The Wall Street Campaign

The Wall Street Journal — the Fox News for anyone who can read — offered an editorial this morning in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s announcement of her presidential candidacy. No one will be astonished to learn they don’t think much of it. Or her. The reasons, why, are as illuminatingly ludicrous as they are anti-progressive.

Let’s go through them one by one. First, there’s the inevitability of her candidacy, which is true as far as it goes. We always knew she was going to run again. and while it appears she has an almost clear run to the nomination, we know from 2008 that things can change.

The Journal’s editors complain that she has hired campaign assassins to destroy her critics with a blanket of propaganda. Hmmm. They failed to bring up the Koch Brothers, who spend tens of millions of dollars to trash Democrats of any stripe in behalf of right-wing Republicans. they grouse that Hillary will have the backing of President Obama who wants to maintain his legacy. Well, duh. Most presidents do support the candidates of their party,

And the Journal wants us to note that Hillary’s campaign will be trying to use historical erasures to eliminate from the public memory such things as Whitewater, Benghazi and Bill’s sexual indiscretions. That’s a very tired, old tactic which Republicans forget about when anyone brings up the Bush’s multi-billion dollar, life-taking misadventure in the Middle East. I’m inclined to forget about Bill and Hillary activities when compared again the terrible toll George Bush’s actions cost this country. For Fox News and their colleagues at the Journal, it’s the other way around: Never forget Benghazi. Never remember Iraq.

The Journal wraps up their argument by telling us that Hillary won’t be able to distance herself from President Obama’s healthcare initiative — as if that would be a good thing. Millions of Americans (who aren’t rich Republicans who can afford their own expensive health care options) — a majority of Americans in fact — approve of ObamaCare and need it. Even the most benighted of Republicans — Ted Cruz I’m looking at you — would be harebrained to try and abandon it.

The Journal sees Hillary’s campaign as one of deny, dissemble and attack. As if that wouldn’t match the Republican campaign of Cruz or Marco Rubio or Donald Trump or Jeb “I didn’t Send Troops to Iraq” Bush. Baloney. That may be the campaign we wind up with, but if so it will be not merely regrettable but a function of our broken political system. And I’m talking about you, Koch Brothers.