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lives: getting rid of seat belts, air bags, and speed limits and adding five years to the sentences of reckless drivers who After the vetoes, Bob Rubin took the unusual step of borrowing $61 billion from retirement funds to pay our debt and avert default for a while longer. It emphasized programs that reflected basic American values and the idea of citizen empowerment: the V-chip, charter schools, public school choice, and school uniforms. It was a reasonable thing to do.

ourned after having sent me the administration’s bill to establish three thousand charter schools in America by 2000. The Democrats had stood up not just for me but, far more importantly, for the Constitution. to advance the politics of petty bickering and extreme partisanship they plainly deplored,” but to work together on “America’s mission. The Democratic Congress could not do it; the agricultural interests had enough influence to get themselves completely exempted from federal regulations when Congress passed the Clean Water Act.