Rechanneling 1994
2009-07-21 - by
Back when Casey Stengel was managing the woeful New York Mets in their first year, he looked down the bench one day and moaned: “Can’t anybody here play this game?”
You might ask the same question in Washington
Both parties are still hung up on 1994. That’s the year Newt Gingrich’s Republicans wrecked Clinton Care, took over the House and assumed The Rapture had arrived. But their millennium proved to be short-lived.
The Obama White House, led by Rahm Emmanuel, is determined to do the opposite of what the Clinton White House did then. The Clintons
Meanwhile, Republicans seem to think they can wreck the Obama presidency by stopping any health care reform. And Senate Judiciary Republicans are determined to look as mean and elitist as possible in their hearings on presumptive Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Conventional Washington Wisdom seems to be that things are spinning out of Obama’s control. And that Republicans will experience another 1994 in 2010.
But the world has changed. A lot. And things will probably turn out a lot different from what conventional wisdom predicts.
Like maybe: Obama will sign a health-care reform bill. The economy will tick up late next year. The Republicans will continue to overplay their hand. And 2010 will be a third disastrous election in a row for the GOP.
Rechanneling 1994
2009-07-21/
Back when Casey Stengel was managing the woeful New York Mets in their first year, he looked down the bench one day and moaned: “Can’t anybody here play this game?”
You might ask the same question in Washington
Both parties are still hung up on 1994. That’s the year Newt Gingrich’s Republicans wrecked Clinton Care, took over the House and assumed The Rapture had arrived. But their millennium proved to be short-lived.
The Obama White House, led by Rahm Emmanuel, is determined to do the opposite of what the Clinton White House did then. The Clintons
Meanwhile, Republicans seem to think they can wreck the Obama presidency by stopping any health care reform. And Senate Judiciary Republicans are determined to look as mean and elitist as possible in their hearings on presumptive Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
Conventional Washington Wisdom seems to be that things are spinning out of Obama’s control. And that Republicans will experience another 1994 in 2010.
But the world has changed. A lot. And things will probably turn out a lot different from what conventional wisdom predicts.
Like maybe: Obama will sign a health-care reform bill. The economy will tick up late next year. The Republicans will continue to overplay their hand. And 2010 will be a third disastrous election in a row for the GOP.