Uh, Mickey?

The lesson of 1992 wasn't that sex shouldn't be dredged up. It's that voters need to know about philandering. Clinton's philandering in fact heavily impacted both his terms in office. First, his wife had the goods on him, which encouraged him to defer to her in giving her health care plan priority over welfare reform and defending it past the moment of compromise--the biggest mistakes of his first four years, mistakes that led directly to GOP control of the Congress.

Frankly, sir, you are on crack. I can't think of anything else that would explain this. The idea that Hillary blackmailed Bill into giving her control of the Health Care bill is idiotic paranoia to the extreme.

More sound theory for an audience not consisting of people arriving from Lucianne.com: Bill and Hillary believed very strongly in universal health care, perhaps to a fault given the political climate, and thought they could do more with the Democratic legislative majorities than they actually could, and combined with a fierce mobilization by the Republicans, the GOP was able to turn the tables in 1994.