tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post1821130314533657353..comments2024-01-17T00:45:37.075-08:00Comments on Bud Meyers: Elizabeth Warren wooed on Air Force OneBud Meyershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-90391738503581892172015-09-10T16:21:33.650-07:002015-09-10T16:21:33.650-07:00could not agree more Bud. Everybody except the 1%...could not agree more Bud. Everybody except the 1% is getting the shaft. My parents, members of the "silent generation" disagree, <br /><br />the last time the US government maybe addressed the interests of the working class was perhaps LBJ's administration.<br /><br />But of course he had an absolutely disastrous foreign policy pushed upon him by the Reich Wing.allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840237717017411534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-6449445423594598732015-09-10T12:36:26.946-07:002015-09-10T12:36:26.946-07:00Poll Update on Sept. 10, 2015
New Hampshire:
Bern...Poll Update on Sept. 10, 2015<br /><br />New Hampshire:<br />Bernie Sanders 41%<br />Hillary Clinton 32%<br /><br />Iowa:<br />Bernie Sanders 41%<br />Hillary Clinton 40%Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-23899124143249197112015-09-09T20:42:59.914-07:002015-09-09T20:42:59.914-07:00Compare the "mainstream" positions of th...Compare the "mainstream" positions of the GOP now with that of the GOP in the 1950s or 1960s — or for that matter, the 1980s. The extreme right is now the mainstream GOP. (Donald Trump might be a "Progressive Republican" in drag.)<br /><br />Now do the same with the Democratic party. The "New Deal Democrats" are out of power. They are called "socialists" and "far left" by the corporate media, while the actual power-holders in the Democratic party are to the right of Eisenhower and Nixon.<br /><br />Southern Dixiecrats became the Republican base. With the racists out of the Democratic party, that party became more diverse — but they also became "moderate" Democrats (Third Way/Pro-Corporate/Centrist Democrats.)<br /><br />The only "left" in the Democratic Party are the 15% of the Progressive Democrats who are members of the Progressive Caucus. They sit in the House of Representatives. There is one senator by the name of Bernie Sanders, the only one who is a member of that caucus.<br /><br />If Americans are really fed up with both the Dems and the GOP, they should elect more progressives to Congress. Check out The Progressive Promise: http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/the-progressive-promise/<br /><br />But that won't happen because a progressive party (FDR's party) no longer has a chance in this country with so much $$$ corrupting our politics — with plutocrats influencing our elections and multi-national corporations governing our country. "Democracy" in America is now a farce.<br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-24003520623860881742015-09-09T18:11:56.061-07:002015-09-09T18:11:56.061-07:00Joe Biden is an adherent to the DLC, now defunct i...Joe Biden is an adherent to the DLC, now defunct i believe but essentially 3-rd way democrats ... their views are now antiquated and do not represent progressive democrats or the american voting public. They only seek to preserve a seat at the table.<br /><br />Notice that there is no equivalent to the DLC on the right... point of fact the republicans just keep moving further and further to the right .... dragging the country along with it. The moderate republican is extinct.<br /><br />I think i'll donate to Bernie Sanders... he deserves my support.allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06840237717017411534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-50538382082419094702015-09-08T10:13:44.004-07:002015-09-08T10:13:44.004-07:00CNN is making BREAKING NEWS from a Bloomberg artic...CNN is making BREAKING NEWS from a Bloomberg article showing results from a Monmouth University Poll* that has Joe Biden ahead of Bernie Sanders.<br /><br />http://www.monmouth.edu/assets/0/32212254770/32212254991/32212254992/32212254994/32212254995/30064771087/a35d9ff8-45d4-476d-8751-f0f2e6b54a7b.pdf<br /><br />http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-09-08/biden-inches-ahead-of-sanders-in-national-poll-as-clinton-slips<br /><br />Hillary Clinton 42% <br />Joe Biden 22% <br />Bernie Sanders 20% <br /><br />* Last week the Monmouth University poll used a national random sample of 1,009 adults age 18 and older — 707 contacted by a live interviewer on a landline telephone and 302 contacted by a live interviewer on a cell phone — and all in English.<br /><br />So do we now have MSNBC routing for Hillary and CNN routing for Biden -- while the American people are routing for Sanders?<br /><br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7895164153505105997.post-37345270743381527732015-09-08T09:13:29.020-07:002015-09-08T09:13:29.020-07:00Hillary Clinton hasn't been a leader — she'...Hillary Clinton hasn't been a leader — she's been a follower, as she followed Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. <br /><br />Hillary's "ideas" for college tuition, campaign finance reform, tax reform (etc.) came from Warren and Sanders. And her versions of "reform" are watered-down versions of Warren's and Sanders'.<br /><br />Now we have Joe Biden who is doing the same thing. We have "Third Way" pro-corporate Democrats (Hillary and Joe) mimicking real progressive changers (Liz and Bernie) in an attempt to keep the status quo of the Democratic political party's machine.<br /><br />The Washington Post reports, "Hillary Clinton will propose a federal matching program for small donors to dilute the influence of big money in the political process. She wants to lower the federal contribution limit for presidential and congressional donors who participate in the program, though she hasn’t said to what amount."<br /><br />Hillary's "idea" for campaign finance reform is almost laughable because 1) she isn't sincere 2) she never mentioned this before Warren and Sanders made it an important issue 3) she still fundraises from rich campaign donors.<br /><br />While it's understandable the Democrats would want this change in campaign finance reform (because union membership is down and corporations give large sums to Republicans — so the Democrats are forced to fight fire with fire). But why has Hillary been personally getting so much attention in the media for this, and not so much Bernie Sanders?<br /><br />http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-proposes-new-caps-on-political-donations/2015/09/07/5322f04e-55af-11e5-8bb1-b488d231bba2_story.html <br /><br />ZIGNAL VISUAL: Joe Biden getting way more attention from pundits on TV than the grassroots on Twitter. Our analytics partners at Zignal Labs flag a persisting discrepancy between how much the vice president’s trial balloon is getting covered by the mainstream media vis-a-vis generating buzz among real people. While Bernie Sanders has caught fire on social medial (the #FeelTheBern hashtag has broken through in popular culture), Biden is still a Twitter afterthought. <br />Bud Meyershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02065020063363023395noreply@blogger.com