Can his Presidency be saved?

[utvolpj]

On this day in 1994, Bill Clinton's presidency was saved.
It didn't look that way at the time. After threatening to keep Congress in session until a health-care bill was passed, then Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell gave up and let members return home for their recess. The legislative push for universal health care never recovered, and scarcely 11 weeks later Republicans led by Newt Gingrich woke up to find that they had just won control of both houses of Congress.

Back in 1994, Mr. Clinton faced pretty much the same problem. Though he too had won the White House promising to be a new kind of Democrat, his first two years had a distinctly liberal tenor: battling over gays in the military, promoting a new energy tax, turning a promised middle-class tax cut into a huge tax hike, and trying to push through universal health care. Though he continues to deny GOP contributions to his success, after his 1994 health-care defeat, Mr. Clinton did what all smart pols do: He appropriated the most appealing parts of his opponents' agenda.
The result was a new Bill Clinton, embracing everything from deregulation and welfare reform to the Defense of Marriage Act. In his 1996 State of the Union, he even struck a Reaganite chord by announcing that "the era of Big Government is over." From this newly held center, Mr. Clinton advanced his presidency and pushed, both successfully and unfairly, to demonize Mr. Gingrich. Mostly he got away with it.

"It was Gingrich who changed the language of American politics and forced Clinton to play the game on his turf," he writes. "But it was Clinton who ultimately got the credit and emerged as the decade's most popular leader."

Who is the next Gingrich?

William McGurn: Saving the Obama Presidency - WSJ.com

 

[GASOUTHERNVOL]

if he drops the health care bit then yes. honestly he needs a good distraction to happen

 

[superdave1984]

if he drops the health care bit then yes. honestly he needs a good distraction to happen

I agree with both of these points. Question is, what kind of distraction do Obama's puppet masters have in mind? My guess is a serious uprising in the middle east that ignites a very serious war involving Israel, Pakistan, and Iran.

 

[GASOUTHERNVOL]

I agree with both of these points. Question is, what kind of distraction do Obama's puppet masters have in mind? My guess is a serious uprising in the middle east that ignites a very serious war involving Israel, Pakistan, and Iran.

and is what people are not taking into account is the amount of ass kicking the isreali military can do. I mean seriously. I cant wait for the day when those puppet master's strings are cut. (no DHS and secretary napalatano, that is not a threat, please do not come, invade my school, and lock me up for having a dissented POV

 

[lawgator1]

I have always rolled my eyes at comparing presidents on this score. Each one is different. Each period of time presents new challenges and developments. The health care bill seems dead now, but who knows? And what if the economy tanks again? Or if it completely turns around? What if there is a war? What if there are natural disasters? A pandemic?

You don't know what is around the corner or how he or the nation will react. Pointless.

 

[GASOUTHERNVOL]

I have always rolled my eyes at comparing presidents on this score. Each one is different. Each period of time presents new challenges and developments. The health care bill seems dead now, but who knows? And what if the economy tanks again? Or if it completely turns around? What if there is a war? What if there are natural disasters? A pandemic?

You don't know what is around the corner or how he or the nation will react. Pointless.

so you mean that big fat black lady cant tell me the future?

thanks for stating the obvious chief. :good!:

 

[BigPapaVol]

I have always rolled my eyes at comparing presidents on this score. Each one is different. Each period of time presents new challenges and developments. The health care bill seems dead now, but who knows? And what if the economy tanks again? Or if it completely turns around? What if there is a war? What if there are natural disasters? A pandemic?

You don't know what is around the corner or how he or the nation will react. Pointless.

what if we stop this landslide toward government solutions to everything?

 

[GASOUTHERNVOL]

what if we stop this landslide toward government solutions to everything?

you mean that people take personal responsibility in what you do. The government is limited by the people, not limiting to the people? The representatives actually represent the people and not special interest groups? A paradigm of hard work instead of holding your hand out?

what a concept...

 

[MG1968]

I have always rolled my eyes at comparing presidents on this score. Each one is different. Each period of time presents new challenges and developments. The health care bill seems dead now, but who knows? And what if the economy tanks again? Or if it completely turns around? What if there is a war? What if there are natural disasters? A pandemic?

You don't know what is around the corner or how he or the nation will react. Pointless.

the health care bill is not dead.

the economy will tank, that's guaranteed. You can't borrow and print all the money this administration has and not reap the whirlwind for it.

before the next collapse, the economy will improve, but the improvement will have nothing to do with Keynesian philosophy.

we're already in a war.

natural disasters are unpredictable, but there has been nothing this administration has done that makes me think that it's reaction to another Katrina will be any more effective than the Bush administration's. Although the main difference is Bobby Jindal. It may be him doing his job (unlike Blanco) that makes Obama and co. look good.

H1N1 is as overhyped today as the bird flu was 6 years ago.

 

[gsvol]

Picture rats leaving a sinking ship.

Just how badly has Obama’s political capital shrunk? Bad enough for one of the most liberal pols on the planet -- Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) to bail on the prez.

As reported yesterdat in the Lakeland Times, in a townhall meeting this week the hyperliberal Feingold not only touted his opposition to the “cap and trade” national energy tax but made a point to tell the crowd, “There’s a survey that shows that I am the Democrat who has least voted with President Obama.”

Feingold has a 100% voter rating from the ACLU. The uber-liberal Americans for Democratic Action rates him at 100%. The American Conservative Union gives Feingold an 8% rating and the Club for Growth rates him at 1%.

This is not a conservative Democrat. He’s left of the left.

And he’s jockeying for a “voted least with President Obama” scout badge? Dismal days in Obamaland.

Feingold also predicted at his town hall meeting that there would be no health care bill passed this year, if ever.

At the very beginning of the question and answer portion of the over two-hour town hall meeting, Howard Dean claimed that conservative icon Winston Churchill started the British National Health Service.

Of course, it’s not true (the NHS was formed in 1948 under Prime Minister Clement Attlee who served from 1945 to 1951), but complete fabrications are what we’ve come to expect from Democrats in the health care debate.

And everthing else.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

 

[lylsmorr]

what if we stop this landslide toward government solutions to everything?

+1 my friend, I agree

 

[rekinhavoc]

:good!:

what if we stop this landslide toward government solutions to everything?

 

[BookVol]

what if we stop this landslide toward government solutions to everything?

Then we wouldn't be healing a broken toenail by chopping off the toe... So to speak.