Hillary Clinton Attacks Bush, Sells Book

GOPUSA.Com/Talon News ^ | 4/2/03 | Richard Brownell

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NEW YORK (Talon News) -- New York Sen. Hillary Clinton accused President Bush of having the worst economic policy since Herbert Hoover at a Democrat fundraising dinner outside of Hartford, CT.

Speaking at the Jefferson Jackson Bailey dinner, one of the Connecticut Democrat Party's more prestigious annual events, Clinton told the rapt audience that the country is "reaping the bad consequences of a wrong economic policy."

"They have the most wrong-headed economic policies that we've seen since Herbert Hoover," Clinton said.

Clinton's aggressive remarks at the April 28 event coincide with the release date announcement of her autobiography, "Living History," which is due in stores June 9. A mass-market audio edition will also be released on that day, read by Clinton.

Stores across the country have pre-ordered 1 million copies, and publisher Simon & Schuster will need to sell every one and then some to recoup its $8 million advance.

Clinton told the 1,500-plus crowd that the Bush administration was abandoning the middle class with tax cuts for the rich. She also stated that the Republicans are secretly plotting to dismantle the public education system.

"There have never been bigger differences between Republicans and Democrats," Clinton said. "I believe the Democratic Party is going to rise again."

Considered in political circles to be a potential candidate in 2004 and a definite candidate in 2008, Clinton's speech was geared toward invigorating the Democrats for the coming presidential election.

At one point during her speech, Clinton got a standing ovation. "I am sick and tired of people who call you unpatriotic if you debate this administration's policies. We are Americans. We have the right to participate and debate any administration."

Clinton helped raise over $350,000 at the Bailey dinner; a record for the event. The previous record of $300,000 was set last year by none other than former President Clinton.

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[BenLurkin]

HILLARY'S HEROS

[longtermmemmory]

it was never intented to sell to be read.

The book is a cover/camoflage for a 2-6 million campaign contribution.

The book will be sold at face value to generate "contributions."

is it available on the internet ebook format yet?

[RobFromGa]

Here's a good article from earlier this week on this topic.

Herbert Hoover's daughter Hillary
by Ben Shapiro (townhall.com)

George W. Bush is Herbert Hoover. Or so Hillary Clinton and her Democratic cronies want you to think. "(The Republicans) have the most wrongheaded economic policies that we've seen since Herbert Hoover," Sen. Clinton (D-N.Y.) sneered to a group of rabid Connecticut Democrats at the Democratic Party's annual Jefferson Jackson Bailey Dinner on April 28.


Hillary must not remember Jimmy Carter's wonderful economic tenure during the late 1970s. She must also have forgotten that Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency watched the Great Depression remain Great for eight years.

But for the sake of argument, let us assume that Herbert Hoover's economic policy was indeed the worst of any president in the 20th century. He presided over the stock market collapse of October 1929. He could do nothing to reverse the downward spiral of the American economy. Billions of dollars disappeared, and unemployment skyrocketed. Poverty swept the nation.

Fair enough. But there's a small problem for Hillary -- Hoover's economic policy virtually mirrors her own. Hillary can try to link President Bush to President Hoover by pointing to the fact that both are Republicans, but the truth is that Hoover was an ardent Keynesian, and it was his insistence on federal solutions to the Depression that drove the economy into the ground.

Hoover's main focus immediately following the stock market crash was on the worker. "Refusing to accept the 'natural' economic cycle in which a market crash was followed by cuts in business investment, production and wages," the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Museum website explains, "Hoover summoned industrialists to the White House on Nov. 21, part of a round robin of conferences with business, labor and farm leaders, and secured a promise to hold the line on wages." Of course, employers could not afford to both maintain wages at current levels and continue to employ as many workers as before. The result was a dramatic increase in layoffs.

Yet Hillary advocates the same wage policy as Hoover. On Oct. 24, 1999, Hillary told a crowd in Queens, N.Y.: "If you study (minimum wage), you can clearly see it will not hurt the economy, it will not increase unemployment. There are those who have opposed an increase in the minimum wage, arguing that it will cost jobs, and there are some people who say we need more studies. They are wrong." If Hillary believes that jacking up the minimum wage is a way to stimulate the economy, then why does she bash Hoover?

In the spring of 1930, Hoover decided that the United States needed to prevent job loss by raising tariffs, so the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff was signed into law. It crippled world trade. Unemployment jumped from 5 million in 1930 to over 11 million in 1931.

Yet Hillary voted against giving President Bush trade promotion authority in August 2002. Trade promotion authority allows the president to negotiate trade agreements that lower tariffs; the trade agreements are then voted on as a package in an up-or-down congressional vote. If Hillary believes that protectionism is a good way to help the economy, then why does she blast Hoover?

After his other policy measures failed to revive the ailing economy, Herbert Hoover turned to tax increases. In June 1932, Hoover raised the income tax rate from 24 percent to 48 percent. "We cannot maintain public confidence nor stability of the federal government without undertaking some temporary tax increases," he rationalized. These tax hikes sent the economy into an even more dramatic nosedive.

Yet every time that President Bush calls for tax cuts, Hillary opposes him. After the 2001 round of Bush tax cuts went through, Hillary lobbied for delaying the cuts based on the recession, in effect re-raising taxes. "Given where we are now with the recession, with the war on terrorism, I just don't think it's in our best interest to go forward with the tax cuts," she asserted on "Meet the Press" on Dec. 9, 2001. If Hillary believes that raising taxes during a recession is the needed remedy for economic woes, then why does she knock Hoover?

Hillary and the Democrats blast Hoover because he was a Republican. But Hoover, like FDR and like Hillary Clinton, was a big-government economic policy-maker. As economist Thomas Sowell of Stanford University's Hoover Institution explains in his book, "Basic Economics," "Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt both tried to use the powers of the federal government to restore the economy." The Hoover economic ideology of yesterday is almost identical to the Hillary economic ideology of today.

George W. Bush isn't Herbert Hoover, but Hillary Clinton might be.

[hgro]

"Hillary: "Bush stinks."

ME, "HILLARY STINKS"

[Jorge]

Only an audience of true Bush haters could have enjoyed Hillary's speech...she sounded so shrill and bitter-like fingernails on a blackboard.

Remember this is the woman who held up the NYT in the Senate claiming "BUSH KNEW!" about Sept 11 before it happened. She is a despicable person.

[Gorzaloon]

Clinton told the rapt audience that the country is "reaping the bad consequences of a wrong economic policy."

True.

8 years of fraud, rubber checks, scams, bubbles, hype, insider trading, and blackmail will do that every time-Sooner or later.

[mountainfolk]

Both Clinton's had eight long years to address all of the nation's concerns they are screaming (and I do mean screaming) about now. For two and a half years George Bush has been cleaning up their messes and running a war besides. Now they are faulting Pres Bush for not doing all of the things they didn't accomplish while in control. Only RATS who care about party first and all else second will vote for these grifters again. And it would be the same as before, a vote for one saddles the country with them both. I hope Hillary runs now and gets it over with. If Republicans deal with her without deferring to her because she is a woman, she will lose.

[NYDave]

I once bought a tee shirt with the picture of Che on it, purely on a whim. I was at my second home in the Dominican Republic and the local supermarket had a rack of blister-packed tee shirts. I bought it as a goof but have never worn the gosh-danged thing as I don't like the image it presents. Che went to Bolivia to forment a revolution that didn't exist. The Bolivian army took good care of him.

Thanks for the response. I like to photos. Perhaps HRC should establish her residency in Bolivia and run for the Senate. For garsh sake, if she can win here, why not there.

[DED]

Subtitle should be "the way I wish it was".

[DED]

This was certainly an excellent post.
Hillary also apparently believes that the economy not only very quickly follows actions by the president, but can actually predict the future. The economy was picking up in the months prior to hubbie Bill's election, and it was faltering significantly prior to George Bush's election. (every time I hear 'Bush's election', I have to pause and give thanks that Al Gore wasn't president on 9-11).
And apparently she doesn't think any of the events that have occured during GWB's tenure (but might have been forestalled if Bill had been paying attention) that were out of his control have affected the economy.

[Ferret Fawcet]

This book will reveal NOTHING of consequence!

QUESTIONER:
Uh, welcome to the Grand Jury, Mrs. Clinton. How are you?

MRS. CLINTON:
I'm sorry. I don't recall.

QUESTIONER:
How's the book tour?

MRS. CLINTON:
I'm sorry, I don't recall.

QUESTIONER:
Uh, well let's get started.
[singing]
Try to remember when you were a member
Of Rose Lawfirm and worked Whitewater.

MRS. CLINTON:
[singing]
I don't remember that big money launder.
I was, um, baking cookies for my daughter.

QUESTIONER:
But Mrs. Clinton,
[singing]
Don't you remember that illegal tender
And your shady friend that McDougal fellow?

MRS. CLINTON:
I'm sorry,
[singing]
I can't remember; my brain's in a blender.
It's Jell-o!

QUESTIONER:
Ha ha, that's pretty good.

MRS. CLINTON:
Could we get on with this, please? I, I have to get back to my book tour.

QUESTIONER:
Okay, Mrs. Clinton, try to remember--and don't blame your gender--
[singing]
For missing all this high corruption.

MRS. CLINTON:
Well, excuse me,
[singing]
I don't remember--and don't blame my gender.
I'm not just some bimbo irruption.

QUESTIONER:
Uh uh, well, no, I didn't mean to imply that, but, but,

[singing]
Come next November your Bill the big spender
Could come to his end for this peccadillo.

MRS. CLINTON:
Well, I don't think so, because
[singing]
I can't remember; my brain's in a blender.
It's Jell-o! ["Jell-o" echoing four times]

QUESTIONER:
Uh, are you getting tired? Would you like to recess?

MRS. CLINTON:
I'm sorry, I don't recall.

QUESTIONER:
[quickly]
Who's president of the United States?

MRS. CLINTON:
Uh, I'm not sure I can remember that.

QUESTIONER:
This is very troubling.

MRS. CLINTON:
Well, pardon me.

QUESTIONER:
Oh, your husband could do that.

(Courtesy of Rush Limbaugh productions)

[green team 1999]

that parody sounds great on the radio,i remember listening to it,very funny,

[janetgreen]

"Living History" by MRS CLINTON will soon be on the bargain table at book stores. The only thing it will be good for is extra toilet paper if you run out.

[GreenHornet]

"I noticed that the first reviews on Hitlery's book, said it does not get into personal juicy Monica stuff, it is just a white wash of what anybody could write being a First Lady."

At some point, we may see a more candid and ominous review of Hillary's book:

"TO SERVE MAN"..........IT'S A COOK BOOK!!!!!

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