At 09:15 PM 03/01/2003 -0800, Steve Schear wrote:
The congressional elections of 1994 flushed Republicans out into the open.
Once the elections were over, the fatal flaw the life of the lie was
exposed for all to see. Not only was nothing of substance abolished or
dismantled,
there was not even an attempt to do so.
While I agree with most of your article, I semi-disagree with this section.
The Contract On America struck a real chord with American voters,
and the Republicans got a lot of people elected by it,
and they did kill off Clinton's health-care nationalization (yay!)
but they failed to get most of the rest of their program accomplished because
Clinton was a better politician and poker player than they were.
Their relentless attacks over the Monica Lewinsky affairs showed that
they were a really tacky self-serving bunch who'd say anything for power,
and with the budget showdown, the blinked and Clinton didn't -
remember the "shutting down the government" charades,
with the usual paying overtime for park rangers to block the entrances
to the Washington Monument and Yellowstone Park
(while not sending home any annoying bureaucrats who wouldn't be missed)?
They'd tried pretty hard to cut out programs they didn't like,
and got the Clintonistas to buy into Welfare Reform for poor people,
though of course welfare for defense contractors got increased,
but they lost the showdown and couldn't get their budget though.
