I wish I could join your chat line and/or show, but I can’t – so herewith a few suggestions for discussion.

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What now? Advice to Republicans

The election has been a disaster and America is in trouble – so now what?

I want to suggest a three part program aimed at restored sanity:

1- Deny Obama the halo of election.

Attack, attack, attack: on electoral fraud, on financial fraud, on cronies, on abortion, on contacts with Hamas, on media bias, on anything and everything. Do what McCain wouldn’t: get down and dirty and make it clear that he will be impeached and removed from office the day after Republicans elected to the House and Senate in 2010 are sworn in.

2 – Focus on 2010.

Commit every party resource, every effort, to sweeping the House, the Senate races, and the governor’s mansions in 2010.

3 – Use the office of the presidency to protect the United States from Obama’s extremism.

Mr. Bush has to act – against tradition, but for the United States: on defense, on the economy, on appointments, and on electoral reform. In each case he can both do the right thing, and create situations in which Democrats in the House or Senate will be forced to publically choose between supporting Obama or their country and their constituents.

Some candidates for consideration:

3.1 – Appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Obama’s campaign finances. There’s no reasonable doubt that he received illegal contributions and did not reject them, there is no reasonable question about whether this was against the law. He should not get away with it simply because he appears to have won election.

3.2 – Appoint a special prosecutor to look into vote fraud – from ACORN through to counting process issues in the various states. A federal investigation co-ordinated with the various states attorney’s general is needed to ensure the integrity of the voting result.

3.3 – Appoint a special prosecutor to pursue charges, particularly with respect to executives and legislators acting on payoffs, against those involved in the Fannie/Freddie frauds.

3.4 – On energy, the president can cite a national economic emergency to directly issue permits for drilling, recovery operations, and both nuclear and coal plant construction.

3.5 – On the economy, the president can suspend the CAFE standards, suspend Sarbanes-Oxley, and direct that the mortgage bailout funds be spent entirely, or as nearly so as may now be possible, to support a new federal mortgage authority whose job it is to bet on Americans: through a leveraged buy up of home mortgage risk. A simple announcement now: “we will do this, hold foreclosures” and the credit crunch goes away – without another penny for bailouts to institutions and with a good chance that virtually all of the money can be recovered over time.

3.6 – On defense, the president can order a number of purchases and deployments. For example, he could order that the tankers be purchased from Boeing, For example, he could order that the tankers be purchased from Boeing, that SDI be allocated more funds, and that all forces personnel now stationed in Germany be brought home as quickly as possible.

3.7 – On foreign affairs the president can order full recognition, including support for its membership in the United Nations, of Taiwan.

3.8 – On show trials for Republicans, the president can issue a general pardon – allowing for prosecution only when clear criminal code violations have been proven to exist before this president’s term expires.

Each one of these actions will enrage the press, enrage opposed interest groups, and draw the harshest possible condemnations from congressional democrats. But so what? Once they’re done, they’re done – and in both the House and the Senate there are enough sane democrats to make them almost impossible for Obama, Reid, and Pelosi to reverse.

And, of course, the themes for 2010 become: prosperity, justice, and democracy versus depression, energy scarcities, economic corruption, and dubious electoral practice.