Peole wonder why Bill Clinton did not try to enact a liberal agenda. The reason is pretty simple. From 1992 until 2000 the times were good and the nation was secure. When that is the case the voters do not want change. Clinton who used Dick Morris's polling to document public opinion, understood the voters did not want change. Clinton did not try to change things.
Today on both the economic and foreign policy fronts, there are problems. When the voters perceive problems, they want them fixed. That is they want change.
In this situation a smart politican proposes fixes. In the 1990s the problems were few and small, now they are many and large. That means the public wants the problems fixed. That is why Bush is proposing and in some cases inacting change.
The Demorats having witnessed the Republicans in the 1990s achieveing success by pushing the status quo, are doing the same thing. They mistakenly believe the voters will reward those that stand in the way of change.
If the Democrats and the MSM portrayed the situation as good and getting better, they could oppose the Bush agenda and get voter support. But when they constantly point out un resolved problems and then try to stop the presidnet from fixing them, they are prescribing their own defeat.
Someone needs to write a book "Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Strategy" or "How to get everything wrong!"
The Democrats experience history, they just don't understand it.
Bush hasn't been much of a President. I am afraid history will look back at him as having been a disaster. His war in Iraq has caused rogue nations to try to develope nukes and arm up with Russian help in fear of another Bush preventive strike.
Meanwhile China and Russia build up their militaries.
We have few friends left in the world.
and when history looks back it will show he only won reelection because the democrats ran bozo the hippy vietnam protester clown.
That was the fraud perpetrated by Bill Clinton. Our country was in peril and it was kept from us. The problems were ignored, hidden under that damn bridge to the 21st century.
The mainstream media and the left would still have us believe that George Bush lied to us about weapons of mass destruction, but not a word about Bill Clinton's decade of deception.