. not likely. not now. not ever.

[Stephanie]

14. Torture? Habeas Corpus? The WAR?

Where are they on the list?

[Auggie]

17. That will be next the 100 hours

[derby378]

31. NOT. GOOD. ENOUGH.

I want the Eighth Amendment restored NOW, not a hundred days into the 110th Congress!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

39. 100 hours.

That's 4 days.

[Kashka-Kat]

22. good question

makes sense to fix broken process first before tackling specific issues -- eg lobbyist power, etc.-- but if they're already backing away from that then I dunno...

Interest rates on grants-- couldnt that wait till next week?

[Individualist]

53. Excellent question

Those should be the top priorities.

[Gloria]

19. MEDIA ===we have to address media consolidation.....the airwaves

must not be populated by RW mouthpieces!!!

[Kashka-Kat]

21. Bring back the Fairness doctrine

[icymist]

28. I second that! n/t

[Lil Red]

52. All in favor, say "I."

:7 I I I I (ad infinim)! :7

[icymist]

62. "I" definitely!

Hey, welcome to the DU Lil Red!!!!
:bounce: :bounce: :party: :party: :toast: :toast: :bounce:

[KittyWampus]

32. Do we really want that or do we just want Liberal/Progressive alternatives?

[Kashka-Kat]

38. I really want it- for the same reasons it was initiated in the first place

otherwise airspace for propaganda can be, and is, sold to the highest bidder...

[GreenPartyVoter]

23. I. Can't. Wait!

[derby378]

25. Repeal of the "Torture Bill" is MISSING from the first 100 hours...

WTF is Pelosi thinking? We didn't elect a Democratic majority in the House in order to play footsie with the Bush regime.

An attempt to repeal the Military Commissions Act must be in the first 100 hours, not the next.

[NoBushSpokenHere]

56. Hmmmmmm Repeal *AFTER* 9.11 Investigations :) nt

[Treclo]

26. Mandate!

mandatemandatemandatemandatemandatemandate
MANDATEMANDATEMANDATEMANDATEMANDATEMANDATE!!!!!

Go Nancy, Go!!!

[Raiden]

29. Sounds like a great plan

$7.25 minimum wage sounds GREAT!!! :kick:

[IronLionZion]

30. K+R

Everyone needs to read this and hold her to it. Let's make it happen with no excuses.

[oc2002]

33. The senate and the WH will no doubt try to run interference and slow all this to a crawl.

The House must be ready to shut down all spending bills if they try.

It is not going to be a nice time on Capital Hill, it is all out war. And if Pelosi does not see it, she does not deserve to be the speaker.

[nolabels]

49. Me reading the tea leaves thinks ye might be correcto-mundo

Dumping Rummy for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Gates would be my first clue

[W2Hague]

34. Impeach-Convict-Remove....

...and then send 'em all to the Hague.
BruinDesign is back today with an open letter to Madam Speaker Pelosi.
http://www.bruindesign.com

Time to take our country back.

[connecticut yankee]

35. Here we go!

We're on our way

[wildflowergardener]

36. Veto?

Just a question - what is to stop the president from Vetoing all this?

Will we have enough to over-ride it, or will there just not be enough in the Senate?

Now maybe Bush will be afraid to veto these things because the people have clearly spoken - but I won't put anything past him anymore.

I'm just afraid to get my hopes up too much.

Meg

[Odin2005]

40. Let him Veto all he wants, every one hurts the Pukes.

The more he vetos he does the more we can bash the Pukes as obstructionists. PAYBACK'S A BITCH!

[adamuu]

43. agree. make his squirm

but i have a feeling we'll all be pleasantly surprised how much he cooperates, suddenly.
remember, the moderate republicans are threatening to leave
for example, all republicans in the northeast are discontented.
* is on thin ice, all around.

[Lil Red]

54. Is it possible that...maybe...

Some of the Republic senators may see their careers (and their control of the Senate) prematurely ended by unfortunate scandals arising from House inquiries?

One other thing...if I'm dreaming, DON'T PINCH ME!

[kwolf68]

41. We dont need no stinkin' science hereay

... Kudos...I love it.

[adamuu]

42. a little after that we need election reform

in there somewhere too
immediate concern
so they can't steal it in 2008

diebold probably knew better this time, or the margins were too great... but we know what they are capable of.

edit: i realized this doesn't need to happen in the first 100 hours.

[sweetheart]

45. Force all federal reporting to accruel accounting

That all budgets show the full debts due, and not just the cash accounting they get by with
today that allows them to concel trillions endebted on their watch.

[odona]

48. Pelosi's Plan

Nancy has said she has no plans to mount an impeachment process against Bush...but (and this is key) is there a plan to impeach Cheney?

[newyawker99]

60. Hi odona!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[dpbrown]

50. MANDATE!

Damn straight!

[Laelth]

55. Agree with every, single proposal!

Nice.

:applause:

-Laelth

[ddbaj]

57. 100 hour plan!

This should kill the "Dems have no plan" meme they love to spit out at Fox.

[DemBones DemBones]

59. Pelosi has chosen some good issues for the first 100 HOURS.

More time is needed to educate voters about many other issues. I doubt that most Americans are familiar with many of the other issues being mentioned in this thread. The media has not done what it should to educate the public and Democrats have rarely had a chance to appear on talk shows to discuss these issues.

Habeas corpus? How many understand what that is and what has happened?

Warrantless wiretaps? How many understand that warrants are easily gotten through FISA as needed? They've been sold as a way to "find out who Al Qaeda's talking to," playing on Americans' fears.

Warrantless secret searches? Same as with wiretaps.

Fairness Doctrine? Some aren't old enough to remember the Fairness Doctrine, some don't realize we ever had one, others may not realize we don't have one now. ("Well, the opposition party always gets to have a speaker on after the president gives the State of the Union address -- isn't that fair? Why do we need a Fairness Doctrine?")

And so on and so on.

Americans aren't dumb but most watch a little TV news, maybe glance through a newspaper; they don't follow the news like DUers do. They don't trust the media but they don't always realize how much the media focuses on fluff stories, parrots White House press releases, and ignores serious issues.

That doesn't mean Americans don't care. Americans were shocked by the government's unpreparedness and apparent indifference toward helping Katrina victims and refugees. Obviously, a majority have had it with the Iraq war. Many are aware and indignant that our borders are unprotected, cargo uninspected, checked baggage uninspected by airlines while passengers are made to take off their shoes. They know about jobs being outsourced. They know prices are rising faster than paychecks.

It's going to be up to Democrats to educate Americans about the issues they don't know about and to give them more information on the issues they are aware of.

Let the party leaders -- Pelosi, Dean, whoever will lead the Senate -- know what issues we want addressed and ask how we can help educate the public about the importance of these issues.

Also tell them we don't want them being too bipartisan, too cozy with the people who have done away with habeas corpus, approved warrantless wiretaps, etc. We'll have to keep after any Dems wearing pink tutus and let them know we'll work to put another Dem in their seat if they don't work for party principles.

But first congratulate Pelosi on her plans for the first 100 hours of the new Congress. Don't be ungrateful for a good start.