How do we make peace with Blue Dogs without giving them their way?

[Bucky]

20. Get your facts right

Clinton did raise taxes. It cost him the House in his his first term, but he did it. That's a small piece of how he balanced the budget, which he did four times. He didn't "bomb the shit" out of Iraq, but he did enforce the UN sanctions against Iraq when it refused to comply with weapon inspections. He didn't invade Iraq--he knew that would've been madness--but the Desert Fox operation was perfectly in-line with the US's mandate for policing Iraq. And it worked, seeing as how Saddam still didn't have any weapons of mass destruction ten years later.

He got the best health care law that he could have out of the Congress he had to deal with. Like most successful progressives, he knew that real progress in a large country is going to move slow an in increments. I don't understand "pro-business" as a complaint against a president. Can you name me one American president who wasn't pro-business? But unlike the Republicans who preceded him, Clinton was also pro-union and pro-worker training and pro-education, insuring that the next generation of Americans would have the skills to fill the jobs that were being created in the 90s.

I don't defend everything Clinton did, but calling him a conservative Democrat is wide step off target. He was a moderate, to be sure, but he did a lot of good for a lot of people and the nation prospered while he was in office. I don't think we should argue against success.