Bill Clinton Calls Michele Bachmann Divorced from Reality on Health Care

By Hart Van Denburg
City Pages (Minneapolis)
February 7, 2011

Former President Bill Clinton just told representatives of the world’s leading economic powers that Rep. Michele Bachmann exists in a parallel universe divorced from reality when it comes to America’s position in the world, especially with regards to health care policy. …

“Michele Bachmann said in her Tea Party response to President Obama, ‘Everybody knows we have the greatest health care system in the world,” Clinton said. “That is factually untrue. That’s not true.”

“You can get the best health care in the world in America if you are Bill Clinton, or David Gergen or Turki Faisal, but that’s not the same thing as having the best system that works for everybody,” he told the audience. “I think what America needs as much as anything else is to stop conducting its politics in a parallel universe divorced from reality with no facts.” …

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Rep. Michele Bachmann (Photo credit: Chet Susslin / National Journal)

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: One Year Ago — February 10, 2010

Marines Mass for Marjah Assault

Marines with 1/3 Marines Charlie Company seize a market and major junction on the outskirts of Marjah on Feb. 9, 2010. The Marines stepped up preparations for a major assault on Marjah, a key Taliban bastion in southern Afghanistan, in a bid to clear out the militants. (Photo credit: Patrick Baz / AFP — Getty Images)

One year ago today, I reported that U.S. Marines fired smoke rounds and armored vehicles maneuvered close to Taliban positions to test insurgent defenses ahead of an anticipated attack on Marjah, the biggest militant-controlled town in southern Afghanistan.

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FROM THE ARCHIVES: Two Years Ago — February 10, 2009

Afghan Support for U.S. Plummets

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Ricks on change in Iraq (NBC “Meet the Press,” Feb. 8, 2009) — The Washington Post’s Tom Ricks, author of a new book on Iraq, “The Gamble,” talks about the changes he’s seen in that region and answers questions about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. (10:19)

Two years ago today, on Feb. 10, 2009, I reported a new poll showing plummeting support among the Afghan people for the Kabul government and U.S. and European troops trying to bolster it against the Taliban insurgency.