I have been waiting to hear this bit of news. I’ve been curious about what might lie ahead for the next presidential spouse.
Hillary Rodham Clinton says she’s got a job for her husband if she’s elected the next president of the United States this November.
She intends to put the 42nd president in charge of “revitalizing the economy.”
Bill Clinton presided over an economic revival during his time as president. From 1993 until 2001, President Clinton — working with a Congress controlled by men and women who belonged to the other party — did what once was deemed impossible. The government reached a balanced federal budget. Indeed, it operated with a substantial surplus by the time Bill Clinton’s two terms had come to an end.
If there is one singular positive legacy from the Bill Clinton presidency, it is that the nation enjoyed tremendous economic health.
It came unraveled not long after Bill Clinton left office. Terrorists hit us hard, we went to war, the new president — George W. Bush — didn’t propose a way to pay for that struggle. The deficit ballooned.
Now, with another election coming on quickly, the former president is poised to give the next president a constructive hand in shoring up the economic recovery that most observers say remains unsteady.
“He’s got more ideas a minute than anybody I know,” Clinton said of her husband.
Great. Let’s put them to work.
Oh wait. First, Hillary Clinton’s got to get elected.