'Both sides are gonna have to eat some things they don't like'

[Contrary1]

Nah, I don't feel like eating this. You wanna try to force feed me? I have a long memory...

"Clinton to the rescue?

From NBC's Athena Jones: With the fate of a tax deal reached with Republicans still uncertain, President Obama brought out one of his party's biggest guns to help drum up support for the agreement: former President Bill Clinton.

The current president called on his predecessor in part to help convince angry Democrats -- especially in the House of Representatives -- to pull together to vote for a bill he believes will help spur economic growth and job creation and without which the economic recovery could falter.

"I thought, given the fact that he presided over as good an economy as we've seen in our lifetimes, that it might be useful for him to share some of his thoughts," Obama said in introducing Clinton.

Clinton's surprise appearance in the White House briefing room after a closed door meeting with the president was the latest salvo in a massive, week-long, multimedia blitz by the White House urging passage of the bill..."

More: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/10/5625869-clinton-to-the-rescue

[truedelphi]

1. Did Clinton go on to say, if folks don't want to chow down, they

Can always light up a big ol' cigar?

:rofl:

[aquart]

2. Well, Bill, you've mastered the false equivalency.

But one side is eating caviar and the other side has cat food.

[pacalo]

3. Exactly what is it that the thugs are going to have to "eat that they don't like"?

[Imagevision]

4. Bill, why don't you go play another round of golf with George H.W. Bush, or take a hike...

[gateley]

5. Who was Obama hoping to sway with Clinton's endorsement? The Dems? Us?

I'm just curious as to why he felt this might help, and with whom.

John King described it as "Oh yeah? I'll see your Bernie Sanders and raise you a Clinton." :7

[Skip Intro]

6. Bill left dubya with a budget surplus, so he might have an idea or two about our current situation.

Not like Obama didn't ask him to speak, and then leave him there alone.

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. You might note, however, that the tax cuts in question were enacted by

Bush, and now extended my Obama. Not Clinton. And Clinton pushed back against the republicans when they were trying to get a "payroll tax holiday" in the 90s. He thought it was a bad idea, then.

Yeah, I'm sure Cinton has an idea or two about our situation - but that doesn't mean he's going to tell US about them.