2016 Election Thread (My God Kill Me Now)

[Schlich]

Elizabeth Warren: One Way to Rebuild our Institutions

WHILE presidential candidates from both parties feverishly pitch their legislative agendas, voters should also consider what presidents can do without Congress. Agency rules, executive actions and decisions about how vigorously to enforce certain laws will have an impact on every American, without a single new bill introduced in Congress.

The Obama administration has a substantial track record on agency rules and executive actions. It has used these tools to protect retirement savings, expand overtime pay, prohibit discrimination against L.G.B.T. employees who work for the government and federal contractors, and rein in carbon pollution. These accomplishments matter.

Whether the next president will build on them, or reverse them, is a central issue in the 2016 election. But the administration’s record on enforcement falls short — and federal enforcement of laws that already exist has received far too little attention on the campaign trail.

I just released a report examining 20 of the worst federal enforcement failures in 2015. Its conclusion: “Corporate criminals routinely escape meaningful prosecution for their misconduct.”
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Legislative agendas matter, but voters should also ask which presidential candidates they trust with the extraordinary power to choose who will fight on the front lines to enforce the laws. The next president can rebuild faith in our institutions by honoring the simple notion that nobody is above the law, but it will happen only if voters demand it.

[jim]

Trump wins last debate.

http://fortune.com/2016/01/29/who-won-t ... -debate-3/

[Radbird]

Elizabeth Warren: One Way to Rebuild our Institutions

WHILE presidential candidates from both parties feverishly pitch their legislative agendas, voters should also consider what presidents can do without Congress. Agency rules, executive actions and decisions about how vigorously to enforce certain laws will have an impact on every American, without a single new bill introduced in Congress.

The Obama administration has a substantial track record on agency rules and executive actions. It has used these tools to protect retirement savings, expand overtime pay, prohibit discrimination against L.G.B.T. employees who work for the government and federal contractors, and rein in carbon pollution. These accomplishments matter.

Whether the next president will build on them, or reverse them, is a central issue in the 2016 election. But the administration’s record on enforcement falls short — and federal enforcement of laws that already exist has received far too little attention on the campaign trail.

I just released a report examining 20 of the worst federal enforcement failures in 2015. Its conclusion: “Corporate criminals routinely escape meaningful prosecution for their misconduct.”
...
Legislative agendas matter, but voters should also ask which presidential candidates they trust with the extraordinary power to choose who will fight on the front lines to enforce the laws. The next president can rebuild faith in our institutions by honoring the simple notion that nobody is above the law, but it will happen only if voters demand it.

I wish she had thrown her hat in the ring. Would vote for her in a heartbeat.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Elizabeth Warren: One Way to Rebuild our Institutions

WHILE presidential candidates from both parties feverishly pitch their legislative agendas, voters should also consider what presidents can do without Congress. Agency rules, executive actions and decisions about how vigorously to enforce certain laws will have an impact on every American, without a single new bill introduced in Congress.

The Obama administration has a substantial track record on agency rules and executive actions. It has used these tools to protect retirement savings, expand overtime pay, prohibit discrimination against L.G.B.T. employees who work for the government and federal contractors, and rein in carbon pollution. These accomplishments matter.

Whether the next president will build on them, or reverse them, is a central issue in the 2016 election. But the administration’s record on enforcement falls short — and federal enforcement of laws that already exist has received far too little attention on the campaign trail.

I just released a report examining 20 of the worst federal enforcement failures in 2015. Its conclusion: “Corporate criminals routinely escape meaningful prosecution for their misconduct.”
...
Legislative agendas matter, but voters should also ask which presidential candidates they trust with the extraordinary power to choose who will fight on the front lines to enforce the laws. The next president can rebuild faith in our institutions by honoring the simple notion that nobody is above the law, but it will happen only if voters demand it.

I wish she had thrown her hat in the ring. Would vote for her in a heartbeat.

++ She might of had an actual chance of election too. More than Bernie I think.

[lukethedrifter]

That again raises the question of a Sanders veep candidate. Frequently a vp is selected to increase electability but would that really make sense for Sanders? His platform would seem to require a candidate with similar aspirations of change.

[Schlich]

That again raises the question of a Sanders veep candidate. Frequently a vp is selected to increase electability but would that really make sense for Sanders? His platform would seem to require a candidate with similar aspirations of change.

Keith Ellison would be my choice in an ideal world. Never going to happen though. Maybe Hillary could pull it off.

[haltz]

A friend of mine is close to Warren's husband, Bruce Mann, and apparently she's one of the biggest jerks on the planet.

I think she'd be good at the job so it doesn't bother me, but I always pictured her in those congressional hearings as the sweet grandmother who can scold three generations at Thanksgiving if she needs to, but that's closer to her good side.

[Arthur Dent]

A friend of mine is close to Warren's husband, Bruce Mann, and apparently she's one of the biggest jerks on the planet.

I think she'd be good at the job so it doesn't bother me, but I always pictured her in those congressional hearings as the sweet grandmother who can scold three generations at Thanksgiving if she needs to, but that's closer to her good side.

Are you saying her husband thinks she's a jerk?

[haltz]

Ha, nope. The people I know say that Bruce is super nice and that she isn't the most likable person ever. I think I phrased it like that because when he mentions knowing them it's couched as "our friend and his wife."

Mann's cv is hilarious

Education History

Ph.D. Legal History Yale University, 1977
M.Phil. Yale University, 1975
J.D. Yale University, 1975
A.B. Brown University, 1972
A.M. Brown University, 1972

[jim]

Never heard of her. Can she hit a curveball? If not, hope I never hear from her.