Bill Clinton pounds Republicans for ‘sitting around just begging for America to fail’

[DonViejo]

Appearing on ABC’s This Week with his former communications director, George Stephanopoulos, former President Bill Clinton expressed dismay with the Republican Party’s attempts to destroy the Affordable Care Act, claiming that the the GOP is “sitting around just begging for America to fail.”

Addressing a clip of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) claiming he intends to change his references to “Obamacare” as “Hillarycare” if the national healthcare program collapses because he wants presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton “to own it,” the former president marveled at the GOP’s obsession with wanting the program to fail.

“This bill [Obamacare] has already produced a lot of good results,” Clinton explained. “Look, they are desperate for this bill to fail. Because, if it’s not a failure, everything they’ve been telling us since 1980, ‘big government’s bad,’ is wrong.”


He continued, “They so badly want it to fail. Can you remember a time in your lifetime when a major political party was sitting around just begging for America to fail? I don’t know what’s going to happen. I would be shocked if it fails. I just think when all these dire predictions don’t come out, if they don’t, I believe that pretty soon, within the next several years, it will be like Medicare and Medicaid. It will be a normal part of our lives and people will be glad it’s there.”

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[madokie]

1. And they're proud of it too

Out to be rode out of town on a rail, every damn one of them

[spanone]

2. lindsey graham....'hillarycare' ? what an ass.

[Orsino]

3. Misses the point, a little.

The modern conservative movement is not just undermining America, but auctioning off its prosperity. And they're not just sitting around.

Though I suppose that last does apply to the GOP.

[BlueCaliDem]

4. Republicans are TRAITORS to these United States and our principles.

And they should be seen as such far and wide. They're NOT Conservatives by any stretch of the imagination. President Theodore Roosevelt was a Conservative. President Eisenhower was a Conservative. Even President Nixon was a Conservative.

What we have today are Neo-Confederates attempting to usurp the Federal Gov't through inaction and through voting against any action that would help the American people. They are TRAITORS.

And I consider those Republican voters to be traitors and neo-Confederates, as well.

I'm sorry, but it's high-time we embarrass these people. They're out to destroy our country any which way they can. They love to label themselves Conservatives (because conservation is always a positive thing when it comes to our environment, budgets, time, and founding principles), but they don't deserve that noble label. They are Traitors through and through as they attempt to usurp the U.S. powers and force State rule (preferably Jim Crow-style rule) on the rest of the nation, hoping to replace the U.S. Constitution with an ALEC-approved corporate charter.

It's time we call a spade a spade.

[samsingh]

11. kick

[olegramps]

20. I am in total agreement with you.

As I have stated on this board several times the greatest threat to our Republic is not Islamic terrorists, but the Republican Party that has been taken over by theocratic fascists. They are truly an abomination. The nutty end-timers actually welcome the destruction of the world and are a crazy as the Islamic suicide bombers who think they are going to paradise with virgins administering to their lust. Anyone who thinks there is a heaven awaiting murders is delusional. Unfortunately, I don't believe that a hell awaits them either.

[louis-t]

5. Best sound byte/talking point I've heard.

Should be repeated often and loudly.

[Thinkingabout]

6. If the GOP worked as hard on getting the economy going as they are blocking

Obamacare we would be in good shape.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Well said, big dawg!

[dissentient]

8. Now that's a home run. Good one!

[Beacool]

9. Seriously, Lindsey?

Is that all you got? Hillary is not even officially a candidate yet. GOP, the party of no new ideas other than those that are bad for the average American.

Good for Bill for pointing it out.

[freshwest]

12. Lindsey remembers HRC's UHC efforts in 1993 and is still wetting his pants over it.

[Beacool]

19. Apparently so.

[jeff47]

10. When you keep predicting an apocalypse, you need one to show up.

Otherwise, people start to wonder why you keep being wrong.

[bluesbassman]

13. It's one thing to predict an apocalypse based on fact and information...

But it's quite another to predict one based on incorrect data and flat out lies, then set about to do everthing possible to force the apocalypse to occur. These are some very twisted people.

[jtuck004]

14. Yeah, unlike a Clinton, who didn't and won't just sit around. By golly. n/t

[NCjack]

15. Not true. The Repubs are not "sitting around" --

they are working hard to drive USA into the ditch.

[Dont call me Shirley]

22. +1. Welcome.

[valerief]

16. Thanks, Mr. Clinton, for signing the Modernization Act of 1999 which facilitated failure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramm%E2%80%93Leach%E2%80%93Bliley_Act

[Mr.Bill]

17. Whenever I'm around older conservatives

and the subject comes up, I refer to their Medicare as "Johnsoncare" and their Social Security as "Roosevelt Security". Own that, wingnuts.

[world wide wally]

18. And then a dip shit like Guiliani has the fucking nerve to say that Obama "doesn't love America.

You had one thing right at least .he probably doesn't love YOU....Matter of fact, your mama may be jivin' you too.

[Cosmocat]

21. How hard is that? WTF can no other democrats say this?

Seriously.

First, it is the god darned truth.

Second, if EVERY democrat just said simple, truthful things like this in unison, it would START to capture the "message."

But, what do you hear? The brushing of suit material that comes with cowering in a corner.

[AC_Mem]

23. So...

Lindsey concedes that Hillary will be our next President?

Thanks for the endorsement Linds!

[JDPriestly]

24. K&R.