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Ken Salazar is a former U.S. Senator from Colorado who now works at WilmerHale, one of the most influential lobbying firms in Washington. Some groups have criticized Salazar's selection due to his vocal support of fracking, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and the Keystone XL pipeline.
In addition to Ken Salazar, other leaders of the transition team include former Obama National Security Adviser Tom Donilon, Center for American Progress head Neera Tanden, former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm, and Maggie Williams, the director of Harvard's Institute of Politics.
[...] WilmerHale [represents] corporate clients across the board--Cigna, for instance. Cigna is a healthcare giant that is fighting for a merger with Anthem. WilmerHale represents them, Delta Airlines, Verizon, investment firms, a mining company. So, WilmerHale is a major law and lobbying firm.
Ken Salazar is not a registered lobbyist at WilmerHale; he is a partner there. Interestingly enough, Hillary Clinton had published a year ago an op-ed deriding the revolving door where lawmakers leave office and become lobbyists or help special interests. And she had specifically said that she was concerned about lawmakers who go into that line of work, public policy work, for corporate clients, but do not register as a lobbyist, which seems to fit the description of Ken Salazar.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Justin Case on Friday August 19 2016, @02:32AM
What did you expect? The Clintons have always been DINOs (Democrats In Name Only). That's why the stock market is going up in view of Hillary's inevitable victory against sham opponent Trump, who she probably bought long ago to put up a paper tiger opposition. I mean he doesn't even sound like he wants the job any more. He's doing everything he can to discredit himself.
The stock market did well during Bill's reign also. They're actually capitalists who pretend to be liberals just long enough to defeat the true leftists like Bernie, who never had a chance anyway due to the "rigged" superdelegates.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @03:13AM
Hillary is to the left of Obama on economic policy, but well to his right - really center-right - on foreign policy.
Also, Obama is intellectually sharper and more principled. But Obama is sharper than most politicians at that level, possibly excluding Romney, and more principled than most including Romney.
Notice, I didn't say "more principled than all". Yes, Bernie is probably more principled than Obama is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @10:21AM
He wouldn't have conceded to Clinton and said that supporting Clinton against Trump was more important than voting for who is morally/ethically right in your view. Instead he just supported the very establishment he's been criticizing for however many years.
There is almost noone you can respect in the system anymore, and even those you can may just turn on their principles at a critical future juncture, just like Sanders (or Obama...) did.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @03:20AM
The stock market did well during Bill's reign also
When you create a financial crisis and pump that much cash into the market... an 'irrational exuberance' or two later and you freeze the whole bond market.
My guess is that keystone pipeline thing changes as soon as Buffet gets ahold of her and this guy. He runs the railroad that carries the oil from canada which is why he was against it.
They create monopolies when it pleases them then turn around and pump in tons of cash to squeeze out others in making money. If it wasnt so grotesque you could almost the balls of it.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Gravis on Friday August 19 2016, @03:27AM
umm... well on day one he said Mexicans were rapists, so there isn't anywhere to go but up.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Friday August 19 2016, @04:01AM
I believe the year 2000 or there about was when Trump mysteriously went from D team to independent to R team where he submarined until championing the birthers. We also know he desperately wants to be part of the lizard people's human skin wearing inner circle, the Red Dresses, or at least that's the Narrative in the media. For all we know, he was initiated as an honorary Red Dress some point in the early naughts.
(Warning: David Icke's illustration of the Red Dresses cannot be unseen for anybody who wants to duckduck that.)
I realize I'm going to have to buy a large collection of hats, as my username would imply I should already own, and eat them all if Trump does get elected and doesn't immediately do something to get himself impeached (and convicted, leaving us with President Pence). I'm thinking it's far more likely he'll take up a cozy media role blaming HRC for the inevitable stock market crash that will happen between February to April next year. The stock market will do just fine through January as long as HRC is polling well and gets elected.
But I dunno. I said in another comment that Thuban's sun (Alpha Draconis, Thuban being likely the name of their planet, not the star as Wikipedia presents it) is dying (it's no longer fusing hydrogen iirc) so the lizard people have been stepping things up and inevitably getting sloppy.
Wolfram Alpha tells me that Thuban is 308 light years from here. According to astrometics [wolframalpha.com], an Intrepid class such as the Voyager would take just under 26 days [wolframalpha.com] to make the journey at maximum warp (well, probably more since even an Intrepid class can't go hammer down for more than 2–3 days, but definitely less than a year). I'd thought that the cessation of hydrogen fusion still meant that a star had a few million good years left, but I guess the lizard people are being proactive or something catastrophic is on the verge of happening with Alpha Draconis. Anybody have number on Goa'uld Ha'tak ships or the O'Neill (two ls) just to cover all bases?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @02:34PM
We need a -0 WTF moderation option.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @04:30AM
If the GOP had handed Slick Willie a list of what they wanted, he could hardly have made them happier. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [truth-out.org]
...and, of course, Hillary was his head cheerleader.
In those years, she also (purposely?) botched single-payer healthcare.
true leftists like Bernie
When describing what he means by "democratic socialism", Bernie said specifically that he doesn't believe in collective ownership. [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [wsws.org]
Like FDR and LBJ, Bernie is a Liberal Democrat.
WRT economics, he may asymptotically approach the Right/Left dividing line, but Bernie will never cross over to the anti-Capitalist side.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @04:41AM
The Clintons have always been DINOs (Democrats In Name Only).
Most of the democratic party politicians are corrupt and authoritarian, much like the republicans. It's the ones who aren't corrupt who are the DINOs, sadly. If you want a liberal or progressive party, look no further than the greens.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 19 2016, @05:30AM
look no further than the greens
Disagree.
...but you are headed in a good direction.
"If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten."
Look at EVERYONE on the ballot.
Find out what each stands for (and won't stand for) and pick the one whom you think would represent you best.
...and remember that there will be more elections in the future.
Once you've found people/parties who are fighting The Good Fight, encourage them to keep doing that.
(It wouldn't be a bad idea to attend that party's events and perhaps change your party affiliation.)
I mentioned Lincoln elsewhere in the (meta)thread.
Before he was elected President, no one had seen a Republican holding that office.
The tide can shift.
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