Date: 2005-09-20 10:03 pm (UTC)
Weighing down otherwise bipartisan legislation with largely irrelevant partisan riders -- isn't that what Reagan complained about in his campaign for the line-item veto? Democratic riders are always sweetness and light, but I think the complaint may have been valid.

Actually sinking bipartisan legislation with partisan riders and then trying to blame the other side for it -- wasn't that Newt Gingrich's failed gambit with the budget stalemate?

I'm half ashamed of not remembering this stuff more clearly, and half ashamed of remembering it at all.
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