Uh-Oh… Bill Clinton Detects Similiarities Between 2010 and 1994 (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 11:52 AM
Ruh-Roh…
Even Bill Clinton sees it coming. The former president told Major Garrett that he sees similarities between this year and 1994 when democrats “got a thumpin” and lost the House.
Ya think?
Bubba says that dems can still win.
FOX News has more on the interview:
This political season feels a “little bit” like 1994, former President Bill Clinton said Monday, comparing President Obama’a struggle to pass health care reforms to his own.
But the former president declined to describe the Democratic Congress’ efforts this past year as an “overreach.”
Speaking to Fox News in an exclusive interview, Clinton said he didn’t think Democrats will lose control Congress this year, as they did after his failed effort to create a nationalized health care system in 1993, because Democrats “in effect got more advanced notice” of the anger that is brewing over the debate.
“They have a lot of advanced notice now. I think the biggest problem that the president’s got is that the lifetime — it’s the — the danger that people who want health care will be disappointed and stay home; that happened to me,” he said.
Clinton added that the National Rifle Association also played a bigger role than it’s credited in turning over Congress during the 1994 Republican revolution.
“They were mad about this whole weapons ban and the Brady Bill, and they probably took 15 of our House members out. That was their number, they said between 15 and 20, and I’d say, at least on the low side, they were right,” he said.
But the president also warned that Congress has an added burden this midterm election year — an economy that is recovering much more slowly than it did when his administration was digging out of a recession.
It all points to a democratic disaster come November.
We can hope.
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daryl commented:
What’s a liberal to do to hold on to his office?
Obama says, don’t “ax” me.
More of his fantastical articulatin’.
YouTube – Obama says he will AX, not ask – Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEroGys1bSs
wanumba commented:
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“But the president also warned that Congress has an added burden this midterm election year — an economy that is recovering much more slowly than it did when his administration was digging out of a recession”
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The Democrats are always “digging out of a recession.” Clinton’s referring to a boom time.
And the bland, vague, “an economy that is recovering much more slowly…”
Wonder WHY. Starts with “Obama,” ends with “Pelosi-Reid” and is filled with things like “will bankrupt the industry,” “redistribution” and TAX TAX TAX.
Everything is a random event with the Left. There’s no past, just the present, no “actions have consequences.” Life is just a series of unnconnected happenings.
TOTAL DELIBERATE denial of responsibility.
bg commented:
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why is it Democratic ex-presidents never go
away, while Republicans never seem to stay??
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Paul_In_Houston commented:
But the president also warned that Congress has an added burden this midterm election year — an economy that is recovering much more slowly than it did when his administration was digging out of a recession.
He’ s being wildly optimistic (or delusional) using the word “recovering” in that sentence.
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wanumba commented:
The difference between 1994 and 2010 is that Clinton wasn’t able to borrow trillions of dollars against the US taxpayer to buy the elections to install a Democratic Party One-Party Rule.
All the states are broke and in debt, all the cities are broke and in debt, the White House says they need more money and they just committed to what is an essentially inconceivable debt. In 12 months?
Where IS the MONEY?
wanumba commented:
bg
February 23rd, 2010 | 12:41 pm | #3
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why is it Democratic ex-presidents never go
away, while Republicans never seem to stay??
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I wish I could laugh, but it’s too true.
NC Cop commented:
“They have a lot of advanced notice now. I think the biggest problem that the president’s got is that the lifetime — it’s the — the danger that people who want health care will be disappointed and stay home; that happened to me,” he said.
First of all, its the fact that people DON’T WANT IT!!! How hard is that for the dems to understand??? The majority of Americans DON’T WANT IT!! Get it?
Not to mention, the dems may have “advanced notice” but its not doing any good. They continue to ram it down the people’s throat, but they don’t expect consequences?????
Taqiyyotomist commented:
All that’ll be left is for Newsweak to pick which Republican to portray as the Grinch who Stole Christmas on their late November cover.
For those who forgot:
http://mommylife.net/archives/2009/05/21/gingrichcover.jpg
brooklyn commented:
We can only hope this is an historic repeat.
However, with the fashion, those again showing such a reactionary mindset in regards to a ‘cloture vote’.
I feel we will self destruct, just like we did after 2004.
The Conservative Echo Chamber has been corrupted vastly by an emotive, hyperbolic, extreme fashion.
It simply over inflates with a lack of objectivity, trying to sell the ‘ideal’. As soon as this confronts reality, a smaller fringe screams in angst, and debases all.
Thus we eventually enable the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barack Obama, and even the Nomination of the vapid Maverick.
If the Celebrities and Fans of ‘conservatism’ were actually more conservative, sticking to basis, facts, reality, the record, etc., instead of the ‘pure fantasy’, they would not be let down, but empowered.
bg commented:
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wanumba @ 12:37 pm #2
re: [Everything is a random event with the Left. There’s no past, just
the present, no “actions have consequences.” Life is just a series of unnconnected happenings.]
just like the random Islamist attacks in the US & around the globe
have absolutely nothing to do with the GLOBAL JIHAD.. hello?!?
like i more or less keep telling everyone, they may have different methods of getting there, but the Marxists and Islamists have the same goal.. to dominate the Earth.. and sorry, but the Islamists will win simply because they let the Dems believe they’re using them vs the other way around..
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Scott commented:
Ask him if he remembers that democrats killed the balanced budget amendment that lost by one vote in the Senate. I believe it was a single turncoat Republican that stopped it…Do you think that if we had ratified the balanced budget amendment we would have avoided the looming Federal Bankruptcy???? Bill Clinton is just a slicker, more likeable Obama. His ideas and actions are just as much of a pox on our society however…
jimg commented:
Bill Clinton – to this day – still believes the reason they lost Congress was because they didn’t pass Hillarycare.
Let him continue believing that.
eaglewingz08 commented:
We repubs and conservatives have to thank God that the democraps don’t understand that it’s because of their horrific policies and their attempt to enact those horrific policies that they got slammed in 1994, and will be slammed again this year. If the dems believe it was because they didn’t pass a hated policy (rather than trying to jam it through despite public opposition) in 1994 that led people who wanted national health care to stay home (or in reality that the public voted for republicans in order to assure no such socialism would be enacted), then go for it and see whether repubs can achieve the near impossible a VETO PROOF majority in the House and a near veto proof majority in the Senate.
BigAlSouth commented:
Bill Clinton could be proven correct in November that the Dems could still win if all of the following events occur:
1. Unemployment drops to under 8 percent.
2. The Dow is trading at 12,000
3. The dollar is stable
4. Bin Ladin is captured in Pakistan
5. Jesus Christ returns in the flesh.
P. Aaron commented:
Bill (when do I get my law license back?) Clinton.
lyle commented:
‘They have a lot of advanced notice now.’
That’s true. Obama has much more warning than Clinton, and if he were like Clinton, he’d use the extra time to lessen the damage. But Obama has responded by doubling down on everything America hates.
He is feeding the wave of discontent. He’s using the extra time to build the incoming wave’s size and momentum.
Normally, Clinton’s observation about advance notice would be a silver lining for Democrats. But not with Obama in the White House.
Opus #6 commented:
Lyle, precisely. Obama is doubling down. Chicago gangster-style. Approve of my plan or I will ram it down your throat.
Nice.
jim commented:
Well, 1994 was a very good year for trailer trash. The Adolescent Narcissist should be smacking his lips.
bg commented:
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daryl @12:30 pm #1
more like a Freudian slip..
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lyle commented:
It’s politically insane.
Obama is keeping an issue that’s killing democrats on the front page and on everyone’s mind. He’s solidifying the public’s distrust. He’s motivating the opposition.
He’ll probably fail to get his bill passed. It’s an albatross that grows heavier by the day, and he’ll hang it around his party’s neck.
And if Pelosi and Reid ram it through, they’ll have to resort to the lowest sort of chicanery, deceit, and process fraud. Americans have been sickened by it up to now. More of the same will be terminal cancer for Democrats in Congress.
And what does he stand to gain? When Republicans take over Congress, they will undo everything the democrats did, and Obama will be a lame duck for the next two years.
I don’t get it. What’s the upside?
Paul N. Marston commented:
The upside is that the Republicans may have the votes to repeal it but not enough to override a certain Obama veto. There are only 18 Democrat seats up in the Senate so even if the Republicans win every last seat (not happening), the would only have 59 votes and you need 67 votes to override a veto. Thus it will be 2013 before anything can be done. The Democrats are gambling that by then it will be too late because the benefits will be there by then.
Solaratov commented:
Paul N. Marston
February 23rd, 2010 | 5:36 pm | #22
But the “benefits” don’t kick in until 2014. Until then – starting in 2011, if this monstrocity passes – the only seen and felt impact will be in higher taxes and the growth of the federal government. And people are going to be pretty upset when that happens.
I believe that the whole plan hangs from the thread that is obama’s “likeability factor”; and the power of his personality to get him re-elected so he can finish the job.
“Best-laid plans…blah, blah, blah………………”
lyle commented:
Paul,
That makes sense, but if that’s what they have in mind, they think they’re still in Chicago.
A 2011 Republican Congress will chip away at ObamaCare and force him to further weaken himself with vetoes in order to protect unpopular legislation. Meanwhile, legal challenges will spring up across the landscape, preventing implementation until well past its proposed starting date of 2013.
As long as ObamaCare remains high-profile through legislative and legal battles, it will continue to damage the president’s party, and it will hand his 2012 opponent a club to beat him with.
ogee commented:
If this keeps up yeah they’ll lose congress.
February 23, 2010
Underemployed Report Spending 36% Less Than EmployedGallup’s new daily metric estimates that 30 million U.S. workers were underemployed in Januaryby Jenny MarlarWASHINGTON, D.C. — Gallup’s daily measure of U.S. employment reveals that 19.9% of the U.S. workforce was underemployed during the month of January, translating to close to 30 million Americans who are working less than their desired capacity. Those who were underemployed reported spending 36% less than those who were employed, $48 per day versus $75 per day.
Jo commented:
Bill Clinton this theory was around for two weeks. Bill Clinton is slow. He is a parrot anyway. When the Chinese said give us your nuclear-missile weaponry, he said ‘right-away.’ He may never have had an original idea or self-esteem in his whole life.
bg commented:
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Solaratov 7:12 pm #23
re: [starting in 2011, if this monstrosity passes – the only seen and felt impact will be in higher taxes and the growth of the federal government]
Bush tax cuts set to expire 1/01/11
and this is interesting..
Bush Tax Cuts
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