Thursday, June 05, 2003

History lesson - Clinton's Wars - p.20:

But Bush presided over the Republicans' fall. The party's manifest destiny proved less predictable than events foreseen by Nancy Reagan's astrologist. Issues Repoblicans deployed to divide and conquer the Democrats perversely turned against them.
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After the spending as if there was no tomorrow, tomorrow arrived- on Bush's watch. Paralyzing government through deficits, manipulating "vedge" issues on race and women to tear apart the democratic coalition, and accusing the Democrats of apeasement in the face of the Red Menace were all policies that now had a reverse effect"

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