Now then children, shall we try to work out what the USA needs, and see if it can be presented so it might be too difficult for Bush to veto it?

Shall we start with honest elections, with verifiable voter trails and the bribery usually caled "campaign contributions" excluded?

Shall we proceed to a different statutory procedure to stop offensive measures being hidden in schedules to unrelated things in late night Washington manouvres?

How about the separation of Church and state (eg loss of charitable tax status for "churches" that meddle in politics)? - I am very disturbed by, for example, Rabbi-Sol's apparent approval of the use of areligious bloc-vote in local politics, so this is a local thing as well as a matter for the evangelists who fought for the chimpanzee (a variant, I suppose on the lion lying down with the lamb).

How about honest appointment of Supreme court judges so that you never again see the disgrace of the party political division of the Supreme Court as on the "Hanging Chad" litigation?

How about some privacy laws so that elections are not fought on the issues of private sexual activity?

How about some fair tendering/anticorruption laws so that the defence secretary cannot hand out untendered contracts to the company that pays his pension?

How about "common carrier" rules for internet infrastructure?

A balance requirement for audiovisual media on political issues?

Restrictions on political advertising?

Restrictions on media ownership/cross media ownership, so that there is not a concentration of media power in limited hands, and plurality of opinion is protected?

Mandatory gender/colour/religion quotas for the election panels in politics?

How about a war crimes commission?

A constitutional recognition of the right to self-determination of foreign states?

A "lemon law" for computer software on the basis that a program has to work?

Federal regulation of gambling - maybe like the one decent thing the US has recently done (apart from shackling the chimp) namely clamping down on internet gambling? That should clean up a few acts!

How about a Human Rights Act for the USA? (Maybe not quite as loopy as the UK's)

A permanent commission on corruption in public life, with additional powers to investigate CIA and FBI?

Just a few ideas.