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Cyrano Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-28-06 12:50 PM
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What should be the Dems agenda once they control congress?
Millions of us would like to see Bush & Company impeached immediately, but this would mean investigations and executive branch stalling tactics until Bush was no longer in the White House.

It goes without saying that Bush will be using his veto power a lot over the next two years. However, the Democrats should still lay a truckload of popular bills before him. No matter how hard the thugs try to spin the vetoes, I believe that their lack of caring about average Americans will become apparent to all but the dumbest dittoheads.

Undoing the damage done to our country will take decades, but if you had your pick of, say, three things that Dems should focus on first, what would they be? Here are mine:

1.) Get our troops out of the killing fields of Iraq as quickly as possible.

2.)Get rid of black-box voting and replace it with a system that leaves a paper trail. And pass laws against all the voter scam tactics the thugs have been using for years.

3.) Roll back the tax breaks for the extremely wealthy and get the country back on a firm financial footing.

I have a thousand more issues, but these are my top three. What are yours?
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-28-06 12:52 PM
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1. Raise the minumum wage! Workers should not be indentured servants
and that is what happens to people who have to try to survive on the wage the GOP Congress has let stand while they gave themselves raise after raise.
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MannyGoldstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-28-06 12:56 PM
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2. Keeping Our Powder Dry
Never know when we might need it.
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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-28-06 12:58 PM
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3. Everything.
:shrug:

I especially want an investigation into gasoline price gouging, but that's just me.
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Gato Moteado Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-28-06 01:48 PM
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4. investigate, indict, impeach....both chimpy and cheney
and get a president in there who will be afraid to do anything wrong. put the fear of god into these godless repukes. then let the congress jam thru all the right legislation to undo the evil that has spilled forth from the repuke congress, senate and whitehouse.
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