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Jeff

* Dave wrote, On 3/27/2007 9:32 PM:
On 27 Mar 2007 17:36:42 -0700, lid (Jonathan Ganz) said:

Umm..Jon, Clinton was dragged kicking and screaming by a Republican Congress
that had been beating the Dems over the head for years to get rid of the old
system of paying unwed teenagers to stay home and make babies.
And, you can point to a web page that documents that... we're
waiting. Oh, Fox news doesn't count.

Just do a Google search on "welfare reform" Clinton and Republican. You'll
quickly come up with a plethora of stories of how he vetoed 2 bills passed
by the Republican majority before deciding he'd had enough and signing the
third amid dire predictions from the left wing of his party..

The record is pretty clear that Clinton made a firm promise to
overhaul welfare. The GOP tried to take advantage and it backfired.
Their version was vetoed twice and headed toward a third, when under
pressure from Republican moderates the conservatives backed down and
Clinton won.