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Hillary/Krugman "pie in the sky" (Original Post) WhaTHellsgoingonhere Jan 2016 OP
I'm no Reich, but I'll add my two cents. merrily Jan 2016 #1
Somewhere in the delusion lies the belief WhaTHellsgoingonhere Jan 2016 #2
Also, scrutiny as a First Lady or SOS is different from scutiny as a candidate for POTUS. merrily Jan 2016 #3
She calls herself a 'moderate' AgingAmerican Jan 2016 #4
Except when she's declaring she's a Progressive WhaTHellsgoingonhere Jan 2016 #5
Is Krugman an honest actor? merkins Jan 2016 #6

merrily

(45,251 posts)
1. I'm no Reich, but I'll add my two cents.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 11:50 AM
Jan 2016

I've posted some version of the following when I reply to something claiming Hillary can get things done and Bernie cannot.

While a Senator, Hillary had zero success working with Republicans to get bills she wrote passed, except for strictly ceremonial bills, such as re-naming a post office, remembering Harriet Tubman's birthday and remembering the anniversary of the American Revolution.

She could not even get her two unconstitutional flag desecration bills passed and Republicans themselves have initiated that kind of bill again and again. Since her Senate days, she has been gratuitously disrespectful to Republicans, calling them the enemy of which she is most proud and acting a certain way during the Benghazi hearings. (For that matter, she could not even get Billarycare through a Democratic Congress when her husband was head of the Democratic Party.)

Contradistinctively, Bernie and McCain worked on a veterans' bill that passed. The Brookings Institute made a case study in working across the aisle. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/how-bernie-sanders-fought-for-our-veterans-119708 He also got an amendment to the ACA he wrote passed, providing $11 billion in health care to those who would not otherwise have received it.

See also, http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/71225/bernie-sanders-is-loud-stubborn-socialist-republicans-like-him-anyway

 

WhaTHellsgoingonhere

(5,252 posts)
2. Somewhere in the delusion lies the belief
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 01:07 PM
Jan 2016

that Hillary will work better with Republicans than Obama did. She boast about her decades of scrutiny. Yeah, they hate her more than anyone. Ergo, she'll get things done...???

Absurd

merrily

(45,251 posts)
3. Also, scrutiny as a First Lady or SOS is different from scutiny as a candidate for POTUS.
Thu Jan 28, 2016, 01:12 PM
Jan 2016

She's never had the full POTUS treatment.

But, I know what you are saying and I agree. They do hate her and she's made it clear she hates them and has zero respect for them. If people think they stonewalled Obama...wait.

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