Next big project for Obama and Dems to tackle?

[Liberal_in_LA]

Poll question: Next big project for Obama and Dems to tackle?

[BlooInBloo]

1. Other: spelling.

:P

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. caught if before your smart remark... hee hee

[BlooInBloo]

5. I'm on a horse.

[uppityperson]

21. you must smell like a Real Man too

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. Immigration reform has long been scheduled for the next big push.

There's Dodd's big financial reform coming up for a vote soon. And several more jobs bills in the pipeline.

But immigration reform's going to be where the real focus is at.

[Deep13]

4. campaign finance reform. nt

[leftstreet]

6. Without a Jobs Bill, their next big project will be getting reelected n/t

[Joe the Liberal]

22. Lol n/t

[ecstatic]

7. education nt

[Marr]

8. I suspect they'll be turning to "entitlement reform" next.

With a little kabuki theater, they can probably even get a fair number of Democrats to cheer for it, too.

[ThomWV]

9. Health Care now that insurance company care has been taken care of

[Donnachaidh]

23. [phone] n/t

[Liberal_in_LA]

24. Ouch!

[demosincebirth]

10. EFCA

[Sebastian Doyle]

11. Until the cancer of the DLC is completely eradicated, all further attempts at "reform" are useless.

Because, as we have just seen, even when some slight degree of "reform" results from their corrupted process, it only comes at all if accompanied by huge rewards for the criminal bastards who caused the problem in the first place.


Apply this "health care reform" to education, and we'll end up with an entire nation of "charter" schools run by the likes of David Horowitz and Pat Robertson.

Apply this standard to "financial reform" and your local credit union will end up as subsidiary of the "Federal" Reserve.

Apply this to energy reform.... well we're already seeing the lies of "clean" coal and "safe" nuclear energy being spewed around here.

More false reform? No thanks. :puke:

[Individualist]

17. Absolutely!

[Mari333]

12. wars. end them now.

people are dying our kids are dying over there for corporations.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

14. +1

[rainy]

13. # one problem is money in politics and the way it drives our not so free press

and congress. Campaign Finance Reform now!!!!!!!

[racaulk]

15. DADT n/t

[Turborama]

16. If climate change & environmental degradation aren't curbed, the rest will pale into insignificance

JMHO.

[blm]

28. Plus, the Climate Change bill positively impacts jobs AND our national security.

Climate Change bill matters more than many Dems realize.

[CBR]

36. I am with you on this one. Climate Change. nt

[cherokeeprogressive]

18. Yeah. Why would the Fierce Advocate bother himself with civil rights for the LGBT community?

How many back burners ARE there on his stove, anyway?

It saddens me that at a place like DU, someone whom I respect and who has the world "liberal" in their screen name, would create such a poll and fail to include civil rights for LGBTs.

[theHandpuppet]

19. I was just about to post the same thoughts

Hell, our basic human rights didn't even make the list.

[QC]

37. Missy, we don't have time for your little pet issues!

:sarcasm:

[Liberal_in_LA]

47. Consider it included in "other"

[theHandpuppet]

55. Is that like the afterthought answer?

Do you know how many times LGBT folks have to identify themselves as "other", day in and day out? How damned insulting.

[Liberal_in_LA]

46. sorry... I typed the poll up quickly.

:hi:

[NYC_SKP]

20. I would vote "Economy", except Bush and Clinton helped the economy, but not sustainably.

So I'll go with "Jobs".

File under, "other", though jobs would have been a great item to include.

[bigwillq]

25. Equal rights for all people (nt)

[madokie]

26. If we don't get this economy rolling nothing else matters

[blm]

30. Climate Change bill HAS a lot of jobs in it - sustainable jobs that will MATTER.

Add a workforce focusing on infrastructure while environmental projects create a whole other growing industry and this presidency will succeed like no other presidency in modern history.

[chill_wind]

27. War and blood for oil spending. It's bled our economy dry

along with the bailouts.

It would have bought 308,396,946 People with Health Care for One Year. Divide that up over the years since 2001.
Instead, thanks to our priorities we have a lot of dead human beings both here and abroad. Thousands upon thousands abroad. Unconscionable thousands yearly, here.

http://www.nationalpriorities.org/tradeoffs?location_type=1&state=888&program=585&tradeoff_item_item=286&submit_tradeoffs=Get+Trade+Off

[mitchtv]

29. other

since this is a Dem Poll , naturally Gays are not included

[earth mom]

31. Next up: anything that will help Corporate America. The people & planet earth can fuck off. nt

[LWolf]

32. I'm sure it will be to escalate his war on public education even further. nt

[bananas]

33. Other - Nuclear arms reductions

It's what he won the Nobel for last year, remember?

[steelmania75]

34. They need to have massive reform for Wall Street and regulate it.

Repeal all the deregulation since the Reagan era. Also, campaign finance reform should be a part of that as well.

Then, I'd move onto Environment and Education reform. We need green jobs to power America in the future and a good education for our children so they can succeed.

In between, I'd have social legislation like repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell.

Also, the deficits are a big problem, but you can fix that with a progressive tax and legalizing drugs and taxing the shit out of them.

[B Calm]

35. Dumping NAFTA and fair trade tariffs!

[FreeState]

38. Gee we cant even get Democrats here to include LGBT issues in their polls n/t

[Starry Messenger]

39. Ignoring LGBT rights I guess, from the looks of things

[Bluebear]

41. That was glaring, wadn't it?

[Starry Messenger]

42. Maybe the pony is actually named "Other"

[Liberal_in_LA]

43. ooops.. Sorry. I left off reproduction/women/civil rights also

[Touchdown]

44. Those were never in the "wait until after health care is passed" camp.

Those other 3 are decades ahead of GLBT rights anyhow, but I get the idea. It was a lie, as always. When all those other things are passed and we live in a liberal utopia and we colonize Titan, after Mars has it's billionth child born, then we can repeal DADT and let the f*ggots marry just to shut them up.

[Starry Messenger]

50. Abortion is the third rail of politics.

I kinda had a spark of hope for LGBT rights though. Those are, as you say, further behind, and the window of time is starting to narrow. :(

[mitchtv]

54. +7

[bigwillq]

49. Forgotten again.

:(

[backscatter712]

40. Immigration reform.

Even a few Republicans are in favor of immigration reform, and almost all the Democrats are.

Also, this will get the extreme wingnuts into a frothing rage, and we can use that to make the entire GOP look bad (we'll be seeing white sheets coming out...)

It will also help bolster the Latino vote, and other minorities will get fired up - it's red meat for our base.

Overall, immigration reform is a great issue for driving wedges to get the GOP fighting themselves, and getting our own people motivated.

[Unvanguard]

45. Immigration reform would be nice. And an ENDA passage if they can pull it off.

Not sure what they can do about the economy. I guess more stimulus can't hurt, but whether it's politically doable is another question: the (wrong) public perception is that the first one failed.

[rucky]

48. I think they're going to roll out a climate/jobs package.

And I think this'll be Sherrod's baby. Just a hunch, but I've been reading up.

[applegrove]

51. Banking reform. I think Americans can all get behind that.

[annabanana]

52. Calling the previous admin. to account. & Cleaning out the Justice Dept.

While the abuses continue and the wrongs are not addressed, we continue down the wrong road. Endless, un-fightable detention continues. warrantless wiretapping continues. Thousands were plain out murdered in Iraq for no reason.

sigh

[arcadian]

53. Other: Prosecuting Bush & Cheney

and Condi, and Wolfowitz, and Perle, and Rumsfeld, and Yoo, and Bybee, and Addington, etc, etc.