Bill Clinton: Republicans unlikely to win back either house of Congress
Clinton: Republicans unlikely to win back either house of Congress By Sean J. Miller - 04/18/10 11:47 AM ET
Despite the parallels with the current political environment and that of 1994, Bill Clinton said the outcome of November’s election “is likely to be far less dramatic.”
“I don’t think [the GOP] will win either house,” he said on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday. “If history is any guide, they should make a few gains. But I don’t expect them to win in either house, no.”
The former president expanded on the remarks he made earlier to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer and the New York Times about how anti-government rhetoric could incite violence as was the case in the 1990s.
Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh seized on the statements and said they were an attempt to discredit the Tea Party movement.
“The only point I tried to make was that we ought to have a lot of political dissent, a lot of political argument,” Clinton said. “But we also have to take responsibility for the possible consequences of what we say. And we shouldn’t demonize the government or its public employees or its elected officials.”
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