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Ten Step Pelosi Reform Program for New Dems

It’s too soon to tell just how far the Dems are willing to go with their reforms. If they want to be taken seriously, however, they will need to take the following 10 steps.

1) Put Vice President Cheney under oath and get his secret energy meeting documents. They may show how the oil companies colluded in the war and what Bush got from them.

2) Find out who initiated the torturing of prisoners in the Iraq and Afghan wars and see to it that they are prosecuted and put in jail. That includes officials — civilian and military — in the White House, Justice Department, Pentagon, and on the battlefields.

3) Fire the military commanders and civilian officials who turned Saddam over to a death squad for execution.

4) Put Al Gore in charge of a new Congressional office to implement measures to reduce global warming.

5) Place former FBI chief Louis Freeh and current FBI head Robert Mueller under oath and order them to explain why they obstructed Congress in refusing to turn over to former Senator Bob Graham's intelligence investigation their key San Diego informant who was renting rooms to 9/11 hijackers.

6) Summon the outgoing Saudi ambassador, Prince Turki Al-Faisal, and get the straight scoop on the Saudi spy network in the U.S. and its ties with Al Qaeda.

7) Subpoena former FAA chief Jane Garvey and order her to explain how come her agency got numerous warnings about an impending attack on 9/11 and did nothing about it.

8) Investigate and move to indict top FDA officials who approve drugs for one use and then go to work and allow Big Pharma to sell them untested for other uses.

9) Place a moratorium on all oil and gas leases on the public domain until an impartial investigation revises the crooked Interior Department leasing program and recovers the billions owed by the oil industry to the government.

10) Deny federal funds to any state or locality engaged in “privatizing,” i.e selling off this country's public highway system.

And, finally, stop fooling around: Instead of “reforming” the earmark system, end it.

Comments

Comeon man, the Donkey's and the Elephants eat from the same corporate trough, they're members at the same country clubs, and stay at the same ski resorts. It will be business as usual up on the hill.

Posted by: Ed on 01/05/07 at 8:29 AM

Ed, your absolutely correct! The very first thing to do would be remove the criminals in the white house, then remove the lobbyists and make bribery a crime again,but, thats not going to happen for the very reason you stated!

Posted by: Ranselar VanDerpoel on 01/06/07 at 6:44 AM

"Put Al Gore in charge of ..." wha?!

The man was the bloody vice president, for christ's sake, and didn't do anything even remotely close to tackling global warming. He didn't even *attempt* to raise automobile efficiency standards, much less try and fail.

He, like Clinton (both past and present) and all of the Democrats (with the exception of a few progressives who are afraid to denounce the party for what it is and leave to form a truly progressive party) are a mostly a bunch of hot air — which may also explain the recent rise in evidence of global warming.

This is deck-chairs-on-the-Titanic stuff. "Put people under oath and ask them to confess to being corrupt liars". Yeah, right. What color is the sky on the planet you're from?

Here's one or you: Stop voting for one of two parties over and over again, no matter what they do whether they're in or out of power, and then expecting them to act differently than they have up until now — and then voting for them *again* when they don't.

Vote for people to who don't support the current system, rather than people who do. Vote for people who not only talk about policies that you support and the serve your interests, but who then actually take meaningful steps to implement those policies, and who criticize those who obstruct their efforts to do so.

Posted by: CounterCorp on 01/07/07 at 7:47 PM