Petty things the Democrats to do after the Election simply because we can

[AllentownJake]

1) Name an aircraft carrier after Bill Clinton. Want to see Freeper's head explode. The best most modern ship in the US Navy is named after Bill. After that name a Nuclear Submarine after Hillary. Watch their fucking heads explode.
2) Name a hospital ship or a tugboat for John McCain. Name a non-combat ship for McCain. Recognize his service but the fact that it is a non-combat ship will be a giant slap in the face.
3) Introduce a resolution to change the $10 bill to have Roosevelt instead of Hamilton. Those fuckers in the GOP have been trying to but Reagan on the 10 since he left office. Lets combat that with Roosevelt but leave Hamilton on there because despite his moral and personal failings he was a Patriot and deserves to be there.
4) Start naming Airports after Democrats. Bill Clinton International Airport in Philadelphia would be a good and piss the Repukes off to start.
5) Send Senator Franken to all the RW radio pundits for an interview. Don't answer a question till they address him by his Title.

[LonePirate]

1. Boycott Fixed News and add Carter, Gore and Kerry to ship names in # 1

Request all Democratic politicians and pundits completely avoid Fixed News. Let them shout and scream and ignore every sound or word they utter.

While not petty, nominating Colin Powell, John Murtha or John Kerry as Secretary of Defense would also infuriate them.

[PatGund]

13. Carter is already on a ship

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter

"USS Jimmy Carter (SSN-23), the third and last Seawolf-class submarine, is the first ship of the United States Navy to be named for former President Jimmy Carter, who served in the US Navy as a Communications Officer, Sonar Officer, Electronics Officer, Gunnery Officer and Supply Officer while on board the USS Pomfret (SS-391).<1> Jimmy Carter is one of the few ships of the United States Navy to have been named for a person who was alive at the time of the ship's naming. Jimmy Carter is the only U.S. President to qualify in submarines."

[Uzybone]

24. Dissolve the Electoral College

At least introduce it for a Constitutional Amendment.

Move voting from Tuesday to Saturdays.

[FlyingSquirrel]

68. Both those things are well on their way already.

http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/index.php

Soon enough the electoral college will be irrelevant. Also, more and more states and counties are going to all-mail voting. Actually the fact that it's on paper is much more important than switching the day for voting. But this also makes it much easier to vote and you don't have to do it on a certain day (just by a certain deadline).

I'm very hopeful that we can finally rid ourselves of these electronic voting machines during the Obama administration, and make it easier to vote. Not sure if we'll be able to get the national popular vote through that quickly but guess we'll have to wait and see.

[FlyingSquirrel]

69. We're well on the way to doing both of those already..

http://www.nationalpopularvote.com/index.php

Soon enough the electoral college will be irrelevant. Also, more and more states and counties are going to all-mail voting. Actually the fact that it's on paper is much more important than switching the day for voting. But this also makes it much easier to vote and you don't have to do it on a certain day (just by a certain deadline).

I'm very hopeful that we can finally rid ourselves of these electronic voting machines during the Obama administration, and make it easier to vote. Not sure if we'll be able to get the national popular vote through that quickly but guess we'll have to wait and see.

[carnie_sf]

61. True

I was just thinking Carter should get a nuclear sub. Most people don't know that Carter was one of the officers in the arly nuclear submarine program.

[dbt]

2. Put Ray Charles On The $10 Bill!

Just because it's the right thing to do.

:smoke:

[AllentownJake]

4. and Johnny Cash on the $20

:-)

[Supply Side Jesus]

22. I second that!

Johnny Cash!!

[DBoon]

27. "I'll pay for that with Cash, sir"

nt

[regnaD kciN]

42. You do know...

...that one Canadian bank used to call its ATM the "Johnny Cash Machine." :rofl:

[dbt]

36. Hail Yes!

Cash In Advance!

:bounce:

[quakerboy]

38. Have you met Mr Cash?

[BlooInBloo]

44. MLK and Muhammed Ali would be first, of course...

But I get the point.

[Fridays Child]

3. Necessary things for the Democrats to do, simply because we must.

1. Ban black box voting and root out every form of election fraud and voter suppression ever perpetrated by the GOP

2. Re-instate the Fairness Doctrine

3. Re-regulate the press, forbidding media monopolies

4. End the Iraq War

5. Enact specific constitutional protections for reproductive choice and same-sex marriage

Those are my top five, anyway.

[AllentownJake]

5. Totally Agree

However this is a petty Fuck you to freepers thread.

I forgot to add impeach Bush and Cheney on January 6 and have Pelosi be President for 14 days.

[StreetKnowledge]

59. As much as that might make us feel good

It's just an irritant. The Freepers are morons, but impeaching somebody two weeks before the end of his term is childish.

I'm gonna love love seeing Cheney and Bu$h introduce Obama and Biden into the White House. I hope somebody gets a shot of it for the media. That will be enough to flip off the Freepers.

[Zhade]

67. Holding violent criminals accountable is never "childish".

NT!

[GreenFiles]

10. Regulate the press?

>>3. Re-regulate the press, forbidding media monopolies

I strongly disagree with this one. Enlighten the masses and allow people to make their own choices. If you give them something credible to listen to, they will follow. Monopolies in general should be avoided, but lets not regulate press.

[WeDidIt]

16. The Media today is made up of five companies total

That's monopolistic

Re-regulate the media.

[AllentownJake]

20. Agreed force diverstification

than we can have Joe the newspaper owner :rofl

But seriously limit the amount of a media conglomerate can own in a given market.

[DBoon]

29. Break up media monopolies

and create a favorable environment for non-profit community organizations (not just mega-churches) to own local media

Fully fund NPR and PBS and set up a hands-off organization so they are not subject to political interference

Reserve part of the AM radio band for nonprofit and educational stations

And yank the tax exemption of any church that advocates for one side of any electoral issue or office

[BrklynLiberal]

25. Just the list I was going to make...

Break up all the media monopolies AND the Banking/brokerage conglomerations.

[grantcart]

26. job #1 take out the trash

firmly and politely escort him to the door of the Senate caucus and wish him good luck

[Fridays Child]

32. Yes!

:toast:

[quakerboy]

39. I read today that

The senate can eject a member with 66 votes. Surely there are some Pubs who dislike him as much as we do. 58 Dems, 8 pubs, and then the people can pick a new senator

[Cha]

71. Yes, House

Cleaning.

[DBoon]

28. #5 should be a general right to privacy

that includes reproductive rights along with everything else we associate with privacy.

[Fridays Child]

34. I've never understood why the party that claims it stands for less government intrusion...

...is the same party that wants to watch you in your doctor's office and your bedroom.

[Kitty Herder]

46. Because they've never stood for what they claim to stand for.

That's all just window dressing to draw in the gullible.

[DBoon]

52. and wants the NSA to listen to your every phone call....

When you eliminate privacy in the doctor's office, it ceases to exist elsewhere

[Kitty Herder]

47. Hell yes! Let's take back our democracy. nt

[Withywindle]

6. Make soap out of Freepers because they suggested it.

Of course it would be useless because soap is supposed to get you CLEANER, not dirtier. But we can just export it all to China as payback for their poison pet food and toothpaste.

[Kitty Herder]

48. That's not funny; that's sick.

No offense intended.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

7. You are forgetting one very important something!

Name a sewage treatment plant after GWB.

Oops, that's been shot down as the sewage plant is a facility that does something really quite useful and it would be inappropriate to put his name on it. Bwahahahahaha :rofl:

In lieu of that, my to do will be to scream:

GET OVER IT!

[Supply Side Jesus]

23. I'm sure we can find a few lanfills for him

Or one of those trash frigates.

[carnie_sf]

Actually

we're already working on that in San Francisco. Proposition R on the local ballot. :evilgrin:

[smoochpooch]

8. I like the idea of naming stuff after Clinton. How about bringing back the Fairness Doctrine?

I think Obama is against re-introducing it, but I really think people like Rush and Hannity are the ones responsible for the divisiveness in our country. The days of Tipp O'Neill and Reagan having drinks in the evening were replaced with Clinton-haters whipping people up into a frenzy with total BS. When people aren't exposed to any other viewpoint, it's tough to get the country unified, although if anyone can do it, it's Obama.

[GreenFiles]

9. Or we could make history...

....And actually make progress, get things done, fix the problems within government, and share in a wonderful period in American history.

:)

[Nevernose]

30. We can do all that and be petty at the same time

Obama just needs to appoint me to the new position of Secretary of Spiteful Pettiness. He'll take care of the big stuff, and I'll be in charge of renaming stuff.

[Carolina]

57. LOL and K&R

I love it: Secretary of Spiteful Pettiness and have you blanket the airwaves 24/7

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[Supply Side Jesus]

11. Start regulating the media!

not so petty, but it needs to be done.
no more than 2 media outlets in any market owned by the same company. This includes Print, TV and Radio.

[scheming daemons]

12. 6) Replace the "Pledge of Allegiance" with the "Preamble of the Constitution" in classrooms

"We the people, in order to form a more perfect union...."



Wouldn't it be better if our schoolkids memorized THAT?

[BlooInBloo]

14. Close - Bill Clinton Intl Airport in TEXAS.

[martymar64]

51. Rename the Reagan National in DC to honor Clinton

That would be a trues kick in the nuts to them.

[crazylikafox]

60. Yes Yes Yes!

[TheKentuckian]

15. I'm with you except screw Hamilton

he's the spiritual father of these greedy idiots.

Also, take Reagan off of everything. Strip him down to nothing but his library.

[AllentownJake]

18. I'm more on the side of his service

during the Revolutionary war...however after the Constitutional Convention he was a Fucktard when banking was concerned.

[Nevernose]

31. That's unfair to Reagan

Yucca Mountain Nuclear Repository? It becomes Reagan Mountain.
The Hanford plant? It becomes the Reagan Memorial Superfund Site.
All the pro-union bills we want passed? They're all passed collectively under the aegis of "The Reagan Act."

We can keep Reagan's name alive in so many ways... :evilgrin:

[Hamlette]

17. Change National Airport back to National Airport (or Clinton Airport) n/t

[Carolina]

58. Hear, hear

Lived in DC for 40 years and will NEVER call Washington National Airport anything else.

[Hamlette]

64. it was such a poke in the eye, in a city that is like 99.9% Democrats, to name it the R word

like you, I will never call it anything but National

I notice stewardesses call it "Reagan National" is that the name or is it done because they are as pissed about it as I am?

[raysr]

19. Name a carrier "Lewinsky"

[AllentownJake]

21. That would make them happy

The biggest baddest ship in the navy being named Clinton would piss those fuckers off more.

[Rocknrule]

33. Create a George W. Bush High School somewhere...

...only to make it "Home of the Idiots"

[Mariana]

35. Surround the White House with yellow "Crime Scene" tape.

[dbt]

37. Paint the White House black!

Shoulda been Clinton for VP.

GEORGE CLINTON!

(Why must I chase the cat?)

:smoke:

[BlooInBloo]

43. (facepalm)

[JCMach1]

40. Senator Franken is a good start!

[quakerboy]

41. Give DC voting congress people

or even make it a state, with senators. That would explode a few heads.

Can you say "the Patrick J. Buchanan Immigration act"

Can you say "the Albert A. Gore Veterans Hospital"

Can you say "the Ronald W. Reagan Civil Rights Marriage Bill"

Can you say "the George W Bush Anti-profiteering act". Applied retroactively.

And definitely put Roosevelt on a few things. I think the $10 would be a very good start. Get Repubs to agree by promising to put Reagan on some money. Then put Reagan on a new 2 cent piece. A very bulky and unwieldy 2 cent piece.

[GrizzlyMan]

45. Ban late night informercials on cable television

Look, I pay a monthly subscription because I want programming..WHENEVER I WANT IT. I resent the fact that the History Channel, Bravo, E! etc. RIP OFF THEIR VIEWERS by running infomercials all night long when I am usually watching as a night owl.

And I want that "Lock up" crap on MSNBC gone too.

[No Elephants]

49. Let's do only what is likeliest to get Barack re-elected. Make them say, "Dems ARE better."

[demodonkey]

50. Seriously -- How about working to get rid of touchscreen voting machines forever? nt.

[frickaline]

53. I don't think this would ever happen but

I do think we should be pushing for receipts with our votes with a confirm number that can be used to verify each vote online with a matching backend system that uses the confirm numbers enumerate the vote count when counting them up. Or some other kind of smart double-checking system. I'm sure this problem could be engineered right out of the process.

[demodonkey]

65. No. Voter-Verified Paper Ballots with Routine, statistically significant manual audits.

35 states (or more) now have Voter-Verified Paper Ballot and we need to make it so everywhere in the USA. No "receipt" is acceptable. A BALLOT for every vote.

[wndycty]

54. Rename Reagan National Jesse L. Jackson National Airport!

:kick:

[CitizenPatriot]

55. name PRO same sex marriage act

after Bush.

name community organizers the new Real Americans.

Take back Jesus and all other claims to moral authority (false or otherwise)

Say "I'm a liberal" with sneering contempt

Remind them that republicans are really Federalists who are anti-American, Pro-Monarchy Thieves who were against the Revolution and therefore, are subject to paying MORE taxes as their treason against this great country has cost us a pretty penny in billions.

Donate huge amounts of money to Acorn in Bachman's name.

[StreetKnowledge]

56. Good ideas

I agree on these. The second Ford-class carrier ought to be called USS Bill Clinton. It won't be launched until 2014-2015, but whatever. Nuclear submarine after Hillary? No, a destroyer will do quite nicely.

I don't agree on a non-combat ship named after McCain. He's served America far better than most. I'd name a new Burke-class Destroyer after him.

Sending Franken onto the RW shows will be funny, as they cannot manage to call him "Senator Franken".

[ScreamingMeemie]

62. The "Howard Dean Expressway to all 50 States".

:hi:

[insanity]

63. Direct the DEA to focus on the abuse of pain-killers

[ddeclue]

66. Petty things..

Well firstly, Jimmy Carter ALREADY has a Seawolf nuclear powered attack submarine named after him if I remember right and it is FITTING given that he had a great deal to do with the invention of the "nuclear navy" with Rickover in its early days. (Jimmy Carter was a nuclear engineer who spent two years at my school, Georgia Tech, before moving on to Annapolis.)



My choices:

1) Rename Washington National to Franklin Delano Roosevelt National Airport (it was probably built under one of FDR's gov't works programs anyways).

2) Appoint Bill Clinton to the first available Supreme Court Justice job.

3) Make Bill Clinton U.N. ambassador until #2 becomes possible.

4) Sign the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty and hand the pen to Al Gore at the photo op.

5) Re-instate the fairness doctrine on the radio. Make Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity and the rest of the pukes have to have a counterbalancing Dem host and have to have as many Dem guests as Republicans.

6) Investigate the crap out of bankers, stock brokers and oilmen.

7) Investigate the crap out of the Bush administration, former Republican Congressmen and lobbyists.

8) Make John Kerry Secretary of Defense.

9) Make John Edwards Attorney General.

10) Get rid of "don't ask don't tell" and let gays openly serve in the military. Pass a Federal law allowing gay marriage and recognizing it.

All these things will cause Republicans heads to explode.

[FlyingSquirrel]

70. Nominate Hillary Clinton for U.S. Supreme Court

:D

[Roxy66]

72. Use his FULL name at every opportunity