Obama has boldly avoided the cautionary example set by Bill Clinton following the Democrats’ steep losses in the 1994 midterms. Clinton responded by changing course pursuing policies of welfare reform and reduced spending that contributed to an economic boom and the elimination of the deficit by the time he left office.
No he didn’t you Jack as liar.
Welfare Reform and reducing the budget were ideas News Gingrich came up with.
He spelled out those pressing needs in “The Contract with America”
Clinton never proposed welfare reform and in fact, he vetoed the proposed legislation twice, for the sole purpose of ubstructing progress in reform.
The matter was taken to the people and the case made fir reducing the rolls and putting Americans to work.
The public demand was so great that Clinton was forced to sign the final bill with no changes.
News patted Clinton on the back and let him co-opt the agenda.
In Newt’s eyes it wasn’t important that he got credit but, if Clinton needed some sucking up to and a means for validating his existence, as well giving it relevancy, then so be it.
The country was served better for implementing welfare reform and that is all that mattered.
Same with deficit reduction. News proposed it, mapped out a plan and let Clinton take credit.
And ditto for Capital gains reduction.
At no time did Clinton put forward these ideas and he never put them to paper, as they never existed in his world, until certain expediencies made it possible for him to leverage the works of others, while never lifting a finger to anything more than pen his signature.
You are absolutely correct.
“There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.”- Ronald Reagan quoting Harry Truman quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson
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