Posted by
Roxanna M. on Wednesday, November 21, 2007 11:28:17 AM
Hillary Clinton has spent seven years in the Senate not really doing much of anything. She has done so for a very specific purpose: not doing anything prevents having to answer questions about what she may have done if she had actually done anything. Nobody ever thinks to ask why she hasn't done anything.
Therefore, just to keep my head from exploding, I have decided to accept the following: the "experience" to which Hillary Clinton refers when she speaks of herself is in reality the eight (long) years that her husband Bill was president.
So, is Bill or Hill responsible for the 8-year failure to:
1. Do anything about Social Security.
2. Do anything about Medicare.
3. Do anything about terrorism.
4. Do anything about global warming.
5. Do anything about energy independence.
Was Bill or Hill responsible for Operation Infinite Reach - launched right after grand jury testimony in August 1998 - which bombed facilities in Afghanistan and Sudan that we American taxpayers had to pay $45 million to rebuild?
Was Bill or Hill responsible for Operation Desert Fox - launched right after Bill was impeached in December 1998 - in order to degrade Saddam Hussein's ability to manufacture, deploy, or use weapons of mass destruction?
Was Bill or Hill responsible for reducing our military by 8 Army Divisions, 11 Air Force Tactical Wings, and 231 Navy ships?
Was Bill or Hill responsible for the fact that, at the end of the Clintons' presidency, there wasn't a Navy carrier battle group in the Pacific for the first time in nearly 50 years?
Was Bill or Hill responsible for the following during their presidency:
1. HUD wasted $18 billion.
2. Medicaid lost $17 billion, annually.
3. The USDA reported $660 million was stolen, annually.
4. In 1994, the Small Budget Administration reported that it had lost about $56 million on loans due to errors in the liquidation process.
5. In budget year 1998, the Army could not account for $833 million in shipped inventory.
6. In 1999, computer breakdowns and missing paperwork left the Department of Education unable to account for $500 million in unawarded grants and up to $6 billion in discrepancies.
Naturally, Hill wants to claim credit for the good things - balanced budget - while letting Bill take the rap for the bad - her health care scheme.
However, if wants to run on her husband's record, then she must run on all of it, even NAFTA, which she so wants to disavow.
The Clintons have already had one co-presidency. What on earth have we done so wrong to deserve another one?