Divided government and ch-ch-ch-changes |
| Published: January 23, 2008, 2:23 am |
| Tags: 2008 election, change, democrats, ideas, republicans, barack obama, divided government |
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Jason Smathers wrote a great column in The Badger Herald exploring the themes of divided government and change. Coincidently, the title of the piece is the same as my blog “Divided we stand, united we fall?“: “… despite its name, divided government is the only path for meaningful progress, especially given how change has ravaged this country at times. In the last 50 years, divided government has been relatively common. During the 50s, a combination of the Democratic Legislature and Republican executive resulted in an end to the Korean War, incredibly low rates of inflation and only minimal flare-ups in the Cold War… The same sort of stability occurred during the Clinton presidency low inflation, low unemployment, economic prosperity along with relative peace in terms of foreign policy. However, the pitfalls of unified government revealed themselves again during the six years of Republican control.. In that sense, a Republican president [ Full article ] |
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