Your Opinion Wanted: What's the most important issue (Vanity)

[BSunday]

Now that the Republicans are in back in power, as they should be, I would like my fellow Freepers' opinion on what is the most important thing to accomplish before 2002? My opinion is to confirm the Bush judicial appointments. This will have long lasting effects. What do you all think?

[grammymoon]

Judicial appointments
Homeland Security

[Hatteras]

Buffett's coming to Raleigh in February... you mean besides that?

[Kev-Head]

I agree with BSunday.....

[Let's Roll]

DITTO

[Rays_Dad]

Judicial appointments
Homeland Security

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Yup Yup, agree with you 100%

[Michael Barnes]

Judges...many, many judges

[Illbay]

None of the above.

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[Thane_Banquo]

Homeland Security Department. Without a secure homeland, we'll end up with Taliban judges in short order.

[dila813]

I think we need reform of the Endangered Species Act.

The Endangered Species Act has pretty much paralyzed the West Coast. Everything is an Environmental matter and gets tied up in court for years.

Getting any public works project done involves setting aside three times the amount of money you think it will cost you because of court proceedings.

One project to redo some freeway ramps over here in Seattle went over budget by 300% even after inflating the estimate on the project.

Also, the law constantly causes takings from private land owners without reimbursement.

Only bad thing, is if the law changes the house values will crash because the prices on houses are artificially inflated because it is so expensive to do new construction.

Oh, buy government says we need cheap government housing because of it, I love the liberal logic.

[SouthernFreebird]

Judicial appointments
Homeland Security

Agreed

[billbears]

Hey how come your vanity is more important than his vanity? I think this vanity is much more valid than trying to asking how we can sway Trent Lott's viewpoint

BSunday, I think the most important issue is to hold the conservative party to a more Constitutional stance. Instead of looking to what they may do for us, get out letters and calls to our Congressmen, the President, and any others involved in policy making to take some of the bureaucracy away. Instead of rallying behind initiatives like drug prescription plans and intrusive 'homeland security' that 10 years from now could be used against conservatives, push for our leaders to let some of the power go and give it back to the states and the people of those respective states

[Temple Owl]

o The appointment of conservative federal judges.

o Nonunion workers manning a Department of Homeland Security.

o A total rewrite or complete elimination of the tax code to be replaced by a national sales tax

o A patients' bill of rights with a cap on lawsuits.

o A tax cut carved in granite.

o Oil drilling rigs heading for the Alaskan Wildlife Preserve.

o A ban on late term abortions.

[WileyC]

That's a hard question because there's a lot of important things on the plate. Here's a weasely list because prioritizing is not strictly necessary with 51 votes in the Senate. =)

• Judges: Getting them out of committee and to a full floor vote should be easy. There's probably a few dems on the committee who might even be looking to score points with the New World Order. It's comforting that something so vitally important is one of the easiest on the list.
• Economy: For the long term health and safety of the country, we need to make all the tax cuts permanent and immediate. This will elicit howls... but not as many as might be expected. There's a sizeable minority of democrats who want are in favor of the tax cuts. The harder, and more important fight, is to implement more tax cuts and repeat what Reagan did for the economy in the eighties and nineties.
• Social security: This is the ticking time bomb that few wish to address. It will absolutely devastate this country when the bill comes due. The majority of people actually do favor some privatization (as much as this has become a bad word in Washington). Do it now before liberal Republicans have to worry about re-election. Soothe them with the notion that a great economy will be behind them on election day. Likewise, pass the damn Social Security protection act so that they can use that as a shield against the anti-privatization forces.
• War on Terrorism: It's a done deal. W knows that he can't back down and maintain any credibility. He also knows that Iraq will delay and cheat as much as possible. All he has to do is pick a time and place. W is so clever and thinks on so many different levels, I wonder if he isn't purposely using this as a red cape to knee-jerk liberals while he gets the rest of his agenda through and then drives home and does it anyways.

[Skooz]

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Taxes are too high. Until we get a meaningful and permanent tax cut for EVERYONE who pays taxes, not much else the government does matters to me.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Judicial appointments
Cutting taxes
Securing our borders from rampant illegal immigration
Cutting the size of government (like THAT is going to happen)

[tacticalogic]

I think we need reform of the Endangered Species Act.

Actually we need to go one step deeper, and get rid of the New Deal Commerce Clause. That's where they get their authority to enact the ESA, and a boatload of other stuff.

[fporretto]

If we go by what some would call "discrete" or "isolated" issues, getting Constitution-respecting jurists onto the federal bench -- judges who would insist on adhering to the letter of the Constitution, rather than abide any "evolving document" nonsense -- would be tops with me. But that's because it's part and parcel of a larger and more urgent task: Restoring the Constitution, restoring Republican fidelity to the Constitution, and assuring the public that, if the Constitution matters to you, then the GOP is the only game in town.

If I believed the GOP really was determined to restore Constitutional government in all particulars, I'd be a Republican true-blue. As matters stand, I can only hope. They've been "Democrats on a budget" for too long to execute a 180-degree turn immediately, of course, but I want to see some indications of renewed fidelity and determination to roll back the tide before I return to that fold.

Moreover, we need some sort of credible alternative to keep the GOP properly faithful to Constitutional constraint. The minor parties (e.g., Constitution, Libertarian) provide some incentive, but not nearly enough, owing to the special privileges the major parties have that are now written into law. A "None Of The Above Is Acceptable" provision on all ballots would help greatly, as would a requirement that all bills considered by Congress must provide the Constitutional authorization for their enactments on the first page: article, section, and clause.

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[MotleyGirl70]

I agree. President Bush just better get off his duff and start getting his agenda passed; i.e. homeland security,tax cuts, partial birth abortion, etc.

He needs to start NOW and not wait around. We won, now let's not sit on these issues....let's just get 'em passed.

[FreeMe2]

I think we have over looked an important aspect of our victories....

Stopping Vote Fraud!!!

I think our presence at the poll stop a lot of Demon fraud...