Clinton Vs The Lizardman

Politically, America veered sharply to the right, write Johnson and Broder, setting the stage for a historic debate in the 1996 presidential election, the last of the century, about the role and purposes of government as significant as any since the New Deal. The consequences of this battle were felt in the lives of each American family and in the US economy. They will continue to affect all parts of The System.

It is the story of how the attempt to provide affordable, lifelong health insurance for all Americans led to the electoral earthquake of 1994 and the aftershocks that continue to roll over The System, producing remarkable political changes and explosive new social and economic conflicts.

What is special about the Clinton administration is the fact that it has never been given much of a chance at national repair since the day it came to power on a more socialist plank than any presidential incumbent had had in American history. His tenure so far has seen the Republicans rout the Democrats out of Congress, promises broken on issues like jobs in the military for gays and lesbians, the Whitewater realtor scandal, the Oklahoma bombing, and