Bill Clinton: GOP who doubled our debt are hypocrites

On CNN, former President Bill Clinton accused Congressional Republicans of complaining about Obama’s stimulus program,but while in power they oversaw record deficits.

Bill Clinton gave an interview with CNN’s John Roberts and called Obama’s stimulus package America’s “bridge over troubled waters”. He believed the stimulus program will bear fruit within a year, spurring the economy forwards. He finds Republicans’ actions hypocritical in accusing Obama of being a spender, while they are the ones that oversaw record deficits when Bush was in power and they were in control of the Congress six of eight years during that time. Clinton said Obama reached out to Republicans but they refused to work with him.

He has reached across and it takes two to tango...He did the right thing. He did everything he could to get Republican support...Given the Congress he had and the environment and the speed in which he had to move, I think he did a fine job with this.

Despite that effort, only three Republicans in the Senate supported Obama’s stimulus package, while none of the House Republicans voted for it. Most of them follow Limbaugh’s call to see the President fail badly in his efforts to revive the economy. Clinton believed the public will support him for another a year or two in rebuilding this economy.

The public, I think, will support him at least for a year in trying to work these things out...He’s been very straightforward in saying it might take as much as two years for the economy to get in gear again. My instinct is it will happen a little quicker than that.

Clinton said the stimulus package will put money in the hands of people who need to survive in this tough economy, and it will give money to state and local governments so they don’t have lay off millions of people (California is one of those states that is in serious trouble) and finally it creates more jobs (more than 2.6 million jobs lost in 2008 alone under Bush, worse since 1945).