I heard Dick Morris say some years back that between the two clintoons, he was the one who was shrewd and smart, knew how to turn a phrase. She was merely a power-hungry follower who often tripped herself up. He said that in no way was she as smart as clintoon was, in the long run.
Nothing has changed. It was one of the few times I think Morris was right.
One chapter is a case study on Clintigula, specifically dealing with how he won re-election in '96. Morris says that after the Gingrich Revolution, he advised Clinton not to oppose the Republican Congress, but to sign every single bill they sent his way. The results were 1) a stronger economy thanks to Republican policies that Clinton could take credit for, and 2) the Republicans not having any issues to run on in '96 because everything they wanted to do had already been done. The second two years of Clinton's first term added up to eight years of Clinton.