An Oral History of the Bush White House: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com: "Ari Fleischer, Bush’s first White House press secretary: After the recount, the disputed election, a lot of people said you needed to start to trim your sails: What are you going to cut back on as a way to show outreach to the other party? The president rejected that line of thinking, making the case that mandates are created by presidents with ideas, and he was going to follow through on the ideas that he ran on."
These people have no clue. Rush Limbaugh and all the chattering class of "conservative" Republicans went overboard on Bill Clinton's narrow popular vote victory. Rush Limbaugh even said over and over on his program that "Clinton did not have a mandate". Ever wonder how many times Rush said GWB had no mandate? Zero, even though Bush outright lost the popular vote in 2000 and needed the federal courts (Supreme) to get him in office.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
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