{"id":181762,"date":"2016-03-23T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T23:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/23\/what-bill-moyers-said\/"},"modified":"2016-03-23T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T23:16:00","slug":"what-bill-moyers-said","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/03\/23\/what-bill-moyers-said\/","title":{"rendered":"What Bill Moyers Said"},"content":{"rendered":"
The commentator and former White House Press Secretary has called for Hillary Clinton to demand the resignations of Rahm Emanuel and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz<\/a>:<\/div>\n

There are two Democrats whose resignation from office right now would do their party and country a service.<\/p>\n

Their disappearance might also help Hillary Clinton convince skeptical Democrats that her nomination, if it happens, is about the future, and not about resurrecting and ratifying the worst aspects of the first Clinton reign when she and her husband rarely met a donor to whom they wouldn\u2019t try to auction a sleepover in the Lincoln Bedroom.<\/p>\n

In fact, while we\u2019re at it, and if Secretary Clinton really wants us to believe she\u2019s no creature of the corporate and Wall Street money machine \u2014 despite more than $44 million in contributions from the financial industry since 2000<\/a> and her $675,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, not to mention several million more paid by other business interests for an hour or two of her time \u2014 she should pick up the gauntlet herself and publicly call for the departure of these two, although they are among her nearest and dearest. And we don\u2019t mean Bill and Chelsea.<\/p>\n

No, she should come right out and ask for the resignations of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Democratic National Committee Chair \u2014 and Florida congresswoman \u2014 Debbie Wasserman Schultz. In one masterstroke, she could separate herself from two of the most prominent of all corporate Democratic elitists.<\/p>\n

Each is a Clinton disciple and devotee, each has profited mightily from the association and each represents all that is wrong with a Democratic Party that in the pursuit of money from rich donors and powerful corporations has abandoned those it once so proudly represented \u2014 working men and women.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

This is why Emanuel and Wasserman Schultz must go. To millions, they are enablers of the one percent, perpetuators of the Washington mentality that the rest of the country has grown to hate. What a message such servants of plutocracy send: Democrats \u2014 a bridge to the past.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hillary is not going to do this, but it would be a savvy political move.<\/p>\n

Also, putting Emanuel and Wasserman-Schultz in the political cross-hairs would be good for the party and their constituents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The commentator and former White House Press Secretary has called for Hillary Clinton to demand the resignations of Rahm Emanuel and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: There are two Democrats whose resignation from office right now would do their party and country a service. Their disappearance might also help Hillary Clinton convince skeptical Democrats that her nomination, if …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,969,1002,1039,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-evil","category-good-writing","category-incompetence","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181762"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}