Obviously the current administration came to the same conclusion and decided to let sleeping dogs lie. Which further shows how politically inept they are as leaders of the conservative position.
They didn't realize they could have reaped a huge political windfall of debunking the Xlinton economy for what it was...a phony house of cards. It would have unified all Reaganites. It would have put the Rats on the run. The side on the offense always wins.
"Clinton Lied, U.S. Jobs Died" would have been the motto of the last two campaigns. We could have gone back and issued CORRECTED charts for all those jiggered years. So while the Bush numbers wouldn't look good against jiggered numbers, they probably would have looked at least in the ballpark after de-jiggering.
Technically speaking of course! ;-)
A lot of great information. Boy, you covered just about everything.
I suppose I find nothing wrong with imputing dollar value to technology advances and then adding those "dollars" to GDP as long as Limbaugh, Tom Sullivan of Sacramento, et al. (reading CATO's Reynolds) stop comparing today's manufacturing as a percentage of GDP to the 1960s, for example.
From that they crowed "Manufacturing is not being outsourced offshore! It's all still here! Stop the whining, get a job. I'm tired of carrying you on my back!" (Sullivan even said that he'd leave the country if he was forced to carry any more whiners.) In fairness that was two years ago maybe they think differently now.
The columns you posted are mostly about Clinton funny business. I knew that there were some published back then.
RE: "Clinton Lied, U.S. Jobs Died"
You suggested that the Bush administration should have exposed the economic lies. Well, I remember an O'Reilly report (he gave it several times over several days) that Congressional Democrats met with the new president (2001) and warned him in no uncertain terms: Do not go after the Clintons for any reason.