The Economy Of Sale
May 4, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Different Clinton, different opinion of elites.
On the one hand, Hillary Clinton, who …
declined this morning to name a single economist who backs her call for a gas tax suspension.
“I’m not going to put my lot in with economists,” Clinton said in an exclusive appearance on a special edition of “This Week” from Indianapolis.
In light of fierce criticism from economic experts, Clinton said, “We’ve been, for the last seven years, seeing a tremendous amount of government power and elite opinion basically behind policies that haven’t worked well for the middle class and hard-working Americans. … I know if we get it right, if we actually did it right, if we had a president who used all the tools of the presidency, we would design it in such a way that it would be implemented effectively.”
On the other hand, candidate Bill Clinton did care what elites thought about his economic plan. This 1992 Clinton campaign ad touted: “Bill Clinton’s economic plan, endorsed by over 600 economists including ten Nobel Prize winers as the best hope for reviving the nation’s economy.”
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