http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=48142
— Apparently, these reporters will cling to their “Gingrich shut the government down” propaganda as long as they live. That’s not true. Technically, it was Clinton who shut it down. — It’s another media myth that the shutdown was some personal tantrum over airplane seating.
http://giwersworld.org/mgiwer/sdown3.html
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After months of blaming the Republicans for shutting down the US Government twice in two months the story has now been carried in the Washington Times. With little surprise to many not only did Bill Clinton shut down the government but he had help in doing so. That help came from the AFGE union, the American Federation of Government Employees.
Yes, folks, the secret is out. The unions were part of shutting down the US Government. Those same people who were out there whining every day about how irresponsible it was to shut down the government were in fact a party to it.
But of course it must have been the fault of those young upstart Republicans in the House lead by the evil Newt Gingrich. After all, they were the ones who forced Clinton and the government employees union to conspire to shut down the government. Why they promised each other they would work together to blame Republicans for their own private agreement to shut down the government.
So after four months of lying and finger pointing the Clinton and the union we discover that they in fact planned and plotted to shut down the government. Now this might not be so bad if the AFGE represented a majority of government employees. It might not be so bad if the employees who were cold-heartedly and callously put on furlough by the union were informed of the strategy. But of course they were not.