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----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2000 4:59 PM Subject: Gore's inheritance
> Nathan, I wonder what you think of this quote from a Wash
Post story
> the other day that a friend just sent me:
>
> >But Gore strategists contend that the major fissures in
the party have been
> >generally resolved during Clinton's tenure in the White
House.
> >"If you think of the last eight years, the party in
government worked
> >through all the biggies," a Gore operative said. "It
worked through trade;
> >we are a free-trade party. We worked through welfare
reform; we are the
> >party that reformed welfare. We worked through fiscal
discipline, because we
> >are the party that got rid of this deficit. So a bunch of
the cleavages, if
> >you go back to '92, actually have been settled by the
process of governing."
>
> Doug
>