One-Half Cheer for the Old Guard!

Brad De Long delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Thu Jun 22 14:49:28 PDT 2000



>. . .
>Arguably? If the Devil offered, I'd trade President Gore for Speaker
>Gephardt and Majority Leader Daschle in a New York minute. . . .
>
>
>But the Devil is a tricky dude. Under Bush-sub-1 and
>a Democratic Congress, domestic spending increased more
>rapidly than it has under Clinton. Bush invaded the
>Gulf, Clinton . . . you know. Reagan set out to
>reform welfare and begat a mouse. Bush didn't do
>anything in that vein that I remember.
>
>It always comes down to the Supreme Court. I wonder
>how often Clinton's appointees voted differently from
>the others, putting aside Scalia and Thomas.
>
>mbs

Why "putting aside Scalia and Thomas"?



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