From the Department of You Have Got to be Kidding Me
President Clinton has a plan to solve our very immediate spending crisis: Do nothing. Seriously:
Former President Bill Clinton sees a possible way past the bipartisan impasse over raising the debt limit: agree to cut spending AND raise taxes, but do neither until later, after the economy improves.
“If they [the Republicans] said, look, that now is not the time for big tax increases to harm the recovery, they would be right,” Clinton told ABC News in an exclusive interview at the Clinton Global Initiative America conference in Chicago. “But it’s also right to say that now’s not the time for big spending cuts.”
Be like Uncle Willy, kids — never put off until tomorrow that which can be put off until the day after tomorrow. Even if it can’t be!
Slick Willy’s in favor of other people just blowing things off? Who’d have thunk it?
BillyBob said he’s been studying economics about an hour a day lately…. (sigh)
I am a conservative and a supporter of the GOP but I would vote for Bill Clinton from President again in a New York minute! It isn’t because he’s smart or because he has terriffic policy insights or because he is a genuine leader. He is none of these. (Well he is smart in a self-preservational sort of way.) What Bill Clinton is is LUCKY! He is the Gladstone Gander (remember him? of politicians. The guy could fall into the proverbial septic tank and come out with half the inventory of Tiffany’s in his pocket. Bill Clinton’s luck isn’t just amazing – It’s sort of spooky. He became President just as the greatest technical boom since WWII was about to take off. He left office just as it was ready to bust. Ross Perot shows up to help elect Clinton twice and promptly disappears. Nothing sticks to Bill and everyone loves him for his rougish charm. Somehow – Don’t ask me what – Something would happen in a new Bill Clinton presidency that would solve the financial crisis. An asteroid of solid gold would land in Nebraska or the world’s largest oil reserve would be suddenly found about ten feet beneath the surface of South Dakota. I always believed that Mephistopheles was his Deputy Chief of Staff. Why shouldn’t the rest of us benefit from Bill’s deal with the Prince of Darkness? He’s the one slated to go to the infernal regions but I confidently believe that he will talk his way out of it.
Outstanding! Thank you for the laugh, and you’re probably not far off the truth, either!
Doing nothing is the kissing cousin of leading from behind.
How could we tell the difference from this and what Obama is already doing?
The Greeks have already shown us what leading from behind gets you. And nobody wants to be in front of a Greek who is leading from behind. Or Clinton either for that matter.
This whole “leading from behind” thing is making me uncomfortable. I think Obama et al are doing something else from behind…to all of us!
Hmmm, he’s doing a lot of yacking lately. There was that our-tickle in Newsweek where he presented a dumb 10-point program (maybe it was 11 or 9 points, whatever) to save the economy.
Is something afoot?
Sometimes it is politically smart to straddle the fence. Sometimes when you straddle the fence you look like a “post turtle”. A turtle on top of a fence post didn’t get there on its own, doesn’t know why its there, and doesn’t have a method of getting off. This is the case of the latter, as if O follows BC’s advice, he will look like, well, the feckless imbecile that he actually is.