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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Didn't the Republican Congress force the balanced budgets, and Clinton jumped on board once he realized he had no choice. He had as much to do with the drive to balance the budget as he had to do with welfare reform. That is, he was against it, but realized it would be politically damaging to veto it, so his co-opted it as his own.
Please don't sing his praises over this; that's silly.
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I suppose you also blame the deficits during the Reagan years on the mythical Spend-thrift Democratic Congress which -- so the conservative mythos goes -- consistently spent far more than the frugal sums set forth in the budgets provided by the Great Communicator? I seem to recall club setting forth this theory way back when.
It didn't happen that way, friend -- you can look it up yourself -- or refer to the handy reference guide to budgets and spending during the Reagan years provided by a dude from the Brookings Institute and included in Al Franken's new book.
S_A_M
