This is my first diary in months. I hope it doesn't scroll away!
Back after the crushing loss last November -- more crushing because we were all so SURE On November 1. I urged in a comment a pattern of 'Defensive maneuvering' -- do everything we can to slow the Agenda and wait for the other side to make a mistake. When they make that mistake, POUNCE them on it.
Well, its finally happened The Mistakes have started to pile up:
Theres the Lackluster FEMA responses to Katrina and Rita, the Indictment of Delay, the investigations of Rove and Frist.
At this time, the Republican machine is breaking down. NOW IS THE TIME TO STRIKE Every Dem, Everywhere, should be writing letters to their editors. Dem leaders should be on TV telling what we'll do to 'clean up the mess' in Washington, and how we'll solve the energy crisis and the Budget Mess.
What to do, below the Jump:
A list of programs, much like the 'Contract With America' from 1994 sounds good to me:
- Budget Crisis: Revenues must be increased, so we can stop begging China for loans. Its a NATIONAL SECURITY Issue:
- Iraq: Announce an immediate plan to withdraw all troops. Saddam is Captured, there were no WMDs. Our job is done here. Iraq must sink or swim on its own. If that means they want to have a civil war, let them. We can't afford to stay anymore. Announce MASSIVE cuts in military budgets. Eliminate outsourcing of rear-area operations: The Army managed to cook its own food in the past. Why pay Haliburton 4 times as much? Cut back on ALL new military platform research until we get the ones we have WORKING, and all soldiers properly equipped. The idea that private citizens have to buy their sons and daughters their own Armor belongs to the 1400s, not the 2000s. Military Budget will be reduced to only 2-3% of GNP, which should still leave us with the biggest military on the planet. Basically, we can no longer afford to be a world police man.
- Energy Crisis: Some of that saved military budget should be poured into crash-research and expendature for Wind Farms, investments in Solar Energy, and Nuclear Breeder Reactors. Guard the HELL out of the breeders, but use em. This winteres heating crisis will galvanize this. We need to be out front on it
- Clean up The Corruption: Promise to investigate anyone, DEMOCRATS INCLUDED, who screws up the tiniest bit. Beef up Ethics in congress requiring not just censure, but loss of committee seats for violations. As a subset of this: REAL Campaign reform: Regulate a requirement for free advertising times for all political campaigns. This would eliminate MOST of the money issues we already deal with.
- Beef Up Science: We're entering a scary time. Only Science can see humanity through the crisis years of the 21st century without billions of deaths. Science Education mus become our TOP Priority, because the alternative is death.
Now is the time to attack the republicans at their mistakes.