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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pezz who wrote (625)	8/5/1998 9:19:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

<<I agree with his stance on supporting a woman's right to choose>> Oh Jesus Christ, his veto on banning late term abortions was a freeking travesty of all that is good and moral. Babies born all but their feet have their heads crushed and their brains sucked out. Nurses have testified about puking when they see how much pain the infant is put while killing it. BUT IT'S FOR THE CHILDREN ISN'T IT. I guess there is a term for a lying two faced scum sucker. liberal. <<His foreign policy gets a passing grade from me,no major blunders here that I can see.>> So he sells the Chinese communists the technology to target American cities with nuclear missiles. It's for the children. He also gives the go ahead for China to kill 20 million of our allies in Taiwan. We interfere and good bye several American cities. But I guess the children will be helped by the nukes.

To: pezz who wrote (625)	8/5/1998 9:21:00 PM
From: cody andre	Respond to of 13994

Japan and China are free traders? What world are you living in?

To: pezz who wrote (625)	8/5/1998 10:27:00 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13994

Media gives credit to whoever is in the top job for the economy. Just like they keep touting the job approval ratings. Those ratings fluctuate with the economy or in the case of a armed conflict. The recessions that preceded each economic expansion deserve the credit as well as the private sector. The federal government deserves little credit in my opinion. Much of his spending initiatives were cut from the budgets. NAFTA wasn't passed until there was a Republican Congress there to push it through and pass it. Note that few Democrats in the Congress voted for NAFTA. Welfare Reform is a Republican initiative. Clinton passed it because the polls said it was popular. At the time of the signing, he promised the liberals he would undo it. Clinton is now trying to short-circuit Welfare Reform by way of his Federalism Order. His Crime bill is bogus as are all Federal crime bills. Many of the localities that didn't need extra police just pocketed the money. Crime statistics fell as a result of recent dip in demographics -- fewer 18-25 year old. Now, they're finding many of these lower violent crime statistics have been doctored. Police have been marking down violent crime down to burgleries and other non-violent crime. He has had little success on the free trade issue with Japan and China as have his predecessors. You really need to do your homework on the subject before you make these wild claims.

To: pezz who wrote (625)	8/5/1998 10:45:00 PM
From: Catfish	Respond to of 13994

RNC: Clinton Plans Government Shutdown as Personal Approval Sags U.S. Newswire 5 Aug 17:57 RNC: Clinton Personal Approval Rating Sagging U.S. Newswire 5 Aug 17:57 RNC: Clinton Plans Government Shutdown as Personal Approval Sags To: National Desk, Political Writer Contact: Mike Collins of the Republican National Committee 202-863-8550 OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 5 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The reason President Clinton is threatening to shut down the federal government later this year, says Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Jim Nicholson, is that new polling data shows "President Clinton's personal approval ratings are sagging faster than an old barn in the wind." "Bill Clinton is looking to pick a fight with Congress to deflect attention from the scandals that are swirling around the White House," Nicholson charged. "He's got to create a crisis to stop the hemorrhaging, and a federal government shut down in the weeks before the Nov. 3 election is just what his spin doctors ordered." At a speech Monday in Prince George's County, Md., and at an appearance today before the House Democrat Caucus, Clinton and his aides repeatedly raised the spectre of repeating the budget showdowns of 1995 and 1996 that resulted in two partial shutdowns of the federal government. The president has previously ignored entreaties from the leaders of both houses of Congress to reassure the American people that the vital functions of the federal government would be continued, even if he cannot reach an accommodation with Congress on government spending programs. "A whopping 52 percent of Americans disapprove of Bill Clinton as a person, while only 36 percent of Americans now approve of Bill Clinton as a person, the lowest since we began tracking it last October," Nicholson said today. "What's more, those who disapprove of him express far greater intensity: those who 'strongly disapprove' more than double those who 'strongly approve' of him, 37 percent to 17 percent. Suburban women approve of the president even less than the general public, with 54 percent who disapprove of him as a person, compared to 30 percent approvingof him." Nicholson said his figures are based on a poll of 800 registered voters conducted Aug. 3-5, by Public Opinion Strategies, The Tarrance Group and Voter Consumer Research. The poll has a 3.46 percent margin of error, he said. ------ freerepublic.com

To: pezz who wrote (625)	8/6/1998 12:56:00 AM
From: halfscot	Respond to of 13994

pezz: The credit given RR by almost every historian is he had a 'vision' for the economy (reducing taxes, business stimulation, ect.), among several other 'visions'-like bringing down the Soviets, etc. This is what distinguishes RR from Clinton, who had/has no real vision about anything other than what the polls told him were the issues of the day to focus on to get him elected (His wife's the one with the 'visions'-albeit socialist in nature). Remember Carville repeatedly telling him "It's the economy stupid" to focus on the just ending recession and making it an issue against the Republicans with the lie "the worst economy in 50 years". It would be one thing to give Clinton credit for the economy because his ideas were put into effect, like RR's, but it's another to give him credit for doing nothing other than ride in on the coattails of Greenspan's policies carried forward from Reagan/Bush. He can probably be given credit for not being able to get one of his programs passed-remember the "economic stimulus package" of billions at the beginning of his first term the Repubs successfully defeated?. Does anyone really believe if that bill had passed we would have been positively 'stimulated'-it was a pork payoff to his cronies for getting him elected. If you can please enlighten me as to one of his own programs that have been initiated that economists credit for stimulating the economy. I don't know...maybe there is...I honestly don't know. halfscot