I'm not going to comment either way about #1. I do know people who both live there, and are soldiers there.
2. Impeach Bush-Cheney
By the time the investigation was concluded, there would be a new administration. And I'm sure you don't want hundreds of millions of tax dollars wasted for nothing do you. Before the Senate could have any impeachment hearings, Congress and the Attorney General would have to get an outside Independent Counsel to investigate. By the time both agreed a new president would be in office.
If we don't impeach for the criminal actions of the Bush Regime, it will send a message to the politicians that they can get away with anything. It is absolutely imperative to do this.
3. End lobbiests
Doubt many Democrats would go along with this one. Most all of them depend on the money also. I know you hear some from both sides wanting to end it. But have you ever seen any type of vote on it at all?
I never said the Democrats are not guilty of taking lobbiest money. It would take a lot of pressure from voters. Maybe by throwing out the incumbents and replacing them with someone sworn to commit to this.
4. Demand paper trails for voting machines
And if that happened and Republicans still won elections? Would people claim that they rigged the paper coming off voting machines. Next people will want to go door to door and count votes that way. Since most voting machines have an O.S. why not use mysql and keep a central database.
If proven by a paper trail, I see no objection to a republican win.
5. End electoral college
To do this you would have to do away with the Constitution. Since it is part of the document that Jefferson wrote himself, I doubt Congress would go along with that.
The constitution can be changed without doing away with it. An amendment would surely take care of that
6. Enact universal health care-(Not for profit)
Med, I read in another article that you are getting SS. So I would presume that you also get Medicare. That is close to what your Not For Profit Universal Health Care would be like. Did you know that all HMO's based their companies off the way that Medicare conducts business. And you can't blame Bush for the way its run either. He enacted Prescription Drug coverage for a lot of medications people on Medicare need/use on a daily basis.
My Medicare is not the question here, I also have VA. The question is: what about all the people that have nothing or crappy HMOs? Take the profit out of medical care. let the government that so wisely distributes my SS checks, never late or incorrect, administer a national health care system.
The list is endless, but this a start. A politician with this as a platform would get my vote
A Politician that wants to do away with the Electorial College would be one that would really throw the Constitution out the window. And you claim that Bush does that. So, what do you think that politician would do with the Constitution? He has already begun dismantaling the constitution with his anti-terrorists agenda, his signing statements, and his secret programs.To get rid of the Electorial College would mean you would either have to do away with the document that started this country. Or, you would have to give it a massive re-write. And who would be doing the re-writes? Should there be a person in place to change the Constitution whenever it doesn't suit somebody? If this is the case, then kiss your Civil Rights goodbye. And say hello to a truly fascist state. If the Bush regime had another 4 years, there would be no more elections, well maybe ones like Sadam had with only one name on the ballot.
You know what I find the most interesting? It's that the baby boomer generation of the '60s who chanted Free Love, Give Peace A Chance, Make Love Not War, and Legalize Drugs. Are the same people that are running the country. Bill Clinton and John Kerry both were in Moscow attending an end the Vietnam War protest. I guarantee Kerry smoked as much a Clinton did back then. I'll bet the were snorting lines with Bush at some Spring Break weekend.
What I find the funniest from people that I know. Maybe you should find a better class of people to hang out with. The ones that complain the most about the political process, are the ones that don't take part. They just parrot most of what they hear some news reporter say the night before and that is their stance on the issues. But when you ask them do they vote, all say they don't vote because their vote doesn't count anyway. If asked why not get involved and change things for the better, their response is that I don't have time. Like my grandfather told me, don't complain about something if you don't want to help fix the problem.