Clinton attacks Sanders’ health plan

Clinton’s opponents are a dog with a bone with this one.

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s campaign is accusing Bernie Sanders of socking it to the middle class with his views on health care in what is the first real direct swipe at her rival.

Intensifying their rivalry, Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday accused Bernie Sanders of charting a tax increase on middle-class families and undercutting President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.

“When we were attacked, where were we attacked? We were attacked in downtown Manhattan where Wall Street is”, Clinton said.

“Her effort to tug on Americans’ heartstrings instead of explaining her Wall Street ties – on a day that the scars of 9/11 were exposed anew – was at best botched rhetoric”, the NY Times wrote on Monday morning. “It was good for the economy, and it was a way to rebuke the terrorists who had attacked our country”, she added.

Sean Spicer, the Republican National Committee’s chief strategist, called her comments “an intersection between stupid and offensive”. Minutes later, the debate moderators displayed a tweet that suggested Clinton’s appeal to 9/11 was inappropriate.

O’Malley’s deputy campaign manager, Lis Smith, ripped Clinton for the statement while her boss was on the stage.

On social media, Sanders largely edged Clinton out, picking up the most new Twitter followers (nearly 19,000 by noon Sunday) and becoming the most searched on Google and the most discussed on Facebook, according to data provided by the companies and collected by Bloomberg.

And Sanders campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, said that Republican governors might be less a problem if Sanders is the Democratic nominee.

O’Malley and Sanders have made Clinton’s Wall Street ties and positions the key pillar of their assault on her. Clinton is known for meticulous preparation. “But Obama and his staff realized that going after Hillary Clinton was the only road they had to the White House”.

The endorsement comes far earlier in the Democratic nominating process than it did in 2008, when the union picked then-Sen.

“It is a stretch”.

“She knows better. She’s a smart woman, she should know better”, he said.

When Sanders said big contributors “expect to get something” for their money, Clinton might have at least sounded more candid if she’d risked a response like: “Of course big money goes to the party’s front-runner, which is what I am”.

“I thought last night was a pretty disgraceful moment, when she tried to put out a smoke screen, invoking 9/11 to hide the fact that she’s taken millions in contributions from the big banks on Wall Street, not to mention all the hundreds of thousands in speaking fees”, O’Malley told Bloomberg at the barbecue.