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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 11:32 AM
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What would you do with two months to change the direction of the country?
And what are you doing now?
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 11:34 AM
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1. If I could do anything? Paper based instant runoff voting.
Most significant change anyone could do.
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 11:35 AM
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2. You think you're going to get that in two months?
We're in bigger trouble than I thought.
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 11:56 AM
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3. Me even getting two months to run the country is dreamland so,,,
I thought I'd dream! ;)
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 01:01 PM
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6. I'm talking about where we are at right now.
The election is in just over two months.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 12:03 PM
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4. Pass an omnibus bill in Congress
to undo every law that has passed since Jan 20, 2001
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paparush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 12:22 PM
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5. Publicly funded elections.
Period. End of story. Get rid of PACs, free tv air times, open debates.
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 01:01 PM
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7. This isn't a fantasy thread. n/t
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 05:50 PM
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8. 1. Repeal all the Bush tax cuts

2. Withdraw the troops from Iraq as fast as possible

3. Announce a long-term plan for meeting the domestic needs that have been deferred and/or ignored since the ascendancy of Ronald Reagan
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LoZoccolo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 08:25 PM
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9. ATTENTION: READ THIS BEFORE YOU RESPOND.
Edited on Mon Aug-28-06 08:26 PM by LoZoccolo
This thread is about what you will do with the next two months before the election, not what you would do if you had some fantastical amount of power. Think about what you will do for the next two months, from where you are right now, rather than daydream.
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-28-06 08:52 PM
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10. Your OP is ambiguous
It doesn't specify "before the election." It asks only what one would do with two months to change the course of the country.

Actually, a variant of my first response still stands: Come up with a concise and clearly worded platform (no policy wonk words or phrases) that speaks to the actual needs of this country and not to what the Beltway "experts" think the rubes want.
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