Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Make Up Your Mind, Phil

Posted by Jeff Woods on Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 3:30 PM

The governor is apparently whining again today because the Democratic presidential contest isn't settled. Memo to the governor: If you want to help, don't give interviews trashing both Hillary and Barack as unelectable. Instead, you should do what another superdelegate, John Tanner, did today: Make up your mind. In endorsing Clinton, here's what Tanner said:
Hillary is a smart, pragmatic leader who understands the grave situation our country faces, with a $9 trillion debt, much of which is borrowed from foreign countries. Now, more than ever, our nation needs a leader like Sen. Clinton who can work with others to return to fiscal sanity.
See governor, it's easy. Update: The Nation agrees with me. Via Rodgers.

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If Gov. Bredesen is looking for a way out of representing the majority of Tennessee's Dremocrats, he really should take his time.

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Posted by Christian on 04/23/2008 at 4:37 PM

If you're trying to hold Tanner up as an example for Bredesen to follow, then Bredesen would be well advised to keep his mouth shut.
Tanner's claim that Hillary would return us to "fiscal sanity" is absurd. She's been promising new government handouts all over the place and she wants to start a socialized medicine scheme that will absolutely cost far more than she claims it will.
One only has to look at the example of Medicare and the original cost projections of it's proponents at the time it was enacted in 1965 to see that. Actual program costs were enormously higher than the origial projections.
That medical program is unsustainable as it is now, as is social security and Hillary want to create a whole slew of new entitlements on top of that.
"Fiscally sane" she's not.

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Posted by Gilbert Martin on 04/26/2008 at 2:21 PM
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