That "balanced budget" that Bush inherited was a result of factors that had NOTHING to do with fiscal responsibility, such as the Cold War and its burden that had ended, and the tax revenue that was generated by the jobs created by the Tech Boom.
Of course, there were numerous AQ attacks during Clinton's watch, but the MSM faithfully kept our attention off of those attacks and on all of those jobs created by Y2K and ecommerce, as if none of that would have happened without Clinton. When Bush was sworn in, the tech bubble had already burst, and 9/11 the WOT was about to hit us in our pocketbooks.
I was mad year after year because im a fiscal hawk.
Were you mad at AQ because off the numerous attacks they launched against us during the Clinton years and on 9/11, or were you mad at Clinton for punting the WOT and its expense to the next administration?
I’m also a big fan of Senator Taft so how do you think I felt seeing this guy on TV telling the world we’re invading a nation that never attacked America and was 6,000 miles away?
How did you feel when the sanctions that killed and estimated 500,000 children and teenagers in Iraq during the Clinton years were lifted, or when the intelligence that was obtained in Iraq led directly to Bin Laden (don't be put off by the title, read on)?
I was so happy it all collapsed on his watch. In fact I had a huge party.
You mean the housing crisis that the Dems caused, or the expense of the WOT that Clinton punted on? You're glad Bush got the blame for that? OK.
He left office with a 27% approval. Absolutely pathetic and well deserved.
The MSM thought so.
Now hopefully we will have a new generation of conservatives determined to actually shut down Federal agencies rather than create them (DHS? TSA?).
I'll meet you halfway on this. The TSA? Remember the debate during the early 2000s about whether they should be government employees or private employees? The GOP caved, and we got the TSA. That compromise and reaching across the aisle in order to appease the Dems and keep the MSM off their back did neither, and they paid for it in 2008 and 2012.
The DHS? We'll have to agree to disagree on that one.#39;ll meet you halfway on this. The TSA? Remember the debate during the early 2000s about whether they should be government employees or private employees? The GOP caved, and we got the TSA. That compromise and reaching across the aisle in order to appease the Dems and keep the MSM off their back did neither, and they paid for it in 2008 and 2012.
About that last paragraph, I don’t know how that happened, but it should have read “The DHS? We’ll have to agree to disagree on that one.”