Discussion: Report: Clinton Planning To Fill Half Of Cabinet Positions With Women

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Report: Clinton Planning To Fill Half Of Cabinet Positions With Women Report: Clinton Planning To Fill Half Of Cabinet Positions With Women Back to article
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Yep, that’ll do it! Would LOVE to see this happen.

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Cue the chorus of, “BUT WHAT ABOUT THE MOST QUALIFIIIIIIIIIIED REVERSE SEXISM!”

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Heads will be 'splodin across redneck Amurikah.

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Sounds like a plan to me!

And not just for cabinet secretaries—but also for mid-level appointees and support staff.
Maybe even for the Joint Chiefs.

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I likey!

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“Because it’s 2017, and we’re getting used to following Canada in issues of social progress.”

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Love the idea but that linked article in the NYT is a piece of junk and call me cynical, I think it’s entire purpose is to create narratives for people to be pissed about, us if she doesn’t hit 50% or conservatives for the inevitable reverse-racism canard. The author is basically fantasizing about what he thinks will happen, with no sources, no real evidence to how she would govern and no thoughtful reasoning for their assertions.

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Waiting for the old white male Trump supporters’ heads over on Fox News to explode over this. The blondie women’s, heads, too.

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Mitch McConnell was quoted after the election as saying ‘we learned our lesson on how to prevent her cabinet picks during the great SCOTUS blockade of ought16
 she’ll regret her nominations’


shortly after his keepers started his daily sedation and reminded him that he’ll be the Senate MINORITY leader again
 maybe
 if the rest of his Republican colleagues aren’t tired of him


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The Rs not only don’t like some of her policies, including tax increases on the wealthy, expanding Social Security, etc. but if they cooperate they can’t fundraise off her. But I do like the thought of “after the defeat of Mr. T. . . .”

She will be dealing with a Republican Party that is deeply fractured and demoralized after the defeat of Mr. Trump, whose leaders will be searching for ways to show they can govern and to court Hispanics if Mr. Trump loses badly with them. Mrs. Clinton also thinks a huge Democratic turnout this fall would put the Senate back in her party’s hands, while Speaker Paul D. Ryan and the Republicans would have a reduced majority in the House.

What Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Clinton do not know — but regularly explore in conversations, according to friends — is whether Republican leaders, even if their power is diminished, would be in a mood to cooperate.

@tomanjeri There would have been numerous interviews with most of the people cited, that’s how reporting is achieved. So, I’ll not only say you’re cynical but say the article is anything but junk. It lays out her thinking, and the thinking of the people around her including John Podesta who is in charge of her campaign, has worked for both B. Clinton and Obama/Biden and would likely be her chief of staff.

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“The report is based on interviews with friends and advisors close to Clinton – some on the record, some unnamed – and they told the Times that she also plans to look at talent from Silicon Valley to assemble a diverse cabinet.”

Corporatists or liberals? Silicon Valley? CEOs, bankers, wall streeters or liberals/populists?

How many liberals and progressive social activists did Obama appoint to his cabinet?

This is only “rumor” that seems somewhat like a “leak” that she can’t be held accountable for should it turnout to be manipulative propaganda.

IF she names a liberal as her VP running mate, I will vote for her. IF she names Tim Kaine or another corporate/centrist Democrat, I will not vote for her.

Actions are the only thing that matter. The rest is just subtle BS trying to imply liberalism/populism to mask corporatism.

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What unmitigated horseshit.

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My country of origin is not known for feminism. That being said, there is no real threat here
unless one is the kind of person whose interest in the hard work we have to do with the challenges facing us is secondary to one’s maleness and whiteness.

But it seems that the imaginary demons are always the most real.

Tenemos que luchar JUNTOS.

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Why only half? Testosterone is a WMD.

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My guess is Republicans won’t cooperate to build bridges or any other infrastructure. They will shrug off the loss with the explanation that Trump just was not a real conservative. The misogyny against President Hillary will seamlessly replace their racism against President Obama.

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Unless you have some special insight into her thinking you are only inferring that she’ll be masking corporatism with liberalism/populism. Don’t vote for her. It will thrill the orang to know that.

@antisachetdethe I think Plain said it best: “‘splodey heads keep splodin’”

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“Brownies” like me are less than 50% of the population. It will be interesting to see the contortions of those ladies who are enthusiastic denizens of BaggerNation. I saw a glimpse of it with interviews with some Trump female supporters.

Women are the majority of the nation.

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♩ ♩ ♬ “
and the heads of the Drumpfsters go Pop, Pop, Pop!” ♩ ♩ ♬

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TPM:

“There’s that old saying, ‘Nothing about us without us,’” former Michigan Gov. and Clinton-supporter Jennifer Granholm (D) told the Times.

Hmm, if Clinton declines to give Warren the VP slot, or if Warren decides she doesn’t want it, then maybe Granholm could be a good VP choice.

I mean, if the Canadian anchor baby son of Cuban Kennedy-assassination-conspirator Rafael Cruz can run for President of the United States, then Granholm’s Canadian birth shouldn’t pose any problems, right?

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