O'Malley goes after Clinton by name in Wall Street attack.

[elleng]

Martin O'Malley did something new on Monday: He used Hillary Clinton's name to knock the Democratic frontrunner.

During an interview with Concord New Radio in New Hampshire, O'Malley hit Clinton for what he called "long-established and well known" ties to Wall Street that he said make Clinton less likely to adequately fight big banks.

"My proposals go a lot further than Secretary Clinton's," O'Malley said. "Her closeness with big banks on Wall Street is sincere, it's heart-felt, long-established and well known."

He added, "I don't have those ties. I am independent of those big banks on Wall Street. And my proposals reflect that, because I would restore robust prosecution and deterrents, I would reinstate Glass-Steagall to separate the speculative banking from the commercial and depository banking. And I think most American believe that's common sense."

Since announcing his campaign earlier this year, O'Malley and his team have been more than willing to knock Clinton, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination -- but without using her name. Instead of saying Hillary Clinton, O'Malley has highlighted issues like trade, Wall Street and foreign wars, areas where his team has argued he has a more liberal record than Clinton.

But Monday's statement was a departure from that tactic, and evidence that O'Malley -- who is barely registering in most national polls lately -- plans to step up the rhetoric against Clinton.

O'Malley described Wall Street reform and the economy as "one of the very serious disagreements, policy disagreements in this campaign."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/27/politics/martin-omalley-hillary-clinton-wall-street/

[cocainecowboy]

1. Martin O'Malley needs to expand his attack and show, with facts, why Clinton can't be for the 99%

while faithfully lapping up the 1% demands, and assuring them that she is a Janus.

[askew]

2. I'd prefer he go after her on climate.

Her plan was a joke.

The media is getting the vapors from O'Malley saying something negative about Hillary. But, if we want someone better as the nominee than Hillary, someone has to go after her weak policy proposals and her weak record on these issues. Sanders won't do it so that leaves O'Malley.

[elleng]

3. Both issues are important askew, imo;

VERY important. 'Wall Street's' MY #1 issue, and 'vapors' is good to get attention of those who recognize it as such; SHOULD be millions of us.

Yes, her climate plan was/is a joke. She'll 'try' to fluff it up a bit, I expect, but without hitting fossil fuels, it will continue to be a joke. Any candidate who doesn't recognize HUGE benefits to the economy of clean energy new jobs doesn't deserve my vote.

[artislife]

4. This is one of the reasons why it is important

[elleng]

5. Yes, it's critically important, artislife.

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. Correct Wall Street reform and correct attitude on Climate change

run parallel to each other.


Capitalism vs. the Climate

By Naomi Klein - November 10th, 2011
Published in The Nation

There is a question from a gentleman in the fourth row.

He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland’s Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually “an attack on middle-class American capitalism.” His question for the panelists, gathered in a Washington, DC, Marriott Hotel in late June, is this: “To what extent is this entire movement simply a green Trojan horse, whose belly is full with red Marxist socioeconomic doctrine?”

Here at the Heartland Institute’s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, the premier gathering for those dedicated to denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, this qualifies as a rhetorical question. Like asking a meeting of German central bankers if Greeks are untrustworthy. Still, the panelists aren’t going to pass up an opportunity to tell the questioner just how right he is.

Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute who specializes in harassing climate scientists with nuisance lawsuits and Freedom of Information fishing expeditions, angles the table mic over to his mouth. “You can believe this is about the climate,” he says darkly, “and many people do, but it’s not a reasonable belief.” Horner, whose prematurely silver hair makes him look like a right-wing Anderson Cooper, likes to invoke Saul Alinsky: “The issue isn’t the issue.” The issue, apparently, is that “no free society would do to itself what this agenda requires…. The first step to that is to remove these nagging freedoms that keep getting in the way.”

Claiming that climate change is a plot to steal American freedom is rather tame by Heartland standards. Over the course of this two-day conference, I will learn that Obama’s campaign promise to support locally owned biofuels refineries was really about “green communitarianism,” akin to the “Maoist” scheme to put “a pig iron furnace in everybody’s backyard” (the Cato Institute’s Patrick Michaels). That climate change is “a stalking horse for National Socialism” (former Republican senator and retired astronaut Harrison Schmitt). And that environmentalists are like Aztec priests, sacrificing countless people to appease the gods and change the weather (Marc Morano, editor of the denialists’ go-to website, ClimateDepot.com).

Most of all, however, I will hear versions of the opinion expressed by the county commissioner in the fourth row: that climate change is a Trojan horse designed to abolish capitalism and replace it with some kind of eco-socialism. As conference speaker Larry Bell succinctly puts it in his new book Climate of Corruption, climate change “has little to do with the state of the environment and much to do with shackling capitalism and transforming the American way of life in the interests of global wealth redistribution.”

Read the rest of the article in The Nation

http://www.thenation.com/article/capitalism-vs-climate/

[delrem]

6. Good. I like O'Malley more and more.

[elleng]

7. Glad to hear it, delrem.

[delrem]

8. Lotta time, elleng, and a certain candidate is tanking fast.

O'Malley is so clearly better.

Unfortunately the press has been deplorable so far. Unbelievably negligent. Even in the "leftist press" they spend all this time yakking about the clown car, none talking about actual positions of actual Democratic candidates - satisfied if they can report on a horse-race between Hillary and Bernie. And even that reportage is the lowest of the low.

But there's plenty of time left and a certain candidate is tanking. A real debate might still happen yet.

[elleng]

15. I am so happy to see you saying this, delrem!

PLENTY of time, but some DUers say it's too late for him, he 'got in' too late! And there's been HUGE negligence on part of press. I'm pleased to see local press, Iowa, NH, etc, actually picking up stories and opinion pieces about and by MO'M, so their local electorates can LEARN!

A REAL DEBATE WILL happen! and look at what I received in e.mail today, from DWS of all people:
'We'll fly you out to hear from the next President. (Save our $, please!)

I wanted to make sure you were the first to hear some big news:

The five major Democratic candidates for President -- Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O'Malley, Lincoln Chafee, and Jim Webb -- will be speaking at our annual Summer Meeting in Minneapolis next month.

And you have a chance to join them there, too.

This meeting is already one of our biggest, most exciting events of the year, but now that our entire presidential field will be attending, I can't think of anywhere else I'd rather be.

If you win, we'll fly you and a guest out to Minneapolis and give you VIP access to hear directly from Hillary, Bernie, Martin, Lincoln, and Jim.

There might not be another opportunity quite like this -- so don't miss your chance to win! Pitch in $3 or whatever you can to elect Democrats and be automatically entered today.'


The IMPORTANT part: The five major Democratic candidates for President -- Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Martin O'Malley, Lincoln Chafee, and Jim Webb -- will be speaking at our annual Summer Meeting in Minneapolis next month.



We will SO beat the pants off of the repugs!!!

[Comrade Grumpy]

9. She's certainly open to attack on that front. n/t

[oasis]

10. O'Malley wasn't nasty and told the truth. What more can I say?

I'm for the reinstatement of Glass-Steagall too.

[Freddie Stubbs]

12. He will become more and more desperate as his campaign continues to flounder

He is a true 1%er (in the polls).

[askew]

13. Yes, pointing out policy differences between himself and his rivals is desperate.

No, wait. That's the democratic process. Your candidate will actually have to earn the nomination.

[think]

14. Thank you Martin O'Malley for your support of reinstating Glass-Steagall /nt

[bigtree]

16. Elizabeth Warren thanked him

Elizabeth Warren ?@elizabethforma Jul 23
I'm pleased that Sen @BernieSanders and Gov @MartinOMalley are supporting @TammyBaldwin's bill to slow down the Wall Street revolving door.

This is truly a dividing line between the status quo politicians in Washington, including Democrats, and this progressive push in our primary.

[elleng]

17. Yes, clearly a dividing line.

Interesting (and sometimes saddening) to see who 'falls' where.

[bigtree]

18. you can see an agressive push from establishment Dems

...to dismiss the new legislation as dead in the water. That's a huge indicator that our candidates who support the change are on the right track to upend the coziness between party regulars and big banks. It's also good to have Liz Warren in front in the Senate on these issues.