I thought he didn't need the GOP?
During my television-watching days of the early 1990s, until I headed off halfway around the world, a constant refrain of the news media was that the Republicans were going to kill Hillary Clinton's health care plans.
During the early 1990s, Republicans had about as many members in Congress as they do today; far less than what the Democrats had.
It always stymied me; how could a minority party destroy a bill supported by the majority party?
But the news media kept hammering on, that it was the Republicans who were killing it.
If memory serves me correctly, Hillary Clinton's health care plans sort of fizzled out, no great cataclysmic event causing its abortion, and the man chiefly responsible for that was a.....Democrat congressman.....from Alphonse Capote Gore's own state.