WisPolitics Budget Blog

From the Boston Globe, July 14, 2005:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., is proposing legislation that would add 100,000 soldiers to the U.S. Army. Clinton, who unveiled the proposed United States Army Relief Act Wednesday, said it should be a national priority to field a significantly larger military. The measure is likely to receive serious consideration at a time the Army's 500,000 active-duty soldiers struggle in Iraq and across the globe. Clinton says the measure, which is also being proposed in the House, would help the Army reduce the number of deployments each soldier must make and take some pressure off the Reserve and National Guard.

From The Weekly Standard, Feb. 9, 2004:

VIRTUALLY SINCE this magazine started eight years ago, we have argued that the American military, and especially the U.S. Army, was too small.

Conservatives out there will notice that Hillary is taking cues from Bill Kristol as she methodically moves away from her hippy Yale years and later, staff counsel during the Watergate hearings.

As the war in Iraq continues, Hillary may find herself in the midst of a populist revolt, driven by both liberals and conservatives (for vastly different reasons).

How she navigates the waters of neoconservatism, isolationism, internationalism, and mothers weeping over their soldiers' headstones will determine if she returns to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.