Posted on 01/14/2022 1:48:23 PM PST by Trillian
Bill and Hillary Clinton are sensing an opportunity to get back into the political fray as the Democrats look poised to be heading into a devastating midterm this fall.
Politico Playbook reported Friday that the power couple believe their centrist, deal-making brand of politics could be useful as party members have tripped up President Joe Biden's agenda.
They also believe that the public may have moved on from former President Bill Clinton's scandalous past, as the ratings for FX's Impeachment: American Crime Story - produced by Monica Lewinsky - were surprisingly low, Playbook said.
The Clintons, a bundler told Playbook, 'don't want to be pariahs anymore.'
'It's less about being kingmakers and more about being relevant and people seeing them as a net positive, not a net negative,' the source said.
Another source described their need to be involved in politics as a 'perpetual itch that will never go away.'
'They know how to slowly reenter,' the source said. 'The Clintons want to reset the board in their favor and then move the pieces.'
Bill Clinton was among the high-profile Democrats who attempted to convince moderate West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin that he should support filibuster reform.
The ex-president relished this opportunity, Playbook said, and has also been in touch with Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, another tough vote.
'I don't know her, but I like her,' Clinton reportedly said after his call with the Arizona lawmaker.
Sinema entered the House of Representatives in 2013, 13 years after Bill Clinton exited the White House.
Bill Clinton also pushed Biden to salvage his Build Back Better bill, which was derailed by Manchin before Christmas.
He said Biden could do this by focusing on a few items in the bill that Manchin wants.
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From the article: “’She’s bored,’ a longtime Clinton bundler said of the former Democratic nominee.”
What a wonderful reason to elect her President. As therapy for her self-esteem.
Bill looked and sounded so shaky back during his wife’s last campaign that they had to pull him off the trail, and that was over 5 years ago now. There’s no way he’s up to it.
I've been waiting 15 years for this one Hillary Clinton quotes. "I can't be responsible for every undercapitalized business out there"
-HRC
Which says quite a lot.
The Foundation must be tapped out.
“I don’t know her but I like her”
I bet he does..
I cant fathom being under forty and looking at these two. Bill and Hillary!? Seriously!? They must seem. a thousand years old.
Poor old Slick. He’s partied like it was 2000 the rest of his life.
She figures they know just how much they need to cheat to get her in...90%
should do. The funny thing is we all know about her kill list, her deplorable personality, her sex addict husband, her child killing Huma antics, her robbing Haiti, etc. etc. and yet they have the nerve to wanna get back in. I’ve spent half my life waiting for justice, I guess God wants this one for himself.
Hillary is like covid, never going away.
Howard Stern wanted her, because she’s a career politician.
He’d LIKE to know her. In the biblical sense.
My gawd! These grifters just need to go away… Whether it be to prison for all the crimes they have committed during their lifetimes or by satan. They are lower than the gum on the bottom of my shoe
Hillary is so funny. She’s talking as though she has been out of politics for more than five minutes over the last 40 years.
The low ratings for the MonicaGate story were because anyone paying attention already knows what happened and how.
That does not mean we ‘miss’ the Clintons in any way, shape or form.
Their names may be on the island list of visitors.
Did they wait till the Obama judge locked that list?
I don’t know ow if the media will keep giving them that pass.
Someone posted a picture on here, of hill with gisell...in bathing suits..sitting inside.
Oh, go away you old crone...and take your woman abusing “husband” with you
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