Four women Senators head to Iowa for Hillary

[riversedge]

Hillary is very forturnate to have Friends in the Senate go on the trail for her.




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Four women Senators head to Iowa for Hillary
http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/the-buzz/article54098965.html



January 11, 2016 10:31 AM
Claire McCaskill headed to Iowa to campaign for Hillary Clinton

She joins three other women senators who will make stops in eastern Iowa

By Steve Kraske



............McCaskill will join fellow Sens. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, Mazie Hirono of Hawaii and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota in a series of stops in eastern Iowa, which tends to be the most Democratic part of the state.

The group will focus on Clinton’s “commitment to moving America forward by guaranteeing women’s right to make their own health-care choices,” a statement from Clinton’s campaign said. “Hillary Clinton will always stand up for Planned Parenthood and for a woman’s right to choose.”

The group will stop in Mount Vernon, Dubuque, Waterloo and Mason City Friday and Saturday. Baldwin will make an additional stop on Saturday in Iowa City.

The Iowa caucuses are Feb. 1.


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[Fawke Em]

1. The average person does not care.

You're more influenced by your neighbor and friends than some establishment drone.

[NCTraveler]

2. Even Sanders is laughing at the headline.

(Not the one in the op)

I love how it seems as if he is looking down at it before laughing.

Very funny either way.

[artislife]

3. I love your gif!

At first I thought it said "with all DU respect" . lolz

[Dawson Leery]

4. Even Bernie thinks his leads are BS.

[Ed Suspicious]

5. Oh? Are the polls skewed now?

[Fawke Em]

7. Yes... his leads are B.ernie S.anders. eom

[CoffeeCat]

11. Actually no, I was 20 feet away from Bernie last night

when he mentioned the recent polling. Bernie said that the polls that have him beating Rubio, Cruz and Trump, in Iowa, by wider margins than Clinton--demonstrate that her "I'm inevitable, Bernie is unelectable" assertions are false.

Clinton doesn't even beat Rubio and Cruz in the battleground state of Iowa.

Bernie also spent a solid ten minutes during his rally, breaking down Clinton's "electability" talking point, and he used recent polls (WSJ/NBC) to demonstrate his point.

So. You're wrong. He not only is proud and encouraged by the recent polls, but he cites those polls to underscore the points that he is making.

[Skidmore]

31. This is a caucus and not the GE.

He is tunning against Hilkwry and O'Malley now. Let's not confuse the two.

[randys1]

52. Here is how this plays out if the adults are in charge everywhere. Bernie has a great

showing, and whether he wins or loses ultimately, his HUGE popularity and ability to turn out the vote would all but guarantee either he or Hillary would win in November.

[TheFarS1de]

29. You mean 4 out of town politicians .....

That are part of a system that has continually letdown it's voting base are not going to turn this around ! I think I have the vapours ... flashback to 2008

[Fawke Em]

55. Yeah - THEM.

[libdem4life]

6. Yes, that's what the country wants. More of the same. Fail. In fact, it just might

reinforce what Bernie is saying. Only women? Every time I turn around there is a gender situation with women for the candidate who says her gender doesn't matter. LOL

[Hortensis]

26. Come on, guys! Conservative Review rates these Senators F's

and you despise them because of their records. Which side are you really on?

Super Tuesday is 49 days away. At that point you're probably going to have to decide. After all, the GOP has some real doozies who are promising people who want "change" that nothing will ever be the same again if they're elected.

[libdem4life]

33. What's with "despise"? Overreact much?

Had you read carefully, you would have noticed that the subject was the Woman Card, yet again, and right on the heels of the PP whatever. Throws her gender-free fluff out the proverbial window.

I have no idea ... other than McCaskill...who these women are. It's like "Here Come the Girls/Women"

Oh, and I'm not a guy.

[Hortensis]

36. Fawk Em's going to have to walk back "establishment drone"

himself, and the same goes for the others. Do you guys ever return and get a little shocked at the anti-Democratic Party group message you're serving up this election? If I were hoping to get Bernie elected, if there were no other alternative for me, I wouldn't just be disgusted at what's being said under the mantle of Democratic Underground, I'd be so angry I could spit. I'd feel sick.

[libdem4life]

39. Sad to say...the attitude matches the last line. People can disagree with class.

Really they can. Oh, and if you have information specifically for me, have at it. We can discuss it...as adults.

[Hortensis]

46. Adults use dog shampoo to kill the fleas,

they don't lie down with them and pretend they aren't there. That's not a classy analogy, of course, but then I don't see anything classy about the kind of slurs on good women I was discussing -- to put it mildly.

[libdem4life]

48. Now we're at "slurs on good women"? Yikes. If you'll notice, amidst the put downs,

HRC is second on my list. Your hyperbole is, uh, distasteful, at best.

Peace out.

[Fawke Em]

57. I am a good woman and you just slurred me. eom

[Fawke Em]

56. I'm female, first.

I'm 45 (well, I'll be 46 tomorrow), Southern and Irish Catholic. You'd think I'd be a Hillarite, given my demo, but, the thing is, I read. I know what she's about and she's not "with" me.

There is NOTHING I've said that's anti-Democratic. The fact is that I'm tired of the Democrats lurching further and further right. We're supposed to be the party of unions, the average worker and equality who thinks before we go to war. We've not been that my ENTIRE voting lifetime, which sucks.

I won't walk back ANYTHING.

After Harold Ford Jr., establishment DINO extraordinaire from my state (and someone I know, personally) had a conniption fit over Bernie's polling numbers on MSNBC this morning, I know I'm on the correct path.

[Hortensis]

61. Fawke, if the Democratic Party were actually

all a bunch of "establishment drones," still lurching right as you so mistakenly choose to imagine (how on earth could you support that notion over the past decade?), Bernie couldn't accomplish anything if he were elected. With both parties mostly united to stop him, he would be a failed president. Fortunately, you are very wrong and Bernie has a lot of support in his party for what he wants to accomplish.

Bernie is not a Democratic outsider, he just positions himself that way. He is literally where he is today because of the Democratic Party that he has been an unofficial part of for a quarter century in Washington. He IS one of the long-time Democrats you characterize as establishment drones. He was there voting with the pack through all the bad times when the party went along with so much we despise and failed to do so much that we resent. Actions count, not words pretending the actions never existed. If the party moved right and stayed there, so did he.

Except that Bernie is not a right-wing Democratic business drone. Of course. So if he's not, maybe your picture of all his other colleagues as drones marching rightward en bloc needs adjustment? Your wishes for change today, in fact, are reflected in many of them, including those you insulted so unfairly in this thread. And in me. We mostly want the same things; the difference is that I'm not trying to shoot down my natural allies in an excess of misdirected resentment.

It would help to understand the Democratic Party better. Why not read something that will give a little perspective on history?

This article describes the party over those bad years up until today. It's not the be-all/end-all of information, but it provides a big picture and would be a place to start replacing some of that frustrated resentment with justified hope. Whether Bernie wins or Bernie loses, change has been happening and will continue. Why America is Moving Left,
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/01/why-america-is-moving-left/419112/

The Atlantic has some good stuff about Bernie you'd like too. What if Bernie Sanders is the Democrats' Best Bet? http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/wildfire-berning/423552/

And the current issue also has an article about a progressive party that probably thinks of you as a Democratic establishment drone because you're not with them.

BTW, The Atlantic is considered a moderate publication. I like that because I can pretty much be depended on to provide my own leftward spin on things and know how easy it can be to slip into ideologic delusions.

[Fawke Em]

62. I don't need your help.

This party has sucked for 30 years, but it's better than the suck ass Republicans.

If Bernie isn't the nominee. I'm done.

[Hekate]

66. Good to know where you stand

[Hortensis]

67. Well, Bernie did vote with Dem colleagues 94% of the time.

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What do they think that means?

In spite of her name, my best guess is Fawke Em would get over it if Hillary won. Pointing out that one's iconoclaustic hero has been mostly in lock-step with supposed "right-moving establishment drones" for 25 years may have caused a bern instead of a reality check.

The message, Fawke and others, is that just maybe a lot of Democratic representatives are not "establishment drones," much less hopelessly to the right on issues.

Just maybe some of them have been working for the kind of change we want for many years, in reality struggling to stop the nation's massive move rightward and battling the forces of conservatism to slowly, slowly get it turning left again. And just maybe many others wanted the same things but mostly didn't fight, waiting out those hard years until the time came when they could move left again without getting tossed out of Congress. (Yes, I agree -- most do like their jobs too much.)

Just maybe Bernie's positions and goals are very similar to those of a number of his colleagues, just differing somewhat in how to get there.

You might also wonder WHY Elizabeth Warren started voting Democrat in 1995 after decades with the GOP. Did she move left so she could move right with Democrat "establishment drones?" Just maybe she wanted to support those Democratic representatives who were trying to stop corporate infiltration of government and growing economic inequality.

[Fumesucker]

64. Happy Birthday!

[CoffeeCat]

8. As an Iowan, I find this really desperate and it won't make a difference

Hillary has trouble drawing small crowds to her events. What exactly does she believe that senators from other states are going to do?

I understand that Clinton is throwing the kitchen sink at her campaign, which is taking on water.

However, this is not going to move the needle.

The only people who will attend these events are Clinton supporters, and the audiences will be very small.

I guess you can't fault her for trying.

[Fawke Em]

9. Boils down to this:

To get crowds, Hillary needs a rock star.

But, the crowds go to Bernie because Bernie IS a rock star.



(Hey. He's drawing as many people as the Rolling Stones and The Who!)

[oasis]

12. I predict a "standing room only" crowd at his concession speech.

[leftofcool]

13. Me too!

Looks like bernie supporters really hate when Democrats go out on the campaign trail for Democrats.

[oasis]

17. As though Noam Chomsky, Killer Mike and Sarah Silverman could

woo Iowa voters with their expertise on "kitchen table" issues. Who?

[Fawke Em]

45. At least they're not the same ole boring

politicians people are tired of.

[oasis]

51. Speaking of "same ole boring", is there anyone with access to

a tv who can't recite Bernie's stump speech, word for word?

[Fawke Em]

58. That's good old fashioned retail politics.

If the media isn't covering you - and they weren't for a long time - then you repeat yourself.

Most people aren't as involved as we are on DU and haven't heard his stump speech.

I work in PR and I know he's absolutely correct in repeating himself. Repetition breeds familiarity.

And, judging by today's polls: it's working.

[oasis]

60. I get what you're saying, but understand, I feel compelled to

respond to unprovoked negative attacks on pro-Hillary OPs which are positive in nature. As I have stated on DU many times before, I respect and admire Bernie. I have carried this sentiment toward him for many years, long before his presidential aspirations.

In my final remark to you, which, btw, has nothing to do with my feelings about Bernie; in closing your last post you wrote as an explanation for Bernie's repeating himself "repetition breeds familiarity". Being in PR, you have undoubtedly heard the expression,"familiarity breeds contempt".

Didn't want to spring that one on you in the context of what I was trying to convey earlier so there would be no confusion about my intent. But I just had to get that out, being the blustery soul that I am.

Anyway, as always, I suppose we can end this chapter of our history of encounters in a peaceful way.

Have a good evening.

[libdem4life]

34. They are in their Try-Out Phase. See which one sticks?

[Fawke Em]

59. The spaghetti treatment.

Throw it on the wall and see if it sticks.

[libdem4life]

37. Just a glance at audience reactions tell that story.

[oasis]

10. Claire M is an effective spokesperson. Amy K is engaging and

possesses a great deal of wit. Tammy Baldwin is an impressive war veteran. Mazie Hirono is an experienced campaigner. She does her homework.

I campaigned for Mazie years ago when she ran for governor of Hawaii against Republican, Linda Lingle. She lost to Lingle but, in later years, won one of Hawaii's two Congressional seats. I was delighted to learn she had won a U.S. Senate seat after I had taken up residency in Nevada.

[Hortensis]

16. Yes, they're really impressive women.

Are you in Nevada these days, Oasis? I just read this bold prediction in Ralston Reports: "Hillary Clinton will win the Nevada caucus on Feb. 20, but it will be closer than people expect. She will then talk about how much she loves the state. After she wins, Harry Reid will boldly endorse her." LOL.

[oasis]

18. I've moved on, but I'm proud to carry my Hillary Clinton caucus

card from the 2008 election cycle. I worked for her campaign in 2007.

Late in 2007, Bill Clinton headed a fundraiser at Andre Agassi's college prep school for the disadvantaged on Lake Mead Blvd. Bill packed them in and gave a mesmerizing address.

He is definitely a valuable asset to Hillary's campaign.

[Hortensis]

27. Oh, yes. He's very redoubtable, and very popular.

[sonofspy777]

14. Flailing

going down.

[NorthCarolina]

15. Four "very conservative" women.

[oasis]

19. Can you back that up with FACTS?

[snoringvoter]

21. Sure. They endorsed the most hawkish Democrat in history.

Fact. They are, under assumption, extremely conservative and doesn't really belong in the Democratic Party.

[oasis]

24. Newsflash: Opinions are not FACTS. (eom)

[KingFlorez]

23. Uhm, Tammy Baldwin is one of the most liberal Democrats in the Senate

When she ran for the open seat in 2012, there were pundits who labeled her too liberal to win, yet she won anyway. It's a good idea to do research before you make silly statements.

[NorthCarolina]

53. Nah, wouldn't bother to look it up

because if they back the status quo then they are of no interest to me.

[riversedge]

49. You look foolish calling Tammy Baldwin conservative. Best educated yourself.

15. Four "very conservative" women. is a big NOPE

[Beacool]

20. Thank you, ladies.

[Armstead]

22. "health care choices?"..... How about real health care chloices?

How about saying "NO" to the lobbyists and Big Money Donors and support actual universal health coverage for everyone based on income?


Nah....never mind.

[Motown_Johnny]

25. Bill was just campaigning for her in Iowa. If he couldn't move her numbers

I don't know why anyone thinks some Senators from other states can come in and improve things for her.

This looks desperate.

[JoePhilly]

28. Uh oh ... I hear 4 busses starting up!!

[livetohike]

30. Who is stepping up for Bernie? Hillary has a team which is an indication

of how she will govern and Bernie has what? Even the people he works with don't seem to support him in any way.

[ram2008]

32. The people

That's all you need. Not figureheads in the most unpopular congress in history.

[KansDem]

38. "Not figureheads in the most unpopular congress in history.:

Ain't that the truth!

Sometimes when I see or hear what this Congress is doing (or not doing), I think "$174,000 a year; best health care; best retirement; best benefits..."

[libdem4life]

35. Cheering, enthusiastic...gasp...voters. That last sentence...say what?

ETA: I forgot to mention that Bernie doesn't have Goldman Sacks et al to fund staff and such. Bernie primarily has silly little volunteers from amongst the Peasantry.

[billhicks76]

40. Corporate Hillary Is Toast Because...

Sanders just hinted Elizaneth Warren will be his VP running mate. I feel so sad for those who own Wall St, private prisons, mass surveillance contractors and those who make weapons intended to tear limbs off little children. Such a sad day in Good Morning America.

[Helen Borg]

41. Are they going on their own time?

Just checking...

[Cha]

42. Aloha! My Senator from Hawaii is going to Iowa for Hillary! Brrr!

Mahalo, rivers!

[libdem4life]

43. Yes, she'll probably have to give another speech to pay their expenses. Remember, any

publicity is good publicity.

Bringing in Bill is terrible...mostly for him, but then..... And Chelsea has a baby and a husband...can't think they are thrilled at being called out on the campaign trail.

[riversedge]

47. . Hillary: "I am a Progressive Democrat who likes to get things done? YES #ImwithHer

[libdem4life]

50. Your definition of Progressive is pretty far and wide, methinks.

[Robbins]

44. more reason why

I will not vote for Mccaskill in 2018.

wonder if they will attack bernie for her.

[NurseJackie]

54. Fantastic! That's an impressive bunch!

[Eric J in MN]

63. I wish Sanders had more solo events with surrogates. For example, Jane Sanders. NT

NT

[Hekate]

65. Very cool. Hillary really is known for creating enduring relationships with coworkers.

By contrast with a candidate from the Other Side -- Ted Cruz has no friends in the Senate that I have heard of, and in fact seems to be universally loathed.