Comments on: Four More for The Agenda

By: SamChevre

SamChevre — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:14:31 +0000

On #3, instead of trying something new, why not give the unions back their most powerful weapon, and re-legalize secondary strikes?

By: James Wimberley

James Wimberley — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 09:32:25 +0000

Abortion reduction: I suggest adding one word to Clinton’s good slogan that abortion should be “safe, legal, and rare”. The word is “early”.

By: ShinyBrowncoat

ShinyBrowncoat — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 23:50:46 +0000

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2) Abortion Reduction Act/95-10. As I have mentioned before, the idea behind this is to invest in support for pregnant women and enhance adoption programs.
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Your summary leaves out the most important part: more funding for contraceptives, which is what will significantly reduce unwanted pregnancies and therefore abortions (even if it does lead to a small increase in sex, it will lead to a LARGE decrease in abortion! — tough choice for fundies who want to control everyone’s sex life but want to reduce abortions too)

By: Brett Bellmore

Brett Bellmore — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 22:22:59 +0000

Abolishing the secret ballot. I’ve yet to see an argument for this that passed the laugh test. Maybe we could do it for federal elections, too?

By: Matt Austern

Matt Austern — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:23:33 +0000

Part of this is about forcing your opponents to either support your proposals or openly block them. That’s one of the reasons that being able to control the agenda is so nice.

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 21:07:07 +0000

Yeah, that would be vetoed 100%. can you bundle it with something like the minimum wage and extending the working class tax cuts?

By: Ragout

Ragout — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 20:06:26 +0000

Maybe it’s good politics to pass a union card check law, I’m not sure. But I am sure that Bush will veto it.