Oh, and while you’re “Go”ing, you might make some room on your schedule to speak with General Petraeus:

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=3075560

I hear he might have some information that might be important.

1. Public financing of all campaigns. Every candidate would be equal. No personal funds allowed. No fund-raising allowed.

2. Illegal to aid a candidate in any way. No volunteers or billion dollar ads “paid for by friends of…or citizens to elect.” No celebrity, union, or newspaper endorsements. Candidates would speak for themselves with no outside help.

3. No standing committees in Congress. Ranking members run virtually unopposed because of the wasteful pork they bribe voters with. Every congressman/senator would have an equal voice on legislation and oversight.

4. No lobbying of congress or the White House. Illegal to contact any member of government (in private) on behalf of an organization or group. If an organization/group needs to address congress about pending legislation, they should do so in public, televised, before the entire assemblage.

5. Illegal for members of government to attend a meeting of an organization or group. They can speak to all of us, not just the American Legion or the NRA or the Teamsters.

6. Mandatory suffrage. No drivers’ license, tax refund, social security check, etc., without proof of voting (could be waived for invalids, of course).

7. A national holiday for voting; late September when the weather’s still amenable. A thirty-day time frame for elected officials to take office. It’s stupid, wasteful to wait ‘til late January.

8. Internet voting (schematicized by Levi Asher) with secure unalterable pin, password, SSN, etc. Allow public opinion to be voiced on matters of national urgency - true democracy.

9. Media oversight by PBS. Fact-check the ‘opinions’ of Lou Dobbs, Bill O’Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, and others who propagandize public opinion into a frenzied mob.

Journalists need to keep public opinion focused on the truth. If Building 7 imploded on itself from aftershock, I wanna know. If a jet can bring down the WTC, I need to know. If not, then what?

McCain says Baghdad markets are safe; journalists there say he’s lying out his ass. Right wing talk says Pelosi is a dupe. Tom Lantos says there were key Republican Congressmen who went with Pelosi to talk to Syria. Giuliani is heralded for his efforts after 9/11. But he’s never explained why people were told to stay inside the twin towers instead of evacuating. Duh…the building’s on fire.