When I turned on my television set New Year’s day, I witnessed something that has me deeply distressed. That was the sight of Bill and Hillary Clinton at New York’s City Hall commemorating the mayoral inauguration of New York’s new mayor, Bill de Blasio.
In attendance was the 86-year-old Harry Belafonte, who even at his advanced age can still race-bait with the best of them. His opening speech was a defiant and radical “Down with Whitey” comparing the Koch brothers to the Klu Klux Klan and denouncing the outgoing mayor’s police force. When he finished, the city’s new public advocate, Letitia James, took the podium with Dasani Coates, a 12-year-old homeless girl, whose story was featured in the New York Times. James egged the new mayor to spend more of the people’s money on a progressive agenda. Meanwhile, outgoing mayor Michael Bloomberg stood in disbelief. The only coherent speech was made by Bill Clinton , who praised and respected Bloomberg. But Clinton’s call for respect and decency left the crowd in stunned silence.
When de Blasio finally took the podium, his speech was right out of Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto.” His rhetoric promised everything but demanded little from those that believe that government is the cure all for everything. Behind each phrase he whipped the idealistic left into a frenzy, chanting “We won’t wait, we’ll do it now.”
Luckily for New Yorkers, they won’t have to worry too much about de Blasio’s Havana on the Hudson vision for New York. Despite New York’s reputation for being a hotbed for progressive thought, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo and the fiscally responsible state legislators will put the brakes on Bill de Blasio’s big spending agenda
Still, it worries me to see Hillary Clinton risk her good name pandering to the fringes of the Democratic party, even while she is eyeing the 2016 presidential race.
I believe she has begun to crack under the rumors that progressives including Elizabeth Warren may run for the Democratic presidential nomination.
But Hillary has nothing to worry about. Outside of New York no one’s interested in a big-spending liberal. If I were advising the former first lady, I would tell her to be low key and wait.
With the Chris Christie implosion she will be able to position herself as the voice of reason.
Thanks to President Obama’s reluctance to stand up against the fringes of his party, the American electorate is in a foul mood. The moderates and independents are tired of the extremist on both sides of the aisle and are in no mood for big spending programs.
In order to get liberalism out of the system of many Democrats, I believe a thorough repudiation at the voting booth needs to happen. This would be the best thing to happen for Hillary; it would sober up many Democrats that think Americans want a progressive agenda being proposed by the Warren/Deblasio wing. A midterm shellacking would allow Hillary to run a more centrist campaign and not pander to the far left .
In the end I would advise Hillary not to alienate her supporters by posing with big spenders such as Bill de Blasio.
