Is Bill Clinton a GOP operative? on the Peoria.com Forums

joepyeweed writes:
I haven't seen Bill doing anything anti-Obama?

Hillary will run in 2016, no matter who wins in 2012.

My hubs says that the republicans didn't want the white house in 2008, nor do they want it in 2012 either, for the same reasons posted above.

However, on the big question of whether to extend the tax cuts for upper income earners, Clinton and his party’s leaders appear to be on the same page. Even a temporary extension of all the cuts would be a fight, he noted, because “Republicans don't want to do that unless [President Obama] agrees to extend the tax cuts permanently, including for upper income people. And I don't think the president should do that.

“The real issue is not whether they should be extended for another few months. The real issue is whether the price the Republican House will put on that extension is the permanent extension of the tax cuts, which I think is an error,” he said.

Well, I think what it means is they will have extend-- they will probably have to put everything off until early next year. That's probably the best thing to do right now. But the Republicans don't want to do that unless he agrees to extend the tax cuts permanently, including for upper income people.

And I don't think the president should do that. That's going to-- that's what they're fighting about. I don't have any problem with extending all of it now, including the current spending level. They're still pretty low, the government spending levels. But I think they look high because there's a recession. So the taxes look lower than they really would be if we had two and a half, 3% growth. And the spending is higher than it would be if we had two and a half, 3% growth because there are so many people getting food stamps, so many people getting unemployment, so many people are Medicaid.

But-- the real issue is not whether they should be extended for another few months. The real issue is whether the price the Republican House will put on that extension is the permanent extension of the tax cuts, which I think is an error.

leslie110 writes:
Seal...do you really believe that?

bigluke23 writes:
So you'd be OK with having a surrogate saying the Mitt Romney has a "sterling business record" while you're paying millions of dollars to run ads smearing him?