Ten doable governing priorities for Obama's next four years.

[ancianita]

1. End the filibuster.

2. Spend down the Corporate Military Complex -- Set new, more relevant qualifying standards for weapons manufacturers and supply contractors who will adapt; have the old school war complex shut down or, at the least, take their wares elsewhere. Perhaps they can be a new major industry outsource.

3. Keep the Democratic Party's minority coalitions engaged in politics. Enfold the Greens. Reward The Democratic Base.

4. Turn American politics to Green Politics and Green Worker Development. With wind, solar, oceanic sources, all of it, begin a Green Manhattan Project.

5. Keep Axelrod and the OFA campaign structure running to Sell New Legislation. The prez is not very good at being "the president of explaining things". So use the help he's got. Clinton can't do it all.

6. Implement the University of Chicago's Lab School Instruction/Learning model for America's public schools -- it is waay better than Arne Duncan's model. Get rid of Arne Duncan and appoint E.D. Hirsh and Jonathan Kozol.

7. Close Guantanamo. End drone strikes until there is comprehensive and sufficient national and congressional review.

8. Make it a federal offense with mandatory jail time for each and every elected official to send any police to harrass or in any way brutalize any and all peaceful protesters within USA borders. There's legal precedent for this. Use it.

9. Eliminate all erosions of constitutional rights under any past laws, from the Patriot Act to the NDAA.

10. Swear in new SCOTUS judges. Then reverse Citizens United.

[liberal_at_heart]

1. education funding and reform

[ancianita]

2. Funding, yes. And reform of the current reform, maybe.

[liberal_at_heart]

3. there does need to be reform

Our cookie cutter approach to educating millions of children does not work, but I definitely agree that charters are not the right reform.

[ancianita]

4. Agreed. So that's why I say keep the buildings, change funding and internal program structures.

[liberal_at_heart]

6. so what is this University of Chicago's learning model you mentioned?

I've never heard of it. I would like to see more flexibility and more individualized curriculum.

[ancianita]

5. I don't get all the gossip threads. I thought that DU was about moving "Forward." What's going on?

[stuntcat]

7. k for priorities

It's a SHAME we can't go back in time 20 years and start #4. We are so far behind, and it will be hard to crawl out from under the power the fossil fuel millionaires have over our government, and over the minds of our consumers, oops I meant citizens.