Posted on 09/08/2009 6:21:02 PM PDT by MissesBush
As President Obama gets set to address a joint session of Congress on the issue of health care reform Wednesday night, former President Clinton says it's time to forget about the Republican Party's role in the process entirely.
"The president's doing the right thing. It is both morally and politically right," Clinton told Esquire magazine in an interview published online Tuesday. "I wouldn't even worry about the Republicans. I'd worry about executing."
Former President Bill Clinton thinks Barack Obama may be on the verge of doing what his administration never could: passing comprehensive health care reform.
Though it increasingly appears the White House will win few if any Republican votes on a final health care bill, some members of the GOP say they remain open to supporting a potential version of the legislation, including Arizona Sen. John McCain.
"I look forward to what the specific proposals are," the former Obama rival said last week. "I think the disappointment a lot of Americans display is that we are not working together more."
Still, Clinton said Obama's chief worry should be ensuring the entire Senate Democratic caucus (59 members with the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy) is in support of the reform legislation, including Democrats from more conservative states, like Kay Hagan of North Carolina and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana.
"This electorate has suffered…and what they don't know is whether our guys are going to stand and deliver. And sooner or later you've got to stand and deliver," said Clinton.
The former president also compared Obama's initial months in office to his own perilous beginning, but predicted the current commander in chief would succeed where he had failed.
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Let it be all Demoncrats that pass it.
They’ll be out of their arses come re-election.
McPain - SHUT UP! I hope you are OUT too!
I sure dont miss Bush, regardless of how bad Obama is (Obama is worse of course).
At any rate, good article, and I agree, I hope Zero takes the bait.
If Barry follows Bubba’s recommendation and dumps the Republicans, moderates, independents, and blue dogs, Barry might as well fold his tent and dismiss the Czars and other court jesters of the State-Controlled Media. He’s cooked his own goose. But then, maybe that is what Bubba wants.
The President forgetting about 50% of the American people? If he does that, he will surely be a one term President. I hope he does just that. I can’t imagine what he will do in a second term where he has nothing to loose.
Only LIVING Democrat president you mean.
That was my thought as well..... pushing him to make bad moves to ensure a one term presidency.
man i hope oblabo follows billyjeff’s advice. it will mean the end of his control, the begining of the conservative avalanche, and the complete obliteration of the liberal party.
I miss Bush.
Did Bill also tell Barry to find a sweet little intern to take his mind off all the pressure?
Funny that Bubba has kept a zipped lip since the early days of the Obamanation. Now he finds a voice.
Yes, could well be that he wants to see Obama sabotaged, and this is the way to do it.
There's a sea change coming.
That would be SO embarrassing to Obama, to be hated so roundly by the Rats that they would go over his head to Hillary for the 2012 nomination.
The problem with Clinton’s analysis is that according to the bill, Obamacare doesn’t even take effect until 2013- after the next election.
Even if Clinton thinks the people will “love” socialized medicine- they won’t have experienced it by the next election cycle- so that can’t help the Democrats at all.
Clinton has a point - if Obama throws away all the Republicans - and the seniors who don’t trust “health care” and the independents - why HILLARY can run in 3 1/2 years...
Thanks for the welcome AmericanInTokyo. I know some conservatives didn’t care for Bush. There were certainly aspects of his presidency I didn’t like—spending, amnesty, etc. But I guess compared to Obama I’d miss just about any former president, even Jimmy Carter LOL, thus the screenname.
America sold their liberty to a Black Racist Demagogue in an effort to be “cool.”
Oh, I'm sorry Hillary. They're talking about Bill again.
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