“Now we’re going to go for the big enchilada, which is Hillary.”

[kpete]

“Now we’re going to go for the big enchilada, which is Hillary.”

— Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), quoted by the Baltimore Sun, reflecting on being the first female Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate in her own right.

More enchilada:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-women-in-congress-20150306-story.html#page=1

[djean111]

1. As a woman, any argument for Hillary that includes "FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT" as a selling point -

leaves me cold.

[DetlefK]

4. Hey! The US is a post-racial society because the president is a black guy!

[L0oniX]

5. +1

[Thinkingabout]

7. Though she would be labeled forever as the first woman president and having this occur in my

Lifetime is exciting does not equal a qualification. If a male had her experience he would be a winner by a long shot. Perhaps when you hear someone say Hillary as the "FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT" you can say "This person is happy about seeing a woman as president".

[djean111]

9. This first woman thing is being used as a REASON to support Hillary. That is what leaves me cold.

[Thinkingabout]

12. I am not using this as a reason to suport Hillary, she has a record on her standing on the issues.

I agree the point of being the first woman president is not a qualification, as I said a man with her qualifications would be a really good candidate. Get warmed by the fact she sponsored a bill to increase minimun wages, thinks wage disparity needs attention, we know she is interested in healthcare, women's issue and education.

[djean111]

13. It the TPP sucks out enough jobs, or makes wages lower in order to compete with poorer countries,

all of those things will be moot.

[Thinkingabout]

14. Perhaps the reasoning is the result of NAFTA, don't know. It is like buying a car

And then finding out the car is a lemon, would everyone refuse to buy another car because one purchase resulted in being a lemon and remaining without transportaion is better than purchasing another car.

[djean111]

15. The TPP looks worse, to me, than NAFTA. Investor State courts, not sovereign courts, judged by

corporate lawyers, no appeal.
As for your example, I would not buy another car from the same company. That is different than not buying another car.
And the TPP, and TTIP, are merely different cars from the same company.

[TheKentuckian]

16. Maybe one can figure out what the cause of the defect was and stop buying cars with the same issues?

Perhaps consider the problems with the K car won't be solved by buying a Reliant (aka the same damn car with a different label plate slapped on) or by going to the same lot and buying the same car again from a different salesperson.

How many ways are we going to keep tricking ourselves into buying the same shitty car?

[MineralMan]

2. Looks like she'll be a vocal supporter of candidate Clinton.

There will be many, many others following in Mikulsky's footsteps on this. Detractors will also appear.

[Thinkingabout]

3. It is going to be exciting to log get the primary started. A primary allows coverge for the DNC

Platform.

[djean111]

6. Well, the DNC needs time to dust it off and read it. So not too soon.

Why not just have the entire TPP document, when it is finished and mere mortals are allowed to bask in its entirety, as the platform.
The platform is really just a campaign speech.

[Thinkingabout]

8. Why not wait to see what TPP has and then critize the contents.

[djean111]

10. Enough has been leaked. By the time we are allowed to see all of it, too late.

Obama wants Fast Track so that nothing in it can be changed. And Hillary helped write it, and champions it.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. 'in her own right' seems a dodgy way to put it

Hattie Caraway won 3 elections to the Senate, as a Democrat, in the 1930s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattie_Caraway

Is the Baltimore Sun saying those don't count as 'in her own right' since she was appointed to fill the time (about 2 months) between the death of her husband and the special election that she won? Pah.

[MADem]

17. Incumbency--however so slight--conveys enormous advantage.

You have to be a fucking IDIOT to lose when you have that advantage.

See Brown, Scott.

[William769]

18. Kick & highly recommended.