The Swamp
He isn’t necessarily supporting the idea. But House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer sees ample precedent for a Clinton-Obama (or Obama-Clinton) ticket.
“I think a lot of us believe that’s a possibility,” the Maryland Democrat said this week. “Look at Ronald Reagan and George Bush. They went at one another pretty hard – you know, voodoo economics – but became wonderful supply-side economics within about six hours.
“It’s an amazing business we are in. Flexibility is, you know, a hallmark.”
Prompted by the capitol press corps Wednesday, Hoyer took reporters on a journey through American political history, with stops to observe John F. Kennedy’s decision to name erstwhile rival Lyndon Johnson his running mate, and the cabinet appointments of Abraham Lincoln.
“I don’t know how many of you have read ‘Team of Rivals,’ ” he said, referring to the Doris Kearns Goodwin’s 2005 book about the Lincoln administration.
“Three or four of the people who ran up against him in the convention ended up being in the cabinet,” Hoyer said. “Why do you do that? You do that because in a convention, in a party, you have various people representing various factions of the party. Obviously, the way to be most successful is to try to bring together the various elements in your party to try to cooperate with one another.”..........
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