As the predictable cycle of presidential election denial settles in, its initial focus appears to be primarily on one Hillary Rodham Clinton. Thus, I thought I’d dust off some time-worn — and frighteningly ignored — info on what it was like to have a Clinton, um, occupying the White House.
To begin, let’s all reflect back upon the years 1993 and 1994 — when President William Jefferson Clinton was enjoying the “advantage” of a Democratically-controlled Congress.
In just two years, the liberal hero abandoned his pledge to consider offering asylum to Haitian refugees, backed away from his most high-profile campaign issue: health care, and reneged on his promise to “take a firm stand” against the armed forces’ LGBTQ ban.
In 1993-94, Clinton signed a little something called the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), presided over the invasion of Somalia, increased the Pentagon budget by $25 billion, forced Jocelyn Elders to resign, dumped Lani Guinier, ordered the bombing of Iraq and the Balkans, renewed the sanctions on Iraq, and passed a crime bill that gave us more cops, more prisons, and 58 more offenses punishable by death.
All this came before Newt Gingrich and much-hyped Republican “revolution” in 1994… and I haven’t even gotten to the environment.
In the first three years of the Clinton-Gore regime — two of which, I remind you, involved a Democratic House and Senate — Bubba and his little green buddy gave us fun stuff like: The passage of the salvage logging rider, the continuation of the use of methyl bromide, the weakening of the Endangered Species Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act, the lowering of grazing fees on land, the subsidizing of Florida’s sugar industry, the reversing of the ban on the production and importation of PCBs, and allowing the export of Alaskan oil.