Posted on 12/18/2009 3:09:40 AM PST by Scanian
WASHINGTON -- Bill Clinton yesterday rode in with an 11th-hour attempt to save the sputtering Senate health-care bill, as liberal backlash threatened to torpedo President Obama's top domestic priority.
Clinton spoke out with the clock set to strike on Obama's self-imposed Christmas deadline for the Senate passing a bill.
The White House aggressively took to TV to push back against liberal outrage -- while struggling, without success, to get the lone Democratic Senate holdout, Nebraska's Ben Nelson, on board.
Clinton -- who saw his own attempt at a health-care overhaul crash on the shoals of Congress in 1994 -- wrote an open letter saying it would be a "colossal blunder" to let the nearly $1 trillion plan die.
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The Clinton’s are about as self centered as the Obama’s and I really don’t have faith that Bill would want Obama to succeed where he (Hillary) failed.
Therefore, I am supporting their covert attempt to screw this up! GO BILL!
I think the only Barack Obama gets re-elected in 2012 is if the Republicans take over the House of Representatives in 2010, which is the only way he can have an enemy to blame for his failure to implement his agenda. So, there is hard choice here in who to root for.
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