Today - Feb. 20, 2006 - if Kerry were President:

[Chipper Chat]

1) WASHINGTON POST reports: The last 100 troops will be exiting Iraq leaving behind only am embassy guard and Iraqis in complete control of their country.

2) John Edwards presides over the Senate on final vote for passage of a balanced budget amendment (in view of the Bush deficit being wiped out in January).

3) Gas prices reached a new low of 96 cents a gallon as the Kennedy-Grassley partnership deal with Venezuela is finalized.

4) President Kerry is expected to sign an executive order finally ending "Dont Ask Dont Tell" as Tennessee became the 25th state to establish same-sex marriage rights.

5) Vice-president Edwards is expected to announce his candidacy for President in 2008 during his interview with Phil Donahue on Fox's "Donahue Reports" tonight.

6) Secretary of State Tom Daschle will give a major speech at the UN outlining the nuclear truce agreement with Iran and North Korea.

7) Secretary of Defense Wes Clark will formally begin dismantling the NSA.

8) Attorney General Hillary Clinton will send her final draft for universal health care to the Senate. It is expected to pass wth huge republican support.

9) Helen Thomas will be the principal speaker at the National Journalists' Convention in Orlando. Her topic: "Finally, a free press!"

10) Secretary of Education Evan Bayh reports that funding for a guaranteed college education for all C and above students in US high schools is nearing completion.

11) Senator Minority Leader Trent Lott holds a strategy session on Capitol Hill (in the basement of the Reyburn Building courtesy of John Conyers) for the 33 Republican Senators on "how to increase our numbers in the Senate in the 2006 midterms."

12) The Governor of Louisiana is expected to report to FEMA Director Dick Gephart that all residents of New Orleans who wish to return to their destroyed houses will receive loans at 3% interest from the new federal disaster loan fund marshalled by former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

13) In a new CNN-Time Warner poll 83% of Americans surveyed say they are happy with their
jobs and that the economy is getting better.

[wake.up.america]

1. Fewer mean people.

[Xenotime]

25. Exactly...

What a better life this would be if he were in office.

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. If Gore was re-elected

The now minority House Republicans are still pushing for the Impeachment of President Gore over events surrounding the August, 2001 arrest of 15 Saudi Arabian citizens and others who were allegedly planning to hijack airliners and crash them into the World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon, and possibly the Capitol or White House.

Republican leaders believe that the Saudis were framed and that the entire plot was fabricated.

(news from the universe where Gore never had a beard, and Spock won't)

[enigma000]

17. Lieberman was re-elected in 2004

Gore was impeached in 2003 over his role in the arrest of 15 Saudi Arabian citizens on trumped up "terrorism" charges.

He left the White House popular with Americans but unpopular for his perceived anti-Islam bias.

Lieberman is stuck in the post-Iraqi invasion quagmire......at least he tore Abu Ghraib down......

[Crazy Guggenheim]

3. This thread is hard to handle. What could have been .........

:patriot: :cry:

[dailykoff]

4. 14) Top execs of bankrupt Halliburton indicted

along with former VP as asbestos class-action lawsuit brought by residents of lower Manhattan widens. Spitzer opens investigation into events surrounding 9/11. Rice fired from Stanford in ethics probe. Bodies of Bush and Rumsfeld discovered in burned-out bunker with self-inflicted gunshot wounds. Guilliani arrested in kiddie-porn sting.

[Chipper Chat]

6. I forgot about all that.

Also: Quid-pro-quo discovered in Alito Supreme Court placement. Whistle-blower implicates Rupert Murdock in bribery scandal. 15 republican senators received $500,000 apiece for pledging to vote yes on confirmation.

[FreedomAngel82]

12. Now THAT is perfect

[bluestateguy]

5. Kerry would not get us out of Iraq that fast

1) WASHINGTON POST reports: The last 100 troops will be exiting Iraq leaving behind only am embassy guard and Iraqis in complete control of their country.

2) John Edwards presides over the Senate on final vote for passage of a balanced budget amendment (in view of the Bush deficit being wiped out in January).

3) Gas prices reached a new low of 96 cents a gallon as the Kennedy-Grassley partnership deal with Venezuela is finalized.

4) President Kerry is expected to sign an executive order finally ending "Dont Ask Dont Tell" as Tennessee became the 25th state to establish same-sex marriage rights.

5) Vice-president Edwards is expected to announce his candidacy for President in 2008 during his interview with Phil Donahue on Fox's "Donahue Reports" tonight.

6) Secretary of State Tom Daschle will give a major speech at the UN outlining the nuclear truce agreement with Iran and North Korea.

7) Secretary of Defense Wes Clark will formally begin dismantling the NSA.

8) Attorney General Hillary Clinton will send her final draft for universal health care to the Senate. It is expected to pass wth huge republican support.

9) Helen Thomas will be the principal speaker at the National Journalists' Convention in Orlando. Her topic: "Finally, a free press!"

10) Secretary of Education Evan Bayh reports that funding for a guaranteed college education for all C and above students in US high schools is nearing completion.

11) Senator Minority Leader Trent Lott holds a strategy session on Capitol Hill (in the basement of the Reyburn Building courtesy of John Conyers) for the 33 Republican Senators on "how to increase our numbers in the Senate in the 2006 midterms."

12) The Governor of Louisiana is expected to report to FEMA Director Dick Gephart that all residents of New Orleans who wish to return to their destroyed houses will receive loans at 3% interest from the new federal disaster loan fund marshalled by former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.

13) In a new CNN-Time Warner poll 83% of Americans surveyed say they are happy with their
jobs and that the economy is getting better.


1) I suspect we'd still have about 100,000 troops there at this time, and DU would start losing patience with him.

2) An amendment would not balance the budget, and the hole Bush has us in will take 5 years minimum.

3) That's way too optimistic. I'd settle for $1.50, though.

4) He may have signed the executive order, but Tennessee for same sex marriage? Not yet.

5) Why would Edwards do that with Kerry up for reelection in 2008?

6) Possibly.

7) No way.

8) Hillary doesn't want the AG's job, and the AG does not send health care legislation to the Hill.

9) Plausible

10) Maybe, but I could see those pinheads in Congress watering such a plan down to nothing.

11) Not plausible.

12) Realistic. I could see that happening.

13) Possibly.

[Chipper Chat]

7. Good disection.

I guess I'm just a dreamer. I'm trying to keep the faith while contemplating retirement in Spain.

[FreedomAngel82]

13. With Tennessee it's possible

We do have a democratic governor who is not DLC. And in my dream world Phil Bredesen is doing well in his re-election bid and will be re-elected and will join President Kerry in DC for the same-sex marriage act.

[johnaries]

24. Yes, TN is very purple, and I think we have an excellent chance

at turning blue.

I'm doing what I can, anyway!

[EFerrari]

8. 14) President Kerry hosts representatives from the Isreali

and Palestinian goverments at Camp David on the one year anniversary of the armistice. President Jimmy Carter to be honored for his foundation's contribution to affordable housing in Palestine. Ariel Sharon, when asked for a comment from his confinement at The Hague, had no comment.

[FreedomAngel82]

14. Nice!

[cigsandcoffee]

9. I think it would take Kerry longer than a year and a half...

...to turn us in to Sweden.

[acmejack]

10. Right

I suggest you would still find us embroiled in Iraq. The NSA would still be here. Gas 96 cents, you kidder, you rofl! It is just too time consuming to even consider this further, it is not even serious, are we talking about the same John Kerry, the one from Massachusetts? This is too funny, please share the great drugs, I too need to escape reality!

[Chipper Chat]

27. Right now Alka-Seltzer is what keeps me going.

But I salivate at the prospect of that Basque-area mary jane if I ever get to Spain.

[FreedomAngel82]

11. I LOVE that!

And I like the people in the cabinet too!

[BreweryYardRat]

15. Things wouldn't be fixed that fast.

2008, maybe. 2016 with Clark, probably. 2024 with Edwards? Certainly.

[saltpoint]

16. Yeah, ok, but what I would really miss in a Kerry-Edwards admin. would

be the absence of furtive, clandestine, subversive, underhandedness. I'd miss the raw lying and the refined lying and the sins of omission about foreign policy. And think of how fun it is to observe manipulation and misrepresentations in the media.

ALL THAT WOULD BE G O N E, PEOPLE. Careful what you wish for!

And of course, I'd miss Dr. Rice. She seems like such a nice person. And I think she plays the piano, too. What a gal.

Plus, don't forget, citizens would be thrown off-guard by Kerry-Edwards initiatives regarding poverty, stand of living, health care, and life-long learning. Not to mention, we'd have to grapple with the empathy factor -- they would understand the difficulties Americans face and govern accordingly -- and frankly we just aren't geared up for that sort of approach in the red states.

Also, Kerry-Edwards press conferences would be coherent, and they would actually use ENGLISH when responding to reproters' inquiries. we're not lazy mind you, but that would be a huge adjustment from the current situation. Huge.

And not least, our allies would respect us again, which would be SUCH a pain in the ass, since we'd have to re-accustom ourselves to mutual respect, diplomatic protocols, and cultural exchanges. I mean sheesh -- it would just be too much.

[EFerrari]

18. What would we do without all that world wide hatred?

:rofl:

[saltpoint]

19. Hi to you, sfexpat2000. I love it when you are on the DU boards and

it is great to see you again.

If there's a particular blend of haluucinogenic compounds you know of in menu form that would result in my perception that Kerry-Edwards and not Bush-Cheney are in charge of America, please post it at once!

I need a real strong dose, too.

Happy trails to you good person.

[EFerrari]

26. Let's get out our finest silver.

:hug:

[saltpoint]

32. Is that from "Oh you're a mean old daddy but I like you fine" ? or have

the hallucinogenic compounds begun to kick in... ?

____

Peace to you, sfexpat2000.

[WI_DEM]

20. Wouldn't President Kerry be running for a second term in '08?

[FreedomAngel82]

21. A big HELL YES!

[Chipper Chat]

28. No.

Theresa wants him to become CEO of Heinz Fooods. He is happy to turn the reins over to Edwards.

[johnaries]

22. What if Gore had been allowed to rightfully take office...

When do you think we would have seen this headline?

Gore declassifies documents revealing foiled terrorist attack

Today, in responee to Reupublican criticism, President Gore allowed documents to be declassified showing how members of a terrorist group known as al Qaeda attempted to highjack 747 jets and fly them into several US targets including the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The attacks were averted by aggressive Intelligence investigations resulting in the arrest of key members of the plot.

Gore launched a cruise missile attack against an alleged "terrorist training camp" in Afghanistan which resulted in the death of a Saudi national named Osama bin Laden. This closely mirrored a similar failed attack in 1998 launched by then President Clinton, which also attracted criticism by Republicans.

Republicans scoffed at the intelligence, showing great disbelief that a terrorist group could come so close to such a coordinated attack within US borders, and also disputing the existence of al Qaeda.

"Why is Gore making up new 'terrorist threats', when we shuold be focusing on the real threat of Saddam and Iraq?" said an RNC spokesman.

[SoCalDem]

23. I just wish Gore had moved to 1600 Pennsylvania in 2K

so we could have had reporters crawing through Reagan/Poppy & Poppy's papers.. His funeral would have been a low-key affair instead of a weeklong griefgasm, if the public knew what was lurking in those papers..

Now we will never really know. They have had too many years to scrub them clean and top "lose" stuff. Those records are safely tucked away in Texas, where loyalty to scumbags in government has a long history

[savemefromdumbya]

29. I just wish there was some way that the 2000 election and 2004 election...

...could be declared null and void.

[DemGirl7]

31. I wish there was some way too

I know the day that Bush was selected by the Supreme Court, I felt that I was stabbed in the back, and the day Kerry conceded, I felt as if my heart was pulled out and stepped on by *. I think the only thing that would make me feel the way I felt before the 2000 election, was if the whole * Administration & Justices Scalia ,Thomas, and Kennedy were impeached and severely punished along with the other cohorts in the stealing of both elections. I think I speak for most, and we need some sort of payback for the wrongs that these people have done to this country over the years.

[Jamison]

30. I'm not sure things would be THAT good

if Kerry would have won, but you can guarantee things would be infinitely better with him than with what we have now.