Women politicians who you think would've been good Presidents past or present?

[Thomas]

State them below

[TDAS04]

Hillary Clinton
Eleanor Roosevelt
Margaret Chase Smith
Harriet Tubman
Others

(Hillary's the only one of the above who would have been realistic, though.)

[America Needs R'hllor]

Hillary Clinton
Eleanor Roosevelt
Margaret Chase Smith
Others

This, and also Barbara Mikulski and Shirley Chisholm. Not counting women who may run in 2020, of course. Plenty of them can be good Presidents.

[HillGoose]

Liz Cheney (I hope she becomes President someday)
Susana Martinez
Elizabeth Dole
idk who else

[America's Sweetheart ❤/𝕿𝖍𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖞 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗]

Most of them.


"Never met a wise man, if so it's a woman".

[Beet]

Most of the prominent ones would be far better than average.

[HillGoose]

Oh also Tammy Duckworth. If I got to pick who won in 2020 but they had to be a Democrat, it would be Tammy Duckworth.

[sverkol]

I am surprised that nobody mentions Jennifer Granholm.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouya3k4xBpg
I wish that she was able to run.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I am surprised that nobody mentions Jennifer Granholm.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouya3k4xBpg
I wish that she was able to run.

That's because she was a disaster here in Michigan. Politicians are still trying to get her October 2007 tax hikes repealed (hopefully the next governor will manage to do it).

Michigan was in bad shape even before that, though.  The economy was a major issue that plagued her throughout her 2006 reelection campaign, and she won largely because more people blamed it on Bush than on her.

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Hillary Clinton
Margaret Chase Smith

[Kingpoleon]

I am surprised that nobody mentions Jennifer Granholm.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouya3k4xBpg
I wish that she was able to run.

That's because she was a disaster here in Michigan. Politicians are still trying to get her October 2007 tax hikes repealed (hopefully the next governor will manage to do it).

Michigan was in bad shape even before that, though.  The economy was a major issue that plagued her throughout her 2006 reelection campaign, and she won largely because more people blamed it on Bush than on her.

Implementing a 4.95% surtax on business income and increasing individual income taxes from 3.9% to 4.35% is bad policy even during a boom

"Click here for three easy steps for Republican budgets: never raise taxes, always double military spending, and balance the budget. It worked for Dubya!"

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Dixy Lee Ray

[Kingpoleon]

I am surprised that nobody mentions Jennifer Granholm.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouya3k4xBpg
I wish that she was able to run.

That's because she was a disaster here in Michigan. Politicians are still trying to get her October 2007 tax hikes repealed (hopefully the next governor will manage to do it).

Michigan was in bad shape even before that, though.  The economy was a major issue that plagued her throughout her 2006 reelection campaign, and she won largely because more people blamed it on Bush than on her.

Implementing a 4.95% surtax on business income and increasing individual income taxes from 3.9% to 4.35% is bad policy even during a boom

"Click here for three easy steps for Republican budgets: never raise taxes, always double military spending, and balance the budget. It worked for Dubya!"

Economies do grow over time, allowing a government to extract more revenue without raising marginal rates.

You say that sarcastically, but it almost did work for Dubya—the deficit decreased to 1.1% of GDP in 2007 and was projected to be in surplus territory by 2012. The issue, of course, is that the financial crisis happened, but that drew nearly every country into deficit no matter what tax policies they had during the 2000s.

Yes, but it was not helped by the vast increase in military spending from under four hundred billion dollars in the late nineties to almost eight hundred billion dollars in 2008.

[Kingpoleon]

Once again, tax cuts and spending hikes during times of economic growth consistently create bubbles. That’s why you can’t say “if it weren’t for the recession, the budget would have balanced.” No! What you’re proposing might work for four, eight, or even ten years. But the longer it works, the harder it comes crashing down. As GDP growth reaches and surpasses 3.5-4%, economic bubbles form that will eventually lead to a recession much bigger than the one that happened in 2008.

[publicunofficial]

Frances Perkins

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Frances Perkins

[Oldiesfreak1854]

I am surprised that nobody mentions Jennifer Granholm.
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouya3k4xBpg
I wish that she was able to run.

That's because she was a disaster here in Michigan. Politicians are still trying to get her October 2007 tax hikes repealed (hopefully the next governor will manage to do it).

Michigan was in bad shape even before that, though.  The economy was a major issue that plagued her throughout her 2006 reelection campaign, and she won largely because more people blamed it on Bush than on her.

Implementing a 4.95% surtax on business income and increasing individual income taxes from 3.9% to 4.35% is bad policy even during a boom

"Click here for three easy steps for Republican budgets: never raise taxes, always double military spending, and balance the budget. It worked for Dubya!"

Economies do grow over time, allowing a government to extract more revenue without raising marginal rates.

You say that sarcastically, but it almost did work for Dubya—the deficit decreased to 1.1% of GDP in 2007 and was projected to be in surplus territory by 2012. The issue, of course, is that the financial crisis happened, but that drew nearly every country into deficit no matter what tax policies they had during the 2000s.

Not only that, but cutting taxes actually increases revenues in the long run (Laffer curve, anyone?).  It may decrease them in the immediate, short term, but give them a few years to work, and as the economy improves tax revenues will rise accordingly.  The Bush tax cuts were enacted in 2001 and 2003, and 15+ years later, tax revenues to the Treasury are at an all-time high.

[Kingpoleon]

Maybe that has something to do with GDP being at an all-time high and Obama raising taxes?

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Maybe that has something to do with GDP being at an all-time high and Obama raising taxes?

Except Obama didn't raise taxes.  He tried to repeal the Bush tax rates but backed off.