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ROBERT REICH ON ELECTION 2004
Bush's top 7 agenda items for a second term:
  1. Invade and occupy Iran.
  2. Make tax cuts permanent for richest 5 percent.
  3. Patriot II: Let Ashcroft eavesdrop, monitor, watch, question anyone at any time.
  4. Gut most remaining environment and worker safety protections.
  5. Pack Supreme Court with Scalia and Thomas clones, to overrule Roe v. Wade, bar gay marriage, and put prayer back in schools.
  6. Redistrict all congressional seats, to assure a permanent Republican majority.
  7. Make the budget deficit so big that Social Security has to be privatized because there's no money to fund it.
Liberals' top 7 things to do to make sure Bush doesn't have a second term:
  1. Make sure America knows Bush's top 7 second-term agenda items.
  2. If you're not in a "battle-ground state," call every acquaintance who is, and ask whether they're better off today than four years ago. If the answer is "no," recruit them to go door-to-door for Kerry.
  3. Leave work from October 19 to November 2, to go door-to-door for Kerry.
  4. Say "Democrats will give us affordable health care and better jobs" to everyone.
  5. Call and remind right-wing talk radio hosts that the Framers of the Constitution erected a wall between church and state.
  6. Mention "Alabama National Guard" every time anyone says "Swift Boat."
  7. GIVE 'EM HELL.

 

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