First stop, Iowa: Clinton fields questions about Iraq, health care – USATODAY.com
“I think it’s the height of irresponsibility and I really resent it,” Clinton told more than 300 people Sunday at the Mississippi Valley Fairgrounds. “This was his decision to go to war. … And we can expect him to extricate this country from this before he leaves office.”
I think Hillary may have stepped in it with this comment, and I’m willing to bet we won’t hear her say this again. This would be the same as putting a deadline for withdrawing from the war, which has been shown many times to be unfavorable with the people.
“That really makes a lot of sense, because you could get the costs down,” Clinton said. But she said such a plan, like her 1994 proposal, is vulnerable to attacks that it is “government-run health care.” Clinton said she will work this year to cover all uninsured children and seek input from voters before proposing larger changes. “This time we’re going to build the consensus first,” she said.
Well, they did learn something from 1994, not to bite off more than they can chew. Unfortunately this time they may be going about it in a manner where they can get this crap through a piece at a time, after all, who wants to look bad when they are providing government-run health care “for the children”. How many bad laws have we seen passed “for the children” or “to protect the children”. That crap doesn’t cut it, but unfortunately it may very well make this idea passable to most people. They start out like they did with smoking: We’ll ban it on airplanes first, then elevators, then courthouses, etc., etc., until they achieve incrementally what the people wouldn’t stand for all at once. We need to be aware of these kinds of tactics and not fall for them again. I think a lot of people are pushing back on stuff like this, take a look at the trans-fat ban and how that is being perceived by the public. Maybe we have been woken up enough to smell the shit instead of the perfume they are spraying on top of it.