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Experts: Gas Tax Dumb. Clinton Channels W, Doesnt Feel the Need to Listen to Experts
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/05/01/clinton-camp-gas-plan-she_n_99643.html
So, not only does the parallel the Right on campaign tactics, and arguable policy, she borrows their rationalizations.
We know all about presidents who dont listen to experts. 8 years now in fact. Why would you want to model that?
Her for starts. Still no apology for the Iraq vote. Kyl Lieberman salt in the wound. Her image as a leader comes before honesty and good governance? Would she overturn an erred decision or is she incapable of admitting a policy mistake.
And the ego. Would she listen to a cabinet? Shes smart, but not smart enough to run the country on her own.
Wolfson doesnt even grant the detractors unquestioned "expert" status. After all, they are questioning HER. The audacity of knowing more than her. He calls them (Krugman, Bloomberg, and every economic adviser who has been approached so far) "quote unquote" experts. I died laughing reading that, fits in well with the is Andrews from Indiana meme. If I dont vote for her am i aiding terrorsits too? What a mockery.
We whould understand better though, us lowly plebes. She has 35 years of experience, morons! What do career economists know? Take the Nobel Prize and stuff it, shes lived in the White House, been in the eye of the storm, and now knows all.
Well, later on in the article we have our answer why the experts should be conveniently wrong and probably questioned as to their expert status anyway:
"... in our polling that working people appreciate..."
It polls well. Yes, Clinton leadership ground in the most deep of convictions, the polls. Pandering to the public, ignoring the evidence, mirroring the Right, in the name of tough, true leadership. Only in the Bizarro Clinton world.
This will be my last post criticizing HRC, Im turning my energies to McCain, BO policies, and issues common to all Democrats, like voter suppression. But this was a good not to end on, too rich.











Comments (3)
ARGH!
AHOY YE MATES! TAKE THE WENCH HILLARY AND OFF WITH YE! PUT HER IN A PETTY COAT AND WE'LL MAKE HER EXPERT IN THE ART OF WENCHING.
ARGH!
May 1, 2008 6:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
What, you don't think 35 years of experience is enough? How dare you!
May 1, 2008 6:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just when MN Democrats muster up the courage to pass a gas tax increase to repair our imploding infrastucture, our Republican candidate, Clinton, undermines Minnesota Democrats. But then, we're a caucus state, so we don't count in November.
May 1, 2008 7:26 PM | Reply | Permalink
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