2016 Postmortem
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No seriously I'm not going to grave dance. I'm just back from unnamed state where the victory was hard won. I need the toilet and some coffee and then I'm going to call every single Democratic voter I met because we have a chance to retake the Senate. THE SENATE.
And we'd better retake the Senate because we ain't getting those m************ out of the House until the census of 2020.
TexasTowelie
(112,252 posts)we get them out of the House since redistricting will not occur until after the general election..
FBaggins
(26,748 posts)We'll need to control far more state legislatures and gubernatorial seats leading up to the census.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Dems can take back the Senate! Would love to see the turtle demoted.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)FBaggins
(26,748 posts)You misspelled "chicken counting" as "gravedancing"
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)gcomeau
(5,764 posts)And I hear there's a nice view of Rome burning from the roof.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]Don't ever underestimate the long-term effects of a good night's sleep.[/center][/font][hr]
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Stuckinthebush
(10,845 posts)I'll dance with you! I look forward to taking back the senate from those sleezy jerks!
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)dana_b
(11,546 posts)an environmental activist killed by the government that YOUR candidate had a hand in propping up, and all you can think of is the hand bag that one of the women is toting??
Completely gross.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Response to msanthrope (Reply #26)
dana_b This message was self-deleted by its author.
dana_b
(11,546 posts)and it just shows me where some Clinton supporters actual thoughts are at. To make light of a murdered woman's protest and find it funny, well, whatever. We have little in common - thankfully.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)are not familiar with the works of the great and inestimable Bill Murray.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)Her Anointed Highness...
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Marr
(20,317 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Last night I was working a primary. I'm betting the person who posted that picture was not.
Marr
(20,317 posts)I'm saying you don't care about that slain Honduran activist. If you did, you wouldn't mock that picture or shrug it off as a silly distraction.
Or campaign for Hillary, for that matter.
AzDar
(14,023 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)with people posting on the Internets.
Lizzie Poppet
(10,164 posts)dana_b
(11,546 posts)truth hurts.
bunnies
(15,859 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)Take Chile as an experiment in privatization and austerity.
President Clinton and the Chilean Model.
By José Piñera
Midnight at the House of Good and Evil
"It is 12:30 at night, and Bill Clinton asks me and Dottie: 'What do you know about the Chilean social-security system?' recounted Richard Lamm, the three-term former governor of Colorado. It was March 1995, and Lamm and his wife were staying that weekend in the Lincoln Bedroom of the White House.
I read about this surprising midnight conversation in an article by Jonathan Alter (Newsweek, May 13, 1996), as I was waiting at Dulles International Airport for a flight to Europe. The article also said that early the next morning, before he left to go jogging, President Bill Clinton arranged for a special report about the Chilean reform produced by his staff to be slipped under Lamm's door.
That news piqued my interest, so as soon as I came back to the United States, I went to visit Richard Lamm. I wanted to know the exact circumstances in which the president of the worlds superpower engages a fellow former governor in a Saturday night exchange about the system I had implemented 15 years earlier.
Lamn and I shared a coffee on the terrace of his house in Denver. He not only was the most genial host to this curious Chilean, but he also proved to be deeply motivated by the issues surrounding aging and the future of America. So we had an engaging conversation. At the conclusion, I ventured to ask him for a copy of the report that Clinton had given him. He agreed to give it to me on the condition that I do not make it public while Clinton was president. He also gave me a copy of the handwritten note on White House stationery, dated 3-21-95, which accompanied the report slipped under his door. It read:
Dick,
Sorry I missed you this morning.
It was great to have you and Dottie here.
Here's the stuff on Chile I mentioned.
Best,
Bill.
Three months before that Clinton-Lamm conversation about the Chilean system, I had a long lunch in Santiago with journalist Joe Klein of Newsweek magazine. A few weeks afterwards, he wrote a compelling article entitled,[font color="green"] "If Chile can do it...couldn´t North America privatize its social-security system?" [/font color]He concluded by stating that "the Chilean system is perhaps the first significant social-policy idea to emanate from the Southern Hemisphere." (Newsweek, December 12, 1994).
I have reasons to think that probably this piece got Clintons attention and, given his passion for policy issues, he became a quasi expert on Chiles Social Security reform. Clinton was familiar with Klein, as the journalist covered the 1992 presidential race and went on anonymously to write the bestseller Primary Colors, a thinly-veiled account of Clintons campaign.
The mother of all reforms
While studying for a Masters and a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard University, I became enamored with Americas unique experiment in liberty and limited government. In 1835 Alexis de Tocqueville wrote the first volume of Democracy in America hoping that many of the salutary aspects of American society might be exported to his native France. I dreamed with exporting them to my native Chile.
So, upon finishing my Ph.D. in 1974 and while fully enjoying my position as a Teaching Fellow at Harvard University and a professor at Boston University, I took on the most difficult decision in my life: to go back to help my country rebuild its destroyed economy and democracy along the lines of the principles and institutions created in America by the Founding Fathers. Soon after I became Secretary of Labor and Social Security, and in 1980 I was able to create a fully funded system of personal retirement accounts. Historian Niall Ferguson has stated that this reform was the most profound challenge to the welfare state in a generation. Thatcher and Reagan came later. The backlash against welfare started in Chile.
But while de Tocquevilles 1835 treatment contained largely effusive praise of American government, the second volume of Democracy in America, published five years later, strikes a more cautionary tone. He warned that the American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money. In fact at some point during the 20th century, the culture of self reliance and individual responsibility that had made America a great and free nation was diluted by the creation of [font color="green"] an Entitlement State,[/font color] reminiscent of the increasingly failed European welfare state. What America needed was a return to basics, to the founding tenets of limited government and personal responsibility.
[font color="green"]In a way, the principles America helped export so successfully to Chile through a group of free market economists needed to be reaffirmed through an emblematic reform. I felt that the Chilean solution to the impending Social Security crisis could be applied in the USA.[/font color]
CONTINUED...
http://www.josepinera.org/articles/articles_clinton_chilean_model.htm
and Justice.
vintx
(1,748 posts)dana_b
(11,546 posts)you are obviously ahead of many others.
vintx
(1,748 posts)PeaceNikki
(27,985 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,742 posts)William769
(55,147 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)reformist2
(9,841 posts)msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Beacool
(30,250 posts)I hope that you have your feet up and enjoyed your well deserved coffee.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)UglyGreed
(7,661 posts)good to know. How was the weather in NC BTW???
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Obama campaign. Who here didn't know I work for Democrats?
desmiller
(747 posts)Number23
(24,544 posts)Please stop in!!!
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)were, in fact, being silenced.