Inside the sausage factory
It is very interesting to read the advice that Senator Rockefeller gave to Hillary Clinton in 1993. Excerpts from the original document appear below:
Comments: (a) how far would someone be prepared to go in “exposing the lifestyles” of opponents of the legislation; (b) look at how the government-media complex of the left is taken for granted by Senator Rockefeller: “News directors, planners and editors, and features producers and editors are anxious and willing to receive guidance on how to time and shape their coverage.”
It’s funny how different an initiative that is supposedly “for the children” looks when you can see the man behind the curtain.
January 19th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Oh, say as far as requesting 700 (that we know about) supposedly confidential FBI files? Hmmmm, could be!
January 19th, 2008 at 10:54 am
As I have said elsewhere, now is the time for EVERY Republican candidate to open EVERY interview with the question to the interviewer: “Was your company one of the media organizations that was eager to accept guidance from the White House on covering HillaryCare?”
January 19th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
So it turns out that the Democrats fought for Hillarycare just as all-out as they fought during the budget crisis 18 months later.
Yet Hillarycare was a damaging Democratic loss, whereas on the budget the Republicans may have won the battle , but they obviously–and unnecessarily–lost the war.
To me that budget showdown was the second indication, the first being the read-my-lips administration, that the Republicans are unfit to be the majority party–in this basically conservative country.
Say what you will about Hillary’s rapid-fire redesigns of her campaign persona, but it seems that Democrats learn and adapt after they lose. Republicans? Notwithstanding their historically anomalous loss of seats in the 1998 elections, they pressed ahead with impeachment; their response to losing Congress in 2006 was to restore Trent Lott to the Senate leadership.