I name David Gergen my Wanker of the Day based on the totality of his ridiculous column, but one part of it stood out and made me laugh out loud. He was discussing the tendency of political parties to over-interpret their victories, but he overreached with his analysis. Watch.
What we are seeing, I regret to say, looks very much like a movie we have seen before: The side that wins an election thinks the public has given them permission to steamroll the other side, pushing through their favorite ideas willy-nilly. Sometimes, they partially succeed, but before long, there is a backlash, and Washington comes to another grinding halt.
We saw that back in the early ’90s, when first the Clinton White House overreached, going too far left, and then after winning the midterms, the Gingrich Republicans overreached to the right. In the second Clinton term, they learned how to get along better and accomplished big things for the country.
If you say that the Republicans and the Clinton administration learned to get along during his second term, you deserve to be flogged in a public square.
The Republicans impeached Bill Clinton in 1998 (in his second term)…over a blow job.