YOu know the witch hunt of the clinton days will look like childs play compared to the next 8 years

[greenbriar]

the repuke right pricks will stop at nothing

[Captain Hilts]

1. Not necessarily. GWB ruined conservatism for a lot of people. So many anti-Clinton...

conspiracy theories never came true.

I think a lot of people are punch drunk on that shit.

I HOPE so.

[Solomon]

25. Yeah, but what about us democrats? LOL We're the ones going after

him.

[Skink]

2. Maybe we should step up the prosecutions.

[Lilith Velkor]

3. Heretic!

Get with the DU program, son.

That witch hunt was appropriate, the Clintons actually are witches! They're worse than Bush!

:sarcasm: <-- moron prophylactic

[Wapsie B]

4. My only hope is that the repug in-fighting will only increase.

Not that Obama still won't have his hands full. But when the gop has their Texas Death Match over control of the party it may help us a bit. Wishful thinking I know.

[CoffeeCat]

5. I can only imagine how many...

oppo researchers were on Obama during the Dem primary and the GE. All of the dirt that is on Obama, is out in public.

Furthermore, I think he's a moral man. I also don't think he's stupid or selfish enough to jeopardize his presidency
by doing something "actionable." He knows the score. He knows that if he screws up, it WILL used against him.

This guy is the real deal. He understands what's at stake.

[NYC_SKP]

6. As there's not much dirt on Obama, they are attacking everyone around him.

Until that whitey tape or his fake birth certificates turn up :sarcasm:

[bluestateguy]

7. If we keep the Congress, it will be manageable

Remember the Republicans had Congress for 6 of those years, making it a sort of permanent scandal shop, and with the (now expired) independent counsel law, you had a permanent prosecutor's office to hound the White House.

[BeFree]

8. Yep

But they don't have the same fire in the belly as they had then.
I guess that comes from all the gut punches Bush hit them with.

They hated Clinton with a fervor that is hard to believe.
They don't seem to have quite the same feeling toward Obama.

And, today we have instant debunking of any trash talk.
And that talk kept them alive and encouraged.
Now, they have nothing!

[Beacool]

20. Not so hard to believe.

They hated the Clintons with almost the same fervor as the left hates them.

See here, KOS, Huff, etc.....

:eyes:

[gristy]

9. I disagree

They threw everything they had at Clinton those 8 years. Their arsenal is much diminished going into these next 8.

[NRaleighLiberal]

10. The politicians have forgotten the people. Politics as sport, not to serve. NT

[Uzybone]

11. I agree

Not only will Obama have to deal with the right wing, he will also have the far left and those used to the status quo nipping at his heels from his own camp. Not the mention the racists who cannot wait to be vindicated if he fails.

The American people will love him but his enemies will be ferocious. Kinda how Clinton was but multiplied.

[MarianJack]

12. I don't disagree, but...

...Obama is coming into office with a much clearer mandate to govern than Clinton (thanks to the 3 way race) did in 1993. I also believe that Obama won't make it as easy for then to do so as Clinton did.

PEACE!

[Jennicut]

13. It may get nasty but at first Obama will get less opposition as

the country is in worse shape then when Bill came in and Obama has a bigger victory.

[Smarmie Doofus]

14. At the moment, the GOP is lucky to still be in existence.

I don't think they're in a position to cause a lot of difficulty... at least for the first two years.

[Hutzpa]

15. Fear mongering

this does not help, how about posting something positive like how to
counter those repugs attack.

[quaker bill]

16. Incorrect

Bill Clinton did not beat the republicans in anywhere near the way the Barack Obama did. The win was across the board and included expanded majorities in the house and the senate, and further followed another drubbing in 2006.

Republicans will look for ways to cooperate if given the chance, but will pounce on any major mistake, given a fair shot to do so. Given the beating they have taken, the mistake will have to be pretty significant to tempt them out. They will not risk another unfair attack, not against Barack, he is far too popular at this point. Any fouled up attack that flops or fails to prove out, will only put them further into the political wilderness. Clever republicans, to the extent they continue to exist, will be quite risk adverse for at least a year.

Once the economy starts to rebound a bit, perhaps the repugs will come out from under cover, not before, it is far to risky. They may be incompetent public servants, but they are pretty good self-servants.

[jberryhill]

17. They are stuck on stupid with the birth certificate thing

It's been months, and they still can't figure out that Obama was born in Hawaii.

They'll remain safely fixated on that one.

[StClone]

18. First they have no money

To spend on think tanks, paying off media personalities, or buying books to prop up sales and such.

Secondly, people are on to that much of what they do is create a propaganda mountain from which to proclaim and justify things that benefit the rich and powerful.

Lastly, enough people have had it proven to their faces that Conservatism is a lie or at least believable up to the point where they scam you into a war for profit or steal your life savings and ignore The Constitution.

[givemebackmycountry]

19. They are already poised to play the Terri Schiavo card - is that brilliant or what?

That's right.
They are rolling out one of the most farcical attempts to but into shit that they didn't belong in to stop the Obama appointee to the Justice Department.
The guys name escapes me, but he represented Micheal Schiavo in his attempt to do what was right for his wife.

These guys learned nothing and they will continue to learn nothing.

Bring it on assholes, and remind everyone what a low-life scum-sucking party of zealots you really are.

[stevietheman]

21. And we'll fire up the 9/11, Iraq and Katrina investigations to respond. n/t

n/t

[AZBlue]

22. Oh, you're talking about the Republicans? I thought you meant here on DU.

[Beacool]

23. No, it won't be remotely as bad.

Unless a special prosecutor is after him for years spending millions of dollars, fingerprinting his wife and dragging both of them in front of a grand jury only to conclude at the end of the investigation that he received a few BJs from some chick and lied about it when entrapped. Also leaving him, his wife and several staffers millions of dollars in debt from legal fees. Only then would Obama know what the Clintons went through for 5 of their 8 years in the WH.

x(

[PurityOfEssence]

24. I don't think he's going to get anywhere NEAR the amount or ferociousness of Clinton's ordeal

He comes to office with a much broader appeal than Clinton, and he has a serious, old-fashioned decisive victory behind him. The right is basically shell-shocked and plenty of people are just pretty much sick of 'em after close to 3 decades of almost continuous control.

Anyone doing anything obviously partisan is going to have an uphill battle because of the spirit of the country right now.

Having said all that, though, I have to remind people that whatever he may have brought upon himself, Bill Clinton got a HORRIBLE handling by the right. That was an outrageous attempt to literally ruin a man by any means possible, so anything short of THAT could still be a serious drag. These guys are mean, but mercifully they're not at their best right now.