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Originally Posted by loquitur
Actually, RB, Morris came in later. 1993-94 was when <h3>a lot of people thought the Clinton Administration was amateur hour.</h3> Morris started working with Clinton after the 1994 election debacle, IIRC, not during the first couple of years of his presidency.
Yup:That's from the Dick Morris entry in Wikipedia (emphasis mine).
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By a "lot of people", you must mean republicans....they were and are an anti-populist cancer....a pox on all houses that see them as the engineers of unprecedented deficits....providing nothing but redistribution of wealth back to their political benefactors.....
Has anything changed...there was a $347 billion increase in national debt in the last fiscal year that Bush I's admin. budgeted for.....
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/r...ebt_histo4.htm
and an $18 billion increase in national debt in the last full fiscal year of the Clinton administration....
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/govt/r...ebt_histo5.htm
and all of the while....as can be seen in this 1994 article, republicans bitched about "tax and spend" democrats. They are bitching this year, as they preside over a $700 billion increase in national debt, in just one year ending on 9/30/08, and in the senate, they are the party that has blocked an unprecedented number of votes....
How are they not properly called saboteurs.... fiscally and legislatively?
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http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...o+years&st=nyt
CONGRESS CALLS IT QUITS: FINAL HOURS; Rancor Leaves Its Mark on 103d Congress
By ADAM CLYMER,
Published: October 9, 1994
The 103d Congress quit for the elections today, leaving behind a bitterly disputed record of legislation passed, defeated and put off.
As it closed its books, <h3>the Senate overcame the 28th Republican filibuster in two years</h3> and voted to protect millions of acres of California desert. Some senators who had already returned to their states to campaign had to fly back to the capital to vote, and Senator Carol Moseley-Braun of Illinois arrived at the Capitol by cab to vote on the bill after escaping from a garage that had a broken electronic door opener. [ Page 28. ]
That frantic footnote sent President Clinton the first significant environmental bill of this Congress. Mr. Clinton and Congressional Democrats looked back over 21 months that began with high hopes that a new President and more than 100 new members could solve dozens of problems they said had been ignored in 12 Republican years. But they were dogged by defeats on health care, campaign finance and long frustrating delays on many issues.
But in writing their epitaph for the 103d Congress, Democrats have suddenly rediscovered their voice, after standing by almost mutely for months as Republicans ran roughshod over the Administration's bills. [ Page 26. ]
In the session's final day, Democrats found several points of pride, arguing that accomplishments in trade, education, crime and deficit reduction had earned this Congress a respected place in history.
In listing accomplishments, Republicans agreed with Democrats only on trade -- an issue both sides managed to leave unfinished until Congress returns after the elections to vote on the global trade agreement. Last year's vote on the North American Free Trade Agreement was indeed one of only a handful of truly bipartisan lawmaking efforts, repeatedly praised by Republican leaders like Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, the minority leader, and Representative Newt Gingrich of Georgia, the minority whip, as the kind of Democratic leadership they wanted to encourage.
Today Mr. Dole ridiculed what he called "photo-op bipartisanship," which he said took place instead of real consultation.
Democrats were also keenly aware of the session's failures. Senator George J. Mitchell of Maine, the departing majority leader, told the Senate today of his unhappiness with the failure of health care and campaign finance legislation. "The disappointments of recent months are real," he said, but "we made a significant difference in the economic direction for the better -- more jobs, lower inflation, declining deficits -- than the country has seen for a dozen years."
Representative Pat Williams, a Montana Democrat who managed one of the many health insurance bills, described the Congress this way:"Fast start, slow finish, too much rancor."
On education, Democrats always had significant Republican help, especially in the Senate. But the Republican Party does not praise measures like shifting aid for poor children away from rich suburbs, easing the loan terms of college students and establishing national educational goals, perhaps because they were handled by Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the most prominent incumbent they hope to defeat.
Where Democrats claimed this summer's $30 billion crime bill as an accomplishment, providing more money for police, prisons and crime prevention, Republicans scoffed, calling it too soft. Mr. Dole said the legislation was filled with pork-barrel projects, calling it "big pig."
<h3>The deficit issue remains perhaps the sharpest division of all. Fourteen months after it passed without a single Republican vote</h3>, Democrats say it has spurred economic growth and confidence; Republicans continue to blast it as no more than a tax increase.
Generally, Republicans saw Congressional success only where the Democrats saw failure, most of all on national health insurance.
On that issue and many others, the Republicans were remarkably unified, while the Democrats, with solid-looking majorities, were really too shaky to let them push more than one measure at a time. .....
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