Bob,
Things would be a lot worse for very poor people and for Muslims under
Trump. And his poor judgment and vindictivness could cause difficulties that
we cannot even imagine. Additionally, the people with whom he will surround
himself would be even worse. Remember that he has freely socialized with
mafia kings and child molesters.
Miriam
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob Hachey
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 2:25 AM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Clinton's Transition Team: A Corporate
Presidency Foretold
Hi Carl,
No, I'm pretty pieved as well when I read stuff like this and the earlier
one on the Nuclear War Party.
Let's face it folks. IF we remove the appointment of SCOTUS justices and the
fate of the AHCA, how much worse would life really be under Trump? Yes I
know things would be terrible under Trump, but they may be pretty bad under
Clinton who may be more effective than Trump at getting some of what she
wants from a very corrupt Congress.
GADZ!
Bob Hachey
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From: blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:blind-democracy-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Carl Jarvis
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2016 6:23 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] Re: Clinton's Transition Team: A Corporate
Presidency Foretold
Yawn!...this is no news, news. Hillary Clinton could well make Barak Obama
appear to be a moderate Liberal, once she has put her mark on the white
house oval office.
But even knowing that she is talking out both sides of her mouth, I get
steamed over the idea that Hillary Clinton thinks my people, the working
class Americans, are so stupid we will actually take her words over her past
actions. Am I the only one who froths at the mouth over being lied to? Why
do we allow this sham of a thing called a National Presidential Election
take place, at the cost of a billion dollars?
Why don't we simply let the Oligarchy have their own little election, and
the rest of us go about setting up a truly representative People's
government?
Carl Jarvis
On 8/22/16, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Clinton's Transition Team: A Corporate Presidency Foretold PublishedHillary Clinton.
on Monday, August 22, 2016 by Common Dreams Clinton's Transition Team:
A Corporate Presidency Foretold by Norman Solomon
Hillary Rodham Clinton is introduced by Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo.,
center, and Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter before Clinton speaks in the
east Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado, Oct. 24, 2008. (Photo: David
Zalubowski/AP) Like other Bernie Sanders delegates in Philadelphia a
few weeks ago, I kept hearing about the crucial need to close ranks behind
"Unity" was the watchword. But Clinton has reaffirmed her unity withpolitical gusher.
corporate America.
Rhetoric aside, Clinton is showing her solidarity with the nemesis of
the Sanders campaign-Wall Street. The trend continued last week with
the announcement that Clinton has tapped former senator and Interior
secretary Ken Salazar to chair her transition team.
After many months of asserting that her support for the "gold standard"
Trans-Pacific Partnership was a thing of the past-and after declaring
that she wants restrictions on fracking so stringent that it could
scarcely continue-Clinton has now selected a vehement advocate for the
TPP and for fracking, to coordinate the process of staffing the top of
her administration.
But wait, there's more-much more than Salazar's record-to tell us
where the planning for the Hillary Clinton presidency is headed.
On the surface, it might seem like mere inside baseball to read about
the transition team's four co-chairs, described by Politico as
"veteran Clinton aides Maggie Williams and Neera Tanden" along with
"former National Security Adviser Tom Donilon and former Michigan Gov.
Jennifer Granholm." But the leaders of the transition team-including
Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, who is also president of the
Clinton-Kaine Transition Project-will wield enormous power.
"The transition team is one of the absolute most important things in
the world for a new administration," says William K. Black, who has
held key positions at several major regulatory agencies such as the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Along with "deciding what are we
actually going to make our policy priorities," the transition team
will handle key questions: "Who will the top people be? Who are we
going to vet, to hold all of the cabinet positions, and many
non-cabinet positions, as well? The whole staffing of the senior
leadership of the White House."
Black's assessment of Salazar, Podesta and the transition team's four
co-chairs is withering. "These aren't just DNC regulars, Democratic
National Committee regulars," he said in an interview with The Real
News Network.
"What you're seeing is complete domination by what used to be the
Democratic Leadership Council. So this was a group we talked about in
the past. Very, very, very right-wing on foreign policy, what they
called a muscular foreign policy, which was a euphemism for invading
places. And very, very tough on crime-this was that era of mass
incarceration that Bill Clinton pushed, and it's when Hillary was
talking about black 'superpredators,' this myth, this so dangerous
myth."
Black added: "And on the economic side, they were all in favor of
austerity.
All in favor of privatization. Tried to do a deal with Newt Gingrich
to privatize Social Security. And of course, were all in favor of
things like NAFTA."
As for Hillary Clinton's widely heralded "move to the left" in recent
months, Black said that it "was purely calculated for political purposes.
And all of the team that's going to hire all the key people and vet
the key people for the most senior positions for at least the first
several years of what increasingly looks likely to be a Clinton
administration are going to be picked by these people, who are the
opposite of progressive."
In that light, Salazar is a grotesquely perfect choice to chair the
transition team. After all of Clinton's efforts to present herself as
a foe of the big-money doors that revolve between influence peddlers
and government officials in Washington, her choice of Salazar-a
partner at the lobbying powerhouse WilmerHale since 2013-belies her
smooth words. That choice means the oil and gas industry just hit a
On both sides of the revolving doors, the industry has been ablyafter the election."
served by Salazar, whose work included arguing for the Keystone XL
pipeline. His support for fracking has been so ardent that it led him
two years ago to make a notably fanciful claim: "We know that, from
everything we've seen, there's not a single case where hydraulic
fracking has created an environmental problem for anyone."
Salazar is part of a clear pattern. Clinton's selection of Tim Kaine
for vice president underscored why so many progressives distrust her.
Kaine was among just one-quarter of Democrats in the Senate who voted
last year to fast track the TPP. When he was Virginia's governor,
Kaine said that "I strongly support" a so-called right-to-work law
that is anathema to organized labor. A few years ago he faulted fellow
Democrats who sought to increase taxes for millionaires.
Clinton announced the Kaine pick while surely knowing that many
progressives would find it abhorrent. A week beforehand, the Bernie
Delegates Network released the results of a survey of Sanders
delegates showing that 88 percent said they would find selection of
Kaine "unacceptable." Only 3 percent of the several hundred
respondents said it would be "acceptable."
The first big post-election showdown will be over the TPP in the
lame-duck session of Congress. Clinton's spokesman Brian Fallon
reiterated a week ago that "she is against the TPP before the election and
But her choices for running mate and transition team have sent a verypolitical gusher.
different message. And it's likely that she is laying groundwork to
convey anemic "opposition" that will be understood on Capitol Hill as
a wink-and-nod from a president-elect who wouldn't mind "aye" votes
for the TPP.
Blessed with an unhinged and widely deplored Republican opponent,
Hillary Clinton may be able to defeat him without doing much to mend
fences with alienated Sanders voters. But Clinton's smooth rhetoric
should not change the fact that-on a vast array of issues-basic
principles will require progressives to fight against her actual
policy goals, every step of the way.
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. Hillary Rodham Clinton is introduced by Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo.,
center, and Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter before Clinton speaks in the
east Denver suburb of Aurora, Colorado, Oct. 24, 2008. (Photo: David
Zalubowski/AP)
. Like other Bernie Sanders delegates in Philadelphia a few weeks ago,
I kept hearing about the crucial need to close ranks behind Hillary
Clinton.
"Unity" was the watchword. But Clinton has reaffirmed her unity with
corporate America.
. Rhetoric aside, Clinton is showing her solidarity with the nemesis
of the Sanders campaign-Wall Street. The trend continued last week
with the announcement that Clinton has tapped former senator and
Interior secretary Ken Salazar to chair her transition team.
. After many months of asserting that her support for the "gold
standard" Trans-Pacific Partnership was a thing of the past-and after
declaring that she wants restrictions on fracking so stringent that it
could scarcely continue-Clinton has now selected a vehement advocate
for the TPP and for fracking, to coordinate the process of staffing
the top of her administration.
. But wait, there's more-much more than Salazar's record-to tell us
where the planning for the Hillary Clinton presidency is headed.
On the surface, it might seem like mere inside baseball to read about
the transition team's four co-chairs, described by Politico as
"veteran Clinton aides Maggie Williams and Neera Tanden" along with
"former National Security Adviser Tom Donilon and former Michigan Gov.
Jennifer Granholm." But the leaders of the transition team-including
Clinton campaign chair John Podesta, who is also president of the
Clinton-Kaine Transition Project-will wield enormous power.
"The transition team is one of the absolute most important things in
the world for a new administration," says William K. Black, who has
held key positions at several major regulatory agencies such as the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Along with "deciding what are we
actually going to make our policy priorities," the transition team
will handle key questions: "Who will the top people be? Who are we
going to vet, to hold all of the cabinet positions, and many
non-cabinet positions, as well? The whole staffing of the senior
leadership of the White House."
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Black's assessment of Salazar, Podesta and the transition team's four
co-chairs is withering. "These aren't just DNC regulars, Democratic
National Committee regulars," he said in an interview with The Real
News Network.
"What you're seeing is complete domination by what used to be the
Democratic Leadership Council. So this was a group we talked about in
the past. Very, very, very right-wing on foreign policy, what they
called a muscular foreign policy, which was a euphemism for invading
places. And very, very tough on crime-this was that era of mass
incarceration that Bill Clinton pushed, and it's when Hillary was
talking about black 'superpredators,' this myth, this so dangerous
myth."
Black added: "And on the economic side, they were all in favor of
austerity.
All in favor of privatization. Tried to do a deal with Newt Gingrich
to privatize Social Security. And of course, were all in favor of
things like NAFTA."
As for Hillary Clinton's widely heralded "move to the left" in recent
months, Black said that it "was purely calculated for political purposes.
And all of the team that's going to hire all the key people and vet
the key people for the most senior positions for at least the first
several years of what increasingly looks likely to be a Clinton
administration are going to be picked by these people, who are the
opposite of progressive."
In that light, Salazar is a grotesquely perfect choice to chair the
transition team. After all of Clinton's efforts to present herself as
a foe of the big-money doors that revolve between influence peddlers
and government officials in Washington, her choice of Salazar-a
partner at the lobbying powerhouse WilmerHale since 2013-belies her
smooth words. That choice means the oil and gas industry just hit a
On both sides of the revolving doors, the industry has been ablyafter the election."
served by Salazar, whose work included arguing for the Keystone XL
pipeline. His support for fracking has been so ardent that it led him
two years ago to make a notably fanciful claim: "We know that, from
everything we've seen, there's not a single case where hydraulic
fracking has created an environmental problem for anyone."
Salazar is part of a clear pattern. Clinton's selection of Tim Kaine
for vice president underscored why so many progressives distrust her.
Kaine was among just one-quarter of Democrats in the Senate who voted
last year to fast track the TPP. When he was Virginia's governor,
Kaine said that "I strongly support" a so-called right-to-work law
that is anathema to organized labor. A few years ago he faulted fellow
Democrats who sought to increase taxes for millionaires.
Clinton announced the Kaine pick while surely knowing that many
progressives would find it abhorrent. A week beforehand, the Bernie
Delegates Network released the results of a survey of Sanders
delegates showing that 88 percent said they would find selection of
Kaine "unacceptable." Only 3 percent of the several hundred
respondents said it would be "acceptable."
The first big post-election showdown will be over the TPP in the
lame-duck session of Congress. Clinton's spokesman Brian Fallon
reiterated a week ago that "she is against the TPP before the election and
But her choices for running mate and transition team have sent a very
different message. And it's likely that she is laying groundwork to
convey anemic "opposition" that will be understood on Capitol Hill as
a wink-and-nod from a president-elect who wouldn't mind "aye" votes
for the TPP.
Blessed with an unhinged and widely deplored Republican opponent,
Hillary Clinton may be able to defeat him without doing much to mend
fences with alienated Sanders voters. But Clinton's smooth rhetoric
should not change the fact that-on a vast array of issues-basic
principles will require progressives to fight against her actual
policy goals, every step of the way.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike
3.0 License
