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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Ken Salazar to lead her transition team! WTF? [View all]
He's horrible, no one should support that asshole leading anything. Pro fracking, shitty on the environment, pro TPP, and Pro Keystone XL.
Hillary Clinton has named her transition team should she be elected in November, and the rosteras many fearedis a whos-who of establishment figures, including former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, who has a maligned track record on climate.
The team will also include former national security adviser Tom Donilon, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, president of the Center for American Progress (CAP) Neera Tanden, and director of Harvard Universitys Institute of Politics Maggie Williams. Two of the campaigns policy advisers, Ed Meier and Ann OLeary, will also serve as co-executive directors.
Salazar, whose career includes positions both in government and corporate Washington, D.C. firms, has previously pushed for projects that are reviled among environmental activists, such as fracking, the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), and the Keystone XL pipeline.
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Historically, too many Wall Street executives and corporate insiders have traveled through the revolving door between private industry and government, the letter stated. The result of this practice is that the interests of elites are over-represented in Washington.
http://m.truthdig.com/report/item/clinton_transition_team_headed_by_anti-climate_power_broker_20160816
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His environmental record, the fact he is a lobbyist though unregistered doesn't bother you?
JRLeft
Aug 2016
#6
This country has moved so far to the right that the actual middle is called far or extreme left.
JRLeft
Aug 2016
#29
Seems odd to predicate liking someone simply on who else may or may not dislike them as well
LanternWaste
Aug 2016
#34
it's pretty obvious you use phrases in which you don't know the definition.
Exilednight
Aug 2016
#63
Strange, it seems you have no understanding of what constitutes the Extreme Left. eom
MohRokTah
Aug 2016
#71
My seven year old does the same thing when she knows she lost an argument.
Exilednight
Aug 2016
#104
Man, if you think you hold all that is true about what is and what is not Extreme Left,...
MohRokTah
Aug 2016
#107
That's the problem I usually find. Everyone wants an echo chamber, and when someone disagrees they a
Exilednight
Aug 2016
#123
The far left (Greens ET AL).. those who will never back the Democrat before or after an election..
Demsrule86
Aug 2016
#171
I have been watching for some time for what that trip-wire of left/right is.
fleabiscuit
Aug 2016
#133
So you have a big framed picture of Joe Lieberman in your living room, then?
Warren DeMontague
Aug 2016
#169
This has to do with the Extreme Left labeling anybody who isn't "PURE" as a Corporatist.
MohRokTah
Aug 2016
#210
Depending on issues, many. Pre Reagan/Clinton the country was more liberal.
George Eliot
Aug 2016
#199
support for our land and water through fracking and huge pipelines - not wanted by anyone I know
womanofthehills
Aug 2016
#255
Salazar quote: "We know that, from everything we’ve seen, there’s not a single case where hydraulic
womanofthehills
Aug 2016
#182
It's stuff like this that make it so easy to be dismissive of the far left.
NurseJackie
Aug 2016
#20
If they were, they'd pick better candidates. I mean, seriously now ... Stein?
NurseJackie
Aug 2016
#41
Yeah, you're right. It's not a clean environment is essential to human life.
Exilednight
Aug 2016
#48
No, it's actually the regressive, privliged, amoral, puritopian rainbows and pixie dust
Maru Kitteh
Aug 2016
#166
I guess someone will have to figure out if strategic wins but occasionally compromising are worse
NurseJackie
Aug 2016
#59
They're emotional voters. They love, love, love and so are blind to the meaning
George Eliot
Aug 2016
#206
One of the major reasons many of us on what you term the "far left", have been critical of the ACA
cali
Aug 2016
#83
That's true, but intentionally sabotaging or not supporting the best candidate ...
NurseJackie
Aug 2016
#195
We're already failing because are not doing what scientists have told us to do.
JRLeft
Aug 2016
#249
And putting forward "pure" candidates (who have zero chance of winning) helps, HOW?
NurseJackie
Aug 2016
#250
Why would I read Bill Press who like many who are ...I won't say on the left
Demsrule86
Aug 2016
#242
The only way you can post here and disrupt is pretending you are to the left of everyone else here.
Old and In the Way
Aug 2016
#134
He's as shitty a pick now, as he was when Obama foisted him upon us in Interior.
villager
Aug 2016
#27
Yeah and after he was shown the error of his ways by electing Republicans...things were so much
Demsrule86
Aug 2016
#50
Um, he was part of the "error of ways" that led to the election of Republicans in the midterms
villager
Aug 2016
#52
He was an awful choice for Interior, a squandering of "hope and change." Timorous Democrats lose
villager
Aug 2016
#75
They showed us! We'll piss on that mandate and... wait? What? No one's still voting!? nt
villager
Aug 2016
#121
So our retroactive excuse is that the majorities we had the first two years...
villager
Aug 2016
#141
These people need to blame ... rather than hold their candidate responsible.
George Eliot
Aug 2016
#211
We never had a working majority ...not with Kennedy ill and then Scott Brown, Lieberman
Demsrule86
Aug 2016
#172
Somehow the climate is not changing "incrementally." Nor has it been "incremental" for those priced
villager
Aug 2016
#252
Yes, re: Gerrymander. But we disagree on that first two years. I think they were woefully
villager
Aug 2016
#267
Just a handful of people say that shit. Alert on their posts and put them on ignore
emulatorloo
Aug 2016
#38
Why anyone left of center should be cozying up to fracking supporters is beyond me. NT
a la izquierda
Aug 2016
#137
And you and your buddies get to judge who is progressive and who isn't I suppose.
Demsrule86
Aug 2016
#112
I don't agree with Obama on everthing either. I don't like the TPP for one example.
Demsrule86
Aug 2016
#138
It is just a term...I see no stigma in it...nothing wrong with being left...I am a
Demsrule86
Aug 2016
#173
You show wisdom again by staying neutral and avoiding name calling and blaming. Thank you.
George Eliot
Aug 2016
#217
Exactly my thoughts. Trump is hastening that merging of right and DLC centrist dems.
George Eliot
Aug 2016
#218
We (heart) the Keystone pipeline - I want one of those running through my yard
womanofthehills
Aug 2016
#194
Actually, I almost had a KinderMorgan pipeline running through my property
womanofthehills
Aug 2016
#256
Clinton should speak to Obama about Salazar and why he 'resigned'. Years ago that 'Bundy' crap was
Sunlei
Aug 2016
#70
It's exhausting isn't it? I mean there are other places on the web to trash Democrats, this.....
Tarheel_Dem
Aug 2016
#90
It's an appointment that I don't like. Period. If that makes me a traitor or loony left or
cali
Aug 2016
#85
And you, with the greatest of easen repeatedly toss out false smears. I find that..
cali
Aug 2016
#181
He most likely was choosen because he was part of the Obama Administration as
still_one
Aug 2016
#103
Can we please be outraged about this after the election? [win the election first,ok]
bluestateguy
Aug 2016
#168
I support this choice. Salazar charted a measured course as cabinet official
bluedye33139
Aug 2016
#228