When Kerry is sworn in in January, what is first thing you want him to do?

[kentuck]

What is the first piece of legislation or executive order that you would like to see him address? Lord knows, there are a lot of executive orders of George W Bush he could reverse. Should he just go ahead and get those out of the way and let the Repubs get over it right at the start? What do you think is the most important issue he needs to tackle?

[Darkseid69]

1. Open the Reagan Files!

Get that information out

[Bandit]

2. Fairness Doctrine

Help regain impartiality in the Media.

[NewJeffCT]

6. can you do that via Executive Order?

And, won't places like Fox & CNN get around the Fairness Doctrine by finding Alan Colmes clones?

[depakid]

14. No, but the FCC can do it

All they have to do is follow the appropriate administrative procedures and both houses of congress would have to have a 2/3's majority to overturn the rule(s).

[kentuck]

16. But the President can appoint the head of the FCC ??

Isn't that correct? So is it really that difficult to re-instate the Fairness Doctrine?

[depakid]

43. Absolutely-

The FCC can reinstate all sorts of media regulations- Just as Reagan's FCC Chairman, Mark Fowler, dismantled them.

All that's required is that the APA (Administrative Procedures Act) is followed to the "t." There's plenty of evidence out there to support the Fairness Doctrine within the context of current communications law- and the Supreme Court decision that upheld the Fairness Doctrine- the unanimous (with one justice not voting) Red Lion case is still controlling authority.

It will take time to do notice & comment, put together the necessary reports and go through the various other requirements- but Republican administrations promulgate their rules even where they are clearly contrary to the evidence on record. It's called administrative discretion!

Just because Clinton was too timid to aggressively use the power of the executive doesn't mean that it can't be done.

[jpgray]

96. In that line--stack the FCC with some tough SOBs

It's going to be a knock down, drag-out fight but it has to be fought.

[GreenPartyVoter]

3. Arrest warrant for Bu$hco

[peacebuzzard]

26. and in the same breath, call for cease-fire in Iraq and immediate

reassessment for the utmost of safety for our troops, and the local population.

[lpbk2713]

35. And quickly........

before Smirky and the Cabinet and staff can emigrate to Saudi Arabia.

[Redleg]

4. Fumigate the Whitehouse. Get the vermin the f@ck out of there.

That is all.

[shraby]

9. Get the Patriot Act repealed.

Then get congress to re-write just the legislation that is needed to cover the communications between the law enforcement agencies and leave the Constitution unmarred.

[Missy Vixen]

58. I'd like it

if he'd repeal the Patriot Act by EO ten minutes after he's sworn in, but I realize that this is the Impossible Dream.

Julie

[tom_paine]

18. Yes, fumigation would be a start.

Considering the Busheviks have performed Trotsky's pereptual Revolution to such perfection, there are SO MANY things that need to be fixed.

Unless Kerry gets a Democratic Congress (and even then there is no guarantee that they will do their duty any better than they have done it since the Bloodless Coup of 2000).

[Sandpiper]

5. Fire John Ashcroft!

With all possible haste.

[IronLionZion]

11. and hire Eliot Spitzer as Attorney General

[Mandate My Ass]

28. A special prosecutor just for Ashie

A girl can dream....

[redqueen]

7. Fairness Doctrine

We can't maintain our republic without a FREE and UNBIASED media.

[Cat Atomic]

29. Agreed. I'd also like to see a moves to break up big media,

and much better funding for Public Broadcasting.

The corporate view has been creeping into public broadcasting more and more as it resorts to private funding.

And kick the right wing ideologues out of their FCC leadership positions.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. Open an investigation into this administration.

EVERY F****** ONE OF THEM! and, PROSECUTE them! NO pardons for the cabal! Open the 911 report...ALL OF IT...so the sheeple can see the TRUTH behind that disaster.

[glitch]

12. right after inauguration - very first thing and it better not be toothless

or the Democratic Congress will be on his ass.

[fdr_hst_fan]

19. Kerry will have to

rescind all the pardons that Shrub handed out the night of January 19, 2005; that is, if Shrub loses. The only way to prevent Shrub's victory is to have Jeb Bush put under HOUSE ARREST for suspected terrorism!

[Padraig18]

47. Pardons cannot be rescinded.

The President's power to pardon is absolute.

[seventhson]

10. Perp walk Bush off podium into the hand/cuffs of fbi/UN prosecutors

and do it himself holding bush by the scruff opf his neck and by his backward bent arm behind his back stooped like a chicken.

[blueknight]

15. after issuing arrest warrants

for bush,asshat and company, repeal nafta! or at least modify it in some way

[NMDemDist2]

13. re instate the EO CLinton did on environmental issues

mercury etc

Then work on media consolidation and the Patriot Act

[truthspeaker]

17. Slap Bush across the face and yell "I'm John Kerry, bitch!"

OK, not really.

[Solly Mack]

87. ..

kick

[jjmalonejr]

20. Campaign finance reform

Future campaigns should not be like this one. Get $ out of politics.

[pathansen]

44. Yes, get Karl Rove and all of those billionaires out of our government

Ditto.

[MaryH]

21. Flip Bush and Buds Off with All Ten Fingers

I think that would be funny. Childish, but funny.

[CBHagman]

22. Reinstate the post-Watergate reforms and release Reagan documents

One of the thing G.W. Bush did was undo the rule which allowed for release of presidential papers 12 years after the conclusion of an administration. Clinton declassified A LOT during his presidency, while Bush has taken up a policy of secrecy that would make Richard Nixon blush. I say BRING ON THE PAPERS!

[demnan]

23. It would be a grand gesture

if he resinded the first bill Bush signed, the one denying funds to overseas family planning groups who so much as whispered the word, "abortion".

[Warpy]

24. First, abolish that gag order on family planning clinics

overseas. He should do that one as soon as his butt hits the chair in the Oval Office, like Clinton did 12 years ago.

Then he can start reversing Idiot's other stupid EOs, including the one sealing Reagan and BushI's papers. Those things need to be out, now.

He can try to issue an order reinstating the Fairness Doctrine, but I'm not sure it would pass muster

He needs to appoint a team investigating Bushco's crimes.

He needs to start the process to break up media, oil, banking, insurance, and other monopolies in this country.

Then he can relax for a day's work well done.

[Name removed]

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[slinkerwink]

27. take away the global gag bush put on women's international clinics

[4_Legs_Good]

30. Take a world tour

promoting the new Administration and a new multilateral view on world events. Stop everywhere and help to restore US credibility.

david

[kentuck]

31. Interesting idea...

Could the new Secretary of State, Wes Clark, perform that function? :)

[floda]

32. release all the documents that Bush refused to be published

[baboon]

33. Does it really matter?

I don't expect him to do much because I don't want to be disappointed.

[Redleg]

34. You care to explain that comment? It's a bit obtuse for me.

I take it you're not a fan of Kerry.

[ynot]

48. Clean house

What he does indeed matters. The decisions he make in the first 60days will chart the course for his administration for the remainder of his tenure. On the domestic scene he should call a moratorium on new prison construction; immediately replace all U.S. Attorneys across the country, and bring to a halt all of the wrongful prosecutions that have commenced against trial lawyers, so-called liberal judges; fully fund legal services, head start programs and primary and secondary educational opportunities; once again look at nationalizing health care; restructure the tax regs to make corps. pay their fair share; prepare and promote an economic policy tat will put us back on track to a balanced budget. On the international level he should bring our boys and girls back home; cut funding to regimes that approve of and sanction slavery, govern by means of oppression and intimidation; create a task force whose sole mandate will be to find viable alternative sources of energy.

[RetroLounge]

78. So explain the avatar then, sunshine.

RL

[JCMach1]

36. appoint an Iraq War Crimes Commission

[Doctor_J]

37. name wjc secState

and have him do a tour of europe to get everyone back on our side. Everything else will follow from becoming part of the world again.

[AndyTiedye]

38. An Attorney General Whose Name is Not John Ashcroft

and who will immediately start investigating his predecessor!

Asscroft was taking government jets on our dime in 2001 because HE KNEW!

[JayS]

39. Resign!

And let Edwards take over! :) :) :)



(running away now. hehe)

[UrbScotty]

81. Only if Dean is VP

YEARGH! :evilgrin:

[Tellurian]

83. kick~

[livinginphotographs]

40. Whip out a thing of Mentos.

n/t

[AntiCoup2K4]

41. Tell the DLC to fuck off and renounce anything remotely resembling PNAC

which includes even the slightest involvement in neocon foreign policy.

[TexasSissy]

42. Appoint a decent cabinet!!!

[Kahuna]

45. First take care of the media "new" outlets. You cannot call yourself a

news station if you offer commentary with the news. You're one or the other. You are not both. It is confusing to the news consumer. Second, hire special prosecutors to investigate bushco.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

46. Make out with Teresa onstage. Then crack open a beer and pour it on

Jr's head while he slaps Rehnquist. That or start dismantling the Cuban embargo.

[LuminousX]

49. Kyoto!

[leyton]

52. Indeed, Kyoto.

Let the world know we have a serious president here who cares about the environment.

And then the World Court.

[Piperay]

88. YES!!!

The very first thing :thumbsup: Kyoto should have been signed 4 years ago! :argh: :mad:

[Baltimoreboy]

91. Not to rain on your parade

How do you propose to get it through the Senate which has overwhelmingly opposed it?

[Name removed]

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[AntiCoup2K4]

51. Sounds like a Freeper Hallmark card

Peggy Loony? Is that you?

[JayS]

54. "all intensive purposes"? n/t

n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

56. .

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

57. .

[amjsjc]

60. Welcome to DU...

Hey gchcj7. Thanks for showing up. We need more Republicans to argue with around here...

And yes, I would agree with you that there are times when armed conflict is necessary. Unfortunately this isn't one of them; nobody has yet presented any compelling evidence that Iraq was a threat to the US (after all we'd done a rather effective job of trashing his army in the first gulf war, the stories about WMDs didn't exactly pan out and nobody has yet proved of any substantial connection between Saddam and Osama-- despite the best efforts of various Weekly Standard editors). While I support preventing Hitler clones from conquering the earth, Saddam was no Hitler. Oh, and the Iraqi's aren't shooting at us because they're 'bad' but because they don't like being occupied by a foreign power. They were polite, gave us a few months to get our shit together and leave, and when we didn't a lot of them broke out the AK-47s. So, in some total, this is a massive disaster.

Anyway, welcome. Cheers.

[LuminousX]

64. Actually, we don't need any Republicans around here

we do enough arguing amongst ourselves as it is.

[amjsjc]

65. True, but what the Republicans post is far funnier.

n/t

[phillybri]

67. It reeks of freeper in here!!!

PU...

[WLKjr]

69. CORRECTION ON THE VIETNAM THING

maybe someone here can set me straight if I am wrong, didn't we start to send advisers to Veitnam during the late part of Ike's admin?

[Mandate My Ass]

75. Blew your wad in just one pitiful post.....

ah well }(

[RetroLounge]

79. "For all intensive purposes "

Bwahahahhaha. Another C Student Moran..

Hey Freeper Asshat, bite me.

RL

[leyton]

53. I want him to turn to the TV cameras and say, "And now...

...back to our regularly scheduled democracy."

[Tellurian]

55. When power is transferred at the Inagurataion...

Kerry will be THEE most powerful duly elected president in the history of the world. He should use this extraordinary power while he has it, to reinstate the restrictions in legislative actions concerning:

environmental issues, clean air, water, national treasures, drilling in the Arctic, disband logging National Forests except for fire prevention, privacy wrt PAI, Fairness Doctrine, declare oil a toxic substance and ban it from transport over land and sea, mandate alternative energy sources, reinstate Head Start programs, reinstate birth control programs, legislate Stem Cell research, increase veterans benefits...

ummm...

[aden_nak]

59. Change The Head Of The FCC.

It's a simple, no-debate item for him, and it's damn important. A great deal of Bush's favorable coverage has been due to the fact that Powell's son heads the FCC, and the major media outlets have been kissing his ass in order to ensure their own deregulation.

Drop someone competant and useful in that spot. Someone who will be more concerned about the monopolization of all national media than Janet Jackson's nipple ring.

[amjsjc]

61. Do the traditional first thing...

Let foreign aid groups that support birth control get govt funding again.

[NoPasaran]

62. .

..

[whosinpower]

63. Sign onto the ICC

And have it ratified RETROACTIVELY TO INCLUDE 2001.

Create a law against war profiteering.

Eliminate lobbying practices in the USA - and forbid any elected representative to receive any "gifts" from ANY LOBBY GROUP.

[greenbriar]

66. I want him to look shrubby in the eye

and then tell him to take his shit and get the FUCK out of the white house

[Kahuna]

68. Best answer yet.

:hi:

[WLKjr]

70. Repeal the Patriot Act

And hold trials for those who were in power that violated the U.S. Constitution and made war for profit.

[louis c]

71. Appoint Gephardt Secreratery of Labor

[mdmc]

72. legalize it

:hi:

[eleny]

73. A back flip

But seriously - open all the files that the Bushies padlocked. Shed the bright light of scrutiny on all the secrets and hand me an ice cold Worsties!

[greekspeak]

74. Dump 4 years of garbage in the presidential dumpster

and start over where Clinton left off. If only that were feasible!

[DaveSZ]

76. Break up big media

Dust off the anti-trust laws, and slice and dice.

[drb]

77. 1. Declare the entire BushCo cartel to be enemy combatants...

...and terrorists, and decree that they be held in secret prisons until they give us all the information we think they might have. A massive order for lightsticks and dogs will ensue.

2. Once this is done, repeal the Patriot Act.

3. Apologize to the people of Iraq. "We're sorry. We screwed up. We're leaving. Please don't shoot at us while we're packing up. Please let us know if we can be of assistance. Ciao, baby, see you on the coast!"

4. One word: PAR-TEEE!!!:party:

[RetroLounge]

80. Add a new position to the Cabinet

White House Bouncer.

Then have him toss chimpy's sorry ass out on the street. Hard.

RL

[Solly Mack]

82. * Kick * for the night crew

:thumbsup:

[Tellurian]

84. After all is done...go to Disney World.. wha?

[neuvocat]

85. Just take the Oath of Office.

Having someone who isn't some sort of unintelligible sadist in the White House can only do wonders for us all at this point.

[LearnedHand]

86. Do whatever it takes...

...to eliminate the PATRIOT Act.

[SarahB]

89. Release the Reagan and Bush41 papers.

I'd like to see, once and for all, what they're trying to hide.

[liberalpress]

90. When Kerry is sworn in in January, what is first thing you want him to do?

Fumigate

[Geo55]

92. Be a REAL uniter...no empty promises

[stavka]

93. Resign in favor of his vice president if it is Edwards or Clark

[Cheswick2.0]

94. All the things Dean said should be done

Start by breaking up the media conglomerates and regulating the crap out of the media. Get rid of NCLB. Bring the UN into Iraq and get our troops home. Give us universal healthcare.

[greatauntoftriplets]

95. Announce the US has no imperialist ambitions,

and announce the end of 14 permanent militry bases in Iraq.

[Mr.Green93]

97. Peace talks with Islam

[Swamp Rat]

98. When he leans over to shake Bush's hand, put hand cuffs on him.

Then do everything that every poster on this thread wants.

I would need a whole day just to say what I would want to happen to Ashcroft. :grr: