Posted on 04/11/2011 8:49:51 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama takes cues from Clinton? The end of big government (again) Neil Munro - The Daily Caller 57 mins ago
President Barack Obama is mimicking Bill Clinton as he downplays many progressive priorities in his run towards the 2012 election.
Obama’s new budget-cutting rhetoric is causing heartburn for progressives, even though there’s little evidence that he will reduce his efforts to win greater government control of the nation’s health, education and energy sectors.
On Friday, Obama appeared before waiting cameras to laud the budget deal, which he described as “a budget that invests in our future while making the largest annual spending cut in our history.” But he justified the cuts by saying they’re needed to preserve big government: “Beginning to live within our means is the only way to protect those investments that will help America compete for new jobs — investments in our kids’ education and student loans, in clean energy and life-saving medical research.”
This fiscal two-step is similar to Clinton’s policies following his disastrous 1994 loss of the House to resurgent Republicans. In January 1996, Clinton accepted the GOP’s advance by declaring that “the era of big government is over.” But Clinton paired his small-government rhetoric with continued promises of government spending for a few poll-tested priorities. For example, in the October 1996 presidential debate against Republican Sen. Robert Dole, Clinton told viewers, “Let’s balance the budget and protect Medicare, Medicaid, education and the environment.”
Clinton’s strategy worked, even though turnout among progressives was poor, and turnout among all voters reached a historic low of 50 percent.
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Besides France and the brits wanting to steal Libya’s oil, obummer was trying a clintoon there as well.
fool me once shame on you
fool me twice shame on me
Not quite accurate.....
.....Obama means the "end of Super-Duper Big Government".
He will settle for "Super Big Government"
Progressive priorities NEVER get rid of big government it’s the only food supply they have.
Fool me twice: Obamessiah, shame on me.
Not buying what you are slinging... We won't be fooled again!
Steve has proven he will say whatever will get him elected. There is no correspondence between his candidacy words and his executive actions.
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