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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:37 AM Original message |
Bill Clinton was just elected president and there was a sizable Democratic Majority in Congress |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:40 AM Response to Original message |
1. Cowardice and capital |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:50 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Wawsn't the Senate Republican at that time? Doesn't it take Senate and House to pass a bill? |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 02:16 PM Response to Reply #6 |
14. not 'til two years later.... but the press immediately took its orders to attack Clinton... |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:52 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. nd remember the very well-financed "Harry and Louise" TV ad campaign? It certainly wasn't |
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villager (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 02:17 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. absolutely right... |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
2. They were afraid somebody was gonna call them Socialists |
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Toots (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:45 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. I don't think Rush could have said it better.. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 12:19 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. It was a bad plan |
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illinoisprogressive (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
3. from what I remember there were some other major problems with it. |
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frogcycle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 12:09 PM Response to Reply #3 |
8. "At the time no one could foresee what was to come a decade later." |
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BlueManDude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 11:46 AM Response to Original message |
5. I'm having an Ira Magaziner flashback. AHHHHHHH! |
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QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
10. $100,000,000 from the medical industry. |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
11. Moynihan from New York led the assault against it |
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papau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 04:43 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. My memory also - never could understand why Moynihan was thought "smart" - he was not |
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Larkspur (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
12. Why reinvent the wheel? why not enlarge Medicare to cover us all? |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-23-07 01:01 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Yes but not crappy medicare for all. |
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