To today. An isolated Presidency making decisions from an inbred, inner-circle of syncophants. Bill Clinton was the master of this. George Bush followed in his footsteps.
"The Clintons' health plan never even came to a vote in a Congress their party controlled. Two years later, President Clinton was silly to say that "the era of big government is over," but a different era was over: It was the era of confidently comprehensive, continent-wide attempts to reform complex social systems.
Ten weeks before the 1994 elections, Martha Derthick of the University of Virginia wrote of the plan produced by Hillary Clinton's 500-person task force: "In many years of studying American social policy, I have never read an official document that seemed so suffused with coercion and political naivete . . . . with its drastic prescriptions for controlling the conduct of state governments, employers, drug manufacturers, doctors, hospitals and you and me."
The Clintons' health-care plan validated the perception that their party was gripped by both intellectual hubris and intellectual sloth - meaning, it was still in a New Deal and Great Society frame of mind. This perception contributed to the 1994 election, in which Republicans gained 52 House seats - ending 40 years of Democratic control of the House - and eight Senate seats."
Yes, as everyone, well, everyone with a shred of honesty, has chimed in, Bill Clinton was in fact a disaster for the democratic party. Two terms. Left in disgrace. At least George won't get caught with his pants down.
And sure. Bill Clinton losing Congress was still considered to be a mandate by the loons back then, so you can imagine what getting it BACK must mean to them.
Goodbye, full capacity magazines. So long, evil looking guns. Hello officer, yes you CAN take my gun away.
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