If you had to pick just one priority, what would it be?

[Truthiness Inspector]

I know this poll sucks, but the point is to pick one.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

1. Global warming. nt.

[NMDemDist2]

13. yup n/t

[liberaldemocrat7]

15. I have these 4 priorities and here's how you can get them enacted.

Copy and paste the letter below and email it directly to [e-mail] the Republican Party and get many others to send this letter. Thank you. Drop me a message to [e-mail] with the subject Done after you have sent the email.


Hello

Get your Republican party to end the war by Dec. 2007 with Bush and Cheney resigning, and until you do we stop buying televisions, refrigerators, stoves, ovens, dishwashers, dvd players, stereo equipment, light bulbs from one of your party's major contributors and War contractors General Electric Corporation ( 203 373 2211 ) who cannot afford to lose a large sector of the publics business and money.

Get your Republican party to enact HR 676 Single payer universal health care into law by Dec. 2007 and repeal Medicare Part D and place the prescription drug benefit in Medicare Part B covering 80 percent of all medication with no extra premiums, no extra deductibles,
no means tests, no coverage gaps, and remove the means test for Medicare Part B and until you do, we will not buy consumer products and prescription drugs from the biggest 3 pharmacy chains and GOP contributors in the country Eckerd, CVS, and Walgreens and we will not buy health insurance from Blue Cross Blue Shield and Aetna, the 2 biggest health insurance companies that give money to the GOP as well, who cannot afford to lose a large sector of the publics business and money.

Get your Republican party to enact a $10 an hour minimum wage by Dec. 2007, and until you do, we will not go to the following restaurants and GOP contributors Wendy's, Outback Steakhouse, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and Dominos Pizza who cannot afford to lose a large sector of the publics business and money.

Get your Republican party to enact into law Universal vote by mail with paper ballots counted by civil servants with civil servants registering voters and keeping track of registrations by Dec. 2007, and until you do, we will not buy any GOP contributor Dell computers or monitors or go to the following restaurants and GOP contributors Wendy's, Outback Steakhouse, Olive Garden, Red Lobster, and Dominos Pizza who cannot afford to lose a large sector of the publics business and money.

[Raine]

40. Agreed

most important issue facing the World.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Remove the idiot in OUR white house....

I don't care if I am a minority on this......

[Kiouni]

3. It seems if you did one you would get the other.

[BlooInBloo]

4. lol! Quite the opposite of their being mutually exclusive.

[MonkeyFunk]

5. which one?

I'm gonna guess that you mean if you impeach you end the war.

I don't see how. Impeach Bush, Cheney becomes President - war goes on.

Impeach Cheney, Bush appoints a lackey to replace him - Rice maybe? War goes on.

[Kiouni]

9. Isn't the speaker of the house third in line?

[spoony]

10. To get there I think you'd have to

remove both Bush and Cheney at the same time, or else one or the other as acting pres would appoint a VP to take over for them?

[Hippo_Tron]

42. They need congressional approval to appoint a VP

Congress can just not approve and leave the VP office vacant.

[spoony]

45. Excellent, thanks.

[MonkeyFunk]

11. no

the speaker is 2nd in line.

But if you remove Cheney, Bush appoints a replacement. If you remove Bush, Cheney beocmes President.

If you think 17 Republicans in the Senate will vote to remove both at once, I want what you're smoking.

[Lasher]

17. Pelosi could become President

Remove Lord Vader. Junior nominates a new VP. The Senate declines to confirm the new VP. Remove Junior from office. There is no VP at that point. Pelosi is next in line and becomes President.

[MonkeyFunk]

21. and if I flap my arms really hard

I might fly.

17 republican senators will never vote to install a Democratic president.

[Lasher]

24. In the scenario I described no vote would be required.

All that would be required is for the Senate to refuse to confirm Junior's new VP nominee (40 votes to block) after Cheney is removed from office. Then if Junior were also removed the Speaker of the House would automatically assume the Presidency, in the absence of a VP.

Haven't I seen you somewhere before?

[MonkeyFunk]

25. alas

I'm of the non-flying monkey variety.

No, the Senate doesn't vote to install the speaker. but voting to remove both Bush and Cheney is the same thing, and they're just not going to do it.

Never. Not in a million years. It's exceedingly unlikely they'd vote to remove either ONE of them, but both? Nope. Not gonna happen.

[Lasher]

28. Don't need to rub anybody's nose in anything to make myself feel big

As a matter of fact I am relatively insignificant. But if I may be so bold I think the flying monkey thing was funny.

Please consider again the scenario I have shared. Decide for yourself if it makes sense to you.

Peace Brother, it's still a groovy idea. :hippie:

[yardwork]

31. As you know, there is a precedent for this.

Back when I was a kid and the Washington Post wasn't utterly corrupt and there were Democrats with spines running Congress, the country got the vice-president to resign and they got the president to replace him with the speaker of the house, who was actually a fairly decent person. Then when the country threw out the president we got the fairly decent guy as president, except then we quit and that's when we blew it, allowing the whole country to sweep Watergate under the rug and "move on" by empowering Cheney and Rumsfeld and Rove.

It looks like now the country has decided to just skip all the stuff at the beginning about kicking the evil-doers out and go straight to moving on and empowering the bad guys some more.

Some progress we've made.

[MonkeyFunk]

38. I think you need to read a history book

your scenario never happened. Carl Albert never became VP.

On edit:

I have to say, I love when the blindingly ignorant condescend to me. Gerald Ford was not Speaker of the House - nor could he ever have been because he was a Republican, and the Republicans never controlled the House during Nixon's presidency. Carl Albert was the Democratic Speaker of the House, and there was never a thought in DC that he would ascend to the presidency.

Agnew resigned not because of any public pressure or threat of impeachment, but because he was charged with taking bribes when he was Governor.

It's truly shocking to see someone so ignorant be so condescending.

So thanks for the history lecture. I'll give it all the attention it deserves.

[yardwork]

46. Your rudeness increases by the day - what's the matter, things not going your way?

You're right. Ford was the minority leader, since the Republicans failed to get the majority. His ambition was to be Speaker. Other than that, I stand by every word of my earlier post.

I suggest that you improve your manners if you seek to persuade others to your point of view. Or maybe you just like being rude for rude's sake. Or maybe you're so upset that you just can't help yourself.

See link for Ford bio:

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/P/gf38/about/fordbio.htm

[MonkeyFunk]

48. thanks for the lecture

but no matter how you slice it, you were entirely wrong. There's no analogy to the Nixon situation because Ford was a REPUBLICAN.

Pelosi is a DEMOCRAT.

So saying there's precedent for someone of the opposite party ascendng to the presidency via removal is just plain, flat-out wrong. I understand your desire to deflect this argument away from your glaring ignorance by turning it to my "manners" but fuck that. Or was that rude?

[yardwork]

52. I never said that there's precedent for someone of the opposite party "ascending" to the presidency.

I absolutely did not say that. You obviously totally misunderstood my posts. And your language is foul.

[Mojorabbit]

6. Repeal the patriot act

would be my first priority.

[AndyTiedye]

8. Impeach Them Both!

Bald eagles aren't an endangered species anymore.

[Cameron27]

7. End the war, stop the killing and bring the troops home,

then get a Democrat elected as President. If we impeach but lose that, I'm just ethically impure enough to not accept impeachment.

[Behind the Aegis]

12. End the damn wars!

[Swamp Rat]

14. Fix the levees

[Richard Steele]

16. I feel lucky that I -DON'T- have to pick one or the other. nm

[Eagle_Eye]

18. Impeaching Bush will end the War in Iraq and let Democrats get on with the domestic agenda

When the road block of bush is removed, the focus can be shifted to withdrawing the troops, seeking a diplomatic solution to the war and then putting our focus back on America where it belongs.

We hold both the House and Senate. The only thing preventing the Democrats from solving our current problems is the Executive Branch.

Impeach bush and we will be on our way.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

20. Things'll be better under Prez Cheney?

Holding the Senate doesn't seem to do a whole lot of good either. Seems we need 60 votes to do anything. A simple majority of 51 votes isn't enough. And I'm not sure of Sen Johnson's (D-SD) voting ability, I don't know if we can count on it.

[Phrogman]

19. Alternative fuels, alternative fuels, alternative fuels, alternative fuels...

did I mention alternative energy sources?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

22. False trichotomy.

[AntiFascist]

29. I agree, impeaching Cheney first makes much more sense...

and ultimately would probably lead to both of them resigning, and to the end of the war.

[IChing]

23. Accountablity

I can't pick one because I am multi-tasking right now.

[Zucca]

26. Impeach Bush accelerates the other two. I go for that!

IMPEACH, RIDICULE and IMPRISON!

Also, someone cut off Dick Cheneys little every ready Bunnies...I would like to see him skip a few beats!

:>) Joking off course....

[RB TexLa]

27. Increasing world trade

Shields down, ready.

[wuushew]

33. You don't think there is enough world trade?

Most of the barriers are completely gone at this point. I would like trade with Cuba however since it would mutually beneficial to both countries.

[welshTerrier2]

30. i'm finding the answers depressing

why? because nothing will change as long as the country is being controlled by profit-seeking corporations. they want to burn more oil. they don't want you to put wind and solar systems together locally. they don't want to take the profits out of health care.

you think getting rid of bush and cheney will fix that? it won't. of course that doesn't mean we shouldn't get rid of them.

what we need to do is restore real power to real people. if you really want change, any change, you first have to have the power to make those changes come about.

if I only have one priority, it would be election reform. We have got to take private money out of the political process. all the other "priorities" will never happen until we do.

[slackmaster]

32. Fully adopt and embrace the Metric System

:argh:

[Nikki Stone1]

34. OTHER: STOP THE UPCOMING WAR WITH IRAN

...

[pberq]

35. Publicly financed elections

If private money were taken out of politics, we eliminate the worst problems as cited above.

[onethatcares]

36. take the money from the m/i complex and devote it to

citizen welfare, healthcare, poverty, outreach programs. We could use some heavy duty cleaning up around here. Let's make America beautiful once again. let's trim the trees over the interstates, paint the lines properly, clean up the national parks, sweep the fucking streets and whatever it takes to put people to work and accomplish a feeling of pride in ones' community. I know damn well that if you are going to pick up butts off that street in the morning, you aren't going to throw them there in the evening.

[cureautismnow]

37. My heart says end the damn war, my head says impeach.

Since I'm a bleeding-heart liberal, I'll choose the former. Impeachment would be icing on the cake, although I realize that impeachment AND removal from office of both crooks would make withdrawal from Iraq a cinch.

[Raine]

39. Global warming and the environment

that should be a choice on the poll.

[NaturalHigh]

41. End the war...

and don't start another one.

[xultar]

43. Ensuring a Dem ocratic Presidential win in 2008

[Decruiter]

44. With Impeachment we end the war on terror and on Iraq. n/t

[donsu]

47. you didn't even list the most important!

global warming - climate change

drip, drip, drip

[EFerrari]

49. Impeach the Deciders, both of them. That would slow down

their plans for Iran and mostly likely get us out of Iraq. And for Katrina alone, I WANT THEM TO PAY.

[JacquesMolay]

50. Kind of vague in the selection department ...

... there's a lot of choice in 'Domestic Policy' - I think a new energy policy and healh care should be our top priorities.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

51. Impeachment. eom

[Cha]

53. My first priority(not offered) :)

would be to get rid of every last one of the corporatemediawhores AND then everything else would start to resolve itself in a progressive manner, eh?