DirkGently
DirkGently's JournalClinton has no interest past the ACA.
The meaning I take from Clinton's argument that reaching for single-payer would be destructive to the ACA is not that she wants to proceed incrementally as a practical matter, and worries Sanders would recklessly damage the ACA by moving too quickly.
What I'm hearing is that Clinton *absolutely* plans on stopping with tweaks to the ACA, which will not be enough going forward.
Pushing the argument to the point of putting Chelsea out there to claim Sanders' plans would strip away the current healthcare of "millions and millions and millions" (wow -- way to commit to an overstatement by the way) is just bad faith.
I worry about Clinton being one-term if elected. The way her people turn her strengths into weakness trying to be crafty is strange and embarrassing. She's still ahead, but her campaign is prone to these little cheap shots that destroy goodwill and make things needlessly harder.
Well no. "Natural born citizen" is the requirement to be President.
It's not simple either way, but there is what appears to be a reasonable argument that means "born within the borders of the United States."
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Article I of the Constitution grants Congress the power to naturalize an alien — that is, Congress may remove an alien’s legal disabilities, such as not being allowed to vote. But Article II of the Constitution expressly adopts the legal status of the natural-born citizen and requires that a president possess that status. However we feel about allowing naturalized immigrants to reach for the stars, the Constitution must be amended before one of them can attain the office of president. Congress simply does not have the power to convert someone born outside the United States into a natural-born citizen.
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The debates on the matter reveal that the congressmen were aware that such children were not citizens and had to be naturalized; hence, Congress enacted a statute to provide for them. Moreover, that statute did not say the children were natural born, only that they should “be considered as” such. Finally, as soon as Madison, then a member of Congress, was assigned to redraft the statute in 1795, he deleted the phrase “natural born,” and it has never reappeared in a naturalization statute.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ted-cruz-is-not-eligible-to-be-president/2016/01/12/1484a7d0-b7af-11e5-99f3-184bc379b12d_story.html
How do you legislate or negotiate against your
friends and benefactors?
This is to me at the heart of substantive, rather than emotional objections to another Clinton in the White House. The wealthiest, most self-interested people and entities in the world are part of their social circle and integral to their personal financial successes, and the lifeblood of their extra-political endeavors.
When the Supreme Court said that massive campaign donations weren't a threat to democracy without a specific, "quid pro quo" exchange of money for influence, we laughed and shook our heads. Wealthy people don't give you a million dollars and expect nothing in return.
How do you, even if you want to, turn on a Goldman Sachs or Deutsche Bank or Morgan Stanley that like you so much they pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to hear you speak?
Does anyone think those firms were paying to hear about how their industry has run amok, and needs to be held accountable for the trillions they pocketed from the American economy?
The Clintons are not just friendly to Wall Street -- they are in business with them. They have built their lives and their fortunes out of relationships with the people who bit the heart of middle-class wealth, chewed and swallowed it, then insisted they were doing "God's work."
As Clinton tries to talk tough about how she will stand up to America's biggest banks, her Democratic rivals are likely to remind voters just how cozy she's been with Wall Street.
Clinton made $3.15 million in 2013 alone from speaking to firms like Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and UBS, according to the list her campaign released of her speaking fees.
"Her closeness with big banks on Wall Street is sincere, it's heart-felt, long-established and well known," former Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley has said on the campaign trail.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/13/investing/hillary-clinton-wall-street/
They can do that if they want, but no one who thinks the banks and the financial industry need to be better regulated should expect that to come from one of Wall Street's best friends in the world.
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