Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said his fellow Democrats should stop “mealy mouthing around” and start taking the fight to Republicans in the final weeks before this year’s congressional elections.
“The Democrats ought to stand up and fight,” Clinton said in an interview for Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend. “The Democrats have 30 days to sort of stand up, embrace the challenge, and offer a worthy alternative,” he said. “If they lay down and let it be a referendum, our side is going to get whacked.”
The former president, speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting in New York, criticized the House Republicans’ governing agenda, the “Pledge to America” unveiled yesterday, which would cut federal spending, extend expiring tax cuts and repeal the Democrats’ health-care law.
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