Bachmann, congressional Republicans in political ‘parallel universe,’ says Bill Clinton

washingtonindependent.com ^ | Feb. 7, 2011 | Andy Birkey

[Free ThinkerNY]

At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, former President Bill Clinton said that Rep. Michele Bachmann’s assertion that the United States has the best health care system in the world is not true and that the new crop of Republicans in Congress are living “in a parallel universe divorced from reality with no facts.” Clinton was responding to comments Bachmann made during her Tea Party response to President Obama’s State of the Union address.

“I don’t like the people who have given up on us because people have been betting against our country for 200 years,” he told the attendees at the World Economic Forum, a yearly gathering of top international business, political and humanitarian leaders. “So far everyone who has bet against us has lost money because we had a remarkable ability to keep coming back.”

“On the other hand,” said Clinton, “I don’t like what I see being set up as one of the main themes that the new Republicans are trying to set up in the 2012 elections which is they know America is a truly exceptional country and all these wussy Democrats don’t.”

He gave the representative from Minnesota’s Sixth Congressional District as a prime example. “Michele Bachmann said in her Tea Party response to President Obama, ‘Everybody knows we have the greatest health care system in the world,’” he said. “That is factually untrue. And so… that’s not true.”

Clinton continued, “You can get the best health care in the world in America if you are Bill Clinton, or David Gergen or Turki Faisal, but that’s not the same thing as having the best system that works for everybody.”

[gakrak]

Just a question, why is it that after failed
Democrat Presidents leave office that they have
this urge to shoot off their mouths. From Carter to
Clinton none stop. You just don't get any of the BS from either of the Bush's. Now we have to deal with
stupid in the WH and we all know ya can't fix STUPID. Amen.

[purplelobster]

It’s an embarrassment to the U.S. that a serial rapist is running around the World presuming to represent the country. His enabler wife should have no role on the Federal payroll.