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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

RE: But What About Clinton????

It’s the ‘statute of limitations’ alarm ending the era of this delusional, dead-horse Republican catchphrase: ‘But What About Bill Clinton?

Right. I'll bet all you Democrats wish with all your hearts that was really true. The entire Bush presidency and the Democrats' dealings with it are all about Bill Clinton. They've wanted payback for what the class of '94 did to Clinton since the day Bush was elected.And how convenient for your handy double standard if we were just to quietly forget about the excesses of the Clinton Administration. But best, of all, you would get to run the Hillary-beast as if there was no history but her Senate term. Sure, that will probably jump up to bite her later as well, but you will be so adept at saying, "nothing before today really happened," you should be able to skip lightly past those problems as well.

Bill Clinton happened to America. You can't put your hands in front of your face and pretend he didn't. A phrase that is particularly apt here has been attributed to numerous sources. It goes something like this: Those who do not know history and learn from history are doomed to repeat it. That doom has almost become the Democrat Party's motto.

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