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If the Hill had anyone on staff old enough to remember the 1995 budget standoff surely they would have pointed out to readers that Republican Senator Richard Burr was being misleading when he unfavorably compared President Obama’s conduct in the current crisis to President Clinton’s conduct in the earlier standoff.
The Hill piece told readers:
“Burr said Obama has been much less involved in resolving the shutdown than then-President Clinton was in 1996.
“‘The president is totally disengaged,’ Burr said. ‘The president in 1996 was engaged in an hour-by-hour basis.’”