TIME TO POUND MY HEAD AGAINST THE WALL ONCE AGAIN
… My two cents’ worth–and I think it is the two cents’ worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994–is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life. Heading up health-care reform was the only major administrative job she has ever tried to do. And she was a complete flop at it. She had neither the grasp of policy substance, the managerial skills, nor the political smarts to do the job she was then given. And she wasn’t smart enough to realize that she was in over her head and had to get out of the Health Care Czar role quickly.
So when senior members of the economic team said that key senators like Daniel Patrick Moynihan would have this-and-that objection, she told them they were disloyal. When junior members of the economic team told her that the Congressional Budget Office would say such-and-such, she told them (wrongly) that her conversations with CBO head Robert Reischauer had already fixed that. When long-time senior hill staffers told her that she was making a dreadful mistake by fighting with rather than reaching out to John Breaux and Jim Cooper, she told them that they did not understand the wave of popular political support the bill would generate. And when substantive objections were raised to the plan by analysts calculating the moral hazard and adverse selection pressures it would put on the nation’s health-care system…
Hillary Rodham Clinton has already flopped as a senior administrative official in the executive branch–the equivalent of an Undersecretary. Perhaps she will make a good senator. But there is no reason to think that she would be anything but an abysmal president.
* Sailer: The fundamental problem with giving substantive power over health care legislation to the First Lady was that the President couldn’t fire her and replace her with somebody who could get the job done.
* I can’t watch her. She’s like bizarro world figurette tryin to suck up souls. I mean some people are more like robots than others. But these are subtleties. She got up there and confessed everything, she basically said I’m not good at being this I hate doing it and well just deal with it with me. Like what the hell is the press afraid of to call her the most inept politician in the history of this nation. No one wants to have to listen to her but everyone just shrugs at fait accompli. Why did he marry her?
Where’s that incredible video of when Abedin told her G-dogg-Gafman was dead? Does anyone remember that video? She seemed possessed by a vacant devil.
* Similar sentiments were shared by almost all members of the economics team tasked with health care. There are memos in people’s files somewhere from that time that are worse than this. The reality was even worse -I was there. Larry Summers shared these opinions at that time.
* It will be extremely humorous for future historians to look back on this era.
History student, circa 2576: “Wait, the chick whose only accomplishment was being married right…who got kicked off the Watergate committees for being shady…who probably killed a guy…and did massive shady things with money…who made an epic fail on health care….who got rolled by a nothing from Chicago….who caused half the middle east to go up in flames….who personally got the ambassador in Libya killed…who hid all her correspondence illegally…who was part of the administration that burned American cities tot he ground….she was actually considered a serious presidential candidate after all that???? ”
Perfessor: “Well, they’d just gone through eight years of an Affirmative Action president.”
History Student: “But c’mon! Were they that dumb?”
Unfortunately, they were.
P.S. Good call on the OBama not having a hand in Obamacare. I called that back then too: Dems were complaining he wasn’t doing anything to help the bill. I thought it was actually best for him, since he had no legislative skills, and Hillary’s problem was she made herself the center of healthcare, making her an easy scape goat; Obama let the legislators get it through (via a highly illegal method that no one would have thought respectable).
* One thing nobody seems to mention is massive sex differences in ageing. Everyone knows girls hit puberty a couple of years before boys. But then after around 35 men mature like fine wine and women mature like milk. Nobody seems to see that Hillary is not the same as a male candidate: she is way older than her years. Not to mention her brain problems and decades in the limelight – a candidate for burnout if ever I saw one.
