Hillary claims she would 'Get Things Done' if elected

[AgingAmerican]

By being 'pragmatic' and working with the GOP.

What are these 'things' she keeps talking about accomplishing? She never gives specifics. The GOP never, ever, compromise so what is it possible to accomplish with them? 'Grand Bargains, where they get 95% of what they want for a couple lukewarm, temporary concessions in return? More sequestration, where the 'unthinkable' is codified? Can any Hillary supporters out there tell us what 'things' she would get done by working and making deals with the GOP?

Thanks in advance.

[Lizzie Poppet]

1. Of that I have no doubt.

Fracking, TPP, etc...

[daleanime]

3. +1

[Baobab]

27. HONESTY FIRST

I refuse to vote for a liar - especially a liar about trade deals effects on health care and education liar like Hillary has been.

I have never seen her utter a single word on GATS. You think she would, considering.

Unless she comes clean on that, ITS HOPELESS.

There is this huge guest worker program in GATS, people should know that. She likely is depending on that, a scheme to push down wages. When she says she'll fix something, its not by fixing it its by shafting us.

[lagomorph777]

5. Yup - it's not just "things" - we don't need bad things done n/t

[pdsimdars]

6. Implementing the GOP agenda.

[djean111]

2. This is precisely why I cannot support Hillary.

I am sure the GOP would be delighted to work with her - on her Third Way and Neocon wish list.

[riversedge]

29. You make stuff up and pass it on as the truth. ha ha

[VulgarPoet]

4. Clusterbomb Libya, and then invade-- er, "intervene" in African nations? nt

[HumanityExperiment]

7. HRC is republican light...

HRC will 'get things done' since she's republican light... just another in a long line of corporatist

HRC would never 'get things done' for a liberal / progressive platform and that's a fact

[Gomez163]

8. My mama says, to get things done, you better not mess with Major Tom.

[Scuba]

9. No thanks, the things Hillary would get done are not in the best interests of the People.

[Vote2016]

10. more welfare"reform," more for-profit imprisonment for minor drug possession offenses, more nation

building overseas, more industry deregulation, more job exporting trade agreements, and maybe another war or two.

[merrily]

11. Her eight years in the Senate does not support that claim.

Not a single substantive bill or amendment she wrote became law and, having just left the White House and being spouse of the head of the Party (until Obama's election), she was arguably one of the most powerful Democrats in the country at the time. As First Lady, she got a Democratic Congress to reject Billarycare. As Secretary of State, YIKES!

She does, however, seem excellent at claiming ability to get things done and at taking credit for things other people got done. So, there's that.

[Human101948]

56. What a minute! Didn't she name a Post Office?

S. 1241: A bill to establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site in the State of New York. Bush signed the bill Dec. 3, 2004.

S. 3613: A bill to name a post office the "Major George Quamo Post Office Building." Bush signed the bill Oct. 6, 2006.

S. 3145: A bill to designate a highway in New York as the Timothy J. Russert highway. Bush signed the bill July 23, 2008.

[merrily]

57. If my prior post omitted the word "substantive," I apologize.

[Human101948]

59. Haha, you did not forgot "substantive"

And I was making a joke.

[merrily]

61. Ha Ha. So was I. I knew I did not omit "substantive."

[Human101948]

62. We're on the same page...

too bad the rest of the class are slow readers.

[LAS14]

12. ??????

"She never gives specifics."

I think the consensus (right, from "establishment" commentators.... but I prefer to keep my country in tact) is that she gives many more specifics than Bernie. And if you don't agree, compare their websites.

[AgingAmerican]

13. What are these 'things' she claims she will get done by cooperating with the GOP?

[LAS14]

15. The "things" she lists in her agenda.

If you want specifics of how the Republicans will react to various overtures, and to which details will provide common ground, then you're expecting too much at this stage of the game. The point is, she has a history of being able to find common ground. No, I'm not going to list them here. Lots available on the web and even here in DU.

[ViseGrip]

25. Bernie's history of weighing in and getting legislation done is far greater, longer than Hillary.

[AgingAmerican]

34. On which issues does she share 'common ground' with the GOP?

[Armstead]

24. She gives specifics in a constantly shifting word salad that has no core of anything meaningful

[jeff47]

38. Her specifics are not things that can get through Congress.

If you'd like to start, please explain how she gets the Republicans to vote to strengthen the ACA, after their 60+ votes to repeal the ACA. Because all of her health "care" proposals require Congress to pass a bill.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

14. Shrodinger's Hillary

She is both GOPs #1 enemy and the person who will work best with GOP to get things done. Which Hillary you get depends on the opinion of her corporate donors

[gollygee]

16. She will face the same obstructionism that Pres. Obama has faced and that Bernie would face.

However, this kind of thing drives me crazy. Hillary supporters keep saying Bernie has no plan for how he's going to pay for things, or that he doesn't really stand for anything, when all of that information is clearly and easily available on his website. He has a plan, he stands for lots of things. And Hillary also has a website where she says what she plans to do, or get done. (And I know because I just checked to find out.)

[Nanjeanne]

17. means-testing SS, raising the age of retirement and Medicare . . .

[CharlotteVale]

31. ^^this^^

[stillwaiting]

18. Hillary would get done the things that Wall Street wants her to get done.

See Bill Clinton's Presidency for the kinds of things that can get done with today's Republican Party.

I'd rather gridlock than getting things done on a bipartisan basis with Republicans because nothing good can come from working WITH today's Republicans.

Elected Democrats need to expose the current Republican Party for the agenda they want to unleash on this country instead of continuing to CLAMOR to work with them on a bipartisan basis (which legitimizes a Party which only deserves to be destroyed). This, of course, makes elected Democrats accomplices in what is happening, has happened, and will happen in this nation.

They could obliterate the Republican Party if they were truly fighting for the interests of average Americans. Instead, they prop them up and validate them. Repeatedly.

[alterfurz]

20. exactly right...

[Orsino]

19. If we give her a less right-wing Congress to compromise with, as seems likely...

...we might indeed get some good things done.

I am not sanguine about her own agenda.

[wendylaroux]

21. many republicans say they will vote for her if Trump wins

nomination.Yes,we know what she will get done,and it will not help the little guy at all.

[Shadowflash]

22. I'm sure she will

Given her voting record and history, that's what scares me.

[Kelvin Mace]

23. The Vichy government pledged the same thing

I don't think it turned out well.

[gordianot]

26. Isn't that the favorite line of a rather obnoxious comedian?

[onecaliberal]

28. She will implement the republican corporate agenda. NONE of which is good

for America. We don't need another detached corporate owned clone who hasn't two shits to give about the suffering going on with working people because her whole agenda is to protect the status quo.
WE'RE really going to destroy life on this planet because greed. Stupid fucking people.

[Autumn]

30. Well supposedly she will fix the "crushing costs" of the ACA.

Not sure what she will fix or how she will do it but by damn she will fix those "crushing costs" of Obamacare.

[LibDemAlways]

33. Right? She's going to sit down with insurance

executives and tell them to "cut it out." Then it's on to the next private fundraiser with the same crooks for her re-election campaign.

[riversedge]

32. Listen-google her speeches. Do your own homework instead of just hitting

on Hillary and her supporters. Lots of issue have been posted here in gd-p. Most just get mocked by Bernie fans.

[AgingAmerican]

35. She claims she will get things done with the GOP

What things are those?

[jeff47]

39. We have. We are also aware that almost all of her proposals require Congress to pass a bill.

And we're also aware that the GOP will not pass her proposals.

[Depaysement]

36. Reminds me of the old DK song

Now you can go where people are one
Now you can go where they get things done
What you need, my son:.

Is a holiday in Cambodia
Where people dress in black
A holiday in Cambodia
Where you'll kiss ass or crack

[jeff47]

37. She'll get yuge things done. And they'll be classy. (nt)

[Armstead]

40. America will be so tired of winning under Clinton..............

[randome]

41. Um, Sanders claims he will get things done, too. It's called campaigning for political office.

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[AgingAmerican]

42. She says she will "work with the other side" to get things done

What things are those?

[randome]

45. Honestly, her list is pretty much the same as what every politician claims.

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/
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[AgingAmerican]

48. How will she get any of those things done with the GOP?

Given they don't compromise on anything ever...

[randome]

50. She has more connections with the Democratic party so she can leverage that. Sanders can't.

Sanders would be playing a game of chess without bishops and rooks, say, while Clinton has a full set of pieces to start with.
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[AgingAmerican]

51. So the Democrats will help her 'get things done' with the other side?

Seriously? For example?

[randome]

53. Obviously I can't predict what will occur. I'm not a fortune teller.

But I think this is the gist of why voters so far prefer her to Sanders. Like it or not, she is a long-standing and integral part of the Democratic Party. Sanders is not.
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[AgingAmerican]

63. So the GOP care about Democratic purity?

[ibegurpard]

43. for who?

#shesnotwithme

[Broward]

44. She's one of them. So, of course she'll collaborate with the GOP

to pass right-wing legislation.

[BernieforPres2016]

46. As Chelsea said last week in Madison, her Mom has proven she can work with Republicans

Like Tom DeLay and John McCain.

Republicans will be torn between whether to impeach her or to work with her to further the corporate agenda.

[Buns_of_Fire]

58. I'm not sure that being able to work with Tom DeLay is much of a plus.

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[BernieforPres2016]

60. LOL

That's as happy as I've ever seen anybody look in a mug shot. And I think the first time I've ever seen DeLay smile. I guess he knew he was finally where he belonged.

[Cobalt Violet]

47. Chained CPI will get done!

[bvar22]

49. Reagan "got things done" by working with the Republican Congress too.

Evey time I ask a Hillary supporter what "things" they are talking about that Hillary will "get done"
all I get is a blank stare followed by mouth breathing.

[Kip Humphrey]

52. The only Obama legacy Hillary will continue and build on is the legacy of republicon hatred of and

refusal to work with the sitting president (were she to be elected, that is).

[Herman4747]

54. Breaking up "too big to fail" banks??

No way -- they pay her off.



What a frightfully lovely couple they make!

[basselope]

55. What does she even stand for?

[killbotfactory]

64. Probably another war of questionable merit. nt