David Broder -- Washington Post.com
A Pox on Both Parties By David S. Broder Thursday, December 1, 2005; Page A25 To understand why the level of public disillusionment with politics is so high in this country right now, it helps to go back a dozen years. The Democrats took power in 1993 with a young and obviously talented Bill Clinton succeeding George H.W. Bush, who seemingly had played out the string on the shift to conservative government Ronald Reagan launched in 1980. Clinton took office as a plurality president, but with... Sign in to see full entry.