clinton who pushed through the welfare reform bill and peter edelman the husband of our dear sister mary edelman who is the most courageous ambassador. and how much are the chickens coming home to roost? how much of this mess is bill clinton's responsibility? >> you call it welfare reform, i call it welfare deform. you took a system that may have worked imperfectly and made it worse. off lifetime cap on how long you can stay on public assistance of five years. that makes no sense. bill clinton was pandering, frankly, to the right. we love bill clinton but he was pandering to the right. he was exscoruated op the floor of congress. be clear right now, i don't think that anyone has an appetite. this particular congress is one of the worst we have seen in a long time, especially around issues for women and children. they don't mind cutting anything. they are running around the country, basically talking about austerity, at the same time that we are seeing people falling in to poverty. so, clinton may have started it, but it continued. mr. bush instituted a tax cut for the wealthy. if we could restor