Jonah Goldberg quotes Robert Reich: “Bill Clinton never mentioned the words `health care reform’ after the 1994 midterms.”
Reich’s claim is false — wildly false. A check of the database at the American Presidency Project shows that President Clinton used the phrase on 116 occasions after the midterm.
— John J. Pitney Jr. is the Roy P. Crocker professor of American politics at Claremont McKenna College.