Posted on 10/12/2013 7:05:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
It’s three years away, but the ongoing government shutdown and debt ceiling debate makes it clear that Democrats need to be thinking now about a candidate able to effectively counter the Tea Party caucus in Congress — which thanks to gerrymandering, isn’t going anywhere until 2020.
While the Republican field is already loaded with possible candidates — Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Scott Walker, Jeb Bush III and Bobby Jindal – the Democratic field is apparently sealed: Hillary Clinton.
RealClearPolitics finds Hillary getting 61 percent of the vote in a Democratic primary against Joe Biden (11), Elizabeth Warren (7), Andrew Cuomo (2), John Warner (1) and Martin O’Malley (0). There is a SuperPAC (with 1,000,000-plus Facebook “likes”) designed to lay the groundwork for a Clinton presidential run.
There is certainly a strategic reason for Democrats to play down Clinton: three more years under press scrutiny will only make her less appealing. But there are other reasons to question whether America needs another Clinton presidency.
I remember asking a Republican friend over dinner to name a single policy of Bill Clinton that they opposed and seeing them stumble (oral sex in the Oval Office isn’t a policy). The left has far more to despise about Bill than Republicans: he deregulated the banks, thereby setting the stage for the financial crisis; he passed the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, shredding the social safety net and forcing many poor women into the workforce; he signed into law economy-crushing free-trade agreements without environmental or labor protections; he escalated the War on Drugs, flooding American prisons with poor blacks and funneling billions to law enforcement agencies that abandoned practical policing in favor of SWAT-like tactics.
Hillary is not her husband...
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I understand Larry Nichols is available ...
I nominate Anthony Wiener for their candidate.... LOL.
False concern. The IRS is on their side.
Hmmm, I think they are scared of the TP. Good. They darned well should be.
I smelled fear also.
Can the IRS defeat 100 million armed Americans, and if so, how?
Maxine Waters bold enough for ya?
Otherwise they wouldn’t be working so hard to call us names. Just like the playground, isn’t it?
Good thing lefties didn't gerrymander to produce minority districts for the likes of Sheila Jackson Lee, eh?
Lots of things moving in our favor despite the filth oozing through government.
For instance, in Michigan the GOP has their boot firmly on the neck of the Detroit electoral process. They’ll still vote democrat but not with 200,000 more voters than people.
The left originally wanted Ariel Castro but he offed himself..otherwise he would have been perfect to represent the RAT Party
I Understand Vince Foster isn't...
shredding the social safety net and forcing many poor women into the workforce
Shredding it? How about sizing it more appropriately? Where is it written that poor women shouldn't work? Isn't working - as opposed to fixed benefits - going to help them avoid being poor for life?
The tone of the article is not surprising but it is revealing about the plantation mindset.
LOL no kidding. Poor women should be in the workforce helping to carry the load of the truly needy.
The so-called "Tea Party" doesn't represent ANY normal American, according to the pinko MSM, but somehow "controls" ALL branches of government, because otherwise there'd be no shutdown.
If the "Tea Baggers" are of no consequence, just ignore them.
How did 5% (per MSNBC) of the population "control" everything?
Not like we're gay.
I wish we were, then there's be no argument, and the media would be on our side. THEN I could believe it.
It might help if that bolder leader would be able to complete a whole thought. Hillary can't.
I remember asking a Republican friend over dinner to name a single policy of Bill Clinton that they opposed and seeing them stumble (oral sex in the Oval Office isn’t a policy). The left has far more to despise about Bill than Republicans: he deregulated the banks, thereby setting the stage for the financial crisis; he passed the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, shredding the social safety net and forcing many poor women into the workforce; he signed into law economy-crushing free-trade agreements without environmental or labor protections; he escalated the War on Drugs, flooding American prisons with poor blacks and funneling billions to law enforcement agencies that abandoned practical policing in favor of SWAT-like tactics.
(Fake) Indian Elizabeth Warren does have the Redskins issue.
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