I just saw the Nat'l Enquirer front page in a checkout line. Maybe it may explains the frenzied

[Dems to Win]

33. Just returned from running errands while wearing my Bernie Tshirt

From my informal sample, California is still Berning!

One couple started up a conversation, and we talked a bit about Hillary, and I said "I have my differences with Hillary, starting with the Iraq War vote, but I have a viscerally strong opposition to Bill Clinton returning to the White House." The woman crossed her hands on her chest and said "Thank you. I can't stand the idea of him prowling the halls again!"

So there's at least one woman who agrees with me that Bill as First Gentleman is a terrible idea.

I was very involved in health care reform in the 90s. When Bill was elected with a Democratic Congress, I thought we were going to get universal health care! I watched and read everything I could about Hillary's Health Care Task Force, and was bitterly disappointed that she didn't seem serious in actually reforming health care. She assembled a secret task force of 500 insurance company execs and academics (NO single payer advocates), kinda-sorta developed a broad outline of something called 'managed competition,' leaked some details to the press, made lots of speeches about how we really needed health reform, but didn't develop a detailed plan or a bill for Congress to vote on. She made some enemies among Democrats on key committees (Cong. Jim Cooper) and Congress floundered on even writing a bill to enact what she now calls 'HillaryCare.' No vote was taken on a health reform plan, not even in committee.

Then, after 2 years of no progress in Congress on health care, the Republicans took over Congress in the mid-terms, and the entire subject was dead. So much for HillaryCare.

It was a long wait for the ACA, which is still far from Universal Health Care.

I don't dislike Hillary as a person, but I've never seen her as a person who gets things done. She failed to get done something my family really needed, and that we really expected would happen in 1993.