Neoliberal corporatist Hillary swings wildly to the left after feet held to fire

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Thursday April 16, 2015 · 3:51 PM PDT

2015/04/16 · 15:51

Wow, I can't believe some of the things Hillary is saying these days:

"Let's finally do something about the growing economic inequality that is tearing our country apart," she said. "The top 1% of our households hold 22% of our nation's wealth. That is the highest concentration of wealth in a very small number of people since 1929. So let's close that gap. Let's start holding corporate America responsible, make them pay their fair share again. Enough with the corporate welfare. Enough with the golden parachutes. And enough with the tax incentives for companies to shift jobs overseas."

That's her ... in June 2007.

But look a what she's said more recently:

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Sunday September 26, 2010 · 11:49 AM PDT

2010/09/26 · 11:49

According to the latest Politico story:

A stunning Quinnipiac survey last week showed maverick Republican Carl Paladino within striking distance of Democrat Andrew Cuomo, with Paladino leading Cuomo 49 percent to 46 percent among male likely voters. Women favored Cuomo by 54 percent to 34 percent — a 15-point gap in Paladino’s support from women.

“There’s a bigger gender gap than I’m used to seeing,” said Quinnipiac pollster Doug Schwartz. “We’ve seen it in all our races.”

Other Quinnipiac polls have also found wide gender gaps that endure even with the large margins of error of subsamples, like one that found GOP Senate candidate Pat Toomey leading Rep. Joe Sestak in Pennsylvania, thanks to an 18-percentage-point margin among men.

Two other polls have found a 17 point gender gap in congressional polling, Quinlan Rosner has 12 point gap. But what is their headline? "Female Voters cool to Dem Efforts" Hello? That's not your story.

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Monday September 06, 2010 · 12:48 PM PDT

2010/09/06 · 12:48

THIS article about the new World Trade Center is already out of date.

The pace of construction is so swift that any status report these days gets overtaken rapidly by the arrival of new beams and columns, rebar and concrete, pipes and conduit. About 2,000 construction workers are on the job, weekends included, officials said, and that number will just keep rising. Visiting the site brings to mind the tumultuous first impressions of arrival in New York City: people, vehicles and objects are headed toward you from every direction at startling velocity, and the only prudent thing to do is to keep moving.

Two years ago, it was difficult to imagine how the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which owns the site of the trade center and is building most of it, could ever finish the eight-acre memorial in time for the 10th anniversary of the attack, on Sept. 11, 2011. Today, it is difficult to imagine what would stop them (though, given the site’s tortured history, the possibility shouldn’t be completely dismissed).

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Monday June 28, 2010 · 4:27 PM PDT

2010/06/28 · 16:27

Republicans are always claiming to be so worried about debt and how much debt the Obama administration is getting us into. Meteor Blades' diary does a good job at explaining who's really at fault for the public debt (don't expect the Republicans to admit it), but like the Republicans, he only addresses public debt.

One of the biggest misconceptions going around these days and one that needs to be hammered home again and again and again: private debt, not public debt, is what got us into this crisis. Yeah, George Bush ran deficits, but our economic recession/depression happened because of private debt bubbles, namely the decade-long housing bubble combined with consumer debt bubbles everywhere. The takeoff in private debt-to-GDP started around 1983.

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Wednesday June 23, 2010 · 9:26 AM PDT

2010/06/23 · 09:26

Paul Krugman's new post should put an end to any argument that Europe's debt crisis was caused by government spending:

Blue line = Germany public debt as % of GDP
Red line = Spain public debt as % of GDP (yes I know the chart above doesn't say 'public' but that's what it is)

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Friday September 29, 2006 · 2:34 PM PDT

2006/09/29 · 14:34

Those who know me from the last Presidential election cycle (and admittedly, few on this website do) know that I am no blind cheerleader for a party even when I support it. I was nearly unrelenting in my conviction in the 2004 cycle, from as early as late 2003, that George W. Bush was going to be reelected. Several macro-factors were in his favor which spoke beyond the day to day polls and ups and downs of the campaign.

I believe that similiarly, to understand why the Democrats will retake Congress this year--at least the House, you have to look at the long term nature of American politics and how that balance has been upset in recent years. Read More

Why the Political Compass is Wrong (and Libertarians are now on the Left)

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Tuesday July 25, 2006 · 9:04 AM PDT

2006/07/25 · 09:04

Many here on DailyKos have a pair of numbers beneath their comment boxes that look like this

~[-1.12, -3.67]~

I assume this refers to the person's political compass score. The political compass is a model of a political spectrum designed to be

an alternative to the originally French one-axis (Left versus Right) model, that has been widely adopted over the past two centuries

The name comes from the website I linked, which features a questionnaire which will rate your political views on two axes: Economic (Left-Right) and Social (Authoritarian-Libertarian). Read More

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