It Looks Like At Least One Senator Thinks She's Learned From Past Mistakes

[NashVegas]

And that senator will be President soon.

I came across this David Brooks column (Feb. 08) when reading something else about Jim Cooper. This article may go some way to explaining the vehemence of at least some of the anti-Hil rhetoric that came from DC.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/opinion/05brooks.html

Cooper is one of the most thoughtful, cordial** and well-prepared members of the House. In 1992, he came up with a health care reform plan that would go on to attract wide, bipartisan support. A later version had 58 co-sponsors in the House — 26 Republicans and 32 Democrats. It was sponsored in the Senate by Democrat John Breaux and embraced by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, among others.

But unlike the plan Hillary Clinton came up with then, the Cooper plan did not include employer mandates to force universal coverage.

On June 15, 1993, Cooper met with Clinton to discuss their differences. Clinton was “ice cold” at the meeting, Cooper recalls. “It was the coldest reception of my life. I was excoriated.”

Cooper told her that she was getting pulled too far to the left. He warned that her plan would never get through Congress. Clinton’s response, Cooper now says, was: “We’ll crush you. You’ll wish you never mentioned this to me.”

This column comes entirely sourced by anti-HC types. Let's give the benefit of the doubt and assume they aren't lying. If true, the way she handled this is only slightly more diplomatic than "steamroller" Spitzer.

Not to say we don't expect SoSes to have and display 'nads. I've always loved the Albright / Robin Cook tale that ends with Albright telling her counter-part to "get new laws."

**outwardly, anyways