from a fiscal viewpoint there is no doubt gridlock was a much better pattern for spending control, at least in 93-2000, than the current arrangement. II am baffled that anyone would defend the republicans as anything but a party of big government.
Taxcuts. That alone nukes all this hysteria about "Big Goverment" Conservatives. EVERY bill, such as the $40 billion in defecit reduction the Congress passed last Decemeber was passed with NO Democrat votes. Funny how in all the usal hysteria from the Know Nothing they NEVER bother to consider the Democrat position has always been WE SHOULD SPEND MORE. Go look what they were saying during Katernina. ALL the Democrats were screaming about Bush's "draconian budget cuts" Utterly stupid for the Donner Party Conservatives to be screaming about the Republicans spending and helping the Democrats who want to spend EVEN MORE.
OF course spending is up. We are at war and had to get out of a recession. Du'h! Instead of mindlessly squealling maybe the Donner party fools might put the spending in context AND classify WHAT was spent where.
REALLY intresting how all the hsyterics over spending NEVER bother to consider the impact of manditory Entiltelment spending has inflated spending. USUALY hysterics manipulating the data to validate their preconcived notions rather then making an intellectually serious assesment.
Those nuke your whole "big Government Republicans" premise. Looking at total spending in the midst of a war, and just after a recession, to validate your claims is nothing but intellectually dishonest statistical manipulation. Taking a set of numbers out of context to validate preconceived notions is propaganda, not intellectual inquiry.
There there is THIS data that the junk Media simply surpressed. Once again, as Bush knew, the Reagan model works.
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Budget Deficit Drops to $250 Billion
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