{"id":6173,"date":"2005-12-24T09:56:05","date_gmt":"2005-12-24T14:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6173"},"modified":"2005-12-24T09:56:05","modified_gmt":"2005-12-24T14:56:05","slug":"kook-right-presidential-predictions-come-true-10-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/kook-right-presidential-predictions-come-true-10-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"Kook Right presidential predictions come true — 10 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"

Guest Post by Morbo<\/a><\/p>\n

Remember the kook right’s wacky claims about Bill Clinton throughout the ’90s? We were told Clinton had established a secret network of prisons<\/a> for his enemies and that he was so power mad he would even abuse federal agencies to spy on law-abiding Americans<\/a>. Clinton was such a rogue, we were told, that he would stop at nothing — including torture<\/a> — to keep his grip on power.<\/p>\n

We were warned that Clinton was untested on the international stage. He had only been a governor. Surely he would get in over his head and start some foolhardy war<\/a> somewhere, needlessly squandering young lives and tarnishing America’s reputation around the world. And of course Democrats like Clinton were always accused of reckless spending. Clinton, we were told by the right, would urge Congress to spend money like a drunken sailor<\/a> and blow the budget to hell<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Clinton was also accused of overseeing a drug-running operation out of an airstrip near Mena, Ark. That turned out to be baseless, of course. But perhaps it’s time to take a good hard look at what’s going on at that “ranch” near Crawford and why there’s such a pressing need for brush clearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Guest Post by Morbo Remember the kook right’s wacky claims about Bill Clinton throughout the ’90s? We were told Clinton had established a secret network of prisons for his enemies and that he was so power mad he would even abuse federal agencies to spy on law-abiding Americans. Clinton was such a rogue, we were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}