Where Do We Go From Here?
The Health Care Bill, weak as it is, is a major victory for Obama. He’s up 7 points in opinion polls. His party is energized. The Republicans are in disarray. The Teabaggers are spitting and hurling curses in increasingly impotent rage.
Things look good for November, but the Democrats could still screw it up. They remind me of a bunch of little kids playing soccer. At first, like when they are 5 or 6, they couldn’t score a goal if you put them in front of the net with no goalie and the ball at their feet. Once they score their first goal in an actual game, their confidence soars and there’s no stopping them. That’s where I hope they are now.
But I’m still nervous. In the spirit of working with Obama and not against him, here are 3 suggestions for programs which wouldn’t cost all that much but would probably be extremely popular.
- Cut Israel off. They can take care of themselves very nicely, I’m sure.
This wouldn’t cost any money at all, in fact it would flat out save a couple of billion a year. Sure, the money is not given directly but is basically a kickback for American arms manufacturers, but only left-wingers are aware of that at all.
Obama would not lose the Jewish vote. Of course he would lose the right wing, Israel (Likud) first, one issue type of Jews (Joe Lieberman) but they weren’t with him anyway. The move would be extremely popular with the majority of Americans (the Israelis stopped being the lovable, plucky underdogs long ago. 1967, I suppose.) and I suspect even the majority of American Jews.
- Here’s an idea to create jobs. It would cost a bit to set up, but then it would be in profit very shortly. 100% recycling. It would be good for the environment, create millions of jobs – low paying jobs, most of them, but isn’t that what’s needed? Not all of the unemployed are brain surgeons and rocket scientists – and actually provide a new source of raw materials, which could be sold, thus defraying expenses and also used for R and D, so that the art and system of recycling is constantly refined to become ever more profitable.
- A proper, full scale investigation into the Bush administration. Start with the financial irregularities, of course, because that justifies it and plenty of big money people might suddenly pony up rather than face prosecution down the line, so the investigation might even pay for itself. Financial irregularities are just the beginning, though. There’s the wiretapping, which was probably mostly CIA agents listening in on sex chat lines, the torture and the trashing of the constitution and the Geneva Convention, the CIA outing and yes, dammit, 9/11 which never had anything even close to a proper investigation and even if they prove conclusively that Marvin Bush had nothing to do with it, just the introduction of the circumstantial evidence that exists, pointing out the cozy relationship between the Bushes and Bin Ladens for instance, could irreparably damage the Republican party and guarantee a 2nd term, with a co-operative congress.
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