10 Most Popular Unanswered Petitions

[zeitgeist]

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The Straight Story  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-05-11 06:46 PM
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10 Most Popular Unanswered Petitions to the White House
 10 Most Popular Unanswered Petitions to the White House

Since creating the We the People website in September, the White House has posted more than 130 petitions from Americans urging changes in government policy. Initially, officials promised to respond to petitions that received more than 5,000 signatures in a month; later, the threshold was upped to 25,000 signatures after the White House realized it had underestimated the response.

The White House took action to speed up implementation on reducing student loan debt following petitions it received in that area.

But response to a petition won’t be enough in all cases to get the White House to act.

Last week, it publicly refused to embrace changes in marijuana laws, despite receiving eight petitions on the subject, including one, “Legalize and Regulate Marijuana in a Manner Similar to Alcohol,” that attracted 74,169 signatures. Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, said marijuana is “not a benign drug” and is “associated with addiction, respiratory disease and cognitive impairment.”

As of Saturday, the 10 most popular open petitions (based on signatures) were:

http://www.allgov.com/Top_Stories/ViewNews/10_Most_Popu...
 

DUmmies want pot in every chicken!

burrowowl  (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-05-11 06:48 PM
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1. Interesting!
 
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Laugh-In would say Very!!

 Courtesy Flush (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-05-11 06:56 PM
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2. Apparently they've never watched one of those drug commercials
 If a drug has to be benign, wouldn't that rule out any that have side effects like suicidal ideations, blindness, and increased risk for liver disease?

How did those make the cut?

Oh, wait. Now I remember.
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I actually agree about the drug ads where the cure is worse than the disease.

 Number23  (1000+ posts)       Sat Nov-05-11 07:17 PM
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3. How interesting. "Crack down on puppy mills" has more than twice the votes of
 Edited on Sat Nov-05-11 07:18 PM by Number23
"legalize same sex marriage." Mind-blowing.

Shortly after Barack Obama’s inauguration, it asked citizen’s to send in their ideas and then asked people to vote for their favorites, which 1,400,000 Americans did. Two of the top three choices dealt with legalizing marijuana.

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Embrace GLBT lobby or the puppy gets it?

 Rageneau (1000+ posts)        Sat Nov-05-11 07:22 PM
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4. Why does Obama ask what we want when he he so obviously doesn't care?
 Because he wants to add hypocrisy to indifference? 
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The best line in the whole OP.

 Cal Carpenter  (1000+ posts)      Sat Nov-05-11 07:34 PM
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5. That's why we should all sign this one:
 Edited on Sat Nov-05-11 07:34 PM by Cal Carpenter
https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/we-dem...

We demand a vapid, condescending, meaningless, politically safe response to this petition.

Since these petitions are ignored apart from an occasional patronizing and inane political statement amounting to nothing more than a condescending pat on the head, we the signers would enjoy having the illusion of success. Since no other outcome to this process seems possible, we demand that the White House immediately assign a junior staffer to compose a tame and vapid response to this petition, and never attempt to take any meaningful action on this or any other issue. We would also like a cookie.


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Irony, yer doin it well.

[franksolich]

After almost three years, the primitives still haven't gotten it.

The Magic One doesn't care what the primitives think, or want, or demand.

[AprilRazz]

After almost three years, the primitives still haven't gotten it.

The Magic One doesn't care what the primitives think, or want, or demand.

He will get around to looking at them 24 business hours after the campaign is over. Of course we have been waiting a few years for that to happen.
But his stumping for local dems has done wonders for the Republicans.

[Chris_]

As of Saturday, the 10 most popular open petitions (based on signatures) were:
 
1.     Crackdown on puppy mills (30,920)
2.     Abolish the TSA (29,717)
3.     Allow growth of industrial hemp (21,978)
4.     End “war on drugs” (20,685)
5.     Dissolve the Electoral College (18,600)
6.     Re-establish separation between investment and commercial banks (17,451)
7.     Restore democracy by ending corporate personhood (16,837)
8.     Repeal the Patriot Act (15,694)
9.     Protect children from air pollution (13,886)
10. Legalize same-sex marriages across the U.S. (13,656)

Sounds like a bunch of dumbshit stoners and their liberal compatriots with plenty of free time.

I would agree with abolishing the TSA but there are other ways of accomplishing that that don't involve useless online petitions.

[zeitgeist]

Sounds like a bunch of dumbshit stoners and their liberal compatriots with plenty of free time.

I would agree with abolishing the TSA but there are other ways of accomplishing that that don't involve useless online petitions.

If you get a minute take a look at this link to a similar topic on FR.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2803373/posts

The folk at the DUmp must be pissed to be so dissed.   

ET phone home.  Skinner wants to chat.