From: bmiller@lunatix.uucp (Barry Miller)
Subject: Re: As the sun sinks slowly in the west
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Date: Thu, 05 Nov 1992 00:39:14 GMT
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Richard A. Mulac (ck347@cleveland.Freenet.Edu) wrote:
: 
:   Speaking of 1996, since many people on the net seem to have short term
: memory regarding the Carter years and a lot will graduate in the next four
: years and lose access to the net, let me remind you what conditions are
: like RIGHT NOW at the end of Bush's Presidency.  Don't forget, the
: Democrats have been telling us the economy is TERRIBLE, things are as bad
: as during the GREAT DEPRESSION, there's no place to go but UP, and THEY
: HAVE A PLAN THAT IS GOING TO MAKE THIS COUNTRY INTO A ****** PARADISE!
: They control the Presidency, the Senate, and the House!  THEY HAVE NO
: EXCUSE IF ANY OF THE FOLLOWING OCCUR BY 1996:
: 
: Unemployment -  > 7%
: 
: Prime interest rate - > 7%
: 
: Inflation - > 3%
: 
: Taxes -  higher on those making < $200,000
: 
: Deficit -  > $4,000,000,000,000
: 
: If ANY of these things are true in 1996, I expect Clinton, Gore, and all
: Democrats in the House and Senate to resign in disgrace.  I don't care if
: the east coast is leveled by a dozen hurricanes and California is destoyed
: by earthquakes during the next four years.  I DON'T want to hear "Uh, we
: need four more years to get our plan to work".  They've claimed they are
: all MIRACLE workers, so I expect them to deliver.  Oh, and don't forget
: they also promised health care for everyone and a balanced budget.
: 
: I guess I don't sound very humble in defeat.  {:^)

First, the Democrats do NOT control Congress.  They do have a
majority in both the House and the Senate.  However, in the
Senate the Democrats hold only 58 seats.  Sixty is the magic
number for "control"; without 60 the Democrats are two seats
short of cloture and cannot automatically avoid a Republican
filibuster -- and a Alphonse D'Amato, a fine practitioner of the
filibuster, was re-elected last night.

In the House, the Democratic majority has diminished somewhat.
An NPR report tonight speculated that Clinton may actually find
himself outflanked on the left in the house, since he has
positioned himself as a moderate in the campaign.  And if he
tries to make too many deals with the Republicans, he may face
problems from the left.

Clinton certainly has favorable circumstances for enacting his
policies.  He does not, however, have a blank check and it will
still require some political skills to push his programs.  It
will be interesting to watch his progress in the next two months;
that may determine how successful he will actually be in the
first 100 days of his term.

--Barry
: 
: Seriously, last night the media all said that people did not vote for
: Clinton as much as they voted against Bush.  Exit polls showed that even a
: majority of Clinton voters do not have confidence in him.  They also said
: that a majority of Clinton voters preferred lower taxes to more government
: services.  Clinton had an easy time promising everything to everybody.  Now
: he is going to find it impossible to deliver.  If you thought Carter left a
: bad taste in the mouths of voters, you aint seen nothing yet.
: 
: -- 
: Richard Mulac                                       ck347@cleveland.freenet.edu
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:        1996 election countdown - 1462 more days         | These pontifications 
:  until the Democrats are thrown out of the White House  |      are my own!     
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