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To: Red Dog #1
The best thing that ever happened for his presidency was the 1994 elections.

You mean losing control of Congress to the Reps?

63 posted on 07/07/2009 7:30:44 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar; justlurking
“You mean losing control of Congress to the Reps?”

Yes, of course it wasn't good for his party but it was always all about Bill anyways. It gave him a scape goat for his own short comings and allowed him to position himself as “Conservative” Democrat. More importantly, the resulting grid lock allowed not to pursue large spending/debt increases and major policy changes his core constituency wanted (i.e. universal health care/further liberalization gays in the military).

Clinton certainly got a lot of mileage out of the OKC bombing, but it didn't equal the six years triangulating the Republican congress.

147 posted on 07/07/2009 12:02:15 PM PDT by Red Dog #1
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