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Re: Or was it a case of not reading posts?
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Originally Posted by Sidd Finch
You can say that about Reagan. Pretty hard to say that about Clinton.
Even leaving aside impeachment, the Newt gang only became willing to work with Clinton when he brilliantly turned the government shutdown and the Contract on America around on them.
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Clinton famously got no Republican votes for his first budget. They blocked healthcare reform by moving the goalposts whenever he tried to agree with them. The reason he got welfare reform done was that it was a GOP priority. I don't recall him persuading Republicans to work with him at all.
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