Comments by "Sam Aronow" (@SamAronow) on "The Rise and Fall of New Labour" video.

Clinton actually did implement a fair number of new social policies in his first two years, but for the remaining six had to deal with a Republican-controlled Congress who wouldn't allow such policies to move forward. The tactic then was to call their bluff by proposing ideas based on their own insincere policy proposals, which they themselves would never have actually tried doing, and daring them to vote against it.
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