Posted on 11/14/2007 3:12:00 PM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
Captain Renault would be shocked: Hillary Clinton's campaign put pressure on Eliot Spitzer to drop his disastrous licenses-for-illegals plan.
The word came from crack NY Post Albany reporter Fred Dicker, appearing on this afternoon's Hardball.
View video here.
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Shocked, shocked ping to Today show list.
Rush said as much this AM................
What?! You mean Spitzer didn’t jsut propose his illegal license plan and then ditch it on his own the next month?!
Who woulda thunk it...
Fred, U. Dick!
This will be a plus for H!............spun correctly, of course............
It fits the template the Clintons have always used.
Now I hope Wolf Blitzer doesn’t hear about this. ;^)
Yes, yes, and when the Klintoons tell someone to do something, no doubt they give them a few examples of the fate of those who didn’t do what the Klintoons told them ... e.g., Ron Brown, Vince Foster, et al
Jim Mcdoogle.....
LOL. This is just rich, and completely expected.
Dicker says that Hillary's people asked Spitzer's aides "what the heck he was up to?" Think the actual language might have been a tad more colorful?
So once again, we witness the power already in the hands of She Who Must Not Be Named. And they want to hand her the football.
God forgive the voters.
did she threaten arkancide?
NO! Say it isn’t so!!
I’m shocked, shocked I tell ya, and appalled too while I’m at it!!
;-)
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I love this modern age we live in—not very easy to keep secrets, eh, Mrs. C? ;-)
As soon as I heard he dropped it I knew Hildabeest had put a knife to his back as whispered,
“We’ll do this later.”
Finally HRC Says 'No Thanks' to Spitzer Proposal
After weeks of giving a less-than-clear answer on the topic of giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, Hillary Clinton said today that she backs Eliot Spitzer's plan to, well, withdraw his plan. This two weeks after her Philly debate gaffe and after several iterations of an attempted non-response response.
"I support Gov. Spitzer's decision today to withdraw his proposal. His difficult job is made that much harder by the failure of the Congress and the White House to pass comprehensive immigration reform," Clinton said in a statement, per NBC/NJ's Athena Jones.
"As president, I will not support drivers licenses for undocumented people and will press for comprehensive immigration reform that deals with all of the issues around illegal immigration, including border security and fixing our broken system."
Until now, Clinton has said she understood the tough siuation governors like Spitzer were in because they had to "fill a vacuum" left by the federal government's balk on immigration reform. She also said before that that she "broadly" supported plans like Spitzer's but did not pretend to know the details."
The episode and HRC's ensuing parsing have left Clinton vulnerable to her opponents' attacks for the first time. The race in Iowa is a statistical three-way tie, according to recent polls. Clinton, however, maintains a double-digit lead in NH, though it's smaller than it's been, also according to recent surveys.
Her opponents, chiefly John Edwards and Barack Obama, have said the Clintonesque waivering is symbolic of HRC's inability to take a stand.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton today:"When it takes two weeks and six different positions to answer one question on immigration, it's easier to understand why the Clinton campaign would rather plant their questions than answer them."
I do like BO's team's little dig...
...socks the cat....the dog
Well OK, but I have another simple question
Hillary Matters, — do you agree with Harry ‘dingy’ Reid when he says the US has lost in Iraq?
Followup with Hillary Matters — Do you want the US to win in Iraq?
Simple questions, simple answers. Those are the tough ones when your whole being is geared towards lying.
This would be all moot if the GOP has Rudy as the nominee...his pro-illegal open borders agenda kills any political capital gained by this
Now...Hunter, Thompson, Tancredo....time to wake up, GOP
Why are you afraid of a free and open Iraq?
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