SELF-PITY PARTY [Tim Graham]
The Corner blog
Did you see where Clinton explained his trouble with conservatives this way: "When the Berlin Wall fell, the perpetual right in America, which always needs an enemy, didn't have an enemy anymore, so I had to serve as the next best thing."
That was a common liberal line in the early '90s, but you could turn that upside down. With the Soviet Union gone, liberals, who need to make excuses, had to find someone new to make excuses for. So they elected Clinton.
Posted at 06:25 AM
NINETIES HANGOVER [Tim Graham]
Don't get too upset if this whole week plays out like a Nineties Hangover, replaying all the same arguments we were having four or five years ago. This is what it means: Clinton is trying to reframe his legacy, and it's not working.
Howard Kurtz's "Media Notes" recycle the same old shameless Clintonista war on the decency of conservatives. Says Joe Lockhart: "The respect and honor that Democrats have shown, in an appropriate way, for President Reagan will not be shown to President Clinton. They don't live by the same credo. They're mean and nasty people....They aren't self-aware enough to understand the image they'll create for themselves when they trash Clinton at every turn."
But James Carville is back in his regular role of truth-shredding: He "said what his former boss did is less important than the Bush administration understating the cost of the prescription drug law: 'Scandals? What scandal? He had sex with an intern, okay?'"
Kurtz does offer Rich Lowry for balance, but he has to underline Rich's story about people ripping off the dust jacket of "Legacy" because the picture is too flattering.
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