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11/12/2013

Bill Clinton: Obama Should Let People Keep Their Health Care Plans

Filed under: General — Patterico @ 5:20 pm



If there’s one thing Bill Clinton hates, it’s a liar:

If you think this is anything other than Billary distancing itself from this catastrophe, you are a sucker. Put on the dunce cap and go back to START.

Still, it’s a Schadenfreudian slip and we loves it because of the humor.

24 Responses to “Bill Clinton: Obama Should Let People Keep Their Health Care Plans”

  1. No ding? Must be the sequester.

    Gazzer (17a127)

  2. I miss Clinton (God help us). I mean, just compare and contrast. In four minutes, a clear, concise, lucid statement of three extremely relevant facts about Obamacare. With just the right digs where called for, and just the right blame-shifting. He knew what he was talking about, he looked like he knew what he was talking, he looked like he cared, he looked smart. He looked like a leader.

    nk (dbc370)

  3. And that seductive (down, Mark!) whiskey drawl instead of Obama’s hectoring bray.

    nk (dbc370)

  4. obamacare makes america suck even harder

    happyfeet (c60db2)

  5. nk, a good pal of mine, and a staunch Republican, met BillyJeff once. He said he had an uncanny knack of making you feel like there was no-one else in the room when he spoke to you. Still a sociopath, however. But a good one.

    Gazzer (17a127)

  6. Amnesiac liar!

    “My argument is this is an economic issue. The second thing is that on the policy, there is no perfect bill because there’s always going to be consequences. So there will be amendments to this [ObamaCare] effort, whatever they pass ….It’s not important to be perfect, but it’s important to move, to get the ball rolling. The worst thing we can do is nothing.”

    Bill Clinton in November 2009

    Colonel Haiku (caa5f3)

  7. There’s more. The Chicago pickle-slicer and his “every crisis is an opportunity” should have studied Clinton instead of ballet. Clinton was being impeached, being sued, being cited for contempt, being disbarred, having to dodge sharp objects held by Hillary; and he went to war against a country that was no threat to the United States and carved out a brand new country in Europe from its territory; and did it solely with airpower, a plug-ugly Secretary of State, and not a single American casualty.

    And I guess I’d better stop saying nice things about Clinton but when you look at the SCOAMF we have now ….

    nk (dbc370)

  8. After all, if anyone wants to keep something he likes, it’s Billy Jeff.

    Elephant Stone (6a6f37)

  9. This Obama person is being deceptive.
    Or something.

    Elephant Stone (6a6f37)

  10. That looked like a BJ to me.

    AZ Bob (ade845)

  11. Yeah, really, “no cigar” on that one.

    Elephant Stone (6a6f37)

  12. I miss Clinton (God help us). I mean, just compare and contrast. In four minutes, a clear, concise, lucid statement of three extremely relevant facts about Obamacare. With just the right digs where called for, and just the right blame-shifting. He knew what he was talking about, he looked like he knew what he was talking, he looked like he cared, he looked smart. He looked like a leader.

    Yeah. The whole pathological liar thing is fascinating…truth is something he toys with, dances with, and ditches in the morning – only to be replaced with a new truth. Ever changing, always entertaining.

    Dana (45070c)

  13. Bill Clinton is an intelligent sociopath politician surrounded by sycophants that feed on his flattery while he gets to enjoy the life never realized by his assassinated hero.

    Obama is a cypher in comparison.

    So, who’s up for the Hillary presidency?

    Ag80 (eb6ffa)

  14. Kirsten Powers, formerly of the Clinton WH, agrees 1000% that this is a Billary presidential move.

    Patricia (be0117)

  15. “The worst thing we can do is nothing.”

    He left off the part about being for your own good. Progressives will always omit the part about government FORCING you to do it because they know that if that language is included Americans would never support it.

    Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba)

  16. A Valerie Jarrett quote from Gateway Pundit:

    “There isn’t an American who isn’t going to be touched in a positive way by the Affordable Care Act,” Ms. Jarrett said. “Change is difficult. Even change for the better is difficult.”

    Amalgamated Cliff Divers, Local 157 (f7d5ba)

  17. Put on the dunce cap and go back to SWAT.

    i’m turning off the lights and taking cover…

    redc1c4 (abd49e)

  18. Actually Ag, I don’t think Clinton is a sociopath. If he is he fakes empathy pretty well. I’ve known actual sociopaths and they don’t know empathy from Tuesday.

    My issues with Bill have a lot more to do with policy than his ethics, which are about average for a politician.

    Kevin M (bf8ad7)

  19. It’s a bit of subtle payback for the racism allegations from 2008. There will be more – and they will come ever faster as Obama’s poll ratings crash.

    But there is just no way to keep a million or more new Medicaid free riders, and the old and sick who have to get coverage, and the lower to lower-middle income people who will be getting most of their coverage subsidized with tax credits without the expected revenue from all those individuals who lost their plans paying double premiums in the exchanges.

    It’s a deficit buster, a dagger in the heart of the plan. There can be NO delay, and no change to “let you keep your old plan.” The numbers not only don’t add up, they are off by orders of magnitude.

    Estragon (19fa04)

  20. Also, if Obama is down in the polls, Hillary can blame anything wrong with foreign policy on him and/or Kerry.

    Kevin M (bf8ad7)

  21. narciso, I wouldn’t feel comfortable inside LaTourette’s teflon tent.

    mg (31009b)

  22. I guess some people don’t want to give the Tea Party any credit for taking back the House in 2010.

    MD in Philly (f9371b)

  23. Bill Clintn was not at all honest here by the way, or much critical of Obama.

    He was asked a question about what was the lesson, and after hesitating for a fraction of a secod, went on to say the lesson was… (praises Obamacare)

    He said the attitude of Republican Governors (? I am not sure I remember this right) to the explansion of Medicaid was bizarre.

    Sammy Finkelman (d7b491)


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