Since benchmarks are so helpful to decide national policy, I suggest the following benchmarks for the Executive Branch:
1.) By September 1st, reveal the truth about the method used to fire U.S. Attorneys.
2.) By September 1st, have the Vice-President release his records about the energy policy meeting he had in 2001 that he won't disclose the participants and what the recommendations were.
3.) By September 1st, decide what branch of the government has authority over the Vice-President's office.
4.) By September 1st, explain why I. Scooter Libby's sentence was commuted or be prepared to commute the sentences of each man and woman serving time for a non-violent crime (including the Iowans who were convicted of illegal trespass for protesting the war).
5.) By September 1st, explain coherently why you are continuing the war in Iraq given that other information you have used to invoke war policy has turned out to be, at best, flawed and , at worst, not true.
6.) By September 1st, restore habeus corpus to all persons who are being prosecuted or held in a US civilian or military prison and end rendition.
7.) By September 1st, Agree to close Guantanamo and the former School of the Americas.
8.) By September 1st, begin peace talks with "the axis of evil"--Iran, North Korea, and Iraq (you might want to invite Cuba and Venezuela too).
9.) By September 1st, enter into negotiations for a world treaty that seriously addresses global climate change.
10.) By September 1st, ask for higher CAFE standards from Congress that will increase fuel efficiency and reward manufacturers that do it with renewable resources.
If the executive branch should not meet these benchmarks, I recommend the complete withdrawal of the President and Vice-President by April 2008.
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