March 24, 2016

Why many super delegates pledged to Hillary may abandon her in droves before the convention.

If Hillary can't get the number of elected (pledged) delegates needed to win the nomination and the polls continue to show Sanders is doing much better against the Republican presidential candidate, the super delegates will abandon her in droves.

Especially those in states that Sanders won in primaries.

Democratic office holders don't want to go down with her in defeat in the General Election. They will get off that sinking ship and get
on the Bernie lifeboat.

It would become an "open" convention.

March 24, 2016

Hillary Clinton would almost certainly govern to the right of President Obama

Bernie Sanders could be the next Ronald Reagan

Believe it or not, the democratic socialist from Vermont could be a game-changer for American politics
By Conor Lynch

While President Obama is certainly historic in being the first African American president, he has not ushered in any kind of paradigm shift, as Roosevelt and Reagan did before him. Sadly, we are still living in a broadly neoliberal, pro-capital country and world, and Obama has governed only slightly to the left of Bill Clinton. And, while Hillary Clinton has attempted to promote herself as a pragmatic populist, one would have to be awfully uninformed to expect any kind of political transformation with her at the helm. Clinton is more of a poll-driven political realist than Obama, without much of a discernible ideology, and would almost certainly govern to the right of our current president.

So it is that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt) is the only current presidential candidate who could potentially bring Reagan-style transformation if elected. Like Reagan, Sanders has a central vision, with policy ideas that wouldn’t stand a chance of passing in our current Congress. His goal is to bring forth a “political revolution,” just as Reagan did. When Reagan ran for president, he captured the vote of many former Democrats — namely, Reagan Democrats. Today, Sanders wants to recapture their vote. And, like Reagan, the idea of Sanders becoming president was “inconceivable” to the establishment not too long ago. For many, it still is.

The similarities don’t stop there. Reagan was one of the most personally liked presidents in recent history, and Sanders has the best favorability and trustworthy ratings of all the current presidential candidates, Democrat or Republican. He has a stubborn passion that Reagan once brought to the White House, though on the opposite side of the political spectrum. Of course, the fact that Sanders would overtake Reagan as the oldest president-elect in history is purely coincidental.

One could argue that, if Sanders was elected president, he would inevitably disappoint, just like Obama. But he is a fundamentally different kind of politician. He is personally more like Reagan than Obama. And the differences don’t end with personality; perhaps one of the biggest difference between Obama 2008 and Sanders 2016 is that Obama’s largest contributor was Goldman Sachs, while the average donation to the Sanders campaign is about $27. Sanders believes in moral leadership, which starts with refusing to play by the current set of rules, where special interests hold politicians hostage. If that is not a sign of a transformative leadership, I don’t know what is.

See the full article at:

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/25/bernie_sanders_could_be_the_next_ronald_reagan/

March 24, 2016

Bernie Beats Hillary For First Time In New National Poll Released March 24!

Thursday, March 24

2016 Democratic Presidential Nomination Bloomberg Clinton 48, Sanders 49 Sanders +1

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

March 24, 2016

Bernie Beats ALL Republican Candidates for President In New Poll Released March 24

Thursday, March 24

General Election: Trump vs. Sanders Bloomberg Sanders 58, Trump 34 Sanders +24
General Election: Cruz vs. Sanders Bloomberg Sanders 52, Cruz 40 Sanders +12
General Election: Kasich vs. Sanders Bloomberg Sanders 46, Kasich 42 Sanders +4


Bernie now leads Hillary in ALL polls against Republicans running for President

Wednesday, March 23


General Election: Trump vs. Clinton Quinnipiac Clinton 46, Trump 40 Clinton +6
General Election: Trump vs. Sanders Quinnipiac Sanders 52, Trump 38 Sanders +14

General Election: Cruz vs. Clinton Quinnipiac Clinton 45, Cruz 42 Clinton +3
General Election: Cruz vs. Sanders Quinnipiac Sanders 50, Cruz 39 Sanders +11

General Election: Kasich vs. Clinton Quinnipiac Kasich 47, Clinton 39 Kasich +8
General Election: Kasich vs. Sanders Quinnipiac Sanders 44, Kasich 45 Kasich +1


Monday, March 21

General Election: Trump vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Clinton 53, Trump 41 Clinton +12
General Election: Trump vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 58, Trump 38 Sanders +20

General Election: Cruz vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Clinton 48, Cruz 48 Tie
General Election: Cruz vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 55, Cruz 42 Sanders +13

General Election: Kasich vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Kasich 51, Clinton 45 Kasich +6
General Election: Kasich vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 51, Kasich 45 Sanders +6

General Election: Trump vs. Clinton CBS News/NY Times Clinton 50, Trump 40 Clinton +10
General Election: Trump vs. Sanders CBS News/NY Times Sanders 53, Trump 38 Sanders +15

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

March 24, 2016

Keith Olbermann’s Guide to Surviving the Media Coverage of Donald Trump

Keith Olbermann’s Guide to Surviving the Media Coverage of Donald Trump
The longtime cable news anchor begs for some perspective.
By Keith Olbermann
March 21, 2016

STOP ASKING “WHY ARE THEY COVERING TRUMP ALL THE EFFING TIME?”

They’re doing it for the money.

Duhhhh.

Save yourself the aggravation of looking for journalistic malfeasance, political motives, secret cabals or sinister corporations acting stealthily behind the curtain.

No stealth. No curtain. No apologies.

“Man, who would have expected the ride we’re all having right now?” asked a giddy CBS Chairman Les Moonves late last month. “The money’s rolling in and this is fun.”

Moonves—to my experience the most honest executive in media (not that it’s a suffocatingly full elevator)—summed it up: “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS. … This is going to be a very good year for us. Sorry. It’s a terrible thing to say. But, bring it on, Donald. Keep going.”

What else do you expect from commercial-based broadcasting? Or commercial-based digital and print journalism?

Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/03/keith-olbermanns-guide-to-surviving-media-coverage-of-donald-trump-213751#ixzz43mdxKpUlFollow

March 23, 2016

Would a President Hillary Clinton organize a new "Department of Wall Street and Big Business"?

It would be a new cabinet level position and Debbie Wasserman Schultz could head it up.

Or Rahm Emanuel.

March 23, 2016

NEW POLLS RELEASED MARCH 23 Bernie leads Hillary against ALL Republicans for President

Bernie now leads Hillary in ALL polls against Republicans running for President

Wednesday, March 23


General Election: Trump vs. Clinton Quinnipiac Clinton 46, Trump 40 Clinton +6
General Election: Trump vs. Sanders Quinnipiac Sanders 52, Trump 38 Sanders +14

General Election: Cruz vs. Clinton Quinnipiac Clinton 45, Cruz 42 Clinton +3
General Election: Cruz vs. Sanders Quinnipiac Sanders 50, Cruz 39 Sanders +11

General Election: Kasich vs. Clinton Quinnipiac Kasich 47, Clinton 39 Kasich +8
General Election: Kasich vs. Sanders Quinnipiac Sanders 44, Kasich 45 Kasich +1



Monday, March 21

General Election: Trump vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Clinton 53, Trump 41 Clinton +12
General Election: Trump vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 58, Trump 38 Sanders +20

General Election: Cruz vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Clinton 48, Cruz 48 Tie
General Election: Cruz vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 55, Cruz 42 Sanders +13

General Election: Kasich vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Kasich 51, Clinton 45 Kasich +6
General Election: Kasich vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 51, Kasich 45 Sanders +6

General Election: Trump vs. Clinton CBS News/NY Times Clinton 50, Trump 40 Clinton +10
General Election: Trump vs. Sanders CBS News/NY Times Sanders 53, Trump 38 Sanders +15

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/

March 23, 2016

Bill Moyers: Hillary should publicly ask corporate elitists Emanuel and Debbie W. Schultz to resign

Time for These Two Democrats to Go
By:
Bill Moyers
Managing Editor, Moyers & Company 
Michael Winship
Senior writer, BillMoyers.com. Former senior writing fellow, Demos. President, Writers Guild of America, East
March 23, 2015


.... if Secretary Clinton really wants us to believe she’s no creature of the corporate and Wall Street money machine — despite more than $44 million in contributions from the financial industry since 2000 and her $675,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, not to mention several million more paid by other business interests for an hour or two of her time — she should pick up the gauntlet herself and publicly call for the departure of these two, although they are among her nearest and dearest. And we don’t mean Bill and Chelsea.

No, she should come right out and ask for the resignations of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Democratic National Committee Chair — and Florida congresswoman — Debbie Wasserman Schultz. In one masterstroke, she could separate herself from two of the most prominent of all corporate Democratic elitists.

Each is a Clinton disciple and devotee, each has profited mightily from the association and each represents all that is wrong with a Democratic Party that in the pursuit of money from rich donors and powerful corporations has abandoned those it once so proudly represented — working men and women.

Rahm Emanuel first came to prominence as head of the finance committee for Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, browbeating ever-increasing amounts of money out of fat cat donors, and following Clinton into the White House as a senior adviser attuned to the wishes and profits of organized wealth. Few pushed harder for NAFTA, a treaty that would cost a million or more working people their livelihood, or for the “three-strikes-and-you’re-out” crime bill which Clinton later admitted was a mistake. After alienating most of Washington with his arrogance and bluster Emanuel left in 1998 and went into investment banking in Chicago, making more than $16 million in less than three years.

As for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, she embodies the tactics that have eroded the ability of Democrats to once again be the party of the working class. As Democratic National Committee chair she has opened the floodgates for Big Money, brought lobbyists into the inner circle and oiled all the moving parts of the revolving door that twirls between government service and cushy jobs in the world of corporate influence

So imagine now the Democratic National Convention this July. Presiding over it will be, yes, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, tribune for a party of incumbency, money and crony capitalism. Follow her as she makes the rounds of private parties where zillionaire donors, lobbyists and consultants transact the real business of politics. Watch as she and Hizzoner Rahm Emanuel of Chicago greet and embrace. Then imagine those thousands of young people outside the convention hall who have arrived from long months of campaigning earnestly for reform of the party they see as an instrument of their future, as well as members of Black Lives Matter and other people of color for whom Rahm Emanuel is the incarnation of deceit and oppression.

Read the full article at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-moyers/rahm-emanuel-debbie-wasserman-schultz_b_9527768.html?

This pretty much nails it. Not much more really needs to be said about what this campaign represents.
It tells the truth. And the only candidate for President who has been telling the truth is Bernie Sanders.

Case closed.

March 22, 2016

'"Known as the "Senator from Wall Street" ' Hillary made 11 million in 14 months from Wall Street

Hillary Clinton’s Mixed Bag
By •Abby Scher


.... given her longstanding and continually renewed ties to corporate America, Clinton has a credibility gap that she needs to overcome, to win over progressives and turn out young people and the discouraged and disaffected who made the difference for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012.

She is struggling to show she would take on the economic threat posed by big finance. She was known as the “Senator from Wall Street” when she represented New York State. Out of office, she, along with her husband, earned millions in speaker fees from banks and Wall Street companies. She charged as much as $350,000 per talk and reportedly made $11 million from January 2014 to March 2015 alone, according to Federal Election Commission disclosure forms.

Senator Elizabeth Warren, the key legislative scourge of Wall Street, still had not endorsed Hillary as she moved into critical primary races, long after all the other Democratic women senators stepped up to give Hillary their support. That sends a concerning message. Clinton laid out a strategy to take on Wall Street in a recent op-ed in The New York Times, calling for adding teeth to the Dodd-Frank banking reform law, sending Wall Street lawbreakers to jail, and curbing banks with fees on short-term trading so they are not “too big to fail.”

But she stopped short of backing Warren and John McCain’s bill to reinstate the Glass-Steagall Act to once again split retail banking from investment banking. Instead, she controversially focused on the role of “shadow banks,” like big insurance in that op-ed. Yet there is new risk in the consolidation that has swept banking since the crisis: The nation’s five biggest banks now control 45 percent of bank assets, up from 25 percent in 2000.

Clinton has received significant backing from lobbyists tied to Big Oil, raising concerns among environmentalists. She came late to her position opposing the Keystone XL pipeline. The same goes for the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, which green groups say will basically overturn environmental protections, treating them as an illegal restraint to free trade. And she oddly champions her leadership role while Secretary of State during the Copenhagen climate change meetings that are generally regarded as a complete failure.

- See more at: http://www.progressive.org/news/2016/02/188575/hillary-clinton%E2%80%99s-mixed-bag#sthash.233Z8qm6.dpuf

March 22, 2016

Bernie now leads Hillary in ALL polls against Republicans running for President

Monday, March 21

General Election: Trump vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Clinton 53, Trump 41 Clinton +12
General Election: Trump vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 58, Trump 38 Sanders +20

General Election: Cruz vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Clinton 48, Cruz 48 Tie
General Election: Cruz vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 55, Cruz 42 Sanders +13

General Election: Kasich vs. Clinton CNN/ORC Kasich 51, Clinton 45 Kasich +6
General Election: Kasich vs. Sanders CNN/ORC Sanders 51, Kasich 45 Sanders +6

General Election: Trump vs. Clinton CBS News/NY Times Clinton 50, Trump 40 Clinton +10
General Election: Trump vs. Sanders CBS News/NY Times Sanders 53, Trump 38 Sanders +15

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/latest_polls/