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In a Monday column at Salon.com ("Is the President Panicking?"), Reich excoriated President Obama's proposed discretionary spending "freeze" -- a "freeze" that NewsBuster Julia Seymour noted fails to offset the spending proposals Obama brought up in his State of the Union speech -- for
"invok(ing) memories of (Bill) Clinton's shift to the right in 1994," [oh horror]
But in the process of recounting his fevered view of 1990s history, Bill Clinton's former Secretary of Labor revealed that paranoia really does strike deep:
In December 1994, Bill Clinton proposed a so-called middle-class bill of rights including more tax credits for families with children, expanded retirement accounts, and tax-deductible college tuition. [but] Right-wing populists were the ascendancy, with Newt Gingrich and Fox News leading the charge..."
There's one "little" problem:
Fox News Channel's first day on the air was October 7, 1996.
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