If true then this can now be said: "Washington giveth and now Washington taketh away."
I, for one, don't see why we keep harping on the follies of past administrations. I don't get the point. Are we supposed to go back in time and un-elect them?
No. I think it would be more useful if we learned from past mistakes.
But we as a Nation don't. We don't even learn from the founding fathers.
Kind of like Zbig's statement to Carter that we lured the Ruskies into their VietNam.