Bill Clinton: “Tea Baggers” Are Inflamed Because Democrats “Are Winning”
Sounds suspiciously like whistling past the graveyard to me.
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said Clinton described the ongoing tea party protests against the Democratic agenda as a sign their party was making progress.
Whitehouse quoted Clinton arguing: “The reason the tea-baggers are so inflamed is because we are winning.”
No, Bill, the reason the public is so angry is because you guys are doing things they don’t like. The simple truth is that Democrats are trying to cram this bill through Congress with as little scrutiny and debate and transparency as possible because it’s so unpopular. They know that the longer this bill hangs out there the more the public will grasp it’s problems and the more they’ll oppose it. They know that they have to pass it this year because if the debate pushes into an election year they’ll never get it passed.
They know that if their bill was such a wonderful thing for the country they wouldn’t have to criminalize people who don’t want to participate in it.
