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@optonline.net> wrote:
> Clinton's Transition Team: A Corporate Presidency Foretold
> Published 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 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."
>
> 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 political gusher.
> On both sides of the revolving doors, the industry has been ably 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 after the election."
> 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
> Norman Solomon
>
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> Clinton's Transition Team: A Corporate Presidency Foretold
> Published on
> Monday, August 22, 2016
> by
> Common Dreams
> Clinton's Transition Team: A Corporate Presidency Foretold
> by
> Norman Solomon
> . 51 Comments
> .
> . 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 political gusher.
> On both sides of the revolving doors, the industry has been ably 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 after the election."
> 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
>
>
>
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