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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (30592)	1/28/1999 6:29:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 67261

I've read that politics at the beginning was quite vicious, in terms of personal attacks. Never lead to impeachment, though there was this funny business with Andrew Jackson I'm not really familiar with. On the rest, you're sounding very much like Clinton hater type 3 from siliconinvestor.com The third and most potent kind of Clinton-hating is conservative, but is related to the liberal kind in its aversion to a Democrat who plays politics to win. Instead of being pleased that Clinton has enacted parts of their agenda, Republicans are furious at him for co-opting the best bits of it. With the end of their monopoly on such issues as crime, welfare and balancing the budget, Republicans are forced to contend with Democrats over issues where their positions are distinctly less popular: education, the environment, Social Security and social issues like abortion and homosexuality. Clinton's seizure of the center has driven the G.O.P. to the right, empowering the radicals who want either to legislate on the basis of a narrow moral code or drastically curtail the Federal Government's role, or both. To conservatives, Clinton didn't win the center legitimately. He stole it from them. All I'll say in response is I'm glad Clinton wasn't defeated in '96, would have given Newt's Congress a full head of steam.