[FreeReign]

...And Newt and his freshmen class accomplished more in succeeding years, hammering home that initial victory once the Clinton and the Dims caught their wind and really tore into them. Until Xlinton left office, every year the government's deficit was shrinking.

Federal receipts during the Clinton years were inflated a due to the stock market bubble.

Looking at total federal outlays during the Newt/Clinton years, Newt/Clinton FY year budgets ('96 to '99) can best be characterized as budgets that cut DOD spending (and this was after Clinton already cut DOD spending drastically his previous two years in FY '94 and '95).

It was only in FY '96, a budget that was of course signed before the end of '95 (which supports my original contention) that Newt's Congress reduced non DOD type and non Homeland security type spending.

[George W. Bush]

It was only in FY '96, a budget that was of course signed before the end of '95 (which supports my original contention) that Newt's Congress reduced non DOD type and non Homeland security type spending.

It was cutting and holding the cuts in subsequent years that was the accomplishment.

I think you underestimate the importance of the national dialog on cuts and growths in spending. I know Rush certainly pounded this point home to his listeners over and over.