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hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
1. Sounds like it. Or that Hillary has a special relationship with them. Or that it's
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 11:44 AM
Mar 2016

Obama's fault for being too black. Unless Bill has secret polling info showing we take the House and Senate, he better keep walking this back.

 

djean111

(14,255 posts)
2. Exactly. I am frightened of just what Third Way Hawk Hillary and the GOP Congress would
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 11:46 AM
Mar 2016

agree on - nothing good for the people, that's for sure.

No thanks, indeed.

tularetom

(23,664 posts)
4. Yeah he screwed up big time
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 11:50 AM
Mar 2016

And yet she can't shut him up. Can't control him. Which is a bad omen for a Hillary Clinton presidency. We're talking Bill Clinton's third term here. He's going to be running the whole show.

 

highprincipleswork

(3,111 posts)
7. I guess we've all seen this video of Bill's view of working with Republicans...
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 11:58 AM
Mar 2016

but it's a goodie, if you like scary movies.

Dragonfli

(10,622 posts)
10. Well they are different people, but very close in ideology
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 01:36 PM
Mar 2016

so it is very possible Hillary will rubber-stamp a lot of things the Republicans want, I remember how closely Bill worked with Gingrich on rubber-stamping bank deregulation, media consolidation, welfare destruction (err I guess the proper euphemism is "reform&quot or the way Bill put it "an end to welfare as we know it." He was also working on SS "reform" with Gingrich as I recall until he was cut short by scandal. Perhaps she will start with that, where he left off on draconian reforms on behalf or her very dear friend and adviser to he Clinton family on "reform" for deficit reduction Pete Peterson.

Not that it matters, but it appears clear to me that Bill was talking about both Obama's legacy and the impending Vichy collaboration with Republicans that she will embrace just as he did.

Bill signed most of what Republicans wanted that we are paying a great price for now. Maybe, that is why Bill believes she can end Obama's legacy including his refusal to rubber-stamp most of their legislation as Bill had.

Even if Obama did promote some Republican dream legislation, like Heritage care which values human life as commodities, Bronze people left with premium bills for insurance they can't use to get actual care due to deductibles they can't afford, while Platinum people get great care with minor deductibles they can pay right out of their parking change and movie money, (all of which has doubled the value of Insurance Co. stock and increased their revenue) It is a completely regressive system designed to work the best for the rich and work very little to not at all for the struggling working class that can only afford a value as human beings as "bronze".

Human beings should not carry different values as commodities, rather than people, based on their ability to acquire wealth, who are compared to lifeless metals to assign their value by a government and thus the health care they can receive and all too often their very lives based on their commodity levels. When I first heard we were to be labeled as precious or worthless metals and treated as such by a regressive system designed to reduce care to the poor and increase care to the rich, I actually thought such metal descriptions and evaluations of humans as commodities depending on one's wealth status was a joke, but upon realization it had it's roots in an ultra Conservative think tank, I understood the joke was on us and no cause for laughter.

And his rubber-stamping of he TPP ready, pen in hand, waiting to sign, but overall he's refused to do all or even mot of the Republican's bidding.

Maybe the rubber stamp is already created and lies in her pocket just awaiting her coronation. He does after all know how to be a Vichy collaborator to Republican dream legislation, and he is an expert on his wife as much as anyone might hope to be.
I expect an end to gridlock under another Clinton presidency and all of the things the Republicans dream of passing getting a ready signature, what else could Bill be referring to?

 

pdsimdars

(6,007 posts)
15. And how do the Hillary supporters think about this? They don't seem to care at all.
Tue Mar 22, 2016, 05:12 PM
Mar 2016

But these things are horrible. They just deny them? Crickets. . . . .

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