Posted on 07/11/2005 3:54:11 PM PDT by CHARLITE
ALBANY, N.Y. – Republicans took aim at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday for comparing President Bush to Mad magazine's freckle-faced "What, me worry?" kid, Alfred E. Neuman.
A Republican National Committee official said the former first lady was "part of today's angry and adrift Democrat Party," while a spokesman for one of her potential 2006 Senate rivals said she was guilty of "insulting the president."
"At a time when President Bush and most elected officials are focused on the security of our nation, Mrs. Clinton seems focused on taking partisan jabs and promoting her presidential campaign," added New York's GOP chairman, Stephen Minarik. "Her priorities are clearly out of whack." Clinton's attack on the president came Sunday during a speech in Colorado.
"I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Neuman is in charge in Washington," Clinton said during the inaugural Aspen Ideas Festival, organized by the Aspen Institute, a non-partisan think tank.
The former first lady drew a laugh from the crowd when she described Bush's attitude toward tough issues with Neuman's catchphrase, "What, me worry?"
As Clinton gears up for a Senate re-election race in New York next year and a possible White House presidential bid in 2008, her attacks on Bush have become sharper.
In her speech Sunday, she accused the president of damaging the economy by overspending while giving tax cuts to the rich, depriving U.S. soldiers of equipment needed to fight the war in Iraq and cutting funds for scientific research.
"Hillary Clinton's opportunistic attempt to market herself as a centrist is like a wolf dressing up in sheep's clothing," said RNC spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt. "Such thinly veiled rhetoric doesn't change the fact she is part of today's angry and adrift Democrat Party."
Thomas Basile, a spokesman for potential Senate challenger Edward Cox, a son-in-law of the late President Nixon, said while Clinton was "busy insulting the president across the country, she is failing to produce the homeland security and transportation funding" the state needs.
Clinton has been accusing the Bush administration of providing inadequate funding for New York's security needs.
While national polls show the former first lady to be leading the pack among potential 2008 Democratic presidential contenders, Clinton has said she is too wrapped up in her Senate work and re-election effort to think about that.
.....plus, it will be helpful for Republican operatives to continue to play and replay her many public statements, including those where she didn't realize that she was being taped.........Ex: the famous one (see below) where she told a doting audience, "We're going to take things away from you, for the common good." Of course her Royal Thighness would be deciding which "things" to "take away." Wouldn't she?
Miss Piggy ping.
``I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Neuman is in charge in Washington,''
So Chelsea's running things? Is that it?
We need to turn the heat up on this witch. Until recently, she's let her dogs do her bidding, but now she's in the hunt. If only one of the people that she has screwed over would come forward and slam this woman for just what she is, perhaps others would be willing to expose her. One crack in the teflon is a good start.
You're right. But they have certainly damaged the eventual winner as he got through the primaries.
There is no substance and objectivity in her speeches, except attacks and ridicule - pretty much all she knows.
About time!
I look forward to the witches run for the brass ring, if she thought Kleins book was bad she ain't seen nothing yet. She has an 8 year track record in the White House that will not escape her.
This bears much repeating from now until we're "safe" on the late evening of Nov. 2, 2008. The "smartest woman in the world" is a fraud, IMO! George Will wrote a great column about 6 week ago, wherein he called both Clintons "chancers." They're brazen gamblers who realized (in their rampage in Arkansas) that most Americans only heard brief, compact, heavily edited snippets of "news" from the networks. They took advantage of that fact. They also had some considerable luck, like Perot syphoning off Republican votes from Bush 41, and Bush 41 himself not realizing how dangerous these two "chancers" were, until it was too late.
This time around, the public is going to be much more wise, more aware and so Chancer #2 won't succeed, but she's still potentially lethal. All of us need to continually expose her for the empty pants suit that she is!
Thanks for your excellent comment, Victoria!
Char :)
Hillary's next speech will feature "Did you hear the one about the (insert her favorite anti-Semitic slur here)??
Clinton has said she is too wrapped up in her Senate work and re-election effort to think about that."
Tell it to a democrat, they'll believe anything.
1,000 FBI files take the teeth from current GOP leadership.
Thanks for your reply.
Yeah, they'll be taking her out to dinner in one of the finer restaurants in WDC by weeks end.........sucking up as usual. :(
Everytime she opens her mouth, someone needs to remind them of how socialized medical would be America's middle name if she had gotten her way in 1993. Plus, for all her bluster, she couldn't even get the Olympic committee to give NYC the 2012 games - sure, HIllary, you're efforts mean chicken#%^!
Yep, you're right. What a ponderous, disgraceful weight to have draped around the neck of this country.
Liar, liar, pants-suit on fire....
And we should find the way to tell her so.
This sounds more like Hillary when she had the Rose Law Firm billing records. Wait out the 2 year limitation on the special prosecutor, then "discover" the records in plain site in the WH residence...."What, ME worry?"
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