[Uncle Miltie]

"The governor ran for president on a platform of balanced budgets, then ran the federal budget straight into the red."

There was this little matter of 9/11, but I wouldn't expect a 9/10 liberal to understand.

[Perlstein]

"The governor ran for president on a platform of balanced budgets, then ran the federal budget straight into the red."

There was this little matter of 9/11, but I wouldn't expect a 9/10 liberal to understand.
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Brad, I'd love to see your accounting of how 9/11 made up for the surplus plus a defecit that in its latest estimate is $639 billion. That's a lot of airport scanners.