Hillary has more than 200 economic advisors. Why doesn't Warren?

[DonCoquixote]

54. I will be polite but

"A centrist left leaning person, a totally and completely bureaucrat type is the type of person the country needs. "

No, that is exactly the last thing we need.

Yes, we do need people to focus on policy, the stuff that does not excite people, but here is where the argument for centrism fails:

" There are hundreds of thousands of people in the Federal government who are busting their asses to get stuff done. They need to be able to be approached as though they matter and their function as part of the Federal government meshes."

They may be busting their asses, but said hard work is often focused in the wrong directions. You have people busting their ass because they think entitlements need to be cut and taxes lifted on the rich. You have people busting their ass because they think Public schools are the problem, and the solution is Charter schools, you have people busting their ass because they think the onyl way to win in the Mid east is to send more troops.

and all these people busting their ass, sincere as they may be, are taking up positions that Ronald Reagan and Nixon would have considered GOP policy. Hell, Nixon realized we needed an EPA, can you imagine the modern Democratic party DARING to make an EPA? Could you imagine either of the Clintons doing so? Of course, the prez needs to know what these people are doing, but so many of them live in a world that is frankly NOT related to the way most Americans live, and their response to being approached is often to weave you into their own universe, as kill they learned at the Ivy Leagues who themselves have spent so much tiem in the Ivory Tower they have no clue.

Yes, the president needs to work with the govt people busting their ass, but that person also needs to realize all that wonderful policy will be worthless if the people's wishes are not part of that process, and frankly, at this point, it is NOT. Listen to them yes, but when Maureen Dowd used to be angry that not every ego in DC was stroked and petted, it frankly revealed a class that acts more liek a parastic orgamism. Yes, Government IS a part of the soultion, yes, the major definition of the left is that some problems are TOO DAMNED BIG not to have a firm government prescence (as wall street fiddles while rome burns.) If you want to support thos epeople busting their ass, you have to stop being afraid of saying government IS a solution, and that privatizing is not an end in and of itself.

I will say this, if Clinton plays to the right but sneaks left when into office, I will pop champagne. However, that will not allow her to be slient to the left, and then expect them to carry her. The best case scanrio is still implying that Clinton is playing a dangerous game, because she assume she will roll over Scott Walker or Jeb Bush. Jeb has a bad last name, but the one thing I do NOT see is our beloved party head, Debbie Wasserman Schulz, figuring out how to NOT let her home state get stolen by Jeb again, considering that the one Democratic success is Alan grayson, who she insults. As far as Scott Walker, yes he is an indiot, and the Koches know how to prop idiots, especially as frankly, they do not NEED the GOp anymore. Throw in Rand Paul who sadly, a lot of leftists are bying into, despite the fact that they do not realize they cannot afford all that free weed when the minimum wage is paid in company scrip

Hillary, as is, is vulnerbale, because, like Obama, she is playing defense. America has no love for playing defense.