Sundry: Kolko, WSJ, Clinton & the "well laid" theory of IR

[Carl Remick]

Re Greg Nowell's:  "If they [Republicans] hate him [Clinton] that much,
there must be
something right about him.  Maybe it's just that he's
the only major figure to *talk* in public about serious
social welfare issues.  Arguably creeping social
democracy on medical care issues (first the old, then
the kids, then the poor, then the working poor, etc.)
which remains a big Clinton issue would give back to
the poor *much* more than they lost on welfare
reform.   He *did* help push through a minimum wage
boost, that was stagnant under republican rule.  He
*did* help put through the earned income tax credit,
which goes exactly *opposite* to republican tendencies
to increase taxation on the poor."

The silver linings you detect in Clinton's fundamentally regressive
social policy to date are utterly unconvincing.  Clinton's good at
"creeping" all right -- creeping toward completion of the unfinished
Reagan-Bush agenda.  Get real!

Carl Remick