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NOV 3, 2004: You are appointed to establish Mr Bush's priorities (post your directives here)
9/10/04

Posted on 09/10/2004 1:52:51 PM PDT by Liz

The day after the presidential election, you are placed in charge of establishing the priorities for President Bush, including executive orders, legislative initiatives, judicial appointments and decisions over all Cabinet Secretaries and federal agencies.

Bush's coattails brought in a veto-proof Congress and you are in charge of deciding Bush's legislative initiatives, as well.

Post your directives to Bush here.


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1 posted on 09/10/2004 1:52:52 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

Usama Bin Laden


2 posted on 09/10/2004 1:54:41 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (Free Republic - Only as "free" as those that post on it want it to be!!!)
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To: Liz

Flat tax

Secure the borders

Continue war on terror


3 posted on 09/10/2004 1:55:17 PM PDT by Dr Snide (vis pacem, para bellum - Prepare for war if you want peace)
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To: Liz

Establish positive control of the borders and remove ALL illegal aliens from the country. Employ the National Guard if necessary to strictly control the borders.


4 posted on 09/10/2004 1:55:54 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (The Swiftboat Vets - Patriotic Americans STILL serving their country!)
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To: Liz

Executive Order No. 2005-1:

To: Dan Rather, CBS News

NEENER NEENER NEENER!!


5 posted on 09/10/2004 1:56:00 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket (Fabrizio Quattrocchi: "Adesso vi faccio vedere come muore un italiano")
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To: MikeinIraq

I agree. This should have been priority number one for three years now. We gotta get him.


6 posted on 09/10/2004 1:56:29 PM PDT by wesdale
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To: Liz

1) Permanent Tax cut

2) Roll Back of drug benefits

3) Shut down the border, NOW!!!

4) Immediate 5% reduction in all federal spending

5) Savings accounts for SS

6) Bomb Iran back to 1932


7 posted on 09/10/2004 1:57:16 PM PDT by misterrob
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To: wesdale

All of the other stuff is secondary to me....


Although I like the idea of securing the borders, removing all the illegal aliens is a nice idea, but extremely far fetched and unrealistic....


8 posted on 09/10/2004 1:58:41 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (Free Republic - Only as "free" as those that post on it want it to be!!!)
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To: Liz
1. Moonbase

2. Don't let gays get married

3. PATRIOT ACT III, IV and V

Just kidding! Seriously - War on Terror, Economy(jobs) and Economy (defecit, Soc. Sec, etc...)

9 posted on 09/10/2004 1:59:02 PM PDT by conserv13
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To: So Cal Rocket

Love it.


10 posted on 09/10/2004 1:59:28 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz

1. Clarify Iraq strategy--what will victory look like? How will we know when we've won? How much longer will it take? What then?

1a. Get Osama.

2. Cut spending

3. Cut immigration

4. Legalize marijuana.


11 posted on 09/10/2004 1:59:57 PM PDT by Huck (What's the typography, Kenneth?)
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To: conserv13

You forgot the Starship Enterprise :)


12 posted on 09/10/2004 2:00:06 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (Free Republic - Only as "free" as those that post on it want it to be!!!)
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To: Liz

Ditto on borders
Continue WOT, but get over PCism
Appoint young judges
Reform the tax code
Tort reform
Lean more to a constitutionalist view
Defund and dismantle public education


13 posted on 09/10/2004 2:00:35 PM PDT by umgud (speaking strictly as an infidel,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,)
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To: Huck

4. Legalize marijuana.


What the !@#$% over??!!!


14 posted on 09/10/2004 2:01:24 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (Free Republic - Only as "free" as those that post on it want it to be!!!)
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To: Liz

1. US Senate Nuclear Option, to get conservative judges out of limbo an into their benches.
2. Military strikes against Sudanese capital; tell Syria, "You're next!" (Withstand urge to call France.)
3. Dispatch national guard to Mexican borders. (Withstand urge to send them to Vicente Fox's palace.)
4. "Hey Rather, I got some documents for you right here!"


15 posted on 09/10/2004 2:02:45 PM PDT by dangus
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To: Liz

I'm going to wait to post my directives the week AFTER the election.

No use giving up our ammo to the other side.

Let's make sure our W is re-elected first, Liz. Then we can go into action.


16 posted on 09/10/2004 2:02:54 PM PDT by baseballmom (You Know Where I Stand - GW Bush - 9/2/04 We're standing with you, Mr. President)
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To: Liz

Start dismantling the federal government. Get them out of: housing, highways, education, wage rates (minimum wage, Davis-Bacon), affirmative action, etc. Review all previous "Executive Orders" and get rid of most of them.


17 posted on 09/10/2004 2:02:56 PM PDT by Edmund Burke
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To: Liz

1: Continue the WOT
2: End the War On Poverty, Great Society, New Deal
3: Flat tax or sales tax
4: Colonize and industrialize the rest of the universe. Plant Old Glory on Mars. Build nuclear pulse vessels, say "neener, neener" to Greenpeace.
5: Restore 2nd Amendment
6: Fund full and rapid development of thermal depolymerization plants
7: Develop SPS
8: Tell oil countries to get bent.


18 posted on 09/10/2004 2:03:01 PM PDT by orionblamblam
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To: Liz
OK Liz...

-Make tax cuts permanent

-Get judges approved... ready for SCOTUS positions.

-Get a national sales tax and eliminate Federal Income Tax.

-Make investing an option with Social Security.

-Push for Energy bill to drill in ANWR.

-Push for Amendment for only man/woman marriage.

19 posted on 09/10/2004 2:03:14 PM PDT by johnny7 (“ ...It's the wrong war at the wrong time in the wrong century at the... !” -'Ghengis John' Kerry)
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To: MikeinIraq
What the !@#$% over??!!!

Not following you there. Huh? Anyway, ok, maybe it's not a top 5 priority. But after the war and spending and immigration, I'll take a little something for me. Sue me.

20 posted on 09/10/2004 2:03:21 PM PDT by Huck (What's the typography, Kenneth?)
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To: Liz
1. Get Osama

2. Close the Borders

3. Flat tax

4. Replace Social Security

5. End visa programs that allow offshoring

6. School vouchers

7. Finish World War IV (War on Terror)

21 posted on 09/10/2004 2:03:34 PM PDT by mhking
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To: Liz
Convene a bipartisan commission to look into Federal malfeasance. Compare the mission statement of EVERY Federal Agency against the list of approved Federal Government powers enumerated in the Constitution. If an agency is identified that does not fit, enact a plan to pen legislation for Congress to vote on that will disable or disband said agencies.

Next... convene a panel of legal experts to comb through Federal Legislation. Any "laws" currently on the books that overstep their Constitutional boundaries are to be sent to the USSC for them to rule on as Unconstitutional and have them stripped from the books.

Push for the repeal of the popular election of Senators and let the States handle that on a State by State basis.

Flush the IRS. Institute either an NRST or a Flat Tax.

Enact legislation making it a Treason offense to pass legislation, or rule from the bench, in a way that is clearly contrary to the plain language used in the Constitution.

And then I'd really get down to business... I don't ask for much do I?

22 posted on 09/10/2004 2:03:45 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
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To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...

Just damn.

If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...

23 posted on 09/10/2004 2:04:07 PM PDT by mhking
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To: Liz

Bump for later browse!


24 posted on 09/10/2004 2:04:28 PM PDT by k2blader (It is neither compassionate nor conservative to support the expansion of socialism.)
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To: Liz

1. Get Osama.
2. Don't spend as much as you did in your first term.
3. Simplify the tax system.
4. Improve border security/limit immigration.


25 posted on 09/10/2004 2:05:09 PM PDT by rebel_without_much_cause
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To: Liz

Two things: 1. continue to make us safe as a great president

2. Make congress cut spending!! Start vetoing stuff if you have to. Let's bring fiscal responsiblity back to our great, great party. The importance of this can't be overstated.


26 posted on 09/10/2004 2:05:36 PM PDT by Gustafm1000
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Classifying the Palestinian Authority as a terrorist organization (removing their offices in DC, ending foreign adi to them), moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, and ending the quest to mediating a "peace" between Israel and terrorists. Equate the US war on terrorism with the Israeli, Indian and Russian one.

Next declare militant Islam an enemy, and through trashing political correctness arrest all those who spread it in America.

Isolate (through breaking diplomatic relations, ending trade, condemnation) regimes which allow it to prosper and who support it, namely - Syria, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt. Iran is also such a country, but it is already isolated.

Institute a real plan to defend the Canadian, Mexian and coastal boundries which put as a priority security over being comfortable.

Have racial profiling.

Make it manditory that all public schools must hire at least 2 guards, and be fenced.

For major train and bus stations, and other major public places such as stadiums, have x-ray machines and armed guards. This should be there ALL the time.

Institute a program to make the public aware of how terrorists operate, how to spot them or suspicious things and the need to report it to the police. Make the public aware on how to REACT when a terror attack occurs.

Start a program where persons trained with counter-terror go to public schools, more frequently for the lower grades, at least twice a year, to teach kids specifically on what to do during a terror attack, and the older ones how to spot suspicious activity(for example, a person wearing a heavy coat on a hot summer day in the middle of the Washington Mall). Just like you teach kids not to talk to strangers, etc. this is how it has to be done.

This info should be played on TV, radio and flyers should be sent.

Bumper stickers should be placed in busses, trains, etc. telling people to report to the operator suspicous packages, etc.

Bus and Train operators should be required to search their vehicle at the start and end of every trip.

At major public places, there should be the construction of "safety holes" whereas, with police supervision or if there is a timer on a bomb, etc. these devices or suspected devices can be placed in that covered hole and if they detonate minimize surrounding damage (Israel has this).

Universities must increase their security.

The US must make it a habit of not learning just from personal lapses but from other country's lapses or experiences with terror.

Question all those who board international flights about where they are going, etc. Use that type of question and answer program counter-terror personal on El-Al flights use where they repeat questions after a while to see if the person is making the story up, etc.

27 posted on 09/10/2004 2:05:53 PM PDT by yonif ("So perish all Thine enemies, O the Lord" - Judges 5:31)
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To: Liz
1) secure the borders
2) cut the deficit
3) kill al Qaeda
28 posted on 09/10/2004 2:06:43 PM PDT by golfboy (character is doing what is right, when no one is looking)
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To: baseballmom

This thread is intended to rev up the base.


29 posted on 09/10/2004 2:07:01 PM PDT by Liz
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To: Liz
1. Close the borders.

2. Close the borders.

3. Close the borders.

30 posted on 09/10/2004 2:08:16 PM PDT by Capriole (DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE. FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY.)
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To: Liz

Domestic:
1) NRST
2) Tort Reform
3) Right to work legislation

Foriegn:
1) Exit the UN
2) Continue WOT


31 posted on 09/10/2004 2:10:42 PM PDT by CSM ("Don't be economic girlie men!" - Governator, August 31, 2004, RNC)
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To: Liz

1. Destroy our enemies

2. Stop persecuting the sick and dyng for using medical pot. That just ain't right.

3. Withdraw our ambassador from France


32 posted on 09/10/2004 2:10:45 PM PDT by Lexington Green (It just ain't right to ask an American soldier to salute John Kerry.)
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To: Liz

1) Level Fallujah
2) Level Ramadi
3) Round up all illegal immigrants (focus on Muslims)
4) Bug all mosques in the USA
5) Require 120 day wait on all Muslims applying for visas
6) Send hit teams to kill bankers and businessmen who assist Al Qaeda worldwide

It's way past time to get mean in the War on Terror. Until they get their house in order, Muslims are not welcome here in the USA.


33 posted on 09/10/2004 2:12:51 PM PDT by mikegi
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To: Liz

Close the freaking borders and inspect all incoming freight.


34 posted on 09/10/2004 2:14:57 PM PDT by Veggie Todd (Were those magic grits?)
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To: Liz
Immediately repeal personal and corporate income tax, social security tax, medicare tax, gift, and estate tax and go to a point of retail sale National Retail Sales Tax (NRST)such as that described in HR 25/S1493 for starters.

FairTax.Org

35 posted on 09/10/2004 2:15:41 PM PDT by Bigun (IRSsucks@getridof it.com)
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To: Liz

Cut all domestic programs, dismantle the Dept of Education and return that money to the states. Stop all immigration from Islamic countries. Build a big-a$$ fence along the borders both north and south.


36 posted on 09/10/2004 2:17:30 PM PDT by austingirl
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To: Liz
-WOT

-Establish national sales tax and do away with the IRS

-Secure our borders (send all illegal aliens back to where they came from & charge their country for the trip)

-Continue to build our military

-Give individual states back the control of public education (NO MORE No Child Left Behind or federal funding of ed. programs)

-End funding for the National Endowment of the Arts

-Privatize social security

37 posted on 09/10/2004 2:18:15 PM PDT by zlala
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To: Liz

1) Close borders until immigration mess can be addressed. (Read: start enforcing immigration laws.)

2) Introduce Fair Tax.

3) Repeal Medipill program.

4) Eliminate or cut other larded federal programs you have increased.

5) Seek repeal of No Child Left Behind and other arrogant and unconstitutional federal programs imposed on the states.

Take a deep breath and get ready for Round 2.


38 posted on 09/10/2004 2:21:23 PM PDT by reelfoot
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To: Dr Snide

pass the Fair tax

Secure the borders

Continue war on terror

right you are, sir


39 posted on 09/10/2004 2:26:35 PM PDT by Rakkasan1 (Justice of the piece: seeBS -all your forgeries are belong to us)
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To: Capriole

Sounds good to me.


40 posted on 09/10/2004 2:29:24 PM PDT by Liz
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To: golfboy

The stone age is over, the bronze age is over, it's now time for the OIL AGE TO BE OVER.

Nuclear power plants built under mountains, Cheyenne Mountain style. (absolutely NO environmental red tape tolerated)

Electrical generation from above for Production of hydrogen fuel. Build it up to a higher order fuel if necessary. (WWII German "petrol" program). All automobiles use this rather than gasoline.

Poof - no more imported muslim terrorist oil. All the OPEC oil currently goes to gasoline, plus some. End gasoline, end OPEC. Tell them what they can do with their oil. (drink it, I suppose)


41 posted on 09/10/2004 2:30:14 PM PDT by JATO (Anti nuclear power is the same as Pro-terrorist, Pro Big-Oil.)
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To: Liz

Audit of ALL spending. Cut out all waste. (Cow flatulence studies and the NEA come to mind.)

Close the borders. Prosecute those hiring illegals. Start deportations.

National sales tax.

Cut out foreign aid to any country who obstructed us over Iraq. Cut out almost all foreign aid, with the exception of a reasonable amount of humanitarian aid.


43 posted on 09/10/2004 2:34:48 PM PDT by Politicalmom ( Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but they're not entitled to their own facts -D. Rumsfeld)
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To: Liz
1. Give Sharon the "GO" sign (bombs away in Iran)
2. Recess Appoint...EVERYBODY!
3. Replace Colin Powell with Zell Miller
4. Announce that Justice will join victims' $1 trillion lawsuit against Saudi Arabia (but hint at a compromise if they FedEx Osama and Zawahiri's heads to Rummy by Nov 5th)
5. Call to congratulate new Senate Minority leader Harry Reid
6. Release all secret documents on Flight 800, including the "emergency WH meeting" and Commission coverup, as first salvo against Hillary '08 (much more to come).
7. Replace Gale Norton at Interior with Ted Nugent
8. Appoint Tom Tancredo to INS Director
9. Schedule interview on Michelle Malkin Show on MSNBC
10. Go to sleep at 9PM for the first time in 6 months. Ahhh.
44 posted on 09/10/2004 2:36:31 PM PDT by montag813 (ue)
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To: Liz

1. WOT
2. Perm. Tax cuts,..though I'd rather see a flat tax.
3. Borders, Borders, Borders!!!
4. Allow some private investing for social security.
5. Pro-Life Push.
6. NO new gun laws, ENFORCE existing laws!
7. Reduction in spending.

8. BOMB FRANCE back to 1945!



Cheers!


45 posted on 09/10/2004 2:47:14 PM PDT by SmellsLikeOwen
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To: montag813
1. Executive order to stop partial-birth abortions, except for the life of the mother. 2. Appoint Clarence Thomas as top supreme (Reinquist wants to retire). Appoint Rick Santoram as replacement for next opening. Put men and women in courts across the country who believe in good & evil &; thinks good should win out over evil. 3. Hold an open door congressional hearing on all the people who has gotten away with crimes in the last 10 years. Start with Sandy Berger (pantsgate), Janet Reno (Waco) Hillary Clinton (filegate)
46 posted on 09/10/2004 2:48:12 PM PDT by Linda Sandoval (Hockeymom for Bush)
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To: Liz
Tort Reform (major tort reform including loser pays, and "beyond reasonable doubt" requirement for all non-tangeable issues).

continue the war on terror

flat tax or NRST

National "right to work"

National CCW

Reform OSHA, streamlining regs, and reducing micromanagement.

Streamline EPA, and remove unnecessary regulations. Raise the burden of proof needed before regs are created, and require vote of representatives for any increases in strictness. Put coal back into the energy equation. Allow drilling in ANWR.

Defang all regulatory agencies.

Stop federal "blackmail" of states, such as threatening to withhold fed funds when states don't enact restrictive traffic laws (seat belts, and 0.08 DUI laws come to mind).

Tighten border security, and eliminate all federal benefits for illegals.

47 posted on 09/10/2004 2:53:28 PM PDT by meyer
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To: Liz

Judges, Judges, Judges!

Then a few more judges!

(Then I'd get Karl Rove to give Dan another forged memo.)


48 posted on 09/10/2004 3:09:11 PM PDT by TaxRelief (If only the Pentagon had run those WMD memos past FReeper Buckhead.)
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To: wesdale

Tell me, what do you think is going to happen if we capture or kill Bin Laden?

What makes you think it isn't a priority?

As they have said before, capturing or killing Bin Laden is not going to stop terrorism.

So, chasing around a sick man is not the only thing we should be doing.

Don't get me wrong, I want him dead as bad as everyone else, but I am sick and tired of all the Bin Laden talk as if all of our problems would be over with if we got him.

I don't want all of our resources directed towards this one man.

It is a waste. They need to be doing exactly what they are doing, which is looking for Bin Laden AND dealing with other threats.

A manhunt doesn't require an entire military. There are plenty of people looking for him.

How bold of you to suggest that we have no interest in Bin Laden just because they don't give us a daily report.


49 posted on 09/10/2004 4:32:30 PM PDT by texasflower (How appropriate...... the pro abortion party is the "D 'N' C")
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To: Liz

1. flatten falluja

take breath

2. flatten iran


50 posted on 09/10/2004 4:33:31 PM PDT by beebuster2000 (while we're sleepin some one else is creepin)
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