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| Peggy Noonan on Hillary: "it's 1993 in there" |
| 2007-11-02 |
| The story is that she talked about policy. Not talking points, but policy. In talking about it she seemed, for the first time, to be revealing what's inside. It was startling. It's 1993 in there. The year before her fall, and rise. I spent a day going over the transcripts so I could quote at length, but her exchanges are all over, it's a real Google-fest. Here, boiled down, is what she said. Giving illegal immigrants drivers licenses makes sense because it makes sense, but she may not be for it, but undocumented workers should come out of the shadows, and it makes sense. Maybe she will increase the payroll tax on Social Security beyond its current $97,500 limit, to $200,000. Maybe not. Everybody knows what the possibilities are. She may or may not back a 4% federal surcharge on singles making $150,000 a year and couples making $200,000. She suggested she backed it, said she didn't back it, she then called it a good start, or rather "I support and admire" the person proposing such a tax for his "willingness to take this on." She has been accused of doubletalk and she has denied it. And she is right. It was triple talk, quadruple talk, Olympic level nonresponsiveness. And it was, even for her, rather heavy and smug. Her husband would have had the sense to look embarrassed as he bobbed and weaved. It was part of his charm. But he was light on his feet. She turns every dance into the polka. And it is that amazing thing, a grim polka. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #2 They were always a total shill for the dems, it's that now we have them backed out on a branch. |
| Posted by: wxjames 2007-11-02 11:33 |
| #1 Bill could also get away with this since there was little political blogging in the 1990s and voters were somewhat blindsided by the slick doubletalk. It's different now. Hillary can't get away with slick doubletalk as easily. On the other hand back in the 1990s the NYT, the WaPo, CBS, ABC and NBC were not as much a shill for the Dem party as they are now. |
| Posted by: mhw 2007-11-02 10:47 |