01-08-2009, 11:07 AM
If it was actually written in 2001, it's odd they consider genocide in Bosnia, conflict in Somalia, etc. as "sustained peace overseas". Not that it would be realistic to expect a U.S. President to sustain peace overseas in the first place! As for the other stuff, the House went Republican in 1994 (apparently because the all Democrat government was doing such a bang up job) and blocked off virtually the entire Clinton agenda for the rest of his 2 terms. In some ways, that combination was far more conservative than any portion of the Bush presidency. You can't get much more conservative than refusing to pass a budget for months and operating at the previous year's apportionment.