Posted on 09/12/2009 7:28:58 PM PDT by Steelfish
September 13, 2009
Ugly Corpse Of ‘HillaryCare’ Haunts Obama
Tony Allen-Mills in Washington
WATCHING President Barack Obama deliver his stirring speech on healthcare to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday, Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, may have experienced a powerful sense of déjà vu.
In 1993 her husband, President Bill Clinton, stood at the same podium beneath the US Capitol dome and issued a spirited defence of his own sweeping proposals — much influenced by her ideas — for a new system of national health insurance.
Within a year the reform effort that became known as “HillaryCare” was dead, killed by endless party wrangling over who should pay for what.
The ghost of Clinton failures past returned to haunt the White House last week, despite acclaim for a brilliant attempt by a new president to reassert his diminished authority after a summer of mishaps.
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I just had a mental image of zombies wandering around mumbling, “Braaaaaaains!”
I watched a little CSPAN of some old congressional sessions and felt the same way.
No, no, no.
It’s racist to oppose health care reform.
You shouldn’t bring up that it was opposed before.
I’ve heard eating too many brains goes right to the thighs....
Telling serial lies is now brilliant? Gee, who knew?
The revenge of the HildeBeast in this manner would be sweet like sugar! Bama badly wants to one up on Hellary via Healthcare but like Sen. Demint says “Lets give him Waterloo instead”.
That Bam’s dream of National Healthcare gets sunk like Hellary’s would be dulce de vida.
Hillary's mistake was that she kept the committee private and closed.
An open discussion in a true bipartisan committee might give us some needed reforms without imposing ObamaCare...:^)
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