this "shrub's for you".....

[BigMacFU]

The balancing act didn't start happening until after 1994, which if I remember correctly was the first time in 40 years that the house and senate were a Republican majority. Tax bills don't get passed by the President, they're written and pork-barrelled by legislators and signed by the Pres or vetoed. Did Clinton have the smarts to listen to his congress and senate at the time yes, and he gets all the credit in the world for that. Another reason for the economy doing so well had very little to do with the government at the time though, it had to do with the technology sector taking off and finally becoming what it was meant to be. Let's be honest, if the government was holding the economy's hand the whole way in the 90's, they wouldn't have had to go after Gates so bad over a non-issue (having to package Navigator with Winblows, I mean, that's like saying every 6-pack of coke has to have a pepsi in it, and unfortunately, this is how they got Gates to pay up) except that they wanted all the money that was not going into the government's tax coffers.

[bluesman455]

shrubs?...beware of the Giant Hogweed.

[SmokinDVM]

The balancing act didn't start happening until after 1994, which if I remember correctly was the first time in 40 years that the house and senate were a Republican majority..

Yes, and look how quickly they f'ed it up.
And, according to prevailing neocon "logic", the prosperity immediately following the Dems loss of Congressional control would have to be attributed to the Dems.

[BigMacFU]

Yes, and look how quickly they f'ed it up.
And, according to prevailing neocon "logic", the prosperity immediately following the Dems loss of Congressional control would have to be attributed to the Dems.

Read the post, the prosperity I attributed to neither Dem nor Repub, government had little to do with it, except maybe science and research grants made during the 70's and 80's, and even then, still very little to do with it. But, the balancing of the budget was the result of a republican congress and senate with Clinton getting the credit for not playing partisan games and signing off. I may care nothing for Clinton as a virtuous person, I may think very little of his foreign policy (talk to anybody involved with Russia and how Clinton did with that), but when it came to getting a republican legislature to work with a democratic executive, he did a very good job.

On an aside I don't care what particular sides say neo-con, whack job blabbering liberals, for all I care they can both go kiss my ass, and anyone who argues strictly along those lines can too, I prefer independent thinkers who can think about issues, not parties when it comes to actual debate on particular issues. I don't care what this or that group says (their prevailing logic), I care what you'll say. If it lines up with good reason, I'm in your boat, if I find fault, I'll stay in mine. Either way, let us not muck up true political or historical discussion with the lines parties want to draw or the media wants to draw. They're the only ones who need those lines, if they didn't exist papers wouldn't sell and people wouldn't donate so easily to this or that group, and when it comes to the media and politicians, only one thing drives them these days, money. So, screw the way the want us to talk about politics.