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Republicans Blast Sen. Clinton's Comments
Republicans took aim at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday for 
comparing President Bush to Mad magazine's freckle-faced, "What, me 
worry?" kid, Alfred E. Neuman. 

A Republican National Committee official said the former first lady was 
"part of today's angry and adrift Democrat Party," while a spokesman for 
one of her potential 2006 Senate rivals said she was guilty of 
"insulting the president." 

"At a time when President Bush and most elected officials are focused on 
the security of our nation, Mrs. Clinton seems focused on taking 
partisan jabs and promoting her presidential campaign," added New York's 
GOP chairman, Stephen Minarik. "Her priorities are clearly out of 
whack." 

Clinton's attack on the president came Sunday during a speech in 
Colorado. 

"I sometimes feel that Alfred E. Neuman is in charge in Washington," 
Clinton said during the inaugural Aspen Ideas Festival, organized by the 
Aspen Institute, a non-partisan think tank. 

The former first lady drew a laugh from the crowd when she described 
Bush's attitude toward tough issues with Neuman's catch phrase: "What, 
me worry?"        

As Clinton gears up for a Senate re-election race in New York next year 
and a possible White House presidential bid in 2008, her attacks on Bush 
have become sharper. 

In her speech Sunday, she accused the president of damaging the economy 
by overspending while giving tax cuts to the rich, depriving U.S. 
soldiers of equipment needed to fight the war in Iraq and cutting funds 
for scientific research. 

"Hillary Clinton's opportunistic attempt to market herself as a centrist 
is like a wolf dressing up in sheep's clothing," said RNC spokeswoman 
Tracey Schmitt. "Such thinly veiled rhetoric doesn't change the fact she 
is part of today's angry and adrift Democrat Party." 

Thomas Basile, a spokesman for potential Senate challenger Edward Cox, a 
son-in-law of the late President Nixon, said while Clinton was "busy 
insulting the president across the country, she is failing to produce 
the homeland security and transportation funding" the state needs. 

Clinton has been accusing the Bush administration of providing 
inadequate funding for New York's security needs. 

While national polls show the former first lady to be leading the pack 
among potential 2008 Democratic presidential contenders, Clinton has 
said she is too wrapped up in her Senate work and re-election effort to 
think about that.

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