Background:
Elizabeth Warren On Hillary Clinton's Hypocrisy Concerning Wall Street
Hillary & Bill Clinton Make BAD Decisions 3 - Against & THEN For LGBT Rights
Hillary Clinton Is Lying To Black People About Her Pro-Black Record - It's True. She HAS Accomplished Alot For Them But All Of It Was Bad
First, some background (first time Liberals have had a voice and it's not because of the Clintons);
Maddow: Sanders gives liberals a mainstream voice Rachel Maddow remarks on the lack of liberal representation in mainstream politics and notes that Bernie Sanders has given voice to a new generation of liberals who don't have to feel excluded from mainstream politics.
Salon: Hillary Clinton’s progressive problem: The real policy differences between her and Bernie Sanders can actually be quantified Both Clinton and Sanders are laying claim to the word "progressive." Trouble is, they both actually have records
In the immediate aftermath of the Iowa caucus, both Democratic candidates and their supporters have become engaged in an argument over who’s more progressive. That in itself would surely be a good thing—far better than competing over who’s most moderate. But the way the Clinton team is initially pursuing their side of the argument is both inherently self-contradictory, and unlikely to sufficiently connect with and motivate voters in the general election, should she be the nominee.
Video: Clinton-Sanders rivalry gets heated on eve of debate - A day before the first head-to-head debate of the 2016 cycle, the Clinton and Sanders campaigns went back and forth over who deserves the progressive mantle.
First, some background (first time Liberals have had a voice and it's not because of the Clin
tons);
Maddow: Sanders gives liberals a mainstream voice Rachel Maddow remarks on the lack of liberal representation in mainstream politics and notes that Bernie Sanders has given voice to a new generation of liberals who don't have to feel excluded from mainstream politics.
Top Hillary Clinton Advisers and Fundraisers Lobbied Against Obamacare and Dodd-Frank
U.S.News: Clinton's Health Care Attack Makes No Sense - The Clinton camp is lambasting Bernie Sanders' health care plan, but its critique is blatantly dishonest;
Image of Think Progress article;
Hillary Clinton Is Using GOP Fear Tactics Against Bernie Sanders’ Health Care Plan
A collection of lies from Polifact in image form (screenshots);
Elizabeth Warren On Hillary Clinton's Hypocrisy Concerning Wall Street
Hillary & Bill Clinton Make BAD Decisions 3 - Against & THEN For LGBT Rights
Hillary Clinton Is Lying To Black People About Her Pro-Black Record - It's True. She HAS Accomplished Alot For Them But All Of It Was Bad
First, some background (first time Liberals have had a voice and it's not because of the Clintons);
Maddow: Sanders gives liberals a mainstream voice Rachel Maddow remarks on the lack of liberal representation in mainstream politics and notes that Bernie Sanders has given voice to a new generation of liberals who don't have to feel excluded from mainstream politics.
Salon: Hillary Clinton’s progressive problem: The real policy differences between her and Bernie Sanders can actually be quantified Both Clinton and Sanders are laying claim to the word "progressive." Trouble is, they both actually have records
In the immediate aftermath of the Iowa caucus, both Democratic candidates and their supporters have become engaged in an argument over who’s more progressive. That in itself would surely be a good thing—far better than competing over who’s most moderate. But the way the Clinton team is initially pursuing their side of the argument is both inherently self-contradictory, and unlikely to sufficiently connect with and motivate voters in the general election, should she be the nominee.
The two problems are not unrelated. The self-contradictory argument is founded in her self-branding as “a progressive who gets things done.” When it’s rolled out into an argument against Sanders it becomes: (a) she’s really more progressive than Sanders, and (b) she can get things done, because she’s not as wild-eyed—i.e. as progressive—as Sanders is. When Sanders challenges the obvious contradiction here, its unsustainability forces Clinton’s fall-back into the second problem: Clinton’s response is to treat anything Sanders says to challenge her argument as an attack against President Obama. That may be a savvy way to win the primary, but a profoundly counter-productive approach in the long run.
Don’t let me put words in Clinton’s mouth. Here’s how she responded in CNN’s town hall when Anderson Cooper asked her about being a moderate or a progressive:
I said that I’m a progressive who likes to get things done. And I was somewhat amused today that Senator Sanders has set himself up to be the gatekeeper on who is the progressive because under the definition that was flying around on Twitter and statements by the campaign, Barack Obama would not be a progressive, Joe Biden would not be a progressive, Jeanne Shaheen would not be a progressive, even the late, great Senator Paul Wellstone would not be a progressive.
Twitter chatter aside, when it comes to judging who’s more progressive than who, political scientists have an app for that—at least for those who’ve served in Congress, as Sanders and Clinton both have. It’s the DW-Nominate first dimension, scaled from +1 to -1, which explains the lion’s share of how members vote. [Explanation|Data]. For the two years when they served in the Senate together, Sanders had a score of -.717, making him far and away the most liberal member. Number two, Sheldon Whitehouse had a score of -.507, while number 15, Hillary Clinton had a score of -.403. The difference between Sanders’ score and Clinton’s was greater than the difference between Clinton and Evan Bayh, the second-most conservative member of the Democratic caucus at the time. So in short, the difference between them in terms of who is most progressive is both objective and huge.
The difference can be seen internationally as well. Sanders identifies as a democratic socialist, and regularly points to countries that fully embody that philosophy, such as the Nordic countries of Denmark and Sweden. These serve as objective embodiments of what his politics aims to achieve—and they can be used to contrast with Clinton’s objectives as well. In his groundbreaking book, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Gøsta Esping-Andersen identified three distinctly different models for welfare state organization, each driven by a different logic. The socialist or social democratic model seen in Nordic countries is based on the logic of social solidarity, to provide maximal protections for all; the conservative model, typified by Germany and seen elsewhere throughout continental Europe, aims to consolidate the existing social order and its hierarchical relations in various ways; the liberal model, typified by English-speaking countries from Britain to the U.S., Canada and Australia, aims to deal with imperfections in the market system with minimal interference to the basic system. As I explained in an article here about Sanders’ campaign last June:
If it’s somehow a secret that Clinton has moved left in response to Sanders, it’s the worst-kept secret in D.C. When Sanders takes note of it, that’s just what he’s doing—taking note. He’s not attacking her, he’s not making things up, and he’s not setting himself up as the world’s sole authority on who is or is not a progressive Indeed, he’s often said that he and Clinton share much in common, even as there are sharp differences as well.
Video: Clinton-Sanders rivalry gets heated on eve of debate - A day before the first head-to-head debate of the 2016 cycle, the Clinton and Sanders campaigns went back and forth over who deserves the progressive mantle.
First, some background (first time Liberals have had a voice and it's not because of the Clin
tons);
Maddow: Sanders gives liberals a mainstream voice Rachel Maddow remarks on the lack of liberal representation in mainstream politics and notes that Bernie Sanders has given voice to a new generation of liberals who don't have to feel excluded from mainstream politics.
Miscellaneous Hillary Lies;
Top Hillary Clinton Advisers and Fundraisers Lobbied Against Obamacare and Dodd-Frank
Hillary Clinton is campaigning as a guardian of President Barack Obama’sprogressive policy accomplishments. In recent weeks, she has called the Affordable Care Act “one of the greatest accomplishments of President Obama, of the Democratic Party, and of our country,” and promised that she is “going to defend Dodd-Frank” and “defend President Obama for taking on Wall Street.”
Meanwhile, however, Clinton’s campaign has been relying on a team of strategists and fundraisers, many of whom spent much of the last seven years as consultants or lobbyists for business interests working to obstruct Obama’s agenda in those two areas.
Consultants associated with the Dewey Square Group, a lobbying firm that has been retained by business interests to defeat a variety of progressive reforms, are playing a major role in the Clinton campaign. Charles Baker III, the co-founder of Dewey, is a senior strategist and the campaign’s chief administrative officer. Michael Whouley, another Dewey co-founder, played an early role in advising Clinton’s plan for the current campaign by convening some of the very first strategy sessions. Senior Dewey officials Jill Alper and Minyon Moore are also close advisers and fundraisers for Clinton, while at least four other Clinton officials have worked at Dewey within the last four years. In addition, disclosures show that Clinton’s Super PACs Priorities USA Action and Correct the Record have also paidDewey Square Group for a variety of services in this election.
Undermining Obamacare reforms
Dewey, for instance, worked on behalf of the health insurance industry during the health reform debate, specifically to block the changes to Medicare Advantage that were critical for financing the Affordable Care Act. Medicare Advantage, which allows Medicare beneficiaries to use plans administered by private insurers, had long served as a cash cow for the health insurance industry. By one estimate, insurance companies over-billed the government by nearly $70 billion in improper payments over just a five year period. Dewey, which had been tapped to by health insurers to block cuts from the program starting in 2007, continued during the Obama era to lobby to protect Medicare Advantage, even as such reforms became a major part of how Democrats and the Obama administration sought to finance the Affordable Care Act.
One of the more deceptive components of the Dewey lobbying strategy was uncovered when an editor at the Lawrence, Massachusetts, Eagle-Tribune realized that the firm had worked quietly to place letters to the editor against cuts to Medicare Advantage under the names of elderly Massachusetts residents without their knowledge or consent.
U.S.News: Clinton's Health Care Attack Makes No Sense - The Clinton camp is lambasting Bernie Sanders' health care plan, but its critique is blatantly dishonest;
Clinton is lambasting Sanders' proposal for a universal, single-payer health care system. And she's doing it in a pretty dishonest way.
"His plan would take Medicare and Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program and the Affordable Care Act health care insurance and private employer health insurance and he would take that all together and send health insurance to the states, turning over your and my health insurance to governors," Clinton said. "We had enough of a fight to get to the Affordable Care Act. So I don’t want to rip it up and start over."
Clinton's daughter Chelsea got in on the act, too, in an even worse manner, claiming that Sanders wants to "dismantle Obamacare." She said: "I worry if we give Republicans Democratic permission to do that, we'll go back to an era, before we had the Affordable Care Act, that would strip millions and millions and millions of people off their health insurance."
Clinton's daughter Chelsea got in on the act, too, in an even worse manner, claiming that Sanders wants to "dismantle Obamacare." She said: "I worry if we give Republicans Democratic permission to do that, we'll go back to an era, before we had the Affordable Care Act, that would strip millions and millions and millions of people off their health insurance."
This is mostly rank nonsense. A single-payer system, like it does in many other countries, would cover everybody, period. To say otherwise is either willfully misunderstanding how it would work or simple scaremongering.
Hillary Clinton, jumping on a line in an old Sanders bill that says his plan would be administered by the states, is attempting to tie him to the failure of many Republican governors to embrace Obamacare's Medicaid expansion, which has resulted in millions of people being denied health insurance. But that's very different from single-payer: Sure, Republican governors could maybe try to weasel out of whatever a President Sanders had in mind, but to think he would design a plan that governors could just ignore is silly. (For the record, Sanders' camp emphatically says the plan would apply to everyone.)
Image of Think Progress article;
Hillary Clinton Is Using GOP Fear Tactics Against Bernie Sanders’ Health Care Plan
A collection of lies from Polifact in image form (screenshots);
Hillary's Deception Towards The Blacks
- Hillary Clinton Is Lying To Black People About Her Pro-Black Record - It's True. She HAS Accomplished Alot For Them But All Of It Was Bad
- Mass Incarceration: Geez. How Long Does It Take Hillary Clinton To Do The Right Thing?
- Hillary & Bill Clinton Make BAD Decisions 1 - Imprisoning Black People
- Hillary Clinton Helped Promote Mass Incarceration & Voted For The Iraq Oil War - A Decision That Destroyed Hundreds of Thousands Of Lives
Hillary's BRAZEN Hypocrisy On Wall Street
- Elizabeth Warren On Hillary Clinton's Hypocrisy Concerning Wall Street
- Hillary & Bill Clinton Make BAD Decisions 2 - Bill Paved The Way For The Financial Collapse Of 2008
- Hillary Clinton Joined Everybody In Mocking Wall Street AFTER The Financial Crisis Struck. A Crisis Her Husband Paved The Way For
- The Financial Crisis Explained In 3 Videos (Only one is over 7 minutes)
Hillary Clinton: War Criminal?!?!?
- Hillary Clinton's Vote For The Iraq Oil War PROVES She's Too Incompetent To Be President, At Least One With Heart
- Hillary Clinton Helped Promote Mass Incarceration & Voted For The Iraq Oil War - A Decision That Destroyed Hundreds of Thousands Of Lives
- Hillary Has A Relationship With Henry Kissinger. Her Link To Bush & Cheney Is Now Complete. HAHAHAHAHA
Hillary Clinton Makes Bad Decisions (Proofs)
- Hillary & Bill Clinton Make BAD Decisions 1 - Imprisoning Black People
- Hillary & Bill Clinton Make BAD Decisions 3 - Against & Then FOR LGBT Rights
- Studies Prove Hillary Clinton Makes Bad Decisions Because of Her Wealth!
- Hillary Is Too Close To Bill Clinton. Hillary Should Get A Divorce To Qualify For President!
- Jon Stewart: "Hillary Clinton Deleted 30,000 Emails!" ... Huckabee & Mitt Romney Did Too! Is This Not Suspicious?
- Hillary Clinton Helped Promote Mass Incarceration & Voted For The Iraq Oil War - A Decision That Destroyed Hundreds of Thousands Of Lives
- Chris Hayes Talks About The Clinton Political Dynasty & The Bush Political Dynasty & Asks If This Is What America Deserves?
- Mass Incarceration: Geez. How Long Does It Take Hillary Clinton To Do The Right Thing?
- Corporate Media DID DO A Blackout On Bernie Sanders Like They Did With Ron Paul (Larry Wilmore, Bernie, Jon Stewart & Rachel Maddow Illustrate What's Going On)
- Establishment Democrats bow to the people in power. The Corporations. Here is an example (Obama Helping General Electric With Tax Breaks)
