The Cooper Concerns (1993 Hillary: We'll crush you. You'll wish you never mention this to me")

NY Times ^ | February 5, 2008 | DAVID BROOKS

[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...

[Enchante]

I can’t ignore the 1st paragraph because it reminds me yet again that David Brooks is such a pathetic RINO weasel that he has to suck up to his liberal puppet-masters just to print a column telling us that Shrillary is a vicious inhuman psychopath who will crush anyone who gets in her way.

[Logic n' Reason]

HERE! HERE!

This statement should become the banner of the FR site.

During the upcoming election, for the first time since I've been able to "vote" (we don't really vote for presidents, now do we? We just choose from a list), there really isn't anyone available worth my time to choose.

So this is what the begining of the end looks like?

So sad...such a bright, shining promise....and it comes down to this.

Well, I'm only a few years away from being able to collect retirement; I suppose I'm going to joint the "gimme, gimme, gimme" group.

All the rest of you youngsters...I need you to keep working - very hard! It's your income on which I intend to live out the rest of my days.

And if I may quote you, exit82, "People get the governement they deserve. And they are about to get it in spades."

No truer words were ever expressed!

Luck to you all....and keep working!

[ripley]

“if the clintons get back in power....will this be the end of the two-party system?”

that’s the general objective of totalitarians who are enamoured of power and hateful of representative government.

[maggief]

I crush your head.

[FishTale]

"It’s smarter to begin by offering people affordable access to coverage and evolve from there."

LOL! Yeah, THAT'S IT! First, you offer them something "affordable". Then, and only then, after you have those low-class, ignorant peons by the short & curlies... THAT'S when you hose them! err, I mean, "evolve from there".

Cooper gets no sympathy here.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

And to defend the Republic, the GOP wants to run John McCrazy?

The people don't run candidates. Candidates run and the people decide whether they like and agree with them and, then, if it is not too much trouble they vote for them.

People get the government they deserve.

Not always. The primary voting process is determined by the politicians in each state with an eye on electing their own, or themselves. Each party sets its own rules. In some states anyone can vote for anyone, others require Republicans to vote for Republicans and Democrats for Democrats. Sometimes people are encouraged to switch parties to vote for their desired opponent in the primary and to switch back and vote against them in the general election. That is probably how we got McCain as the leading Republican candidate.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

“And that is why Clintoon could do more for the GOP in 4 years than McRino could do in a lifetime. IMO”

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That’s a bit like a German in the 1930’s concerned with the direction of the country, claiming a certain Austrian could do more for the Jews in 4 years, than (insert name of anyone else in world history).

Hillary’s dangerous. Potentially pure evil, depending on how the agenda unfolds.

America might never return.

[TADSLOS]

Sounds alot like McCain to me.

[SunkenCiv]

Nice that this mask-off anecdote about Hillary appears now, instead of back when it happened, eh? :’) Thanks neverdem.

[IllumiNaughtyByNature]

Your argument is valid and I respect it. I look at it more from a SCOTUS perspective. In 4 years the next president will only have the ability to replace LIBS with LIBS, not changing the make up of the courts. The following 4-8 years could be a major SCOTUS shuffle. In teh mean time sHillary would solidify the GOP, with the Reagan democrats and even the 9-11 republicans.

IMO.