2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary/Krugman "pie in the sky"
I love Paul Krugman, but I've been saying all along that Hillary and her supporters are delusional thinking they can get more accomplished than Bernie.
Robert Reich addresses this concern in point #2. It's awesome.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2016/01/27/how-electable-is-bernie-sanders-a-skeptics-response-to-robert-reichs-new-pro-bernie-video/
merrily
(45,251 posts)I've posted some version of the following when I reply to something claiming Hillary can get things done and Bernie cannot.
While a Senator, Hillary had zero success working with Republicans to get bills she wrote passed, except for strictly ceremonial bills, such as re-naming a post office, remembering Harriet Tubman's birthday and remembering the anniversary of the American Revolution.
She could not even get her two unconstitutional flag desecration bills passed and Republicans themselves have initiated that kind of bill again and again. Since her Senate days, she has been gratuitously disrespectful to Republicans, calling them the enemy of which she is most proud and acting a certain way during the Benghazi hearings. (For that matter, she could not even get Billarycare through a Democratic Congress when her husband was head of the Democratic Party.)
Contradistinctively, Bernie and McCain worked on a veterans' bill that passed. The Brookings Institute made a case study in working across the aisle. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/07/how-bernie-sanders-fought-for-our-veterans-119708 He also got an amendment to the ACA he wrote passed, providing $11 billion in health care to those who would not otherwise have received it.
See also, http://www.nationaljournal.com/s/71225/bernie-sanders-is-loud-stubborn-socialist-republicans-like-him-anyway
WhaTHellsgoingonhere
(5,252 posts)that Hillary will work better with Republicans than Obama did. She boast about her decades of scrutiny. Yeah, they hate her more than anyone. Ergo, she'll get things done...???
Absurd
merrily
(45,251 posts)She's never had the full POTUS treatment.
But, I know what you are saying and I agree. They do hate her and she's made it clear she hates them and has zero respect for them. If people think they stonewalled Obama...wait.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)Which means mushy, half baked, half Republican - non solutions.