“BJ” Clinton our stellar 42nd president, and a fella who came into the job pretty much by default, courtesy of Ross Perot, seems to be of the opinion that he deserves a heck of allot more credit than he’s been getting, and for some time now, regarding welfare reform and balancing the federal budget. In typical whiny-assed liberal fashion, old “Slick” opined that, “I go crazy every time I read the conventional wisdom,” he said Friday night at his presidential library/massage parlor/porno theater, located in Little Rock, Ark. “So part of the Republican narrative is that I was ‘saved’ from myself by the election of the Republican Congress [in 1994] that ‘forced me’ to do welfare reform and ‘made the balanced budget possible.’” Ya know, Old “Slick” can live in denial till the cows come home, but how he describes it, is pretty much how it happened. Had not that specific event taken place, old “Slick” would never have been put into the position of addressing either welfare reform or balancing the budget. He was dragged kicking and screaming into doing both of those things. And as usual he suffers from a near terminal case of Liberal Dementia.
A sniveling “Slick Willie” complained that all of those reporters and commentators who continue to, “keep saying this, are overlooking all relevant facts.” And as is usually the case with scumbag Democrats, such as our esteemed 42nd president, there is always a dedicated effort to do more than a little rewriting of history. He is insistent in his claims that Arkansas had been a test case for reform during his governorship. At the federal level, he said 43 states received federal waivers to implement welfare reform long before the GOP-controlled House passed the final bill. “And yet I kept reading how this was ‘a Republican idea,’ just because President Reagan had a good story about a welfare queen and a Cadillac who didn’t exist,” old “Slick” said. No one’s arguing the idea for welfare reform wasn’t out there, lets face it, Democrats always like “talking” about things, but very rarely do anything positive, so nothing constructive was actually done until the Republicans took control in 1994.
The comments made by feisty ”BJ” came during 20 minutes of what were described as being “unscripted” remarks that immediately followed a one-hour panel discussion commemorating the 20th anniversary of “Slick Willie” announcing his run for president in front of the nearby state house. They showcased a “BJ” Clinton determined to present himself as a transformational figure. Six senior aides from the 1992 campaign had waxed nostalgic, praising their old boss for revitalizing the Democratic Party and changing the way campaigns are run. However, how was it exactly was it that he accomplished such a thing? Sadly, along with old “Slick” came the politics of personal destruction, the basis of which is that if you have no record on which to run, or you are a pathetically sleazy character, you set out to purposely destroy your opponent using any and all means at your disposal. Rumors, innuendo or outright lies are standard tools of a trade advanced by our buddy, “BJ.” So in that respect, yes, old “Slick” and his hag of a wife, Hitlery, had a profound effect on the way campaigns would be run in the future.
When Clinton took to the microphone, he riffed on the importance of offering voters a compelling story line. “I’m telling you this to point out that we need a coherent narrative,” he said. “The No. 1 rule of effective politics, especially if the people you’re running against have a simple narrative — that government is always the problem, there is no such thing as a good tax or a bad tax cut, there’s no such thing as a good program or a bad program cut, no such thing as a good regulation or a bad deregulation — if you’re going to fight that, your counter has to be rooted in the lives of other people.” His speech included that which has become standard fare for Democrats these days, an attack on the Tea Party and its governing philosophy. The Tea Party, a group of patriotic Americans who wish nothing more than to have a government that is respectful of their wishes and that does not try to control them through all manner of insidious attempt to invade ever farther into their personal lives. An invasion that has been underway for as long as many of us can remember, and that recently has become accelerated. These people are guilty of nothing more than of finally having enough and of now drawing a much needed line in the sand.
“We need to understand that one of the things that tends to tilt things toward the Republicans’ anti-government narrative is our country was born out of a suspicion of government,” “Slick” said. “King George’s government was not accountable to us. That’s what the Boston tea party was about. When the Tea Party started out, at least they were against unaccountable behavior from top to bottom. Then it morphed into something different. If you want to go against that grain, you’ve got to tell people you understand it’s a privilege and a responsibility to spend their tax money, but there’s some things we have to do together. And that’s what the purpose of government is, to do the things that we have to do together that we can’t do on our own.” “If we can make that choice credible,” he added, “then our candidates — starting with the president — and our principles will be fine.” What a bunch of gibberish that means absolutely nothing. There is a document called The Constitution, and it very clearly states the purpose of government. Unfortunately, it is a document that old “Slick” and his ilk, more often than not, simply choose to ignore.
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