Category Archives: Bill Clinton
Worst President
In a Quinnipiac Poll President Obama edged out George W. Bush and Richard Nixon in voting for the worst president since WWII. That covers a lot of ground when you consider the competition.
Peggy Noonan thinks the president is a weirdo.
But I’m not sure people are noticing the sheer strangeness of how the president is responding to the lack of success around him. He once seemed a serious man. He wrote books, lectured on the Constitution. Now he seems unserious, frivolous, shallow. He hangs with celebrities, plays golf. His references to Congress are merely sarcastic: “So sue me.” …
It is weird to have a president who has given up. So many young journalists diligently covering this White House, especially those for whom it is their first, think what they’re seeing is normal.
It is not. It is unprecedented and deeply strange. And, because the world is watching and calculating, unbelievably dangerous.
Poor Mouth
Hillary’s book tour got off to a poor start during an interview with Diane Sawyer. We learned that Bill and Hill came to the White House “with no money” and left “not only dead broke but in debt“. People used to call her Patches.
It wasn’t for lack of effort, though, or “dint of hard work” as Hillary put it.
The threadbare baggage the Clintons brought to Washington from Arkansas in 1993 included the Whitewater real estate scheme. They lost $40,000 on that one. According to prosecutors, dubious loans through a failed S&L didn’t profit them either. More hard work and nothing to show for it. Plucky Hillary did finally manage to shoo the wolf from the door by turning $1,000 into $100,000 on a cattle futures trade. She attributed her investing acumen to reading the Wall Street Journal.
All that hard work finally blossomed into a happy ending with $200,000 speaking fees, multi million dollar book advances, and a bankroll over $100,000,000.
As a candidate for the 2004 nomination Howard Dean said he led the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party. Poor Patches now leads the limousine liberal wing of the Democratic Party.
Only in America.
Bill Clinton on Keeping Your Healthcare. Period.
Bill Clinton knows the meaning of “period“.
He took this opportunity to drive the Hillary Machine off the tracks of the ObamaCare train wreck when he said the president should honor his commitments to people who lost their health care.
Easier said than done, considering nearly 5 million insurance contracts have been vaporized.
Clinton on Keeping your Health Care
Anyway here’s the Clinton quotation on CNN:
“So I personally believe, even if it takes a change to the law, the president should honor the commitment the federal government made to those people and let them keep what they got,” Clinton said during an interview with the website OZY.com.
Wonder if he’ll insist the president come clean with the people on the meaning of “what difference does it make“?
Update:
Looks like the king is trying to put it back together again. He wants to use prosecutorial discretion to let people keep their old plans. Howard Dean thinks that’s illegal.
You Lie
I got this idea from this Holman Jenkins column in the WSJ. He thinks there is “too much incentive for Americans to over-consume health care” and that low cost high-deductible coverage might be the solution.
Obama and Democrats in general hate that idea. Jenkins quotes Hillary Clinton in 1993:
“We just think people will be too focused on saving money and they won’t get the care for their children and themselves that they need . . .
“The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better.”
IBD says the reason HillaryCare didn’t become law in 1994 was because of the “Harry and Louise” ad campaign. The Harry and Louise characters hammered home the point that they would lose their cheap insurance and be forced to buy expensive insurance, of the government’s choosing, under the Clinton plan.
That’s why Obama lied early and often that “you can keep your plan, if you like it”, under ObamaCare. Now, people who happen to like their individual catastrophic coverage are learning the truth.
You Lie
South Carolina Congressman Joe Wilson was an obnoxious boor when he shouted “You lie” during President Obama’s 2009 State of the Union speech. But he didn’t lie.