Populist Reform of the Democratic Party

Then he might have been able to follow the bouncing ball while Summers and Rubin were talking and drawn his own conclusions.

Or, too bad he wasn't smart enough to know the difference between a DLC/Third Way economist and someone like Stiglitz, at least enough to get a second opinion.

Or, too bad he wasn't smart enough to appoint people who wouldn't pull the wool over his eyes, like he claims Summers and Rubin did on money issues and he claims Colin Powell did on DADT.



Bubba has two standard excuses. "I signed it because it was veto proof anyway." and "The people I chose to advise me and whose pay I controlled duped me."

Neither one washes. He wanted legislation Republicans wanted anyway and he and his White House lobbied Democrats hard to get those allegedly veto proof majorities. So, obviously, he anticipated that he was going to have to do some Presidentsplaining some day. If he didn't want the bill, why the hell did he and his White House lobby hard for it, instead of against it? And no majority can be truly called veto-proof until the veto occurs. Not many Democrats would have voted to override his veto, unless he persuaded them to.

Sorry, but ,to paraphrase Lincoln, Slick Willie is just not Slick enough to fool all of the people all of the time.