Hillary: :"B** and Republicans Mad with Power"

[Laura PourMeADrink]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/06/nyregion/06cnd-hillary.html?ei=5090&en=b58541f817436370&ex=1275710400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

June 6, 2005
Senator Clinton Assails Bush and G.O.P. at Campaign Fund-Raiser
By PATRICK D. HEALY
Senator Hillary Clinton castigated President Bush and Washington Republicans today as mad with power and bent on marginalizing Democrats during a speech to 1,000 supporters at her first major re-election fund-raiser, which netted about $250,000.
Mrs. Clinton, who is running for a second term in 2006 and is widely described as a possible Democratic nominee for the presidency in 2008, said that her party is hamstrung because Republicans dissemble and smear without shame and the news media has lost its investigatory zeal for exposing misdeeds.
Left unchallenged, especially if Democrats fail to pick up seats in next year's Congressional elections, she said, Republican leaders could ram through extremist conservative judges, wreck Social Security and make unacceptable concessions to China, Saudi Arabia and other nations that are needed to finance the United States budget deficit.
"There has never been an administration, I don't believe in our history, more intent upon consolidating and abusing power to further their own agenda," Mrs. Clinton told the audience at a "Women for Hillary" gathering in Midtown Manhattan this morning.
"I know it's frustrating for many of you; it's frustrating for me: Why can't the Democrats do more to stop them?" she continued to growing applause and cheers. "I can tell you this: It's very hard to stop people who have no shame about what they're doing. It is very hard to tell people that they are making decisions that will undermine our checks and balances and constitutional system of government who don't care. It is very hard to stop people who have never been acquainted with the truth."

[LittleClarkie]

1. My first impulse was to be snarky

but I will be true to my word and simply say "Good for her for speaking out."

Positive action will be supported, at least by this Dem.

[patrice]

2. This country is in more danger than ever . . . . from within. nt

[rodeodance]

3. yes--great she is speaking up===Let's have lots of this.

[xultar]

4. YEAH Gurllll Tell it!

[election_2004]

5. Everything she's saying is true.....

And I look forward to seeing Hillary spend a long, productive U.S. Senate career for many more years ahead of her, speaking out against such power-hungry corruption from the wingnuts. :)

[sendero]

6. If Hillary keeps that shit up...

... I might have to start liking her :)

Seriously, this is the kind of rhetoric the party leaders need to be issuing. I didn't think she had it in her, I was wrong. That's twice today :)

[Me.]

9. Agree

I was getting somewhat annoyed with her in the recent past, but to hear this gives me hope. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that she continues in this vein.

[johnaries]

7. Did she actually say "dissemble"?

I thought it was "disassemble"! :evilgrin:

[ibegurpard]

8. I'm now waiting

for high-level Democrats to go on the gab-fests and disavow her comments as "wild-eyed" and "not speaking for Democrats."

I suspect I'll be waiting for a while.

[Nightjock]

10. Just when I was starting to dislike her

she speaks out. Nice job Hillary!
... But PLEASE don't run for President in 2008. Even if the machines are fixed with a paper trail and the elections are not rigged this time-she will lose.

[LittleClarkie]

11. I know what you mean

She said something useful, and now I have to give her kudos. What a dirty trick.

[Geek_Girl]

12. Good For her

Now if she'd speak up about the Iraq war and make it central to her campaign I may think about voting for her.