Posted on 02/06/2008 6:03:48 PM PST by neverdem
I’m not a Hillary-hater. She’s been an outstanding senator. She hung tough on Iraq through the dark days of 2005. In this campaign, she has soldiered on bravely even though she has most of the elected Democrats, news media and the educated class rooting against her.
But there are certain moments when her dark side emerges and threatens to undo the good she is trying to achieve. Her campaign tactics before the South Carolina primary were one such moment. Another, deeper in her past, involved Jim Cooper, a Democratic congressman from Tennessee.
Cooper is one of the most thoughtful, cordial and well-prepared members of the House. In 1992, he came up with a health care reform plan that would go on to attract wide, bipartisan support. A later version had 58 co-sponsors in the House — 26 Republicans and 32 Democrats. It was sponsored in the Senate by Democrat John Breaux and embraced by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, among others.
But unlike the plan Hillary Clinton came up with then, the Cooper plan did not include employer mandates to force universal coverage.
On June 15, 1993, Cooper met with Clinton to discuss their differences. Clinton was “ice cold” at the meeting, Cooper recalls. “It was the coldest reception of my life. I was excoriated.”
Cooper told her that she was getting pulled too far to the left. He warned that her plan would never get through Congress. Clinton’s response, Cooper now says, was: “We’ll crush you. You’ll wish you never mentioned this to me.”
In the weeks and months following that meeting, the Clinton administration reached out to Cooper. As David Broder and Haynes Johnson wrote in “The System,” their history of the health care reform effort, President Bill Clinton invited Cooper to go jogging and play golf. Others in the...
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“I’m not a Hillary-hater. She’s been an outstanding senator”.
What? She has done NOTHING!!!!!!
Ever.
She’s been an outstanding senator????
Makes me want to vote for Hillary over John McCain. /sarc
What? She has done NOTHING!!!!!! Ever.I thought we were the ones who said "the government that governs least governs best" ;)
And that is why Clintoon could do more for the GOP in 4 years than McRino could do in a lifetime. IMO
Ummmm...ignore the first paragraph he said, read the article he said, see how many don’t he said.
Read the rest of the article.
What? She has done NOTHING!!!!!!
Ever.
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For shame...
Bad you
“She hung tough on Iraq through the dark days of 2005. In this campaign, she has soldiered on bravely even though she has most of the elected Democrats, news media and the educated class rooting against her. “
Would you like to go to a picnic in Fort Marcy park ????
“He argues that her more coercive approach would once again be a political death knell. No Republican will support it. Red state Democrats will face impossible pressures at home. It’s smarter to begin by offering people affordable access to coverage and evolve from there”.
See, it’s not really a disagreement about the ends, just the strategy and the wisdom of placing Hillary in charge. They’re afraid they might be picking the wrong General to conduct the campaign.
It looks like we'll be running one of those, too.
“And she’s done it even though she hasn’t answered legitimate questions about how she would enforce her universal coverage mandate.”
Didn’t Romney answer those questions for her?
(And whaddya mean’s she’s been a great Senator - she sux!)
;)
LOL!
mean’s = mean
Insightful.
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Cooper told her that she was getting pulled too far to the left. He warned that her plan would never get through Congress. Clinton’s response, Cooper now says, was: “We’ll crush you. You’ll wish you never mentioned this to me.”
~snip~
She’s been an outstanding senator. ............ For which state? NY lost industry and jobs since she was elected, and where are all those high paying jobs she was going to bring NY? Suckers!
The first paragraph is pure barf alert. She hung through the dark days of Iraq war in 2005? This guy is a huge liar.
And she knows where every lost hair McCain has ever shed landed.... McCain has earned his match up time will tell if he has what it takes.
Maybe McCain is the only one mean enough to take her on.
Okay, I guess that does not include giving technology to china, right? That was one of the teams “gifts” to the Chicoms.
Oh, sorry. She sold it for political gain. That makes it okay in the eyes of the democRAT party. That woman is a traitor of the highest order.
Must be okay with NY!! She won there. Suckers is right!
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