Hillary Clinton just issued a challenge to progressives. They should take her up on it.

[cali]

On Face the Nation, Hillary Clinton was asked if she’s trying to nudge Bernie Sanders out of the race, and offered a reply that, at first hearing, sounded like a standard-issue denial. But buried in her answer was an interesting challenge to progressives — one that suggests a way for the Sanders movement to reconstitute and reinvent itself after the primaries are over:

“I’m three million votes ahead of Senator Sanders, nearly 300 pledged delegates ahead of him. He has to make his own mind up.

“But I was very heartened to hear him say last week that he is going to work seven days a week to make sure Donald Trump doesn’t become president. And I want to unify the party. I see a great role and opportunity for him and his supporters to be part of that unified party, to move into not just November to win the election against Donald Trump, but to then govern based on the progressive goals that he and I share.

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Like a Ryan of the left, Sanders will have an opportunity to cajole (and if need be, push) Democrats in a more progressive direction, but he can also serve as a bulwark against regressive policymaking, the same way conservatives have time and again stopped Republican leaders from consorting with Democrats on any measure that carries a whiff of liberalism. If and when President Clinton forges illiberal compromises with Republican leaders, Sanders will be one of the only people in Congress with a constituency wide enough to make other Democratic members consider rebelling against the leader of their party.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/05/09/hillary-clinton-just-issued-a-challenge-to-progressives-they-should-take-her-up-on-it/

[bkkyosemite]

1. They don't share the same goals.

[CentralCoaster]

5. She and her ilk need to be REJECTED outright. No more compromising.

Because when we compromise, even a little, they take a fucking yard.

We must not perpetuate that which we seek to end.

I'm out of patience and I will not go quietly.

[Jitter65]

28. Ah...therein lies the rub.

Never come to the table, stick to your principles, be firm and unyielding and be the purist that goes down in flames burning down the entire building.

[litlbilly]

30. especially since they, Hillary, and, Obama, start their negotiations from the bottom and

work down from there. Kinda like the public option being taken off the table. Bernie would never do that. He will start very high and his compromises would be exactly what he/we want.

[tk2kewl]

9. I'd love to hear Hillary tell us which goals she thinks she and Bernie share...

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...or her supporters on DU for that matter.

[bkkyosemite]

42. crickets

[ibegurpard]

27. indeed

[Ferd Berfel]

33. Thats' the bottom line

[Trust Buster]

2. Yes, more paralysis in Congress. Just what we need. The Democratic voters just rejected that idea.

[Broward]

6. Sounds like you prefer regressive lawmaking over paralysis.

[Trust Buster]

7. No, the sound you were hearing was of someone living in political reality. Like the President

just spoke so eloquently about at Howard University last weekend.

[Broward]

11. I know your type. Just keep capitulating to the right.

[Trust Buster]

12. You got me. You're so smart. But, your candidate still lost.

[Broward]

17. And the rich and powerful won. Just the way you wanted it.

[Trust Buster]

18. You have to wake up pretty early in the morning to get anything past you.....LOL

[Broward]

19. Just a useful tool of the corporate elite.

[Trust Buster]

20. Thank you for those sentiments. Have a nice day.

[Aerows]

38. It's easy to prevent paralysis in Congress.

Give the Republicans everything they want, and they will pass it while whining that Democrats didn't give in enough.

Ban on abortions? Sure, they will get behind that and whine that birth control isn't banned.

Privatize Social Security? Sure, they will get behind that and whine that Medicare still exists.

Hamstring EPA regulations to the point where they are barely able to crawl? Sure, they will get behind that and whine that chemical companies can't pollute with abandon.

Guess what will happen then? Those three come to pass with the massive repercussions that everyone that can see past the end of their noses can see coming from a mile away, and guess who gets blamed? The President was the one that signed it into law!!!!!

[wendylaroux]

3. Does she mean,like "Make her do it?" that didn't turn out so well last time someone said that.

[forjusticethunders]

22. First time it worked amazingly.

The second time the left gave a modicum of effort, then took their ball and went home to let the Republicans have their way.

[wendylaroux]

23. sure it did,things are sooo different now.

[Aerows]

39. I recall quite a few demanding some comfortable walking shoes

be put on, and feet being held to a bonfire.

How did that work out?

[guillaumeb]

4. A question to properly ask would be:

"What progressive goals do the two candidates share?"

[lumberjack_jeff]

8. It's never about "us" or "we"

How about:
"And I want to unify the party. I see a great role and opportunity for him and his supporters to be part of that unified party, to move into not just November to win the election against Donald Trump, but to then govern based on the progressive goals that he and I share. A unified party should oppose Trump in the general election. With the help of Sen Sanders supporters we can govern with the progressive goals that the senator and I share."

Every statement Clinton makes is delivered as if she's being gracious and tolerant to allow you to wear her pin, and sick and tired of presumptuous people who want to know something about policy. As if!

[pdsimdars]

13. And here's the video (someone posted it again this AM and I got the link)

.

[azurnoir]

10. Once they have have placed Hillary in nominee's seat IMO the DNC's next mission will be to quash

by any and all means the progressive wing of the party, count on it, while telling us we owe Hillary our votes because Trump or whatever

[pdsimdars]

16. Here's a good JFK quote for you

Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life.

--- John F. Kennedy



Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/johnfkenn166598.html

[azurnoir]

36. does it seem like anyone's settling, not to me

but the fight will be uphill to put it mildly

[wendylaroux]

26. yup,and I can see more effort in making sure this online campaign,

like Bernie has,will never happen again.

[Eric J in MN]

14. If Democrats take back the Senate, then Bernie Sanders will have influence

...as chair of the Budget Committee.

If Republicans keep the Senate, then Mitch McConnell will continue to be the most powerful Senator.

[pdsimdars]

15. All posts like this one are meant to get you to accept in your mind that Hillary will be the nomine

I do not accept that premise. She is a horrible candidate whose numbers are dropping day by day. I interpret Bernie's statement about working tirelessly to defeat Trump is first by defeating Hillary (because she will lose to Trump) and then defeat Trump himself.

Hillary will lose to Trump! If you are serious about beating Trump you have to defeat Hillary first, or you will LOSE.

[brooklynite]

25. Well, it was worth trying...I guess we'll have to go back to the "Clinton is winning" thing...

[aikoaiko]

21. "I don't trust what she says. I don't like what she has done."

[ibegurpard]

24. just like Obama

Responded to pressure on the public option? The TPP?
I have no faith she'll respond to any efforts to influence her from anyone without a 6 figure check. She will have no honeymoon from me however... that you can count on.

[arcane1]

29. Yep, we'll still be the "fucking retards" of the "professional left" under Clinton.

[zipplewrath]

31. You forgot

Drug addled and sanctimonious.

[mikehiggins]

32. She's lying. There. I said it (actually I wrote it but "said" sounds better). eom

[mmonk]

34. We're issuing a challenge as well.

[Warren DeMontague]

35. I want to know what she plans to offer the "Megachurch Moms" she has decided to try and win over.

I can speculate.

[lumberjack_jeff]

37. We've already had hints;

I'm sure it has something to do with protecting "pro-life feminists" and their preborn children from reefer madness.

[Warren DeMontague]

41. "Mmmmmm, this pivot is DELICIOUS!"

Now where have I tasted this unique flavor before?