Senator Bill Clinton if Hillary wins?

[Forza Mentale]

If this is not a power move, I do not know what one is. Does anyone really think that this would be good for this country?

Senator Bill Clinton if Hillary wins?
02/18/07
http://www.examiner.com/a-573127~Som...l_Clinton.html

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.”

Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, agreed.

“Clinton is a natural for the Senate,” Sabato said. “He loves to talk and schmooze. He could be a great vote-organizer. Majority Leader Clinton?”

Such a scenario is not beyond the realm of possibility now that the governor’s mansion in New York is occupied by a Democrat, Eliot Spitzer, who succeeded Republican Gov. George Pataki last month. If Hillary Clinton wins the White House, Spitzer would likely appoint a fellow Democrat to take over her Senate seat.

So far, speculation about potential successors has focused on New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo and environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose father once held the same Senate seat.

But Spitzer could just as easily appoint Bill Clinton, who, under New York law, would fill his wife’s Senate seat through 2010. A special election would then be held, and the winner would serve the final two years of her term, which expires in 2012.

Although Ickes would love to see Bill Clinton in the Senate, he considers the scenario a long shot.

“I think there’d be a real call on [Spitzer] to appoint a black senator,” Ickes said. “I think there’d be a real call on him to appoint a Hispanic senator.”

Bill Clinton, who was once dubbed America’s “first black president” by author Toni Morrison, would not be the first former president to serve in Congress. John Quincy Adams had a long career in the House after his presidency, and Andrew Johnson served briefly in the Senate after a stint in the White House. Johnson and Clinton are the only two presidents in history to have been impeached by the House. Both were acquitted by the Senate.

Political analysts say a Senate seat for Bill would go a long way toward solving a potentially nettlesome problem for Hillary — what to do with her husband if they return to the White House. The former president currently maintains an office in Harlem and a home with his wife in Chappaqua, N.Y.

“Nothing will solve the Bill problem entirely,” Sabato said. “He will be restless and underfoot for Hillary, in part because he is the more talented pol.”

There would also be financial ramifications.

“It would certainly lower the family income because there are restrictions on how much a senator can bring in on speeches and so forth,” said presidential scholar Stephen Hess of George Washington University. “Of course he’d have housing, because she’d put him up in the Lincoln Bedroom or something.”

[DTBusta]

Yes after this administration the dems have a chance to get in a woman and black president. Its only going to be because of the current condtions that they will beable to do this and maybe get in. Im not saying thats right but anyone can do better then this president.I do agree this Bush clinton bush clinton thing has to go.

[spywizard]

"Model Spouse" ???

he taught a generation that it was ok to cheat on your wife, and then lie about it..

oh, what about that whitewater thing?? please.....

[DTBusta]

No spywizard, the media taught a generation that was okay. Sometimes I believe it is okay to keep things int he dark. What Bush is teaching is that it is okay to invade a country, manipulate the intelligence to get into the war and you don't get impeached. Bill Clinton was impeached and imbarrased infront of millions. He did not do such a shaby job as president, some would say one of the best, despite him lying about a bj. Which I agree is wrong, but come on, Bush gets away with what hes done, and has shown Americas youth that fear sells. Great lessons from Mr. Bush

As far as whitewater, I don't know. I'll have to research it more before I open my keys..

[spywizard]

Actually i was referring to the moral implications that such an act was not even mentioned in society or in the public it was believed to be so taboo.. but then again, the generation in the 20's and 30's was more morally corrupt than most..

and um, the investigation that was carried out by both the dems and the republicans showed that there were no grounds for impeachment..

Clinton was impeached... see the difference??

[DTBusta]

You mean Bush im taking it. Well when Bush took Habeas Corpus away from the american people he also wrote into act the 2006 military commisions act which will not allow the congress to Impeach him for any war crimes. Otherwise having pre-war intelligence scripted to your views to go into war is extremely impeachable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aeCc_UYLM8

[spywizard]

You mean Bush im taking it. Well when Bush took Habeas Corpus away from the american people he also wrote into act the 2006 military commisions act which will not allow the congress to Impeach him for any war crimes. Otherwise having pre-war intelligence scripted to your views to go into war is extremely impeachable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aeCc_UYLM8

You mean President Bush?? and they have investigated and no charges werer filed.. case closed..

[spywizard]

even the dems won't impeach him

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NG94IRGOO1.DTL

[mcpeepants]

You mean President Bush?? and they have investigated and no charges werer filed.. case closed..

i haven't seen any meaningful investigation by congress.

[mcpeepants]

even the dems won't impeach him

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...NG94IRGOO1.DTL

the dems like of a spine doesn't mean Bush shouldn't be impeached. dem politicians are showing there true colors and it smells like pvssy.

[spywizard]

the dems like of a spine doesn't

oh well...

[mcpeepants]

oh well...

i hate it when I spell wrong. I met lack instead of like.

[Tock]

Bill Clinton used to teach law . . . I read somewhere back in the 90's that the only other job he'd like to have is Supreme Court Justice. A couple other presidents were appointed to the Supreme Court, so it's not unprecedented.
Somehow, I don't think that would happen . . .

[Johny-too-small]

Too bad this is all fantasy talk by the dreamers. The next time the Clinton's will in the White House is to ask President Giuliani if they can attend the annual Easter egg hunt.

[DTBusta]

God help us, Drooliani is so hard to even watch talk. I wouldn't doubt it if his hypocrytical base(evangelicals) voted him in. Hes only left two wives and had an affair. Whatever happened to the morals. Im not a Hillary fan but hes no match for her. Shes got genius political strategists and a lot of money, thats what it takes. The fake ass chistians...I mean the evangelical base is a mess right now.They'll vote for any candidate that says the end of the world is near..

btw looks like the dreamers are coming closer to their dream every day this president is doing such a great job..

[DTBusta]

There hasn't been great oversight, and no real investigation. Military commisions act 06 prevents any probes into war crimes!



Spywizard...that was said in may of 06 by Pelosi. Thats when they were taking it careful and trying to get in with out the media exploiting that they would consider impeachment. You bet your bottom dollars that the dems haven't been pushed to the edge yet..On the other hand mcpee is right, they have no spine, they aren't my party, they are pussycrats. But this doesn't mean Bush should be free and not in jail for his war crimes.

[Johny-too-small]

God help us, Drooliani is so hard to even watch talk. I wouldn't doubt it if his hypocrytical base(evangelicals) voted him in. Hes only left two wives and had an affair. Whatever happened to the morals. Im not a Hillary fan but hes no match for her. Shes got genius political strategists and a lot of money, thats what it takes. The fake ass chistians...I mean the evangelical base is a mess right now.They'll vote for any candidate that says the end of the world is near..

btw looks like the dreamers are coming closer to their dream every day this president is doing such a great job..

hahaha!