The Big Dawg in the Senate?

[jefferson_dem]

LOL! Right-wing shill journalist Sammon floats the idea that "some" "think" The Big Dawg "could" be appointed to serve out Hillary's Sentate term.

:spray:

Some mull idea of Sen. Bill Clinton

Could Bill Clinton take over his wife’s Senate seat if he becomes the first first husband? Some think so.

Bill Sammon, The Examiner
Feb 18, 2007 9:57 PM (8 hrs ago)

WASHINGTON - If Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the presidency, some top Democrats would like to see her husband, former President Bill Clinton, appointed to serve out Hillary’s unexpired Senate term.

“As a senator, he’d be a knockout,” said Harold Ickes, who was once a top White House aide to Bill Clinton and now gives behind-the-scenes advice to Hillary. “He knows issues, he loves public policy and he’s a good politician.”

Some Democrats and political analysts say Bill Clinton would thrive in the world’s greatest deliberative body, much like Lyndon Johnson did before he became president.

“President Clinton would excel in the Senate,” said Paul Begala, who helped Bill Clinton get elected and served in the White House as a top aide.

“Why not?” Begala added. “He excelled as attorney general and governor of Arkansas, he excelled as president and he’s been a model of the modern Senate spouse.”

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http://www.examiner.com/a-573127~Some_mull_idea_of_Sen__Bill_Clinton.html

[Lasher]

1. Make him Majority Leader too.

Boy, would freeper heads explode or what?

[wake.up.america]

2. Clinton is one of the smartest guys in American politics. I really don't...

think there should be a problem, The narrow - minded RWs would flip out.

[izzie]

6. Better him there and not a Clinton in the WH.

I am sorry but I really do not want this 'family stuff' any more. I did not like it when JFK did it even if his brother seems to be a good one. The whole group seem to be acting like they are 'royals' and anything goes. There is just to much corruptions in our govt. Some how we have got to get a hold of it or we will go down faster than we believed we could. Have you read the in NYTimes today? OPED page. Scary and that Congress has figured out how to steal the money(earmarks) just as when the GOP was running it. Between these 'families' and military corp. and rights gone the whole thing is just scary. I am for sending the slimy ones home. I can recall when Clinton said he would do some thing about the trade and he did. Got 'fast track' and I guess we are now down to making war toys and that is about it. The great Am. auto companies are even going. With luck they will still make tanks and the Clinton and Bush type will still arm for the endless wars. Just how long do you think China, Japan and Saudi will hold our debt before they pull the plug? We must find others who are on another track and fast.

[Lasher]

12. Oh, I don't think Bill did so bad as president

Especially when you compare him to Junior. And Poppy. And Saint Gipper. And every other president who has ever served before.

I agree with you about dynasties, izzie. But if Publicans are going to use them as an advantage in getting their people elected (they have and they will) then I'm not willing to give up this or any other single advantage in getting Democrats elected.

[izzie]

13. Well I would vote for her if she goes that high but do not like it.

I do not think Clinton was so bad either but I think for years we will be paying for this 'fast track' thing we have let the President have. Needs more thought than one man. I think the less power any one person has the better off we are. Our govt. was set up for that and this cutting into it every year is bad business. You know how it is. You come to a pretty shady spot in the woods and see all the pretty mushrooms and then you find they are all filled with maggots. Sort of turns one off to mushrooms.:dilemma:

[Lasher]

14. Can't argue with you about fast track, izzie.

Bad bad thing.

I'm sure you've noticed that part of our unitary executive's strategy now is to advance as much of the rest of his rightwing extremist agenda by decree instead of dealing with those unreasonable Democrats in Congress. I try not to harbor hate for anyone but I fail in that respect when it comes to him.

[izzie]

15. Yes you are right. What turned up in the op-ed of NYtimes today

is scary and that we have this 'judge thing' going on and no one seems to be talking about it. It is hard to think what having right wing zealots running ever branch and agency in this govt. has done. Since I my self believe that govt is to service the people and not to service just business I find I am in left field most of the time. I am hardly a true socialist but do believe that the good of the people is more important than profits. You get drug companies half working on tax payers money yet we pay to high prices plus the same company likes to extend its patterns to make even more money. It is like a creeping free for all business of profits and stealing from the tax payers. I think govt. just must have a pay back to the people funding it and not letting 'friends' of the powerful make the profits. I mean it is like S. Arabia or old Russia. We need free business with control by some of the people paying for it. Us. I think God I will not be around when the large corp. own and control the water works.

[Lasher]

16. Amen sister, I can feel it!

Ever been to a traditional African-American baptist church service? Quite an experience. I was lucky as a poor white boy from West Virginia to have been welcomed to a few services. That's what you're reminding me of.

But tell me, why won't you be around when corporations control the water works?

Lasher

[izzie]

17. Yes I have been to Af. american church services.

I liked it and the music was just great. This was a church front sort of place and once you got inside it was a big lovely church. I asked a family walking to church if I could go with them as I was to far away from my own church to walk to it. They all had a bible so I was sure they were going to church and I had stood there for a while wondering if I could go in. I will not be around long because I am old and that is one fight you cannot do much about. I can say that I just do not like to think of not wondering what is going to happen today as each day is sure a joy to wonder at.

[Eurobabe]

3. Oh that would be just lucious....

:bounce: :bounce:

Freeps would come unhinged and unglued!

[Lasher]

7. Oooooo, and consider this

His old nemisis Newt is running for the GOP presidential nomination. Boy, I hope he gets it! How about Senate Majority Leader Bill Clinton making the talk show rounds to comment on Newt's moral character? Heh heh. Or launching endless investigations of Newt's personal life? Funded by the taxpayers, of course.

[WCGreen]

4. How "behind-the-scenes" is the advice being given by

Harold Ickes if we all know he is giving HC advice...

It's not behind the scene then, is it.....

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. There is historical precident, too

Andrew Johnson was elected to the Senate after he left the Presidency. In fact, those who had debated whether to convict him after the House impeached him apologized by sending a page with a huge bouquet of flowers.

[Eurobabe]

10. Oh that is dangerous these days, sending a page with flowers

yikes!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. And John Quincy Adams to the House

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amistad_%281841%29#Oral_Arguments_before_the_Supreme_Court

[patricia92243]

8. I thought the Governor of the state would appoint a new senator. The gov of NY is a Republic.

[The Wizard]

9. Not any more

Spitzer is a Democrat.