Bill Gives Liberals Hell at Netroots

It's a testament to how much more legit liberal blogs have become when Bill Clinton agrees to speak to a convention of them.

Was he all lovey-dovey with them? Not on your life. Here's him discussing the current health-care debate:

The president needs your help and the party needs your help. If you go out there and then you fail, then the victors get to re-write history.

I don't care how low they drive support for this with misinformation. The minute the president signs this bill, his approval will go up. Within a year, when the good things begin to happen, and the bad things they're saying will happen don't happen, approval will explode.

Here's his take on what liberals can look forward to:

All my life I waited for a time [like this]. [The new progressive era] could last 30 years [if liberals smash the conservatives, including the] half of Republicans who don't believe the president was born in the United States.

Of course, he didn't mention how his own failings led to a Democratic loss in 2000, but why should he? Al Gore did win the election, only to have it stolen by the Supreme Court after a highly partisan decision to halt the Florida recount. Had the US been patient the way Minnesota had in their senatorial election, the result would have been different. Of course, Dennis Hastert would have been president during the waiting period. Who knows what mayhem would have ensued?

But my bet is that Clinton is right about a lot of this. We all know that the bad things predicted by the opponents of health-care reform will not happen, and we all know that access to health-care insurance for everyone will have far-reaching effects, including the ability of currently uninsured or under-insured Americans to be more productive at work because they're getting the care they need. And when this happens -- and Obama the long-player is betting conservatively if you ask me -- his approval ratings will jump higher than they were when he was elected. Conversely, Charless Grassley will be looking for a new job, and Sarah Palin, well, let's just say that the former Alaska governor will have some of that tarnish rubbed off. I'll bet she becomes a more popular version of Ann Coulter (hence more disgusting).

Further, I predicted in October that Obama's election would usher in an era of liberalism in America that would last a generation. Given the strong majority the left enjoys among younger Americans, this is almost a given. I know some older Republicans who believe that they've seen the last Republican president of their lifetimes in George W. Bush.