Posted on 05/08/2014 6:53:14 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The GOP’s Benghazi disease has metastasized into yet another committee in the Republican House of Inquisitions, seeking to waste taxpayer money in yet another failed effort to exploit the death of Americans and prosecute yet another witch hunt against Hillary Clinton.
Clinton has answered. In her most important and profound speech since leaving the State Department, Clinton touted the benefits of ObamaCare and warned about the culture of gun violence that has killed far too many of America’s children. Speaking to the National Council for Behavioral Health, she called for redoubled efforts to redress economic inequality and a return to a society in which Americans care about one another, in an economy with rising tides that lift all boats. The battle is joined. The GOP addresses its partisan and extreme right-wing base with a venom toward others that mocks the legacies of Abe Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan. Clinton addresses the nation as a whole in tones reminiscent of Pope Francis, calling for a nation where no girls or boys have shorter life expectancies than their moms or dads. She champions an economy where aspirations grow higher while the number of jobless falls lower. She stands for politics where data and facts replace delusion and deceit. She proposes a discourse where mutual respect replaces the negativity and hatred that are trademarks of the modern Republican Party.
While the GOP looks downward and backward in its negative politics of derision, aiming its appeal to an extremist faction, Clinton reaches outward and forward in her positive politics of opportunity, aiming her appeal to the nation at large. If she runs in 2016, she could well carry 45 states and sweep into office many Democrats running for the House, Senate and governorships.
Ignore the vast wasteland of political “reporting” about a potential Clinton candidacy, such as the idiot punditry about Monica Lewinsky and the irrelevant bromides about who is allegedly up or down on Planet Hillary. Consider carefully, instead, what Clinton is saying this week.
Benghazi? We do not have enough fingers on our hand to count the House Republican committees that have investigated Benghazi.
But even after all of these sham public relations operations — sandwiched between long House Republican recesses and vacations — potential 2016 GOP candidates cannot see the color of Clinton’s pantsuit because she is running so far ahead of them.
ObamaCare? Clinton understands that by November 2016 there will be 12 million people, or perhaps 15 million or more, signed up along with children covered under a parent’s policy.
The Republican nightmare is Clinton in 2016 accusing the party that wants to cut Social Security and Medicare of trying to force 12-15 million consumers to give up healthcare plans they purchased, trying to strip people with preexisting conditions of the insurance ObamaCare provided, and telling millions of parents that their kids lose the insurance that ObamaCare gave them.
Medicaid? Let right-wing Republicans tell voters why they hurt their state budgets and poor folks by refusing to accept federal Medicaid money.
War against women? Let Republicans tell voters why Clinton is wrong about pay equity, better child care, paid parental leave and more help for poor women who deserve better than hungry children and premature death.
Jobs? Minimum wage? Income inequality? The GOP is busy creating jobs for GOP hacks working for partisan committees investigating Benghazi ad nauseam and for GOP flacks writing press releases advocating the repeal ObamaCare health plans consumers want. Meanwhile, Clinton is envisioning an America where parents don’t have to worry about their children being gunned down in school, workers don’t have to worry about being left behind in an economy without jobs, politics is not poisoned by hatred, and our social fabric is not torn apart by economic inequality and social injustice.
This week, Americans heard Republicans talk about Benghazi while Clinton talked about them. Upon such things historic landslides and realignments are born. Republicans, consider yourselves warned.
- Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and Bill Alexander, then chief deputy majority whip of the House. He holds an LL.M. degree in international financial law from the London School of Economics.
He’s not correct.
You have lived in Maryland too long. You have lost sight of what a true conservative is.
I stand with Ted....as do many on FR
I’m going to listen to Pence and Walker, who have smartly kept their head down, their mouth shut and not been flame throwers, leaving them looking competent in work performance and in very good shape to step up if they dare.
I think anyone struggles in a general election against Hillary’s machine. Not Hillary so much, but her cash heavy, cut throat machine may be good for 7 points, maybe more.
Except against.... Jeb Bush, maybe. (Money & Machine)
But since they both are globalists (think Common Core) and wish to turn us into Mexico, “WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE”?
In such a case, the smartest WOMAN in the world wins. Right?
I agree we can not count on a responsible electorate any more.
In fact, we can count on an electorate now shaped to reject our Constitution and American tradition.
Heck, Obama is nearly at 45% on RCP poll averages.
Americans are now outnumbered at the polls by low information freeloaders whose only issue is “more free stuff.”
I don’t think Hillary’s “time for a woman” appeal is as strong as Obama’s “time for a black” was. Part of the reason is she has so much nasty baggage!
I agree. Sarah has and continues to prove her worth. She need not drag herself through the mud again. Wait till a Republican is in office, then appoint her to serve. Let the Palins enjoy some of what they’veearned.
Oh heck, yes. ZZZactly. I can’t get a read on voters in this country at all. I mean Obama at 45% is stunning.
So, if he can be at “45”, what pray tell, stops Hillary from hanging in there for at least 51%, for the win as “the first woman” prez?
This electorate wants to make class, gender statements, far more than repair the damage to the country.
seeking to waste taxpayer money in yet another failed effort to exploit the death of Americans and prosecute yet another witch hunt against Hillary Clinton.
I have ead many ignorant and hateful statements from liberals. This one is very near the top. Getting to a reasonable explanation as to why 4 Americans were killed and our Government did NOTHING and then lied about it is not possibly a waste of tax dollars. You can not put a price tag on truth and justice.
I doubt Hillary will even run. IMO we will see Andrew Cuomo as the Dem nominee for President in 2016.
LOL
Glad you posted that.
I was going to to ask “45 states” of what?
Hillary got the ‘2 AM phone call’ she said, “let ‘em die - what difference does it make?”
She is as worthless as Obama. That is why she will win no matter who we put up against her.
1. The American people prefer style and fake platitudes over substance and successful achievement.
2. Amnesty/Citizenship via Executive Order will ensure a large Democrat voting block.
3. Voter fraud in key states, counties, cities, run by Democrats (Virginia) will ensure close states will fall into the Rat column.
Its over.
He's an embarrassment to the Lone Star State. His ephemeral claim to fame is that he was an aide to Lord Bentsen, a more prominent embarrassment to the LSS, who knew John Kennedy.
It appears, every half decade, more or less, he crawls out of the woodwork. The last time I recall was 2007, when he slimed Scooter Libby over the manufactured Valerie Plame (top CIA milf) controversy.
Too Early to tell—I still don’t think she will run. She’s getting too old—The Nigerian scandal and Bemgazi mess will sink her. Watch as the stink box explodes over the next six weeks.
You have lived in Maryland too long. You have lost sight of what a true conservative is.
I stand with Ted....as do many on FR
Actually only two years, but regardless you guys always pick the losers. It never ends. You are crazy wanting to pick a beginner. So sad. You would think the loses of Texas and North Carolina because conservatives can’t get their acts together would learn some lessons about picking somebody out of a hat. So dang sad.
Because I want Walker that is why. I will not get screwed by you folks again like I was in 2012. I wanted Santorum but you spoiled brats refused so we were stuck with Romney. I refuse to have that happen again. I will write in Walker if he is not chosen as our nominee. He is seasoned Governor with an experience in HELL during the recall and survived. He is the only one I will accept because you all are pissing me off tonight.
I agree with you. Cruz is an excellent candidate. I watch and listen to him, and I have renewed faith that he’s the best we Conservatives have to win this country back from the enemies within.
I agree with you except for one thing. Sarah Palin will never run for vice president again. No one loses as vice president, and then runs for that office again. Makes one look weak. They would become typecast as someone who aspired to high office, but not to the highest office. It would be kinda half-assing it.
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