Interesting how the Dems don't do these things when they actually have the power to do them. What they do is Republicanism Lite, or not so Lite. Clinton gave us GATT, NAFTA, the MAI, TANF, and the global intervebtionism Nathan is so rah rah about, generally in an appalling cynical mode (attacks timed in Wag the Dog fashion to divert attention from sex scandals, destruction of pharmaceutical factories, etc.). The Dem do offer a certain amount of social liberalism (gay rights, abortion rights, etc.) to leaven their economic and foreign policy conservatism, but that doesn't counteract their increasingly neoliberalism (in the economic sense). When the GOP does something good, Nathan says, it's just because they were made to do it. Personally I think none of them do anything good unless they're made to. My point was just that the Dems today don't, in general, do things as good as what the GOP was made to do 30 years ago.
I'm not going to go on with this: Nathan can have his Dems. Sometimes they behave, as in (to my genuine surprise) blocking bad judges, but mostly, in my judgment, they don't. Nathan says that Johnson's escalation of the Vietnam War is preferable to Nixon's expansion of it; that's a difference I don't see. Well, they're you'r Dems, even if you didn't buy 'em, so enjoy em.
jks
The GOP and Bush officially pushed a nice-sounding national
>health care plan back in 1994, until they were able to defeat the Clinton
>plan. Then, the minute they took control of Congress, they buried their
>own
>health care plan without a trace.
>
>This retroactive hagiography for a mass murderer of millions of Vietnamese
>and Cambodians still just leaves me stunned every time it's repeated.
>
>-- Nathan Newman
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