[Local AFL-CIO chapters wanting to endorse Bernie Sanders] is a major league schism, folks. It fits in perfectly with the ongoing trend: the Democrats' hard-left base does not want to get stuck with Hillary Clinton, because they don't believe in her and don't trust her, and they are so desperate for an alternative in the absence of Elizabeth Warren jumping into the race that they're willing to back an old, white, male, fringe kook like Weekend Bernie. And the Donk "establishment," which evidently includes Comrade Trumka and the AFL-CIO poobah-ry, are determined to back the Empress, or they wouldn't have issued that unprecedented memo.
- Me, three weeks ago
And now, it would seem, even they are getting cold feet:
In a possible setback for Hillary Clinton, the AFL-CIO's political committee has recommended the nation's largest labor union federation delay endorsing a candidate for the 2016 presidential race as it seeks to push her to be more supportive of its policies on issues such as trade and wages....
Didn't the Ugly Dutchess give several "landmark" economic policy speeches over the past week, full of all the rollickingly "blue" meat she knows the Nutroots want to hear? I could have sworn that she regurgitated all of Elizabeth Warren's lunatic doggerel on "income inequality" and absurdly high minimum wage rates and Frigg knows what else. Evidently even national-level Big Labor isn't buying that she means any of it.
The move highlights the pressures [Mrs.] Clinton is facing to take a tough stand against the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a proposed free trade deal backed by Barack Obama but vigorously opposed by unions who see it as detrimental to jobs and wages in the U.S. Unions also want her to back labor-friendly policies on other issues, such as the minimum wage and the Federal Reserve.
And a deal that she helped put together and whose biggest fan she was until a few months ago when it started getting in the way of duping the Nutroots into resigning themselves to her latest candidacy. Then she turned on a dime and started regurgitating all of Elizabeth Warren's lunatic doggerel against it.
Beats me why even Dick Trumka is questioning her sincerity.
The length of any delay in an endorsement may depend on how satisfied union leaders are with [Mr.] Clinton's stance on TPP over the next few months.
It may even be longer than that. But, again, here is another instance of another hard-left constituency realizing that it's caught in the Hillary trap and striving, with increasing alarm, to extricate itself from it.
Will they be able to do so? Probably not. Will they then pour out to the polls to "make history" for the second time in a decade by electing a woman president like they did a mulatto eight years before? Probably not.
Which is why Hillary has Donald Trump ready and raring to go.
I wonder if Trumka knows he's been dumped.
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