Hillary Clinton’s new health care program is nothing more than the old debacle recycled. You can put lipstick on a pig but it is still swine no matter from which position that you view the animal. Same goes for Clinton’s health care program. She is recycling the 1994 program with few a twists. Her program would tie the government up in knots with so much bureaucratic red tape and expense that it would take over one seventh of the budget or more as her “Old” plan would have.
Clinton is once again propagating more untruths on the campaign trail insisting that she learned her lesson from her first failure of the 1990’s.
From James Capretta of NRO:
In his 1994 State of the Union address, President Bill Clinton waved his pen at the Democratic-controlled Congress and said he would veto any health-care-reform bill that did not “guarantee” the right to health insurance for every American. The threat worked. Congress didn’t send him a bill he would have to veto — or any reform bill at all, for that matter.
Then-First Lady Hillary Clinton, heading up her husband’s health-care task force, undoubtedly had a hand in that disastrous 1994 line in the sand. Now that she is running for president, she says she has learned her lesson. But has she? It hasn’t seemed so over the last two months on the campaign trail, as the take-no-prisoners rhetoric and finger-pointing ultimatums have returned with a vengeance.
The 1994 effort was a debacle of biblical proportions for the Democratic party. To win the presidency, everyone assumed Hillary Clinton would need to erase memories of her flawed leadership of that catastrophe. And doing so would mean showing voters she had the capacity for a different kind of leadership, one based on openness to the private sector, appreciation for the complexity of the task, and policy flexibility — not 1990’s style war-rooms and the promised destruction of opponents with differing views.
For a time last fall, it seemed as if Clinton understood she had an image problem that needed correcting. In announcing her new plan for health care, she stressed choice and pluralism. She claimed — falsely — that under her plan no one would be forced to drop the coverage they have today if they were happy with it. She suggested the plan is built on general principles, not detailed legislative particulars, and she pledged to work with Congress to formulate a workable compromise. She even endorsed Republican-sounding tax credits to bolster her claimed support of more private health insurance options.
Conservatives, of course, never believed for a minute that her overall goal had changed, and rightly so. Her plan is cleverly drawn, but a careful reading shows it would lead to a government takeover. Still, there was no denying a change in salesmanship.
Americans should remember what Hillarycare was and continues to be. The Clinton plan would have taken control of one-seventh of the U.S. economy. Her plan would establish this nation’s biggest government program , larger than Social Security with huge tax increases for everyone.
Deja Vu all over again…
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You actually expect Hillary to learn ? Some audacity. The couple who in their minds have fooled the country for over 30 years dont need to learn any lessons, its you and I that need to learn..to accept them for who they are and better “vote” for them or else!!!
Let us look at the Clinton record – Hiding tax returns in 80’s when she made
10,000% profit in cattle futures (ask cattle farmers how profitable it is!), usingArksansas state troopers to bring in victims, pathological lying, deceiving, possible murder, perjuring oneself even as the chief law enforcement officer, suborning perjury,covering up lying, obstruction of justice, getting impeached, cheating on one’s wife but doing it in the people’s house, during work hours and that too with a subordinate and that too multiple times, opening up motel 1600 PA avenue and converting the White House Lincoln bedroom into a shag house for petty criminals, accepting
illegal contributions to campaigns and legal defense fund ot defend onself from white collar crimes, accepting bribes from everyone to pardon criminals and even allowing brother in law (the famous Rodhams) to accept money for pardons, stealing gifts from the White house while leaving in 2000 and then blaming the poor packing people for it, pardoning Peurto Rican terrorists in lieu of votes in the New York Senate contest in 2000, accepting funds from middle east even as wife was railing against Bush Administrations decisions to allow the same middle eastern source to protect our ports, accepting money from dubious dictators and some enemies of America and providing them “Positive” Press, lying about achievements
like involvement in Irish peace process, Bosnian sniper gate, Kosovo, NAFTA…, lying about experience, trashing everyone that comes in the way of fufilling personal ambitions like a poor 16 yr old that was r**** by an adult (was Hillary Clinton’s first case as a defense attorney in Arkansas which she proudly writes about in her book with a little spin), Jennifer Flowers ,Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, Kenneth Starr, Barack Obama, Al Gore, Bill Richardson and on and on goes the sins of the Clintons which is singularly unmatched by most politicans not only of the United States but even most third World countries. Amazing thing is that there are some
idiots who are willing see beyond all of this and still vote for them!! Amazing IQ levels..
LOL. A communist would oppose Hillary’s UHC. Even United Kingdom praised her plan and they were the first ever to have a similiar plan. Obama’s plan only supports kids but when the parents are sick who will take care of the kids. McCain, why the hell is he running if he doesn’t know what the ppl want. This article is supported by the minority. PPl don’t believe in those Harry and Louise ads taht Reagan stressed on and apparently Obama attempted to use.
LOL So funny!
There is an Intersting Column written to day By Ellen Goodman of the BOSTON Globe ( as liberal as the SLIME) titled ” Democratic race shows how we’re divided as much by generation as race”
By en large she is ALMOST right BUT what this Liberal panderer ignores is that Both of the Current Candidates are perfect examples of what past prejudices were gainst Gender and Race since to day, I believe, that we are beyond that rethoric. Problem To day is that BOTH so called progressive liberals represent the worst of Gender and Race.
One is a Lying full of bagage Female with No scruples but her own Socialist well documented agenda for POWER…
The other, inexperience aside, is proving to be a recist agains white folks , Pro abortion, making extreme poor judgements although attempting to mask his true feelings with Empty albeit well formulated oratory…NOT FOLING PEOPLE Barry!
In Summary it is their POLITICS, ABSENT ETHICS and Values, and a prpensity for Lying that turns people off.
I believe that Peole of Character such as Colin Powell, Michael Steele, Condi Rice, Gov. Sibelius of Kansas ( just to throw a Democrat in the mix) were to be candidates America would vote for anyone of them… BUT once more the LOON Party chooses two poor examples of Inepts for their candidates like the last two times and I fear 8 or more years of HATE coming out from the DONKEY HEADS!!!
Pardon Ramos and Compean.
Agents Ramos and Compean have been serving (prison) time because our government did not want our Border Patrol Agents to do their jobs. Now they are behind bars based on the testimony of a lying drug smuggler who was arrested again while awaiting the Ramos …
goes to show – who knows her heinous better than her own wife, bill?