2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumInteresting two comments from Stephanopoulos show
DOWD: I think the biggest part of the problem, and you I think highlighted it in the panel before ours about what has gone on in the Supreme Court. The most powerful people in Washington today are the nine unelected people in the Supreme Court.
It's no longer the Congress and it's no longer the president. I think we should have a vibrant Congress who takes on the president legislatively and passes and pushes the president, and doesn't do these things. Both sides are -- I think have been reduced to stunts. The president has been reduced to stunts, and the Congress has been reduced to stunts.
Also
While talking about Hillary's wealth
VANDEN HEUVEL: But think of our history. Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy, these were not paupers. I mean, it's not about your wealth. It's about which side you're on, what you lay out for working people in this country, and what kind of economy for working people you want to build.
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/week-transcript-president-obama/story?id=24347932&singlePage=true
Babel_17
(5,400 posts)rurallib
(62,471 posts)no poor person will be elected President. But there are people who have empathy for the poor that have been elected.
delrem
(9,688 posts)That's correct, but it leaves something out: it's about how one attained their wealth, and what that says about their loyalties.
C'mon, Mitt Romney? The Koch Bros.??
Bill and Hillary Clinton are certainly cleaner than that. But by how much? Their speaking fees are astronomical and the wealth they take in from that quarter is vast, and the clients they work for are in large part dubious, at best. A US/Columbia free-trade agreement? Direct pay from Goldman-Sachs of $400,000.00 for 2 hrs work?
definition:
lobby
noun: ...
verb: ...
1. seek to influence (a politician or public official) on an issue.
It passes understanding to suppose that these $billion$ clients would ever spend so much per hour (I mean, these same clients want to eliminate the minimum wage, etc.) just to hear some ephemeral words uttered by two "darlings of the left".
Not possible. It's necessary that some quid pro quo is mutually understood in these exchanges of cash for services.