(12-04-2018, 03:59 PM)rollerjag Wrote:

(12-04-2018, 03:07 PM)copycat Wrote: He worked with the other side and they turned on him at the first opportunity, thereby making him the last one term president.  

He was a good man.  No one should ever question that he put the country ahead of the party.  It is such a sad situation we are in now.

As soon as Bush signed a budget that included a tax increase, Newt Gingrich ran back to Capitol Hill and stirred up the conservative wing of the Republican party, giving birth to the political tribalism we have today. As a result, we got Clinton, who continued Bush's economic policies, balanced the budget and ushered in a period of prosperity.

Thanks to Newt Gingrich and the republican congress that took over in 1994. 

To his credit, Clinton recongized the benefit of working with the other side.  He also recognized that he could take credit for the success, which is fine.  But, for those who think Trump has debased the office of the presidency, the Clinton presidency would make that almost look like child's play, whether you're talking about renting out the Lincoln bedroom for big cash donations, or selling out our missile technology to China, or hosting coffees with Clinton where big money donors could hang with the president.  

We won't even get started on the whole Lewinsky thing.

The fact that GHWB could look beyond that and befriend Clinton amazes me to this day, but the Clinton and Bush families are extremely tight.  I guess maybe BLT can provide us with a conspiracy to explain that.

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