Country Will Lose If Insiders Coronate Hillary Clinton Against Wish of Voters

Being elected to Congress can be a heady thing.

It's also inherently corrupting, and the monetary and political inducements can make almost anyone defame, smear and do almost anything.

Witness John Lewis who acting for Hillary Clinton swiftboated Bernie Sanders. John Lewis should be ashamed of himself, but Congress has a way of deflating the capacity for shame.

Lewis infamously insinuated 1960s civil rights worker Bernie Sanders was not a civil rights worker. He did this in service to Hillary Clinton.

See Douglas Williams at In These Times for an important rejoinder.

Writes Williams in his open letter to Lewis:

The movement that you, my grandmother, Senator Sanders and countless thousands were a part of was the largest grassroots movement for social, political and economic change that this country has ever seen. It was a movement that was bigger than any one participant in it; a movement that, at its best, was unapologetically radical and driven by the Black working class. We should live every moment in awe and praise of all of those people and not sweep them under the rug when it is politically expedient.

Hillary Clinton ain’t worth that. Not to me, and not to millions of others ...

Our country, our democracy are also not worth that.

A Koch brothers Congress and a rightwing president await America should voters go along with Hillary Clinton, the sell-outs, and the smug sycophants that brought Hillary Clinton victory in the New Hampshire primary, overruling the voters who gave Bernie Sanders a voters' victory, 151,584 votes to 95,252 votes, (60% to 38 %), (WMUR).

A Hillary Clinton-Democratic National Committee (DNC) scheme is attempting to rig the Democratic Party election for the nomination to the presidency, a foolish enterprise that will not escape the notice of voters and the Republican Party.

If Clinton and the DNC succeed, the Democratic Party will have blown a historic opportunity for the benefit of Hillary Clinton's ego to tragic consequence.

The nation will not be the same, and insiders will enjoy their inducements safe in the knowledge their futures are acceptable even if the great majority of American citizens will suffer.

If you believe this is hyperbole, I suggest you look at the state of Wisconsin for insight into what the nation would look like under Republican, One Party rule.

Scott Walker Avoiding Town Hall-Style Meetings, New Hampshire Not Happy

"Local (GOP Strafford County (New Hampshire)) organizers suggested something simple and familiar to most candidates: a town hall meeting. But the Wisconsin governor’s camp, according to three people familiar with the conversations, wasn’t interested in taking questions. They simply wanted to deliver a speech and meet people afterwards."

The event fell through, reports Eli Stokols in The Politco this morning.

Welcome to Scott Walker land: No town hall-style meetings with candidate.

Walker insists that his political events are so choreographed that the arrival of a black man to Walker's kick-off speech Monday caused quite a stir. (See must-read Black Wisconsin Lawmaker Kicked Out of Walker Event.) Who knows what those flinty New Hampshire folks would ask?

Stokols notes, "When Walker arrives in the Granite State Thursday, three days after launching his presidential campaign, it will be a rare appearance — his first New Hampshire sighting since May. According to figures compiled by U.S. News and World Report, only one Republican has been to the state less than Walker — Rick Santorum."

And the New Hampshire voters are finding out what many in Wisconsin know: Scott Walker is an empty suit.

"It sounds (like Walker's) trip really isn’t to New Hampshire," said Renee Plummer, a prominent GOP activist in Portsmouth. "It sounds like the trip is a fundraiser in Boston with a couple stops tacked on."

Concludes Stokols:

After a six-week absence, it won’t be easy for Walker to jumpstart his campaign in New Hampshire, where so many other candidates have been busy campaigning as if it’s the only state that matters.

'He better answer the questions,' said Plummer, who hosted Walker at her business roundtable in March but has been disappointed in his New Hampshire effort since then. 'I would think he reads the news and sees what happens with the Hillary campaign and people being furious that she won’t answer questions. You’ve got Jeb and Carly and Christie here saying, ‘ask me anything’.'

Ask me anything?

This would necessitate Scott Walker thinking on his feet. And Scott Walker is a policy lightweight.

NH GOP backs out of Fox debate

Fox News' decision to exclude GOP candidates from its pre-Hew Hampshire weekend debate has backfired, as the New Hampshire GOP has pulled out of the debate.

The decision to exclude anti-war libertarian Rep. Ron Paul has also angered Paul supporters across the nation. And in New Hampshire, Paul will likely see the benefit of what independent support there is for the GOP, cutting into John McCain's support and hurting McCain's desperate need for a victory there.

From the Times:

Ron Paul raised nearly $20 million in the last quarter, likely more than any of his rivals. He garnered 10 percent of the Republican vote in the Iowa Caucuses, surpassing Rudolph W. Giuliani. And he’s in New Hampshire this weekend on the airwaves and the campaign trail before the Jan. 8 primary.

From ThinkProgress:

The New Hampshire Republican Party expressed its disapproval with Fox News’ decision to exclude Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter from an upcoming debate by severing its partnership with the network. “We believe that it is inconsistent with the first in the nation primary tradition to be excluding candidates in a pre-primary setting,” said New Hampshire GOP state chair Fergus Cullen.

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