[PEN-L:6266] Re: Re: Happy Days Are Here Again

["J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

Doug,
      How much of this stuff would Clinton have
done if the Dems had retained control of the
US Congress?  (quite a bit of it, I think, but not
all of it)
Barkley
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Friday, April 30, 1999 12:18 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:6231] Re: Happy Days Are Here Again


>Max Sawicky wrote:
>
>>Greetings to all you born-again Republicans, relieved we don't have more
>>Bernie Sanders' and fewer Pat Buchanans, lest the air war vote have been
>>decided in favor of the Clinton Administration.
>>
>>Actually, if I had a vote I might have voted nay as well, in protest over
>>Clinton's conduct of this operation, as some of the 26 Democrats might
have.
>>But there should be little doubt that most Republicans voted nay because
>>they are the party that officially doesn't give a shit.  Naiman must be
>>smoking loco weed to characterize this as some kind of victory for the
left,
>>not least because the chief audience for his work on trade is the same
>>liberals-in-quotes he is excoriating for being soft on the IMF and
"Empire."
>
>Lemme get this straight, Max. The Dems are now the party of the IMF and
>imperial war. The Republicans are full of folks who, for the wrong reasons,
>want to throw a monkey wrench into the imperial financial and military
>machine. But finding any good in this is a symptom of having smoked "loco
>weed."
>
>Further...Clinton's trying to revive the all-but-dead Social Security
>"reform"; he committed money for the deployment of Star Wars (something
>Reagan and Bush never did); he put an end to welfare as an entitlement;
>he's presided over the gutting of the Endangered Species Act and the
>clear-cutting of national forests (something again that Reagan and Bush
>never dared); he signed the hideous crime bill and the Defense of Marriage
>Act and bragged about it; and he's probably killed more people (figuring in
>the Iraqi sanctions) than Reagan or Bush did. And, miraculously, he's
>managed to silence liberal opposition to any of this, whether we're talking
>about the enviro establishment or, I'm sorry to say, the Economic Policy
>Institute.
>
>Try some loco weed, Max - it might be revealing!
>
>Doug
>
>PS: Speaking of Clinton administration pigginess, I highly recommend the
>hard-to-find documentary Waco: Rules of Engagement <http://www.waco93.com>.
>It shows how the ATF and FBI, led by Janet Reno, massacred the Branch
>Davidians and then lied about it. Chuck Schumer, whom liberal New Yorkers
>cheered when he defeated Al D'Amato last November, comes off as a totally
>evil asshole.
>
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