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Suddenly, I find myself nostalgic for Bill Clinton. It comes as a shock. Back in 1996, I denounced his "breathtaking view of the ability and obligation of government to plan the economy" and his "profoundly anti-individualist ideas."
But now I have a hazy memory of the Clinton years as a sort of Golden Age. Government spending was growing only slowly, the bad ideas were mostly small, and we bombed a lot of countries but didn't put American troops at risk.
Of course, what I'm really nostalgic for is divided government. In his first two years, with a Democratic Congress, Mr. Clinton supported a health care takeover, an economic stimulus bill, an energy tax, an income-tax increase, a gasoline-tax increase, and even a retroactive tax increase on income earned before he was president. Though most of that never made it to his signing desk, it was still a bigger-government agenda than voters had expected from a guy who called himself "a new kind of Democrat."
So voters kicked the Democrats out of Congress. President Clinton grudgingly proclaimed that "the era of big government is over." And you could almost believe he meant it, especially compared to President Obama's rallying cry, "Government must lead the way," and his program based on that vision.
As big a sleaze as he was, at least he was a relatively competent executive.
I said relatively.
He looks like Washington next to Boyking and Peanuts.
Yeah...LBJ was even worse.
What bunch of bull. Clinton was a centrist "new democrat"....
and you loons harassed him from the day he went into office... which is why the loons spent 70 million dollars investigating him...
because that was the really important priority...investigating 9/11 was only worth 7 million.
Really, it's so disingenuous it isn't funny.
What bunch of bull. Clinton was a centrist "new democrat"....
and you loons harassed him from the day he went into office... which is why the loons spent 70 million dollars investigating him...
because that was the really important priority...investigating 9/11 was only worth 7 million.
Really, it's so disingenuous it isn't funny.
Bubba was a chameleon.
Far left lib when the audience and the polls dictated.
"Conservative" (whatever the hell that's supposed to mean anymore) when the occasion called for it.."The era of big gummint is over".
That asswipe even professed to be a libertarian at one point or another.
If that's a "New Democrat" gimmie the old Hubert Humphrey model...I knew what I was getting when I saw his name.
One of the reasons I was so glad to see 0bama do so well in the Primaries, was I thought it meant the end of hearing from the Clintons.
And one very good thing about the 0bama administration is that Hillary is almost silent.
Difference between Clinton and Obama is Clinton cares more about the power than the idealogy and thus was willing to work with Republicans to pass their agenda and claim it as his own. Obama is an idealogue and will never "moderate"
