What should the Congress' number one priority now be?

[Tiggeroshii]

[mvd]

1. One thing we can do quickly is undo those tax cuts

for the rich, so that we can free up money to do other things. Then, we must find a way out of Iraq.

[Tiggeroshii]

3. Agreed...

[Tiggeroshii]

4. btw i added that question in case you didn't vote

:)

[mvd]

5. Thanks

I used my vote on Iraq exit strategy, though. :hi:

[sutz12]

2. Gotta be Iraq.

That was what the election was about. Dropping that ball will lose us the Senate in '08.

At the very least, they have to appear to try, thus making the R's look like the obstructionists. That could boost our seat count.

[lcordero2]

6. we aren't going to be able to get anything passed

So it's time to drain the swamp

[NNadir]

7. None of the above: Climate change.

It is the most serious challenge before humanity.

If Bush gets in the way, he should be investigated and driven from office. But we must address the issue of climate and energy. There is very, very, very little time left.

[Ron Green]

11. DING DING DING I think we have a winner.

Every action of every public body must from this point forward be about sustainability of earth, body and spirit. People are so anesthetized that it's going to take lots and lots of edumacatin'.

[amandabeech]

21. NNadir, I hate to disagree with you on anything,

but I think that we have to make a very quick redeployment out of Iraq.

Then we must hit the energy/global warming duo hard.

I don't think that the body politic can deal with two major things at once, and I think that Iraq is a distraction that won't go away.

I have moved and changed jobs over the past 6 months and haven't read the proposed energy bill. I'm assuming a paeon to enthanol.

Have you read it?

[NNadir]

23. I have always opposed the war in Iraq, and I think we must leave,

but there has never been a war whose effects rivaled what we might expect from climate change.

Everyone believes - and everyone is probably right - that the new Congress is about the war. The war will definitely garner major attention. Of course the war - which I think was about energy and nothing else - should have never happened. It has been a vast distraction and will certainly be recorded in history as one of the worst of many crimes committed by the Bush adminstration. But, bad as it is, I don't think the war is the worst crime. It's the crime on which we are focused, but the crime that might kill most broadly. The war, I think, has no solution. It cannot be made right, no congress can undo it; it can never be fixed.

I'm not sure, as you know, that climate change can be fixed either. I know the only things that might work, but time is very, very, very short and if we do not act in someway, it might be that no acts follow. If we fail on climate change, I'm not sure what history will say, as there may be no history at all. We have already failed in Iraq, but that failure has little opportunity to prevent history itself.

[amandabeech]

24. Your replay, is as usual, excellent.

However, at the moment, I am nursing a very, very bad cold that seems to be combined with some sort of a flu-ish virus. Well, at least that's what it feels like.

When I'm back to my usual self, I will respond.

Please bear with me.

[rpannier]

8. I want

1. Increasing the minimum wage
2. Outlawing robocalls
3. Repealing the tax cuts for people making 250,000 a year or more (The people shill o'lielly thinks are the middle class)
4. Repealing the prescription drug package
5. Creating more stringent laws governing contributions to representatives
6. Investigating possible fraud and cronyism by this administration
7. Getting more money for the servicemen (pay, services, etc)
8. Developing a comprehensive strategy for getting out of Iraq.

on note:
I know most people here disagree with me and want getting out of Iraq to be first, but these are my priorities.

[amandabeech]

19. I'd like to amend the prescription drug package,

not repeal it. Let the V.A. negotiate the price and get rid of the donut and the HMO subsidies.

Don't let seniors go without coverage, even when its bad.

Just make it good.

[rpannier]

22. Amend is a better word

Thanks

[subterranean]

9. I chose Iraq exit strategy, but realistically what can we do?

Ultimately it's the president and his cabinet who make the policy decisions on Iraq. What can the Democrats do to force them to change their policy?

[Change has come]

18. well,

Rumsfeld is gone!:toast:

[tavalon]

10. Election reform

We need to get auditable paper trail voting. Now.

[Eric J in MN]

16. I want the votes in federal elections to be hand-counted in the

...first place.

[Tunkamerica]

12. Repeal the worst laws passed in the last six years...

...restore habeus corpus? Patriot act?

[porphyrian]

13. All of it. Split into commissions. - n/t

[Eric J in MN]

14. Require federal elections to be conducted with paper ballots...

...publicly hand-counted.

If states want to have a separate ballot for state races which are counted by machine, Congress should let them.

[TahitiNut]

15. Congress (unlike Tutucrats) can walk and chew gum at the same time.

:eyes:

[Holly_Hobby]

17. RESTORE HABEAS CORPUS NOW! n/t

[brentspeak]

20. Getting out of Iraq