“Is it just me, or were Bachmann and Santorum trying to simultaneously take credit for things done in congress in the 90s”
Actually, it’s just Santorum and Newt.
So Newt balanced the budget, passed welfare reform, and was responsible for 4.2% unemployment? The man was only the house speaker with one vote.
His talking points are coming right out of the Clinton reelection playbook.
>> So Newt balanced the budget, passed welfare reform, and was responsible for 4.2% unemployment? The man was only the house speaker with one vote. >>
Yes, he was “ONLY” the house speaker (educated folks call it Speaker of the House BTW) during a time when that was perhaps the single most powerful figure outside of being President. He did it at a time when he had clearly been the intellectual force behind the Republican caucus for years. He did it at a time when he was the single focus of the hatred of the main stream media and of Democrat politicians.
When you try to compare the Speakership of Newt to the Speakership of Boehner - you simply demonstrate a withering ignorance of history and a total lack of being able to process different times in history.
But damn, you demonstrate both so aptly.
BTW you left off Newt stopping Hillarycare when people like Dole were caving and getting the first GOP majority in decades elected.
Your rants are pathetic, uniformed and desperate sounding.