Bill Clinton to Obama: 'Don’t Blink'

[TheNewMe]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/20...blink.html

Clinton to Obama: ‘Don’t Blink’
July 3, 2011 10:53 AM EDT

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The only Democratic President re-elected since FDR gave this advice to the White House on the debt ceiling negotiations: “Don’t Blink.”

“This is the political equivalent of the government shutdown when I was president,” Clinton offered, leaning back in a chair on stage. “The leadership of the Republican party then figured that they could make the White House blink…The White House could blink. I hope that won't happen. I don't think they should blink.”

“[The Republicans] idea of a compromise is we're only going to get 85 percent of what we ask for and you're not going to get anything you asked for,” he said. “To the average person that's not much of a compromise.”
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“But if they insist on the mega settlement with no new revenues from any source, not approved in advanced by Grover Norquist…” Clinton stopped as the audience laughed at the absurdity of the outsized influence the un-elected anti-tax activist has on current congressional negotiations. Clinton wasn’t as amused: “You're laughing, but [Norquist] was quoted in the paper the other day, he was saying he gave the Republican senators permission to vote with [Senator] Diane [Feinstein] on getting rid of the ethanol subsidies. And I thought ‘my God, what has this country come to when one person has to give you permission to do what's best for the country?’ It was chilling.”
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[Cha]

Yeah, I would say when you're dealing with a treasonous evil within your own country that you don't blink just like you don't for a vicious outside enemy.

[atomic]

Unfortunately Clinton has given a mixed message advocating for lowering the business tax and telling Pres O not to blink.

[Treestar]

The GOP has decided that Grover is their resident tax expert?

Figures they don't think for themselves.

Do they really think this is what their constituents want?

[nofurylike]

thank you for posting this, TheNewMe.