I think obama is going to make her some kind of health czar and have her run his socialist health care plan.
“I think obama is going to make her some kind of health czar and have her run his socialist health care plan.
We should be so lucky. You can rest assured HRC has no intention of letting BHO get credit for HER idea. Were he to do so, you can rest assured she would take the fat pitch he had given her for payback and slam it out of the park.
She would figure out a way to ensure the plan died spectacularly without a trace of her fingerprints. She could do so by baiting Obama’s tempestuous and highly partisan chief of staff, Rahm Emmanuel, into making some impolitic remarks that incite Republicans to block the plan. Or she could work behind the scenes to ensure that either Pelosi or Reid don’t end up with the votes they thought they had and the bill is killed in an up-or-down vote. In the post-mortems following the plan’s demise, there would be all manner of “unauthorized” leaks showing how BHO had tied her hands and not given her the authority to negotiate a reasonable compromise, or Rahm Emmanuel kept trying to meddle, resulting in too many cooks who spoiled the broth etc. You can be certain the picture painted would be one of a reasonable and responsible HRC being blocked at every turn by misogynists in WH who got in her way due to jealousy, incompetence, partisanship, massive egos or raw inexperience. Hillary’s 16 years in Washington, in conjunction with the residual bitterness among PUMAs about how she was treated, perfectly position her to deal herself a royal flush. Indeed, one could argue that her entire career would have prepared her for this moment: it would be the height of naivete to think she wouldn’t take advantage of it.
So just as Teddy Kennedy did in 1980 against Jimmy Carter (who wasn’t making the headway Kennedy thought he should be on health reform!), she would challenge BHO in 2012 arguing that she’d tried to warn everyone about his inexperience, but that 2012 was the time to turn to someone who actually knows how to get things done.
Watch and be amazed...
Deja vu all over again.