The policy ideas that would make up the Initiative's
competitiveness and growth strategy would fall under two main pillars of the
Initiative. As noted earlier, the first
pillar would consist of an international strategy to balance and respond to the
economically dysfunctional practices of other economics and to create a
supportive global economic environment for strengthening America's productive economy. The second pillar would entail policies to
enhance America's
competitiveness and promote domestic economic development through policies
geared towards the maintenance and generation of higher-value added jobs.
A former Senate aide who has long been promoting the idea of Mrs. Clinton as Senate majority leader, Steven Clemons, said the possibility has been all but foreclosed for now because Senator Reid of Nevada has said he has no plans to step aside. Mr. Clemons called offering the vice presidency to Mrs. Clinton "the politically mature thing to wow a person like myself."
"There's nothing John McCain could do to beat an Obama-Clinton ticket," Mr. Clemons said...LINK
...Steve Clemons, director of the American Strategy Programme at the New America Foundation and a popular liberal blogger, said some Clinton allies were pressing ahead to install her as Reid's successor.
"There is appetite in the Senate for it, and I think she'd take it," Clemons said, adding that "if [Obama] is politically savvy and mature, he'll make this happen"...LINK
Super Tuesday Leaves Bruising Battles Ahead (Inter Press Service News)
"The Democratic Party can't tell what it wants to be," Steve Clemons, a political blogger and head of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, told IPS. ...
"[McCain] is likely to do a deal with Mike Huckabee and bring evangelicals along with Huckabee at the VP [vice president] ticket," said Clemons.
