What should be the first things done if the Dems take the Senate and Presidency?

[Politesse]

A long list:

• Act like a ruling party
• Don't apologize to the Republicans
• Don't compromise in advance with the Republicans
• Try to have a "public option" for Obamacare
• Decouple healthcare from employment - need not be single-payer
• Don't spend too much time on healthcare - that was the undoing of the Clinton and Obama presidencies
• Abolish the filibuster, or at least weaken it
• Outlaw gerrymandering
• Introduce mutlimember House districts, or at least allow them
• Consider proportional representation
• Abolish the Electoral College
• Admit the District of Columbia as a state
• Consider admitting Puerto Rico as a state
• Push renewable energy very hard
• Push high-speed trains
• Push urban-rail systems
• Consider expanding public housing and fixing existing public housing

Careful lpetrich, you might turn us into a modern nation with ideas like that!