This should remind us that Obama's biggest accomplishment, the
Affordable Care Act, was fundamentally a Republican piece of
legislation. The individual mandate, requiring the public to purchase
health insurance from private companies, was introduced by the
ultra-conservative Heritage Foundation and was widely endorsed by Repubs
until Obama & Dems grabbed the idea in 2009.
Online report of the Progressive Review. Since 1964, the news while there's still time to do something about it.
May 16, 2016
Word: The collapse of liberalism
Scott McLarty - Thomas Frank's book, "Listen, Liberal," reminds us that President
Clinton didn't take the US in a different direction after the
Reagan-Bush years. Instead, he fulfilled the Reagan revolution and
enacted GOP proposals that the GOP couldn't have on its own. The five
"longstanding Republican objectives" that Clinton accomplished were
"NAFTA, the Crime Bill of 1994, welfare reform, the deregulation of
banks and telecoms, and the balanced budget." Clinton might also have
privatized Social Security if his negotiations with Newt Gingrich hadn't been interrupted by the Lewinsky scandal.
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Thomas Frank is right - again! I'm afraid he will fall on deaf ears. Style over substance.
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