Chicks on the Right reports:

Don’t be fooled by her whole “listening” tour. She’s not actually listening, but prescreening. She doesn’t want to say anything that will add further damage to her campaign. Don’t believe me? At a roundtable discussion with furniture employees in New Hampshire, she just nodded her headed and said “mmm hmm” approximately 88 times.

And let’s face it. That’s probably her best strategy, because when she actually opens her mouth, she only screws herself over.

On Monday, Hillary Clinton said that she’s actually shocked that small businesses aren’t prospering. And I don’t know if she’s really that ignorant or if she simply wants to distance herself from Obama’s crappy economic policies. Even though hers are basically the same. …

“From my perspective, I want to be sure that we get small businesses starting and growing in America again,” Hillary said. “We have stalled out. I was very surprised to see that when I began to dig into it because people were telling me this, as I traveled around the country the last two years, but I didn’t know what they were saying, and it turns out that we’re not producing as many small businesses as we used to. And a recent world study said that we are 46^th in the world in the difficulty to start a small business. There’s lots of issues…”

What to do? OH I KNOW I KNOW PICK ME! Let’s push through another stimulus package! Or we could raise taxes! More regulations! That’ll do the trick!

Let’s go back to what she said. Basically, “dead broke” Hillionaire was flying around the country, being super down-to-earth and people were like, “Hey Hillz, the economy sucks monkey balls.” And she was all, “What? I don’t know what you’re saying.”

Seriously. That’s her excuse. She didn’t know what they were saying. But now that she’s officially running for president, she has TOTALLY seen the light. She gets it.

The truth is, she only now chooses to recognize small business struggles because it benefits her. She doesn’t actually care about small businesses. No Democrats do. It’s all about her. It’s always about her. It’s her turn to be president, so she’ll say whatever she needs to say and sympathize with whoever needs sympathy to get there.

You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to see that liberal policies hurt small businesses. My dad’s a small business owner, and I’ve witnessed the struggle. He has put so much sweat into keeping his business alive in Obama’s economy. That’s why I get worked up when Democrats talk about how great the economy is. It’s obvious. It’s not. And everyone with an Actual Brain recognizes that. Businesses have no confidence in the economy.

At the end of the day, Hillary’s going to say whatever needs to be said. Her answer to helping small businesses will be just like Obama’s strategy. More big government top-down policies. Squash all incentives to invest and innovate, then sit around and wonder why the economy sucks.

I’m not sure the Chicks are correct. Remember this statement back during the Hillarycare days? Ralph R. Reiland did:

As first lady, she produced a 1,400-page health plan, primarily in secret, that was overloaded with central controls, punishments for disobedience and costly mandates for employers. …

Similarly, the attitude from Hillary’s central-planning squad was that small-business owners could toss in the towel if they couldn’t pay the price of providing the government’s newly mandated benefits for 100 percent of their employees.

“I can’t be responsible for every undercapitalized entrepreneur in America,” Mrs. Clinton said in 1993, responding to charges that her plan would bankrupt businesses and cut employment. Destroy a job through excessive health mandates, she was told, and employees will go from having no health insurance to having no health insurance and no jobs.

No one, of course, was asking Hillary Clinton to be “responsible for every undercapitalized entrepreneur in America.” Just the opposite: It was her plan that would cause the undercapitalization.

The anti-business message was clear. Go out of business if you can’t jump through Hillary’s hoops. A business is a throwaway if it can’t come up with the money to pay for the latest mandate.

Then there was last October, as Godfather Politics noted: