1. Settle the issue of the Iraq War.
2. Revoke all privileges granted by the President during his Presidency such as warrantless spying, and return our freedom to us, ie.civil rights and civil liberties
3. Ethics reform.
4. Remove from Office, the President and Vice President.
Impeachment of George W Bush requires only a majority vote in the House. Removing him from office requires a two-thirds vote from the Senate, which is impossible with the allocation of Democratic senators at only 51 seats.
Though the Democrats can easily pass laws, the President can easily veto each law. It would require a two-thirds vote of each chamber of Congress to override the President's veto, which is not likely to happen since the Republicans still occupy a good portion. While progress was made during Tuesday's election, the President still holds power and can veto any Democratic laws passed through Congress. Of course, the President will look bad vetoing good legislation but doing bad things has never bothered W. before.
The victory in Congress for the Democrats is a good one but certainly not enough to stop the Presidential abuse of power other than noise making. The Democrats need 290 seats in the House and 67 seats in the Senate to override the President's vetos. Tuesday's elections was not enough of a landslide victory to give the Democrats enough power to take back control of the country so the items on this list are not doable. For now they can only prevent ridiculous Republican legislation from passing into law. Either the people have not spoken loud enough, or the votes were fraudulently counted so that more Republicans falsely won than really happened.
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