Our New To Do List

[jhain]

Everything old is new again.

This needs some add-ons. I trust you can think of one or two.

K&R. please. to keep it going- I really want to see it all in one place. It is downright energizing now.


There are so many more since this was new:

I'll throw in Brewster Jennings and raise you Guckert.

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2005/01/18/scandal/index.html?pn=2

January 18, 2005 | Once upon a time -- about five years ago -- conservative pundits often talked about "scandal fatigue." Remember scandal fatigue? It was an affliction supposedly either turning voters against Democrats or, alternatively, a weariness in the body politic preventing Republicans from pursuing even more grievances against Bill Clinton. By any objective measure, however, after four years of George W. Bush's presidency, the entire nation should be suffering from utter scandal exhaustion.



1. Memogate: The Senate Computer Theft

2. Doctor Detroit: The DOJ's Bungled Terrorism Case

3. Dark Matter: The Energy Task Force

4. The Indian Gaming Scandal

5. Halliburton's No-Bid Bonanza

6. Halliburton: Pumping Up Prices

7. Halliburton's Vanishing Iraq Money

8. The Halliburton Bribe-apalooza

9. Halliburton: One Fine Company

10. Halliburton's Iran End Run

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Have at it.

[jhain]

1. self kick- I want to see additions

[bobbolink]

2. How bout.... fine assortment of election suppressions!!

Ohhh, would I LOVE to see some of that uncovered!

C'mon, there's loads of stuff to list...

[JeffR]

3. A general one (thanks, bobbolink, for steering me to this thread!)

Not only do corporate tentacles need to be pried off of government, but serious and detailed investigations need to be done about precisely what has transpired in recent years. What and how did corporate influence buy in terms of energy policy, Iraq, etc. We know the broad strokes on most of this, now we need to complete the picture with very fine brushes.

[Greyhound]

4. K & R

:kick:

[JeffR]

5. Kick!

Someone get this to the Greatest.

And chime in!

[FrenchieCat]

6. K & R

:kick:

[OzarkDem]

7. Comprehensive health care

bringing down the deficit, too.

[jhain]

8. now, wouldn't that be nice

as a self employed person my health insurance premiums are more than my mortage every month.
Sickening, but I can't afford the co-pay to visit the doctor, of course.

[OzarkDem]

11. We have to get costs under control

and not matter how many ways I look at it, it still doesn't seem to be a good idea to saddle employers with the cost of providing health insurance, nor covering only people who are employed. It would seem that relieving employers of those burdens would make them more competitive.

[robinlynne]

9. repeal the patriot act and the military commissions act.

[robinlynne]

10. sign the kyoto treaty.

[jhain]

13. puh- nearly forgot

this one.
'Effective blocking' in order to retain sanity....

[cadmium]

16. Important -- but how?

Have an investigation. Unveal an unpleasant example of the military commissions act in action and take it before the courts.

[robinlynne]

12. federal funding to recount ohio 2004. If Bush did not "win", install the

correct president, and have the real president nominate 2 supreme court judges, since those 2 nominations were done by a not president.

[robinlynne]

14. election finance laws, clean elections publically funded

[jazzjunkysue]

19. This is the biggie: Fire Diebold. Insist on voter verified paper receipts.

Here's the voting technology we need:

Either the old fashioned mechanical lever, like we still have in New York,

or-

If we must go high tech, make them optical scan.

Here's how it works:

You fill out a paper ballot. You scan it into the computer yourself. The screen reads your vote. YOu check to see if it's all correct. You hit save, and immediately a paper receipt passes into a galss viewscreen where you can read your votes again before leaving. When you leave, your receipt drops into the box and can be re-counted later if the technology breaks down or the tally computer is off from the exit polls.

This is the only voting that should be allowed, and the machine companies and their executives and board members should be barred from making any political contributions.

Publicly funded elections would really work wonders, too.

[bobbolink]

15. This is really petty....

but, I'd really like for the 'Murkin people to know the truth about the toppling of Saddam's statue!

Yeah, teeensy weeensy issue, but I don't think 'Merkins would take kindly to that kind of folderol.

Oh, and the connection with Rumsferatu and Saddam, also!

:hi:

[jhain]

17. Cheney- Energy Task Force

This will be big

[schrodingers_cat]

18. Get the hell down to New Orleans and the Gulf Coast,

And start doing the job that should have been started the week after Katrina hit. Wouldn't that be the most beautiful first step in beginning to repair our country?

[jhain]

20. water water everywhere

I want to know who has the water rights in Iraq now.

http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2005/07/00_dionisi_why-2017-is-optimistic.htm