So what are your ideas?

Eliot Spitzer, the next governor of New York

Since we're entering election season, it's fair to ask what the other side has by way of ideas. Here's some of ours:

- Universal single-payer healthcare. Cheaper, better, the right thing to do. Now's the time.

- Universal broadband access. The free-market model could use some help. Universal broadband will add a trillion dollars to our national economy over a decade, create a million new jobs, and give American business a better playing field vis-a-vis countries like Japan and South Korea that have it.

- Stem cell research. Just do it; if the fundies don't like it, hey, they don't have to use the resulting products.

- Non-partisan redistricting. It's going to happen.

- Economic development. We need a dedicated organizational focal point for the vast swaths of territory being left behind in the global economy. De-population and de-industrialization are not inevitable.

- Energy independence. Put the brains and the dollars to work.

That's the first-term agenda of the guy in the picture, who is going to be the next governor of this state. And now I'd be interested in what the righties propose; let me guess, it's all about forced pregnancy and how much you fear gay or brown people, right?