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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
This White House never puts policy in the front seat and politics in the back seat. Rove et al. are always driving, as the Suskind/O'Neill book makes all too clear to anyone who bothers to read this. If you point this out, though, you are being "partisan" -- thus, everything is partisan, and there's no reason to talk about policy at all.
S_A_M, how is this governing like a conservative Democrat?
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Was Clinton a conservative Democrat?
I think this description also applies fairly accurately to the Clinton WH (if you change the names). They tried two big initiatives based on principle right at the beginning (gays in the military and health care reform); they got killed for both, and went to a much more politicized and careful approach. One difference is that Bush pretends he pays little attention to polls. His policy track record puts the lie to that (i.e. on the fly policy adjustments and the prescription drug benefit).
S_A_M
