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... a certain extent ... refraining from hiring people who'd gained experience in the Carter administration left him with an awfully green krewe at first, and he could well have done much better in his first year. And "winning" a belt tightening budget and NAFTA helped make the Republican majority in the House larger than it otherwise would have been, without which it might not have lasted twelve years.

But what made 92-94 so pivotal is that it was basically the best chance to make gains against the run of play ... when the bad guys are mostly playing offense for all but two years of a quarter century, then on the one hand, it makes that any slips in that narrow opening critical, but on the other hand, the fact that the opening is so narrow shows what you're up against.

As LBJ said, the Civil Rights act meant the loss of the White House for a generation, except for the fluke of a wealthy third-party run at the White House ... but now that generation has passed.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.

by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Mon Dec 8th, 2008 at 06:25:04 PM EST
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but now that generation has passed.
And are we ever glad!  I don't care that so many of Obama'a appointments are from the Clinton Admin., so long as he can drive them leftward.  I do want the current ideology thoroughly discredited to the extent that 70-80% want to puke when they hear it.  The damage they have inflicted using that ideology needs to be clearly and thoroughly identified with the ends, means and morality of that whole movement.  Come the day!


As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
by ARGeezer (ARGeezer a in a circle eurotrib daught com) on Tue Dec 9th, 2008 at 01:06:15 AM EST
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