[Daily Caller] The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) endorsed U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison for Chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) Thursday.
"Representative Ellison meets the high standard working people expect from leaders of our political parties," AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka said in a statement. "He is a proven leader who will focus on year-round grassroots organizing to deliver for working families across America," he continued.
The AFL-CIO’s executive council voted overwhelmingly to endorse Ellison to lead the DNC, according to a statement from the Federation. Several candidates for the post have sought out the endorsement of the AFL-CIO, which represents 12.5 million workers and is the nation’s largest union.
The union, which endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, now endorses Ellison -- who is combating allegations of antisemitism. The Muslim-American congressman from Minnesota also is on the defensive for controversial writings from his past.
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The AFL-CIO isn't a union. More than anything it is a lobbying rganization. Also as unions in the private sector continue their own decline the AFL-CIO will be dominated by the unions in the public sector. And the public sector unions are little more than wings of the Democratic Party. But in fairness one can also say that the Chamber of Commerce is a wing of the Republican Party
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If you listen to Ellison speak he touts the same leftist/socialist meme that is very attractive to the socialist left/communist, and the old guard Deomcrats from the 70's. He is well spoken and reminds me of #44.
On the other hand, he has made a lot of incendiary statements as well.
I think he would be a perfect fit as Chair of the DNC. He would be no less a bomb thrower than Howard Dean. Perfect for Pelosi and Durbin.
This way the American voters will have a stark contrast of the two parties, even the RINO's will stand out as conservative when compared to Ellison.
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Jennifer Palmieri is refusing to back down from her claim that Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... won the White House on the backs of white supremacists
'I don’t know whether the Trump campaign needed to give a platform to white supremacists to win,' she writes in the Washington Post today
'But the campaign clearly did, and it had the effect of empowering the white-nationalist movement'
She hit Trump for retweeting white nationalists from his Twitter account and invoked former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke's support
Palmieri attacked Trump's campaign manager at a forum last week; she said she'd rather lose the White House than win the way Kellyanne Conway did
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Fuck you. Racist, sexist bitch. You call all that don't agree with you racist and sexist, yet promote policies that further discrimination and sexism as keystones of your policies.
Keep this shit up and you will find yourself in the same position the Nazis did after WWII.
Of course the key is how you define "white nationalist".
I am white and I believe in the Constitution so, according to the likes of this scum, I'm sure I am a "white nationalist".
Hopefully Trump will stomp these folks into the ground whenever they start with this deplorable crap.
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Clinton communications director accuses Trump of 'empowering the white-nationalist movement' democracy and challenges him to 'own up to it'
When over 75 percent of your population is white*, and you push racial identity politics, in a democracy, the major will look after their own interests cause you don't.
*Hispanic - Hispania; European province of Rome, aka Spain.
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When over 75 percent of your population is white*, and you push racial identity politics, in a democracy, the major will look after their own interests cause you don't.
Makes it kinda hard to come up with enough illegal alien votes to overcome the white vote.
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Demonizing and trolling is a tactic. In or out of power. There are still enough intelligent Americans who ignore the trolls who when given the keys to the high offices responded to our kindness as a weakness and doubled down on disrespect. Thus, Trump is now President.
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Trying to vilify Trump and clear themselves in the same breath.
Best revenge Trump can do is get the economy humming quickly so people can see with their own eyes how the Progressive agenda was crippling things. Certainly they will try to credit Obama but folks won't buy it at this point.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] President-elect Trump has spent the month since his election victory engaging in some distinctly presidential-style behavior, including engaging with businesses on behalf of the American people, conducting a bit of foreign policy, and delivering sweeping public addresses -- all before he holds the authority of the presidency.
With weeks to go until he takes office, Trump's moves have tested the limits of his unofficial powers as the president-in-waiting. And although his activism has drawn scrutiny from detractors, his favorability ratings have hit new heights on the heels of several high-profile successes.
"I don't think it's normal for a president-elect to be out and about like this, but this is the era of Trump, and he is literally rewriting the rules," said Ford O'Connell, a Republican strategist.
"Things always change when you actually are sworn in, but at the same time, he is taking advantage of this and throwing his weight around while he's got the momentum," O'Connell added.
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He is a alpha business man. He was hired, now he is throwing himself into the work even though he hasn't officially been sworn in yet.
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Trump is sharp enough to know what is happening and knows trying to get things turned around needs to done ASAP. Like before 2017. 401's are worth less, police and fire pensions are tanking, the dominoes are falling. All due to the ignorance that Obama symbolizes.
Work needs to be done now, not tomorrow, next week, not 2 months from now January 21, 2017.
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[NYTIMES] President-elect Donald J. Trump is expected to name Andrew F. Puzder, chief executive of the company that operates the fast food outlets Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. and an outspoken critic of the worker protections enacted by the B.O. regime, to be secretary of labor, people close to the transition said on Thursday.
Mr. Puzder has spent his career in the private sector and has opposed efforts to expand eligibility for overtime pay, arguing thon the lam minimum wage increases hurt small businesses and lead to job loss among low-skilled workers.
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Careful getting too excited about Puzder--I'm reading elsewhere that he's soft on those problematic visas for foreign workers and not strong on other aspects of reigning in foreign workers.
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Perhaps. If you'd actually pointed out a flaw of Mr. Puzder's that would adversely affect the national employment environment, such as him being soft on H1Bs, rather than his engaging in marketing to a potential customer base that you personally disapprove of, perhaps I might have been more... polite.
In any case, you seem stressed. Might I suggest a (family-friendly) coloring book?
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Women exist too and Trump didn't have to appoint this turd.
I'm sorry I voted for Trump.
You invoke "women" as if you somehow *value* them, yet you're sorry you voted for the only candidate that could keep (another) Clinton out of this nation's highest office?
Good God. You really need to ask yourself whether you believe in anything at all.
[POLITICO] Senate Democrats are about to get rolled on Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... ’s Cabinet picks. They could spend years in the minority. And instead of the GOP collapse that many expected on Nov. 8, it’s now Democrats soul-searching about what went wrong.
But as ... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ... prepares to leave the Senate this month after 34 years in Washington, he says everything is just fine with his party, thank you.
To hear Reid tell it, the party’s electoral collapse wasn’t a result of poor messaging or even a bad candidate. It stemmed from looser campaign finance rules, FBI Director James Comey and the influence of a few powerful individuals -- namely the Koch brothers, his long-running nemeses. The outgoing Senate minority leader is unapologetic on behalf of his party, and remains resolute that Democrats don’t need to chart a new political course after their 2016 debacle.
"They have Trump, I understand that. But I don’t think the Democratic Party is in that big of trouble," Reid said in a half-hour interview with Politico on Wednesday, one day before he’ll deliver his farewell address. "I mean, if Comey kept his mouth shut, we would have picked up a couple more Senate seats and we probably would have elected Hillary."
And Reid not only refused to admit any misgivings about invoking the "nuclear option" for most nominations -- a move that’s backfiring now by empowering Republicans -- he predicted it’s just a matter of time before the filibuster is done away with altogether.
Though the filibuster is Democrats’ best weapon against Trump, Reid said it would be a "mistake" for his party to reflexively oppose whatever Trump proposes. But the outgoing minority leader also wants Democrats to stand firm for their core principles, urging politicians to do "everything in their power" to block "wacky" Supreme Court nominees and to not be "complicit" in supporting GOP priorities like tax cuts for the rich and repealing Obamacare ... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... .
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But the outgoing minority leader also wants Democrats to stand firm for their core principles...
They're losing elections because most folks don't consider the Democrats to HAVE any "core principles".
[SP] In an interview aired Wednesday on CNN, President Obama described how he thinks people may view him differently than other presidents because of his race.
"I think there’s a reason attitudes about my presidency among whites in northern states are very different from whites in southern states," Obama told CNN’s Fareed Zakaria.
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White Southerners, garden variety republicans, wikileaks, far-right, radical-right, racists, Barrett-Jackson auctions, haters, birthers, Russian hackers, Lingonberries, the stock market, David Duke supporters, global warming deniers, frackers, NRA members, KKK members, baskets of irredeamable deplorables, bible and gun totters, ultraconservative, fly-over people, blimpish, diehards, reactionaries, traditionalists, conventional, unprogressives, religious zealots, coal miners, sons and daughters of the confederacy, FRAM oil filters, Antiques Road Show, Canadian Hockey League, clueless policemen, NASCAR, the elderly, cable news viewers....
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Yep, the arrogant racist that is Obama has a short memory - Florida, North Carolina, Virginia voted for his socialist snake oil chicanery...
His legacy, the thing that he left us, the insurance debacle where my health insurance premium jumped 104% next month, the ISIS caliphate... is why he is a proven a lousy failure.
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Just go away, Baraq. We don't care anymore what you have to say.
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One would think he could've built a nice legacy with the 62 million followers he had when elected, without the deplorables.
But he didn't think he needed those, ("I won; get over it)and now he complains he did not win over those he kissed off anyway?
[head spins] Somebody please help me understand!
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The Won probably believed his own BS, that he was a 'Great Leader" (TM). He now sees that he has been weighed in the balance and found wanting. He cannot admit that he is the problem. Therefore racism, etc. Fun to watch.
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I think the two problems Barack had were (a) he believed his own popularity had anything to do with his policies (b) he believed the leftist nonsense of a permanent Democrat majority so he governed that way and set up MASSIVE losses for his party at nearly every election.
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he blames everything on Bush, a notedly white dude
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I'm a white southerner, and not a David Duke supporter - in fact, I had the privilege of voting against him in an election for governor some years ago - successfully. (Bumper sticker on my truck read 'Vote for the crook, it's important.)
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Jennifer Palmieri is refusing to back down from her claim that 
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] President-elect Trump has spent the month since his election victory engaging in some distinctly presidential-style behavior, including engaging with businesses on behalf of the American people, conducting a bit of foreign policy, and delivering sweeping public addresses -- all before he holds the authority of the presidency.
... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ...
[SP] In an interview aired Wednesday on CNN, President Obama described how he thinks people may view him differently than other presidents because of his race.
