As If On Cue
By Pejman Yousefzadeh Posted in Health Care Reform Circa 1994 | Policy | The Clintons — Comments (5) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Remember this?
If so, great. If not, or if this is your first time reading it, take a moment to acclimate yourself.
Done? Okay. Now read this:
Former President Bill Clinton said Thursday that he should receive more blame than his wife for the failed attempt to revamp the nation's health care system more than a decade ago.
"You know how much she cares about this," Mr. Clinton told an audience in Glenwood, Iowa, according to an account on MSNBC. "She has taken the rap for some of the problems we had with health care the last time that were far more my fault than hers."
Thirteen years after the health care debacle and finally we learn the truth: The candidate on the ballot for the Presidency was not responsible for the debacle and the former President who no longer needs to run for anything, was.
Some might think this is just too convenient. I like to think the best of people, so I'll just say that Bill Clinton took his time to remind us that chivalry is not dead.
But even if it isn't, this "Hillary-Wasn't-Responsible" meme ought to go precisely nowhere. I am going to take advantage of a disagreement Dan McLaughlin had with this post so that you can see what a former Clinton adviser thought about how blame should be apportioned on the health care debacle.
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Theres 3E6 documents under lock and key on this matter. So even if they were all released in a timely manner, with the most important ones coming first it will be a long while after the election before anything can be sorted out.
Old news anyone ?
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she really was busy baking cookies and hoping to keep her man back then, and was not the policy player her press flacks have claimed she was.
The Clinton con does not age well over time.
Either she was very involved and the fact that it failed is primarily her fault, or she was only nominally involved and it was all Bill's fault. If the latter is the case, then she can't very well claim experience there.
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And to thinnk we're finding this now after how many people, wrote how many books, and none of them pick this gem up? Amazing how rewriting history remains the gift that keeps on giving.