One-Half Cheer for the Old Guard!

[Brad De Long]

>. . .
>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"?