Molly Ivins: Good ideas on how to fix things

[Dudley_DUright]

You can only sit around wringing your hands and moaning about what a mess the Bushies have made of America for so long. Sooner or later, even the gloomiest doom-meisters are bound to get beaned by an acorn on the noggin, leading to the startling and productive thought, "So, what could we do that would make things better?" Quel concept, eh?

For those mired in loathing the Bush administration, the program would start with a long, long list of things that need to be undone: repeal the bankruptcy bill, repeal the tax breaks for the rich, and fix the farm bill, the transportation bill, the energy bill, etc. Or you could start with a list of gentle suggestions, such as:

-- Making a rude jerk with a bad temper ambassador to the United Nations, probably not a good idea
-- Putting a veterinarian in charge of women's health policy, maybe not.
-- Making someone with a background in Arabian horses the disaster-relief czar, possibly needs reconsideration.
-- Invading a Middle Eastern country with no provocation, a country that posed no threat and had no connection to 9-11 ... hmmm, perhaps not a shrewdie.

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But that's still not stepping up to the plate to take a swing at the always-relevant question, "What the hell do we do now?" Yes, we should follow the First Rule of Holes and stop digging. True, we need to go back to doing a lot of things we used to before George W. Bush "won" that remarkable "election" in 2000. And we need to go back to NOT doing a lot of things we didn't do before the 5-4 vote. But that still won't get us out of the fix we're in now.

We need to step up and come up with solutions to the problems this man has created.

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http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/1/2005/1235

[NJCher]

1. a terrific checklist of items

Molly's terrific today--as usual.

Cher

[papau]

2. Excellent - I hope the party does not ignore her this go round.

:toast:

:-)

[indepat]

3. Undue all laws and actions that will cause harm in the future and then

work like hell for the next 20 to 30 years to best get this country back to a Republic rather than a corporatist police state and theocracy it is drifting toward by calculated design.