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http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20061120&s=trb112006
Though, after reading the entire article I had this thought: They need to work on passing laws that would make Barack look good so he can beat Hillary.
In Clinton’s concluding years, the GOP played a brilliant game of good cop-bad cop. In Congress, the Gingrich revolutionaries waged an all-out effort to emasculate the Clinton presidency. After initially dwelling on Clinton’s Whitewater land deal, the White House Travel Office, and other political minutiae, the GOP in 1998 tried to use Clinton’s lies about his affair with Monica Lewinsky to remove him altogether.
It was kamikaze politics. The public loathed the partisan warfare and, in the 1998 midterm elections, punished Republicans at the polls. But the GOP didn’t give up. In 1999 and 2000, it blocked virtually all of Clinton’s initiatives--from a prescription-drug benefit to a minimum-wage hike to a post-Columbine push for gun control. Even on foreign policy, where presidents usually gravitate late in their administrations, the Republican Congress kept Clinton on a tight leash. The Senate rejected the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. And, with U.S. planes in the sky over Kosovo, it defeated a resolution supporting the war effort and tried to block funding for the peacekeeping that followed. GOP Senator Mitch McConnell even admitted that, when it came to Clinton’s agenda, the Republicans pursued a “strategy of not letting any critical mass develop before the election.”
Though, after reading the entire article I had this thought: They need to work on passing laws that would make Barack look good so he can beat Hillary.