Has the Hillary Clinton campaign for president unofficially begun? Her husband, the ever subtle Bill, has offered some advice to a president in steep decline: President Obama, live up to the promises you made in the name of the Federal Government and let people keep their current health care plans.
Mrs. Clinton's asking/instructing/conniving with her husband to kibbitz over Obama's broken promises can be enough to start the discussion on overturning and/or changing the entire law to fit her view of universal health care. During the presidential primary, she went to the mat insisting there was no way Obama's proposed health care plan could coerce the American public to buy insurance. It could not fine, nor for that matter, incarcerate anyone who would not go along with the plan, as it would be unconstitutional, and impossible to enforce (ironically, Chief Justice Roberts and the rest of the Supreme Court's left side declared the money part of the law a tax such that the IRS could enforce the fines and impose possible jail sentences for recalcitrance).
That was then. Now we have a troubled and challenged system implementation which comes as a gift to the republicans and something that can be compared to a case of shingles for democrats; and strangely, a demonstrable boondoggle and an eerily untoward Obama legacy to Hillary Clinton. She can sing to the heavens for her good luck. What's eerie is that the Clintons usually make their own luck.
The Clintons are masters in the milieu of public imagery and perception management. They know they must react as opportunity presents itself. The ex-president carefully places a statement, usually some sugar coated criticism, and the media gratefully sends it into the stratosphere, like a second coming, for all to hear and see. Notice that Mrs. Clinton does not speak publicly unless it is a controlled interview or from the dais accepting an award or presenting a speech. She's not ready for her close up--probably deciding if she'll go Full Monty on a face lift. (I think she should, by the way.) She will defy gravity, she must, according to Millineals.
President Clinton's guidance, however timed, most certainly gives his fellow democrats the cover they're seeking to drop this load of legislative dung--and the presidential dung maker--to make way for a new and improved health care plan; this time, however, the plan would be simpler and without personal indemnification and fines. It's the new Hillarycare 2.0, coming soon to all American homes--but, only for those who actually want it. President Clinton is using this issue as a front loading cover for Mrs Clinton's terrible job performance at the State Department, part of a likely constellation of many, many left wing ideological issues that she and her fellow big government-loving dems embrace as an instruction to a favored way of living one's life. Forget Benghazi and those enriching Chinese deals of the 1990s, she's your gal, your first woman president.
Mrs. Clinton's asking/instructing/conniving with her husband to kibbitz over Obama's broken promises can be enough to start the discussion on overturning and/or changing the entire law to fit her view of universal health care. During the presidential primary, she went to the mat insisting there was no way Obama's proposed health care plan could coerce the American public to buy insurance. It could not fine, nor for that matter, incarcerate anyone who would not go along with the plan, as it would be unconstitutional, and impossible to enforce (ironically, Chief Justice Roberts and the rest of the Supreme Court's left side declared the money part of the law a tax such that the IRS could enforce the fines and impose possible jail sentences for recalcitrance).
That was then. Now we have a troubled and challenged system implementation which comes as a gift to the republicans and something that can be compared to a case of shingles for democrats; and strangely, a demonstrable boondoggle and an eerily untoward Obama legacy to Hillary Clinton. She can sing to the heavens for her good luck. What's eerie is that the Clintons usually make their own luck.
The Clintons are masters in the milieu of public imagery and perception management. They know they must react as opportunity presents itself. The ex-president carefully places a statement, usually some sugar coated criticism, and the media gratefully sends it into the stratosphere, like a second coming, for all to hear and see. Notice that Mrs. Clinton does not speak publicly unless it is a controlled interview or from the dais accepting an award or presenting a speech. She's not ready for her close up--probably deciding if she'll go Full Monty on a face lift. (I think she should, by the way.) She will defy gravity, she must, according to Millineals.
Poor President Obama. I don't believe he realized back in 2007 just how harsh top flight politics would be. He's being directly hit for how he treated Mrs. Clinton in the primary. No matter how many career appointments, no matter how much he covers up for her on Benghazi, she'll never forgive him. In addition, this health care issue is a trickster which must be managed often offstage. More well-thought-out bombs will be launched as the need for ship-jumping increases in the party, and as the reality of the constraints and expense of Obamacare become known to the American people. Some of it has already started with Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana talking up her own changes to the ACA. The congressional elections are just a year a way, after all. The outcry is bound to increase.
In the meantime, let the salvos continue!
In the meantime, let the salvos continue!
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