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...real turning point for Clinton was when the Republicans took Congress in 1994. If the Democrats had kept the majority, think what we would not have had: no rise and fall of Newt Gingrich, no triangulation, no pizza delivered by Monica Lewinsky during the government shutdown, no impeachment. Assuming Clinton would have been re-elected with a Democratic majority, then it would have fallen to Clinton and the Democratic Congress to figure out how to spend the surplus. If Clinton could have gotten passed the very legislation that Gore's been proposing, then think how extraordinary his legacy would have...
...approached the November 1995 showdown over shutting down the government, Newt Gingrich was growing more confident and cockier because he'd already forced Clinton to accept a balanced budget over 10 years, and he was emboldened to escalate his demands to seven years. The government was kept running only through a series of continuing resolutions, and Gingrich and Clinton began to engage in an elaborate game of chicken. There was a real possibility of a serious government shutdown, and the blame could have gone either...
...this pivotal, high-stakes point, Bill Clinton, through a remarkable set of pirouettes and verbal pyrotechnics, managed, through the press, to firmly attribute the fault to Gingrich and make it stick. Yet it was hard, even from close range, to figure out what his moves were. It was almost as if he was working on many levels at once, engaged in three-dimensional chess, simultaneously weighing and balancing the consequences of various moves, including quite risky and bold moves. He saw his opportunity and figured out how to grab it fast...
...functioned when his back has been against the wall. When the times seem to be the worst, he functions the best. He comes up with brilliant ideas, very bold schemes, extraordinary insights. He summons forth from the depths of his very being these superhuman energies. Up until that point Gingrich had all the momentum. After that, Gingrich was on the run. It stopped the right-wing armada, which just a year before had looked unstoppable...
...State of the Union. Nobody knew what he was going to say; nobody knew how he could do it. And he said, "What shall we do with our new surplus? I have a simple, four-word answer: save Social Security first." The Democrats jumped up and applauded. And Gingrich thought about it for a second; then he stood up and applauded. And the Republicans looked at him, and looked at one another; then they stood up and applauded. At that precise moment, a trillion dollars in the budget shifted from the column marked "tax cut" to the column marked "Social...