It was about this far into his first term, back in late 1994 and early 1995, when President Bill Clinton truly fell under the spell of malevolent strategist Dick Morris. Stung by the heavy losses brought on by the "Republican Revolution" in the 1994 midterms, Clinton began to believe that his only route to reelection was to tack to the right and steal some of the conservatives' thunder on issues like welfare reform and federal deficits. Morris, who was only forced out of the White House after a sex scandal and who has since exposed his true political stripes as a Fox News commentator, thought triangulation both a brilliant political strategy and a generator of fine public policy.