They’ll craft legislation a Clinton can sign. That’s easy. If it’s favored in opinion polls by 51% or more, President Clinton will sign it.
I don’t have to do a damn thing!
You’ve made your claim twice. Now back it up: WHAT legislation did the Republican controlled Congress of 95-01 (not '93 like you claimed) pass that the current Congress wouldn’t? And vice-versa. WHAT legislation does the current Congress endorse that a majority in 95-01 would reject?
OK, here are some. The 103rd Congress gave us:
Family and Medical Leave Act.
Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act
Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act
Federal Assault Weapons Act
From the 104th:
HIPAA
Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban
From the 105th:
Workforce Investment Act
Does anyone think Ryan or McConnell would touch any of these?
No because the Republicans were not in charge when these things passed. In fact, President Clinton himself stated that because of these things is why the Dems lost control in the first place.
The crime bill wasn’t “pretty good.” The welfare reform wasn’t. DOMA wasn’t. What exactly are you referring to?
I guess it must have been some other party willfully obstructing everything Obama has tried to do, over and over and over again.
Please. I don’t think even you buy that.
Why even bother asking such a pie-in-the-sky question?
It wasn’t passed under a Republican controlled Congress. You’re the 2nd person here to Claim it was. If you don’t know your history how can you argue about it?
His last 3 examples, from 104th and 105th Congress, were under a Republican majority though.
Noted. Now, I repeat: Exactly what “pretty good” bills were you referring to, passed by a Republican Congress and signed by Clinton?
All of these are bad laws, useless and pandering.
Are you serious? Republicans can’t manage to pass jack shit out of Congress, and that’s Obama’s fault?
I’ll tell you why you bother: it shows voters what they’ll get if they put a Republican President in office starting in 2017. Which, in this scenario, would totally terrify the shit out of most people, which is why Congress doesn’t pass anything.
Megan’s Law
Food Quality Protection Act
Small Business Job Protection Act of 1996
Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act
Defense of Marriage Act
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
National Highway System Designation Act
Just a handful off the top of my head.
Vote Clinton, so that she can spend the rest of her life “regretting” everything she did as President. Has she ever done anything in public life that turned out good?
You think DOMA was a “pretty good” law?
The Clintons sure did. Bill made a point of going on radio in the South to tout his support for it.
Umm, it was passed by a veto proof super majority.
wiki:
The 1996 Republican Party platform endorsed DOMA, referencing only Section 2 of the act: “We reject the distortion of [anti-discrimination] laws to cover sexual preference, and we endorse the Defense of Marriage Act to prevent states from being forced to recognize same-sex unions.”[…
The bill moved through Congress on a legislative fast track and met with overwhelming approval in both houses of the Republican-controlled Congress.
Though his official political position was against same-sex marriage, Clinton criticized DOMA as “unnecessary and divisive”,[26] while his press-secretary called it “gay baiting, plain and simple”.[27][28] However, after Congress had passed the bill with enough votes to override a presidential veto,[28] Clinton signed DOMA. Many years later, he claimed that he did so reluctantly in view of the veto-proof majority, both to avoid associating himself politically with the then-unpopular cause of same-sex marriage, and to defuse momentum for a proposed Federal Amendment to the U.S. Constitution banning same-sex marriage.[28][29] Clinton, who was traveling when Congress acted, signed it into law promptly upon returning to Washington, D.C., on September 21, 1996; he refused to hold a signing ceremony for DOMA and did not allow photographs to be taken of him signing it into law.[30] The White House released a statement in which Clinton said “that the enactment of this legislation should not, despite the fierce and at times divisive rhetoric surrounding it, be understood to provide an excuse for discrimination, violence or intimidation against any person on the basis of sexual orientation”.[30]
Clinton was* against *DOMA.
But that doesn’t feed well enough into the irrational Clinton-hate.
Only the Clintons have the power to make people believe different things about them depending on who they want to persuade:
Clinton sure was willing to advertise his support for DOMA where it would help him politically.