Hillary's Executive Power Agenda Unprecedented

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Thursday October 08, 2015 · 5:53 PM PDT

2015/10/08 · 17:53

Hillary Clinton is laying out dual agendas, one for working with Congress, and one to go it alone, if necessary. Democratic office holders and policy makers are heartened by her plans.

Via Vox.com

From closing the gun show loophole to tightening the "Volcker Rule" to cut down on risky speculative investing, Clinton is crafting plans to go it alone in major policy areas. That's important because in an era in which Congress can't function — particularly when power is closely divided between the parties — the executive actions a president takes unilaterally are among the most consequential policies enacted...

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sibelius said of the campaign:

"A series of proposals that are aimed at Congress seem a little hollow when you’re talking about the current situation," she said in an interview. "She kind of outlines a dual track, which I think in today’s climate is certainly something that illustrates it's more than just a position paper that would sit on someone’s shelf in an office but that it could actually happen."

Vox's Matt Yglesias argues:

Committed Democrats and liberal-leaning interest groups are facing a reality in which any policy gains they achieve are going to come through the profligate use of executive authority, and Clinton is almost uniquely suited to deliver the goods," he writes. "More than almost anyone else around, she knows where the levers of power lie, and she is comfortable pulling them, procedural niceties be damned."

The article demonstrates the uniqueness of Hillary's campaign in recognizing the need for a strong executive agenda, an imperative for building on Obama's liberal successes.

My Long, Negative Diary About Why I Don't Support Sanders

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Monday September 28, 2015 · 7:00 AM PDT

2015/09/28 · 07:00

Not really. Everyday there is a new diary about how awful Hillary Clinton is. We get it. She's either Dick Cheney or Dan Quayle in a pants suit, depending on the diarist. She's a total a**hole. You've been heard. But this isn't the forum for Hillary bashing. In her campaign for President, Hillary has earned a fair number of supporters right here on this blog. We understand your support for Sanders, and we respect it. Try showing us the same courtesy.

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Saturday September 26, 2015 · 9:04 PM PDT

2015/09/26 · 21:04

The title of this article is a bit misleading, Americans View Hillary Clinton, Jeb Bush, as Presidential Material. In a new Bloomberg poll by the Selzer group, Hillary actually earns a full 7 points more than Jeb Bush on the question of presidential. 47% see her as presidential, while only 40% say the same for Jeb Bush. 52% say they don't see Clinton this way, while 60% say the same for Sanders.

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Saturday September 26, 2015 · 9:38 AM PDT

2015/09/26 · 09:38

It's a girl thing. The phenomena is likely related to the gender bias. Scott Brown hammered Elizabeth Warren over a ridiculous claim that she lied about her heritage and used that lie to get ahead. These accusations helped Brown stay viable. The press kept the embers lit, dogging Warren with questions about her ethnicity through out the campaign. It was effective, though of course Warren ultimately won. The questions of Hillary's server and email come out of the eigth congressional committee on Bengahzi. An investigation that has stretched out over 500 days, on pace to become the longest investigation in Congressional history. A committee that has the potential to make Republican Representative Gowdy a fundraising star. Hillary Clinton has made ten of thousands of her email available to the public. They reveal a competent public servant.

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Thursday September 24, 2015 · 9:19 AM PDT

2015/09/24 · 09:19

In today's Newyorker, Allyson Hobbs asks, why aren't we inspired by Hillary Clinton? She takes aim at the main culprit, gender bias:

But another obvious explanation is the persistent problem of gender bias in American culture. Perhaps the sexism—in both overtly hostile and less visible but still insidious ways—has helped stoke the fires of animosity towards Clinton while, at the same time, creating an almost impossible standard for her. Unlike her male opponents, Clinton has to be far more careful and measured in what she says and does. To be free from a strict choreography of words and actions is a form of male privilege that Hillary Clinton cannot access.

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Wednesday September 09, 2015 · 6:27 AM PDT

2015/09/09 · 06:27

In case it wasn't clear, the eigth Benghazi committee, lead by Republican Rep. Gowdy, has been at it 489 days at a cost of over $4 million taxpayer dollars. If the committee works after Jan. 2016, the investigation will have lasted longer than Watergate, or any other congressional investigation in history LINK. If you are unaware that Gowdy is performing a political fishing expedition with the help of a complicit press, I urge to read up. LINK LINK LINK LINK

Obama Needs To Make It Clear

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Thursday December 20, 2012 · 6:03 PM PST

2012/12/20 · 18:03

Now that the Republican plan B has imploded, Obama needs to make it clear: No cuts to social security, including chained CPI. No cuts to Medicaid. No cuts to Medicare. Tax cuts for income over 250k must be allowed to expire. And, he will take that stand right over the cliff.

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Thursday September 24, 2009 · 10:37 AM PDT

2009/09/24 · 10:37

As the Democrats busily work on plans to make us all captive consumers of the private health insurers, the rich are cutting loose from the system. While we'll be stuck in costly Exchanges, the rich will be moving on toward their own privately reformed health system. Welcome to the world of concierge medicine.

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Monday September 21, 2009 · 5:27 PM PDT

2009/09/21 · 17:27

From advocacy groups like HCAN and MoveOn.org to prominent blog sites like Daily Kos and Fire Dog Lake, single payer is the policy which must not be named. There seems to have been a strategic decision by several advocacy groups and progressive bloggers not to have a policy discussion or front page reporting relevant to Medicare for All once the policy was proclaimed "off the table" by the Democratic leadership and the President.

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Friday September 11, 2009 · 9:54 PM PDT

2009/09/11 · 21:54

I pray the progressives wake up soon and come out of their collective slumber before we help the Democrats pass a health insurance bail out.

The reforms championed two years ago, that rested largely on providing Americans with a Medicare-like plan, open to all takers, has morphed into Romney Care. While the centerpiece progressives envisioned on health care reform rested largely on federal intervention via program, the Democrats have cleary gone the less contentious route of a federal roll via regulation. The idea seems to be create a federal role, and hopefully tighten regulations later down the road, which is laughable. If you read just this short piece about the so-called "public option" from the CBO you can see this is not what progressives rallied around. Not. Even. Close. But you don't have to take my word for it, just listen to the investors.

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Friday September 11, 2009 · 9:59 AM PDT

2009/09/11 · 09:59

In Obama's recent speech, he equated the movement to extend Medicare to all Americans with the Canadian single-payer.

There are those on the left who believe that the only way to fix the system is through a single-payer system like Canada’s where we would severely restrict the private insurance market and have the government provide coverage for everyone." ...such a plan "would represent a radical shift that would disrupt the health care most people currently have.

He also reminded his "progressive friends" what apparently the real driving force behind health reform has been about all these years:

"To my progressive friends, I would remind you that for decades the driving force behind reform has been to end insurance company abuses and make coverage affordable to those without it,"

Forgive me, but I'm pretty sure the driving force for the Democratic base has been a universal health care system, and among the most ardent supporters of health care reform on the Left, a government administered universal health reform system.

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Wednesday September 09, 2009 · 3:22 PM PDT

2009/09/09 · 15:22

The Democrats may pass a bill, and it may contain a watered down public option, but the Democrats have mostly blown it on health care reform. Were it not for the massive numbers of the uninsured, the large majorities in Congress, the swelling health care costs, and the distaste Democrats have on the Hill for failing to pass health care reform again, as they did in the 1990's, the chances of passing a bill at this point would be nil. When Bill Clinton's health reform proposal dipped to just 47% approval, Democrats on the Hill called it DOA, so with Obama's proposal at just 37% demonstrates the other factors at play. Democrats know, politically, they have to do something on health care, or risk looking like complete incompetents. Here's where the Democrats went wrong...

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