Showing posts with label Nancy Pelosi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nancy Pelosi. Show all posts
Friday, March 19, 2021
Weekend Reading
Republican lawmakers refuse to approve any building projects in Evers' $2.4 billion planKleefisch Spokesperson Compares Evers to DahmerNew Support for Friedman's Plucking ModelAnnouncer for high school basketball game uses racial slur after team kneels during anthemPrivate Schools Have Become Truly ObscenePelosi says GOP will vote against COVID-19 relief and then take credit for itA $60 billion surprise in the Covid relief bill: Tax hikesPandemic Bill Would Cut Taxes By An Average of $3,000, With Most Relief Going to Low- And Middle-Income Households.Helping Wisconsin Voters Would Be Harder—or Even a Criminal Act—in Some Republican ProposalsHere Are the 8 Democrats Who Just Joined GOP to Vote Down Sanders' $15 Minimum Wage Amendment
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Midweek Reading
How highways make traffic worse
The Hoax Master of Wisconsin
The New York Stock Exchange president says the stock market is not a casino. Here’s what academic research says.
Stock Market Gambling Around the World and Market Efficiency
‘Real World’ Republicans Demand To Know Why Nancy Pelosi Didn't Stop Jan. 6 Riots
A closer look at senators who voted to convict Clinton, not Trump
Let's tell the truth about the Republican Party: It's the real enemy of the people
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Midweek Reading
The Gadfly of American Plutocracy
How Compass Became the Bane of Real Estate
How One of the Reddest States Became the Nation’s Hottest Weed MarketWisconsin Supreme Court upholds Biden's win, rejects Trump lawsuitThe Election is Over. Wisconsin Turns to Redistricting.A new California bill would require a 4-year degree to become a copEverything We’ve Learned About Modern Economic Theory Is Wrong
How Compass Became the Bane of Real Estate
How One of the Reddest States Became the Nation’s Hottest Weed MarketWisconsin Supreme Court upholds Biden's win, rejects Trump lawsuitThe Election is Over. Wisconsin Turns to Redistricting.A new California bill would require a 4-year degree to become a copEverything We’ve Learned About Modern Economic Theory Is Wrong
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Amendments
Pelosi introduces bill under 25th Amendment for commission to evaluate fitness of future presidents
While the Democrats are introducing new Amendments, how about a few of these:
- Abolish the Electoral College
- Make the number of Senators a state has dependent on the state's population
- Make elections free and fair
- Correct gerrymandered districts, bi-partisanly establish how districts are to be drawn
- Set term limits for the Supreme Court
Sunday, November 3, 2019
It's Time For Real Change
Nancy Pelosi Is Worried 2020 Candidates Are on Wrong Track
Pelosi claims these are fringe, liberal, San Francisco, pipe-dream policies. "What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan,” Pelosi said.
Being a Midwesterner, I have to inform Pelosi she is way off. In what has been referred to as the Rust Belt, deindustrialization has decimated many good paying jobs, left workers with less and less of a voice, and left many without decent health care or the hope of a stable retirement.
Most Midwesterners would be happy to see the playing field tilted in favor of workers rather than corporations and the rich.
As the article stated, "The speaker’s concerns reflect those of many Democratic leaders and donors who believe that left-wing policies will alienate swing voters and lead to defeat."
Translation - big moneyed donors like their power and wealth and they don't want to give any of either up.
Pelosi and the current Democratic leadership need to 'grow a pair' or get out the way. We can't keep pushing climate change policies down the road; we can't keep taking from workers and giving to the already wealthy; all citizens deserve good health care; all citizens should be able to retire with dignity; we should all expect clear air and drinking water; our elections should be free, fair and representative. If you don't have the spine or passion to fight for real change for the majority of Americans, you don't belong in politics.
Pelosi, Bill Clinton and the triangulation-gang got us to this point. Always capitulating and cutting deals, slowly moving the Democratic party more and more to the right. So much so, that the difference between the parties became almost indistinguishable. Many former Democrats started voting for the Republicans - "Heck, they're not so different and the Republicans will cut taxes, so I might as well vote for them."
These triangulators made the Democratic party the Republican-light party. Yet, we're supposed to let them keep driving the car? These Pelosi Democrats are the ones who've been in power as wages have stagnated, unions have been destroyed, elections have been stolen and the standard of living for most working Americans has stagnated. They have betrayed their Democratic base and the liberal policies that made this country great in the first place.
It's time for real change. A new generation of Democratic leaders needs to take the wheel.
Those liberal ideas that fire up the party’s base are a big loser when it comes to beating President Donald Trump.Pelosi believes most American don't want or don't support: improved health care (Medicare For All), improved infrastructure, public elections, taxing corporations and the rich, green (environmentally friendly) policies, getting rid of the electoral college, a higher minimum wage, and improved labor policies. Just to name a few of the Sanders/Warren policy prescriptions.
Pelosi claims these are fringe, liberal, San Francisco, pipe-dream policies. "What works in San Francisco does not necessarily work in Michigan,” Pelosi said.
Being a Midwesterner, I have to inform Pelosi she is way off. In what has been referred to as the Rust Belt, deindustrialization has decimated many good paying jobs, left workers with less and less of a voice, and left many without decent health care or the hope of a stable retirement.
Most Midwesterners would be happy to see the playing field tilted in favor of workers rather than corporations and the rich.
As the article stated, "The speaker’s concerns reflect those of many Democratic leaders and donors who believe that left-wing policies will alienate swing voters and lead to defeat."
Translation - big moneyed donors like their power and wealth and they don't want to give any of either up.
Pelosi and the current Democratic leadership need to 'grow a pair' or get out the way. We can't keep pushing climate change policies down the road; we can't keep taking from workers and giving to the already wealthy; all citizens deserve good health care; all citizens should be able to retire with dignity; we should all expect clear air and drinking water; our elections should be free, fair and representative. If you don't have the spine or passion to fight for real change for the majority of Americans, you don't belong in politics.
Pelosi, Bill Clinton and the triangulation-gang got us to this point. Always capitulating and cutting deals, slowly moving the Democratic party more and more to the right. So much so, that the difference between the parties became almost indistinguishable. Many former Democrats started voting for the Republicans - "Heck, they're not so different and the Republicans will cut taxes, so I might as well vote for them."
These triangulators made the Democratic party the Republican-light party. Yet, we're supposed to let them keep driving the car? These Pelosi Democrats are the ones who've been in power as wages have stagnated, unions have been destroyed, elections have been stolen and the standard of living for most working Americans has stagnated. They have betrayed their Democratic base and the liberal policies that made this country great in the first place.
It's time for real change. A new generation of Democratic leaders needs to take the wheel.
Friday, April 19, 2019
Go Big Or Go Home
Really sad when the times pass certain politicians by. Nancy Pelosi has been one of the most consequential legislators the Democrats have had. Yet, in what can only be seen as an attempt to protect the status quo of the Democratic Party, Nancy Pelosi Takes a Swipe at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Again.
The majority of Americans support Medicare, Social Security, minimum wage, public schools, public transportation, unemployment insurance, the police and fire departments, 8-hour work days, sick leave, FMLA, overtime pay, labor laws, holiday pay, maternal leave and the many other liberal policies that were pushed through by left-wingers and unions over the last 100 years.
Now, this isn't to say Democrats should go balls to the wall attempting to implement any and all ideas that we can think of. But many of the ideas (such as the Green New Deal) of the New Democrats are ideas the majority of the country supports - improving public transportation, strengthening and growing renewable energy, greening buildings, getting away from fossil fuels, reinvesting in our educational system, upgrading our water and sewer systems and increasing the minimum wage. These are all policies that, when implemented, benefit all Americans. Broad-based public goods that each and every citizen can use.
Pelosi can couch her elitism as learned pragmatism, but it's really just the old guard holding onto the levers of power. Working at the margins is a necessary part of the political process. But if this is all you've got, you're in a rudderless ship moving in circles within a very limited space. Barack Obama was right when he said we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. But we also can't become a nation of small ideas and nostalgia.
The majority of our infrastructure has a D grade according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. We've fallen behind other advanced industrialized nations in renewable energy and public transportation.
Maybe Pelosi would do better to incorporate the New Democrats' ideas into the Democratic Party platform, rather than to play into the hands of the right-wing, pretending these are pie-in-the-sky wishes that have no place in sensible discourse. In reality, these are the policies and projects the majority of Americans would like to see and have in their cities and states. Not to mention the jobs and prosperity it would create.
Maybe, one of these years, Democrats will learn that ideas and principles matter. Everything can't be negotiable. We have to continue to make sure the mundane day-to-day bureaucratic objectives are performed. But we must not concede BIG IDEAS as being out of the question, too expensive or use some other excuse for inaction. America, itself, was a BIG IDEA. And if we don't start fixing, rebuilding and modernizing America and its workers, our standard of living and our place in the world will only continue to diminish.
Time is of the essence. Go big or go home.
For Further Reading:
It's Time For Nancy Pelosi To Go
Why 63 House Democrats Voted To Oust Nancy Pelosi
After Democrats’ Losses, Nancy Pelosi Becomes a Symbol of What Went Wrong
Nancy Pelosi: "By and large whatever orientation they came to Congress with, they know we have to hold the center. We have to go down the mainstream."
60 Minutes: "You have these wings. @AOC and her group on one side..."
Pelosi: "That's like five people."Pelosi is delusional if she believes the "mainstream" is the political "center". The majority of this country is liberal and supports liberal policies. The only reason we've moved rightward in our policies over the past few decades is because of Democratic spinelessness and Republican cheating. Republicans are only getting 30-40% of the votes, yet they are controlling 55-60% of the seats. And, it was, partially, the willingness of Bill Clinton to goosestep along in "compromise" with the Republican agenda that we have this illusion that this triangulation somehow represents the mainstream of the population.
The majority of Americans support Medicare, Social Security, minimum wage, public schools, public transportation, unemployment insurance, the police and fire departments, 8-hour work days, sick leave, FMLA, overtime pay, labor laws, holiday pay, maternal leave and the many other liberal policies that were pushed through by left-wingers and unions over the last 100 years.
Now, this isn't to say Democrats should go balls to the wall attempting to implement any and all ideas that we can think of. But many of the ideas (such as the Green New Deal) of the New Democrats are ideas the majority of the country supports - improving public transportation, strengthening and growing renewable energy, greening buildings, getting away from fossil fuels, reinvesting in our educational system, upgrading our water and sewer systems and increasing the minimum wage. These are all policies that, when implemented, benefit all Americans. Broad-based public goods that each and every citizen can use.
Pelosi can couch her elitism as learned pragmatism, but it's really just the old guard holding onto the levers of power. Working at the margins is a necessary part of the political process. But if this is all you've got, you're in a rudderless ship moving in circles within a very limited space. Barack Obama was right when he said we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. But we also can't become a nation of small ideas and nostalgia.
The majority of our infrastructure has a D grade according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. We've fallen behind other advanced industrialized nations in renewable energy and public transportation.
Maybe Pelosi would do better to incorporate the New Democrats' ideas into the Democratic Party platform, rather than to play into the hands of the right-wing, pretending these are pie-in-the-sky wishes that have no place in sensible discourse. In reality, these are the policies and projects the majority of Americans would like to see and have in their cities and states. Not to mention the jobs and prosperity it would create.
Maybe, one of these years, Democrats will learn that ideas and principles matter. Everything can't be negotiable. We have to continue to make sure the mundane day-to-day bureaucratic objectives are performed. But we must not concede BIG IDEAS as being out of the question, too expensive or use some other excuse for inaction. America, itself, was a BIG IDEA. And if we don't start fixing, rebuilding and modernizing America and its workers, our standard of living and our place in the world will only continue to diminish.
Time is of the essence. Go big or go home.
For Further Reading:
It's Time For Nancy Pelosi To Go
Why 63 House Democrats Voted To Oust Nancy Pelosi
After Democrats’ Losses, Nancy Pelosi Becomes a Symbol of What Went Wrong
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