Liberty Maven

Hillary Clinton is now weighing in on the financial “crisis” with an obvious attack on the Bush administration.

“When the American people, facing a foreclosure crisis and struggling economy, turned to this administration for help, the answer was no,” Clinton said in a statement. ”Now, the administration is turning to the American people for help, to rescue the credit markets and take on hundreds of billions in debt and financial obligations as a consequence of that same foreclosure crisis. The truth is, Main Street came to Washington and got little. Now Washington is coming to Main Street and asking for a lot.”

“I will be examining the administration’s proposal very closely to ensure that we do not approve a policy that may stabilize the markets in the short term without addressing the root problems facing middle class families or the kinds of reckless gambling that was permitted for far too long by the administration. The Bush Administration may have changed its tune once the crisis facing Main Street hit Wall Street. But we need to be sure that the American taxpayers – asked to shoulder yet more risk and responsibility – have a voice.”

As Mike Miller pointed out in his article (rant) earlier this week, it was Hillary’s husband Bill who deserves at least some of the blame for our current economic woes. Clinton politics and politics in general has become based on strategic convenience rather than truth. No wonder the U.S. electorate can’t decide between Obama and McCain as evidenced by the yo-yo polling results. Once one of them gets a lead in the polls people realize, “Oh crap, we can’t have him as President” so the other then takes the lead only to lose it again due to the same dissatisfaction. I’ll keep on dreaming that someday people will realize they have other viable options.

What is most interesting is that we are now hearing a somewhat libertarian or typical conservative low tax argument from Mrs. Clinton. I guess the strategy is any attack is a good attack even if it doesn’t suit the attacker all that well.