If you were the President of the US what you do just to piss off the RW Tea Party types?

[cynatnite]

Be creative. :evilgrin:

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

1. Admit that the deficit is the only thing keeping our economy viable

[jobycom]

2. Replace Columbus Day with Charles Darwin Day. nt

[mzteris]

16. that's actually not a bad idea.

I mean - Columbus wasn't exactly a hero was he? and he didn't "discover" America after all, either.

[jobycom]

31. He enslaved nine year old girls for sex to reward his men.

He enslaved Native Americans and sent them to the Canary Islands to be traded for African slaves because the Native Americans could hide in the hills too easily.

He demanded a tribute from every Native American every three months, and if they failed to pay it, he cut off their hands.

When some of the Americans rebelled, he led his men to massacre them. When they fled, he went after them. When they fled the island, he tracked them down to other islands, brought them back, and maimed them.

He enslaved so many of them for his plantations and for the gold mines he ordered dug that there were not enough left to farm their own lands--contrary to popular Hollywood images, they were farmers settled on plots of lands--so many died from famine because the few crops they could grow were demanded by Columbus as tribute.

In 1492 Hispanola had 8 million inhabitants. By 1496, 5 million of those had died, been exported, or fled to other islands. Most died. And they did not, contrary to common mythology, die of new diseases they had no exposure to. That came later. They died from famine, from slaughter, and from punishment from Columbus's men.

So no, Columbus is not a hero.

[FrenchieCat]

3. I don't think the Pres. can do it on his own,

but the RW tea party losing big in November would be a good place to start
pissing off!

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Thank them for their creative input.

[Whoa_Nelly]

10. and remind them that Play-Doh is just a toy, not a product set in stone

and to please clean up after they are done as it's hard to get the dropped leavings out of the carpet. ;)

[blondeatlast]

13. "I'll take it under advisement."

Yup--brilliant! :thumbsup:

[flvegan]

5. Preside over some celebrity's gay marriage pageant!

I'm talking rainbow flagpin, toast at the reception, massive media press. Fuck it, if it's two men, I'm having a dance with the both of them! Suck it, teabaggers! The whole world knows that your president LOVES the gays. Woo hoo!

Actually, I'd do this anyway, because that's who I am. Pissing of the teabaggers would just be gravy.

[mikelgb]

7. He's more likely to attend a Palin speech.

and that aint likely

[tinymontgomery]

29. Hold it at the

White House!

[flvegan]

35. I forgot gay marriage is legal in DC. Yes! On the front lawn, big reception!

Joe Biden talking about how this is a "big fucking deal" and everything.

[realisticphish]

6. Point out

that tea is what those birkenstock-wearing sissies on the left drink !!!!!11!

[FiveGoodMen]

8. Stop the wars

Funnel the money into job creation

Use the bully pulpit to refute their nonesense on TV

Put my support behind progressive candidates rather then DINOs

I'm sure there's more

[TlalocW]

9. Work "panic" words into my speeches

Camps
New world order
Re-education
etc.

TlalocW

[Posteritatis]

11. Read. Speak in complete sentences. Occasionally use French words. (nt)

[gratuitous]

12. Celebrate my birthday

Not resign from office.

Oh, so many things. I think the President doesn't really need to do anything; the Tea Baggers are self-starters when it comes to being pissed off. Everything pisses them off.

[xultar]

14. I'd have given ACORN my Nobel Prize money with a money manger to go with it.

So it would get invested so they could make more money off the money.

[mzteris]

15. Let's raise the tax on tea!

oh wait - that's been tried already! :(

[mzteris]

17. oh wait - I got one -

make it illegal to have MISSPELLED SIGNS at rallys! All fines paid to whatever cause they're opposing.

[4lbs]

18. Drink real Chinese Green Tea, like the following

The RW teabaggers will become apoplectic that he's drinking "Commie tea" with that weird "chicken scratch". They'll call him un-American, Socialist, Communist, and Fascist, like always. So nothing new, except for the apoplexy part.

[AnArmyVeteran]

20. Those faces of the republican party truly disturbed me!

[spanone]

19. support the constitution

[AnArmyVeteran]

21. Debate them in a huge public forum on national television.

He would skewer them just like Obama did at the republican question time.

[Kweli4Real]

22. Call a primetime press conference ...

and say: "I am an unapolegetic Black man." Then thank the press for coming and exit stage right.

Wait a minute, that might piss off a bunch of folks right here.

[Canuckistanian]

23. Say something like, "Reagan proved that deficits don't matter"

Without naming who he got the quote from.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

24. Visit Nordic country; make speech lauding their social policies.

Bonus points for saying this is "something America should look up to".

[theothersnippywshrub]

25. Quote them. n/t

[EstimatedProphet]

26. Be black. Apparently it works.

[MineralMan]

27. Just keep smiling. It drives 'em nuts.

[MineralMan]

28. Hmm...let me think...I know...

Invite the worst of the Tea Party types to a big dinner at the White house, then serve them fried chicken, collard greens, and watermelon, and don't show up.

[femmocrat]

30. Dance with those that brung him.

Remember us, Mr. President?

[mmonk]

32. Announce in a State of the Union Address

that the United States will now be officially known as the United Socialist States of America. Then laugh and say "Hah! gotcha!"

[LynneSin]

33. Toss a bunch of teabags on the ground and then piss on them

:D

[cherokeeprogressive]

34. Use my bully pulpit to advocate for repeal of DADT and DOMA?

Constantly? Every time I spoke publicly?

:shrug:

[OutNow]

36. Change his wardrobe

to African style colorful robes and let his hair grow out and have dreadlocks. Smoke a humongous doobie in public.

Take a vacation in Nairobi. Learn to speak Kiswahili.

[damntexdem]

37. If I were the current president: just exist.

If I were some other Dem president: just exist, but they won't get as pissed if I'm white.

If I were a GOP president: sorry, I'm not, and don't wish to be, that creative.

[jobycom]

38. Change the National Anthem to "This Land is Your Land" by Woodie Guthrie

Not only is it non-militaristic, but it's really a subtle protest song lamenting the takeover of America by corrupt landowners and big business, and declaring the egalitarian democratic origins of this nation. And it's darned catchy and even Roseanne could sing it.

This land is your land, this land is my land
From California, to the New York Island
From the redwood forest, to the gulf stream waters
This land was made for you and me

As I was walking a ribbon of highway
I saw above me an endless skyway
I saw below me a golden valley
This land was made for you and me

I’ve roamed and rambled and I’ve followed my footsteps
To the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts
And all around me a voice was sounding
This land was made for you and me

The sun comes shining as I was strolling
The wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling
The fog was lifting a voice come chanting
This land was made for you and me

As I was walkin’ - I saw a sign there
And that sign said - no tress passin’
But on the other side …. it didn’t say nothin!
Now that side was made for you and me!

In the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple
Near the relief office - I see my people
And some are grumblin’ and some are wonderin’
If this land’s still made for you and me.

[Vickers]

39. Buy a ranch in Texas and go clear brush every couple of weekends. n/t

[jobycom]

43. He already cut the bushes out of DC. That's a start.

:)

[Vickers]

46. Ha!

:P

[jobycom]

40. I'd also have Jimmy Carter's face put on the $20 bill, Clinton's on the $50 bill,

and FDR's on the ten.

[csziggy]

41. And Hillary's on the $5 n/t

[jobycom]

42. I don't know, Lincoln deserves a bill.

I don't mind unseating Hamilton, and I have no idea why Jackson or Grant were put on anything.

There's a movement to get Reagan on either the ten or the fifty, so that's part of why it would piss of conservatives even more. :)

[csziggy]

44. Well, I started to say put Hillary on the $2 but that could be a problem

Since some already do not believe in a $2 bill.

[Steely_Dan]

45. Oh, I Don't Know...

I suppose he could act like a real Democrat. That might work.

-P

[Volaris]

47. Howard Dean was on television the other day, saying something

about the 2 different groups within the Tea Party Movement: those who are just idiots and those who care about the economy and deficits and the like....with that in mind, i would like to take their argument away from....heres what i would do
Abolish the Federal Reserve Banking System and replace it with a Tax-Payer owned National Credit Union that makes simple interest home loans to anybody that qualifies, and propose using the profits generated to pay off the national debt. Then i would push Congress to enshrine into law language that makes a distinction between INCOME(money generated from investments or business ownership)and WAGES (money paid for actual WORK)and tax the hell out of the first and not tax the second. if you fuckers in the Tea Party want to bitch about the state of the American economy and the nations debt, then you can get behind a plan that STOPS taking money from the good citizens of Nottingham and gives it to the Sheriff, and START backing proposals that actually ADVANCE YOUR OWN ECONOMIC INTERESTS. In hhort, i would do everything i could to use their own arguments against them. =)but thats just how my lil mind works..
DISCLAIMER--I have no idea what is the position of anyone here on the existence of the Federal Reserve Bank, I DO believe that all of us here would like to see an economy that is more, shall we say, DEMOCRATIC and populist and "Main Street" in nature.. I'm not looking to bait anyone into an argument, but as always, I am open to having my thoughts on the matter made better....

[jmowreader]

48. You mean, me as president and not me as Obama as president?

Oh, there's quite a number of things...

Announce the United States is going to have an official religion, and then announce it's Voodoo. (Because if we MUST have an official religion, let's at least have a happy religion and not one all tied up in fire and brimstone and damnation.)

Eliminate funding for faith-based organizations.

Write a bill calling for the federal government to round up every illegal alien, that also raises taxes to 90 percent to pay for it and suspends the Constitution so the cops can kick in your door in the middle of the night looking for them. (I have NO intention of letting this pass, but we'll just see if anyone will give up all their liberty in exchange for a modicum of safety from brown people.)

Implement a federal ban on Realtors sitting on planning and zoning commissions so the fuckers will quit writing building permits for $400,000 spec homes in markets where no one makes enough money to buy a house like that.

[ZM90]

49. Hmm let's see here.....

1.Have the FCC regulate Fox News to ensure they report actual facts,and fine them heavily if they create or talk propaganda.

2.Have the money that is gotten from fining Fox News go to a fund for the election of progressive democrats and for the creation of a completely progressive channel.

3.Make them pass a IQ test to carry a gun.

[MajorChode]

50. I'd wait till my last day in office and tell them I really wasn't born in Hawaii

Just to fuck with their minds.