[Huck]

Comparing an administration to itself is ok, but it only tells you so much. I'd like to see deficit compared to other admins.

[Lakeshark]

I think the more important point is why a deficit grows, and why it shrinks, don't you?

Or do you actually think that Clinton personally shrank the deficit? If so, how? He never ran on it, never said that was his goal, rather, he inherited a booming economy (after lying that it was the worst ever), and a post cold war world (which he and his party did nothing to help gain) that formed a tidal wave of economic growth that shrank the deficit. It surprised him as much as anyone that the economy outgrew the deficit, then he made sure to take credit for the nothing he had done.

Sorry.....that's the truth....but I suspect you can't handle that one.