[Rick Lee]

And I'm pretty sure Obama, Pelosi and Reid will have studied exactly which mistakes Clinton made in his first two years to avoid making them again this time around.

Phil Gramm's filibuster is what killed Hillary's health plan. The Dems not only won't have to worry about getting Republicans votes for it this time, they won't even have to worry about a filibuster. Clinton's '93 tax hike passed by two votes in the House and Al Gore had to break the tie in the Senate. That won't be necessary this time around either. Clinton blamed the whole thing on the NRA, which gladly took credit for the shift in Congress. But we all know they didn't make it happen. The perfect storm of Clinton overreaching with thin majorities in Congress and Newt Gingrich and Haley Barbour running the opposition is what happened here. It ain't gonna happen again.