We forget now how adamantly the old left opposed it; Kay Hymowitz helps us remember. Money quote:
Marion Wright Edelman of the Children‚Äôs Defense Fund called the bill ‘national child abandonment’ and likened it to the burning of Vietnamese villages. Immediately after President Clinton signed the bill, some of his top appointees quit in protest, including Edelman‚Äôs husband, Peter, who let loose with an article in The Atlantic Monthly titled, ‘The Worst Thing Bill Clinton Has Done.’ No less appalled, the Chicago Tribune seconded Congresswoman Carol Moseley Braun’s branding the bill an ‘abomination.’
It was the Clinton-Gingrich combo at his best – the high watermark of conservative reform in the 1990s. But more work, of course, still needs to be done.
The Dish 