Note to Republicans

Jon Stewart had a great clip showing how Republicans are fawning over Bill Clinton, while some Democrats have fawned over Ronald Reagan, both saying "now he was a you could work with, etc. etc." And then, of course, he showed the montage of Republicans, you know, impeaching Clinton, or calling him an evil socialist, etc. And he pointed out that we Democrats kind of hated Ronald Reagan at the time. He's got a point, and we'd do well to remember that Ronald Reagan kind of sucked, and Republicans thought the same of Bill Clinton. 

But I'd just like to point something else out. Hey Republicans, you know when you were all loving Bill Clinton and gettin' along and compromising in the '90s? Well, not only did you impeach him. Not only did you call him a socialist in the 1993-94 health care debate. You want to know what you did while calling his health care proposals socialist? You want to know what policies you proposed as the reasonable, conservative countermeasure? I'll give you a hint... sixteen years later, those same policies, which you proposed as the opposition to big evil socialism under Clinton, have now become big evil socialism under Obama.

And of course, it is really true that Reagan held a lot of positions that would be unacceptable in today's Republican Party, #1 being the whole amnesty-for-illegals thing. So Democrats are on much firmer ground than Republicans here in claiming that our opponents get worse and worse, though we should never forget that Reagan still kind of sucked.