The long-run deficit, health-care financing, and global warming, no less than securing retirement income and enabling educational opportunity, were issues on which bipartisan progress and agreement should have been easily attained. Yet we Clintonites received absolutely no cooperation from either Republican officeholders or Republican policy intellectuals.
所有这些目标（大概最后一个是例外）都是跨越党派的问题。长期赤字、医疗融资和全球变暖以及同样紧迫的捍卫退休金和增进教育机会，这些都应该是可以轻易取得跨党派进展和协议的领域。但不论是共和党公务员还是共和党政策知识分子，都完全不与克林顿政府合作。