OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: A Post-Bush/Cheney To-Do List of Herculean Proportions

-Immediately order the end of all torture throughout the military, prison and intelligence services. Encourage congress to resubmit the bill banning waterboarding. Encourage congress to toughen the law.

-Quickly demote all heads of the intelligence services, putting career employees temporarily in their place, quickly indentifying strong, tough replacements who are not rightwing partisans.

-Call for legislation that ends giving of special treatment and subsidies to any companies that avoid taxes by having headquarters outside the US.

-Call for legislation that taxes outsourced labor, particularly phone and internet-based services.

-Re-evaluate all policies that have abridged rights afforded by the constitution, by international agreements and treaties that the Bush admin has abrogated, including rights of prisoners held at Guantanamo.

-Eliminate all welfare to old energy companies, particularly oil companies. Start new programs that provide big tax incentives to research and investment in renewable energy sources, but not ethanol from corn, which is a losing solution.

-Cut off the massive funding Bush doled out to right wing churches. Assign investigators to check out abuses of megachurches that cross the political boundaries or that engage in commercial operations under the guise of their non-profit privileges.

-Set in motion policy and encourage legislation that blocks any further media consolidation and starts taxing all media companies that own too much media in a given area or category, so it is not profitable to do so. This will force them to divest.

-Put a steep tax on use of energy derived from "ancient sunlight" sources-- oil, coal, gas. Use the tax to fund the Apollo program everyone has been talking about, to develop new technologies that make the US energy independent by 2020.

- Do something about the housing/mortgage problem, which will still be a major mess come January 2009.

- Tell Comcast and the telecoms that are trying to screw up the internet where to go and pass permanent legislation making internet neutrality mandatory and permanent, maximally protecting the internet from the encroaching threats it has been recently facing. The Dems owe it to the bloggers and internet users who stood up the worthless corpstream MSM media.

-Pass the CHIPS bill that Bush vetoed. And get started making health care available to every American... and don't worry about stepping on the toes, on the spleens and kidneys of the for-profit health care industry.

-Give Michael Moore, Greg Palast, Josh Marshall, Thom Hartmann, Ray McGovern, Ann Wright, Sibel Edmonds, Joe Wilson, and some of the best whistleblowers and muckrakers congressional medals of honor for protecting democracy.

-Put together a department of voting integrity. Bring in voting integrity leaders who do not have computer industry conflicts of interest to lead and run it.

-Pass federal legislation requiring paper ballot counting and recount records for all federal elections. Ban DRE/all electronic voting. Investigate the companies, investigate voting irregularities in Florida, Ohio, and wherever else they've been raised. Put the FBI on it. Open up investigations into the 2000 and 2004 presidential votes.

-Last but not least, if impeachment has not been implemented, initiate an in-depth investigation of the crimes of Bush, Cheney and their appointees, aimed at indictment, sentencing and incarceration.

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