The President's first day/100 hours/days

[Swatopluk]

The next US president will have a lot do do, having to deal with the legacy of 8 years of Bush jun. and even longer domination of congress by the GOP.
Now what should he do first? On his first day in office and in the proverbial first 100 hours/days?
What should his or her priorities be?

My proposals:
1. Get the list of presidential pardons and related issues
2. Call a small group of eminent consitutional scholars (non-partisan, if possible) to go through the current laws that have an influence on dealing with the constitutional crisis Chain-Eye and accomplices have provoked and make a report
3. Call Congress leadership (on how) to deal with those questions
4. Call the Hague and present them with the evidence collected above to show them the difficulties of prosecuting in the US the crimes committed (the Hague only works on the condition that the home country of alleged criminals can't/won't prosecute) and ask them for a list of desired defendants (not limited to one party!).
5. Grab those on the list in a night-and-fog operation and transfer/rendition them out of the country before the slime machine wakes up
6. Call certain other countries secretly about their interest in certain people that don't made the list in 4. (that would likely include Kissinger) and act on it ASAP (see 5.) but ask for written guarantees of fair trials.
7. Order the DoJ to immediately start a grand investigation of the previous administrations as far back as reasonable. Do not shy away to go after your own party, if necessary.
8. Go public once the process is irreversible and present the people with both the fait accompli and the facts behind. Be calm, avoid any snigger or gloat, do your best "I have grave news for you" doctor shtick but avoid excess pathos.
9. Get (non-partisan or bipartisan) teams working on situational reports on other important topics (the situation in Iraq/Afghanistan, finances, health etc.). Chose members for expertise, not face recognition, that are willing to tell truth and not carrying any favors.
10. Once the reports are in prepare a State of the Union speech in a similar style to 8. This will be your blood, toil, tears and sweat speech moment, so don't botch it. Again avoid partisan attacks but do not be shy to put responsibility where it belongs.

Not to forget: 0. make your will, your life expectancy is going to nosedive.

[anthrobabe]

And if by chance your last begins with an O-- your life is in immediate danger--

just wrong- I think he is the best chance our nation has had in a while.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

You forgot scrubbing the rainbows and a mandate to protect the unicorns.

Not-going-to-happen. EVER. Actually the opposite of some of those may happen (presidential pardons, etc) just as a symbol of bipartisanship or some other BS.

A Nuremberg style trial would be nice... and wishful thinking.

[pieces o nine]

I like Swato's list.

Of course, I enjoy reading quality fiction.



It would be fantastic if one half of that list could be accomplished in four years, but every day of those years would be filled with the whine of extremist pundits on both extremes wailing non-stop on their 'news' programs that the country is going to hell in a handbasket.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

but every day of those years would be filled with the whine of extremist pundits on both extremes wailing non-stop on their 'news' programs that the country is going to hell in a handbasket.

They'll do that even if crime and unemployment go down and the economy goes up. In fact those were the Clinton years!

[Swatopluk]

Assuming it is Obama, the choice of VP could boost his chances of survival. Who (except the Clintons) would be more feared?
George Soros is probably not interested and Chomsky a bit old

I forgot one important thing on the list:
Close Guantanamo (the prison camp first, the base can wait) and transfer everyone to a highly visible location in the continental United States. Then do everything possible to deal with it in a way that befits a civilized country (including bringing abusers to trial together with those that ordered/condoned it).

At least the first step could actually happen.

[Sibling Chatty]

I'm a bit more...direct.

Blow Bush's get away plane to Venezuela out of the sky. You'll never get him in front of any courts.

Close down Blackwater, et al, for traitorous acts.

Clase Gitmo, free everyone there. The hell with holding them ANYWHERE except a hospital for 72 hours of exams and assessments physically.

Nationalize (threaten to, anyway) the oil companies. Do it if they don't agree to cutting prices precipitously, and 'giving back' over the next 5 years ALL their windfall profits--everything over their usual and customary profit profile. If they balk, nationalize them. Use the profits and all investments seized to rebuild both the highway and bridge infrastructure AND mass transportation.

Track down Cheney. Eliminate.

Ditto Rumsfeld.

Ditto Rice.

Everybody else, bring up on appropriate charges.

Any 'outsourced' company, any company that has 'offshored'? Treat 'em like foreign companies, and tax the hell out of them. Chinese goods? 200% tarrif. Indonesian goods? 150% tarriff. ANYTHING having to do with Halliburton/KBR et al?? 1,000% tarriff. Salaries to execs from these companies? 95% is taxes. (Live on the damn 5% you ghouls...it's more than most of the world ever gets.)

Carlyle Group is to be treated as an intelligence agency of a hostile nation. All principals to be arrested on sight, held without bail...possibly taken to a nice unlisted prison in Eastern Europe? All male Bush family members fall under this section. Females can go to Venezuela and wait.

There's more...

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Track down Cheney. Eliminate.

Simple.  Turn off his internal heart machine.  An old leaky microwave oven ought to do it.

A nice close-proximity magnetic pulse would be more certain, and harmless to anyone else nearby.  These can be had-- the military uses them for training, and to test their equipment for hardened qualifications.  (and no, it's not a nuke...)

Then, sit back and let his acerbic personality do the rest-- 24 hours ought to be about right....

[Swatopluk]

I have already stated my preference to have him boiled in (crude) oil. That should also provide enough fuel to cremate what is left. Ash to be used as grit on a cold day in DC, when the pavement is slippery.
I object to shooting down Bush's plane (and he would not flee to Venezuela as long as Chavez rules there I think.Wasn't it Paraguay where he landdealed?). Decompress the cabin or throw him out with a (literal) golden parachute. No need to waste a missile, a good plane or a (likely) innocent crew.
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Totally agree that the president should move against Blackwater, Halliburton and accomplices but I think (s)he will need congress for that and that will need time and patience. Legal proceedings for contract violation should of course start immediately (that should buy enough time and arguments to persuade the legislature to do its duty).

Edit: Even more so, when stuff like this is tolerated
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050408C.shtml

[pieces o nine]

I routinely hear about these stories and circulate them with certain friends. None of us can understand why they get *zero* media attention, and how other friends and members of our own families can be so callously oblivious, unquestioning and complicit with this administration.

As much as I try to resist what I consider lazy, knee-jerk partisan thinking, part of me believes that if any of these companies were headed by  ^airquotes liberal ^airquotes  there would be 24/7/365 screaming coverage on all  the networks to expose them.

[Sibling Chatty]

I don't know WHY I can't remember Paraguay instead of Venezuela...

AS to the (s)he...Hillary's way too far into the corporate  thing to shut down or disturb ANY corporation. As has been noted by more that one observer, Hill's pretty much a Republican in Dem's clothing.

[pieces o nine]

And like McCain, she can't be bothered to pay attention to those tiresome buzzkill economists...

[Swatopluk]

I developed the "(s)he" habit to keep neutral on political blogs where ardent Hillary supporters are part of the commentariat. That often allows to discuss a topic longer without the "partisan default" derailing it (and Hillary supporters are especially sensitive on that*).
And this is a (utopian) proposal thread, not one that tries to predict what will actually happen (dystopian).

*And with some reason, I think. Many simply do not think when they use the male pronoun because it is the default option.

[Sibling Chatty]

AS  feminist, I appreciate and applaud your efforts. As a REAL feminist, I abhor the thought that Ms. Clinton and her band of Merry Men might be able to sufficiently snow enough of the voting public to the fact that she's as far to the right as McCain on most issues, and nowhere near 'left consensus' on the few where she's not Repub in Dem's clothing.

[Swatopluk]

A woman as US president would be nice but why has it to be this woman?
According to certain supports she has three balls
http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2008/05/beat-that-john.html
Talk about detached metaphors