What will be the next big divisive Big Issue on DU?

[Armstead]

Now that health care reform is moving towards being settled, what will be the next big issue that will draw us DUers to the keyboards to form circular firing squads, flame wars and other crazy-making antics?

[cali]

1. other. the next big item is immigration reform. that'll be nasty here.

[galileoreloaded]

3. Agree.

Hell, might cause an un-civil war....

[Armstead]

6. Don;t know if there's enough disagreement on that on our side

But if there's a way, I'm sure we'll find it

[cali]

7. alas, there is. do a search.

[el_bryanto]

10. Yep - it's a tricky issue

And contentious. And it's one in which it is to easy to through out charges of "racism" or "lawlessness."

Bryant

[Renew Deal]

19. There's more disagreement than you think.

It runs the range from fence builders to open borders. There's lots of people calling each other xenophobes and racists. Good times. :hide:

[ThomWV]

29. Not a chance. Nobody at all will touch that in an election year and Lou Dobbs of off the air.

[kentuck]

2. Tax increases.

would be my guess.

[ThomWV]

30. Not until 2011

[PVnRT]

4. Education

Just wait until the shoe really drops on his "reforms."

[FlaGatorJD]

5. Will the sun rise tomorrow?

Many will say no, although Obama prmoised it would and all his fault.

A small minority will say of course it will, Obama's taking care of everything.

The rest of us will enjoy the sunrise and shake our heads :silly:

[Armstead]

12. Is the Earth flat?

That would be a good one

[ipaint]

8. The gutting of entitlements vs the hands off approach to defense spending. nt

[pampango]

9. Immigration reform, without a doubt. n/t

[Kolesar]

11. Go to Glenn Greenwald's blog/articles on salon.com

Plenty of criticism of the Obama government. It will drive you up the friggin' wall. More than DU. www.salon.com

[gratuitous]

13. Orthography

And the inability of people to use correct speling.

[Armstead]

14. Guilty as charged

But I blame the spell-check software for not living up to its campaign promises

[gratuitous]

26. I've heard the spell checker never actually promised to check spelling

But I'll have to go back and check the speeches.

[blindpig]

15. An assault on Social Security,

you know it's coming, 'fiscal responsibility' and all that.

The administration has shown that it cares for neither the people nor political consideration. It will be interesting to see how the fault lines develop.

For myself, I hope it lights a fuse, mebbe a Million Old Farts March.

[WeDidIt]

16. Other

I figure banking regulations will be coming soon and most will consider the final bill too watered down.

[Armstead]

21. Maybe -- But that's a complicated one not easily boiled down

But if there's a way to make it simplistic and absolutist, we'll find it.

[Echo In Light]

17. Other: the establishment/M$M will aid in the meme of the poor's uprising as being "terrorist" -like

And the moderate voices here will dutifully defend and apologize for Big Brother's draconian tactics, the same way some of them will, for instance, defend a cop's unwarranted use of a taser on the detained and defenseless.

[cbdo2007]

18. Avatar is excellent!

[Armstead]

22. It Sucks!

Actually i've never seen it, but just practicing...

[cbdo2007]

32. No no no - YOU suck!! ha ha, that really is how most of my arguments

go on here. :)

[Armstead]

35. True.....Avatar is beside the point. YOU suck because you like it.

get yo mind right.

:evilgrin:

[Renew Deal]

20. It cannot be predicted

Most likely it will be a breaking news event.

[old mark]

23. Other: Criminals are not responsible for their crimes. The government is

persecuting them unfairly, and they should all be set free immediately, or I won't vote for Obama again.

So there.


mark

[rucky]

24. Midterm elections. n/t

[L0oniX]

25. When the military is not out of Iraq within the 18 months Obama said.

[slackmaster]

27. The Metric System: Efficient standard tools for measurement, or global Conspiracy?

:nuke:

[ThomWV]

28. the Debt

Right around the corner, to be greeted by a melt down in commercial credit brought about by the meltdown of commercial real estate.

Oh, and there's a Gold Bubble out there too.

[NFL80]

31. Other: Gitmo closing extended one year.

[KatyMan]

33. You left off

The Great Unrec Conspiracy

[etherealtruth]

34. It could be anything ...and it will likely come out of left field

[pipi_k]

36. Dish rags vs kitchen sponges...which is more ecologically friendly? n/t

:dilemma:

[SoCalDem]

37. spelling

:rofl:

[Armstead]

38. Gulty as charged too often.

But I blame the spellcheck software for not fulfilling its promises.