[lbo-talk] Kerry: America First!

[Brad DeLong]

>  > Also: putting the health reform on the national agenda (it refuses to
>>  die ever since)
>
>This is just plain false.  That issue was on the agenda before Clinton ever
>was, and he and Hillary and their Jackson Hole whore group scuttled
>meaningful reform in a way the Republicans could never have achieved (as
>with Welfare Reform).  Look up what Steffie Woolhandler has to say about
>Hillary.

I have said harsh things about HRC's stewardship of the health care 
reform effort--things harsh enough to get me quoted on Rush Limbaugh, 
and to lead former high White House officials to pay me a "visit".

But the last thing she wanted or tried to do was to scuttle reform. 
She worked her butt off for two years full-time (much of it in 
counterproductive ways) but not because she didn't want national 
health insurance to happen.

Brad DeLong