[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.

[veronica]

So, are you Jewish?

[alisasny]

how 9/11 made up for the surplus plus a defecit

What net worth/lifetime in dollars do you put on the 3000 victims of 911?

[lavrenti]

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.

The 9|11 attacks and the idiotic dot.bomb tulip madness had a devestating impact on tax ependitures and put a strain on the budget. Also, there were no "cuts" in the budgets of the 1990s, only slight limits in projected increases in spending. Once the rotten table legs of the Clinton economy fell, thus the problems with the budget.

[kingu]

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.

The OMB projection is $445 billion (and that is the latest estimate). Gee, that's nearly a third of the deficit eliminated without even a new budget. John Kerry was saying he'd reduce the deficit by half in four years, and here it's already most of the way there.

[F.J. Mitchell]

I'd love to hear your accounting for just how Clinton would have created a budget surplus, without the election of a Republican majority in both the house and Senate in 1994, that reigned in his plans for big spending?

If the Dems and Clinton had had the guts to take out Osama-911 could have been avoided. If Clinton had had the self control to imprison willie the bent worm behind the zipper of his fly-Monica would have found a boy intern to pacify her hornieness and everything would have been okay.

No President of these United States has ever faced the challange to protect and preserve our way of life,against such an unpredictable enemy, as has our President Bush. In 2001, thanks to Clinton's dereliction of duty, Our President Bush was sucker punched once. The absence of any terrorist attack upon these shores since 911, attests to the successful actions of George Bush- not to the pretensious and liberally slanted 911 commission.

We owe our gratitude for our safe yesterdays, our safe todays and our safe tomorrows to Bush-period!!!!!

[Uncle Miltie]

"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."

Since tax receipts are based on economic activity, which fell off a bit after 9/11, and defense against terrorism (Afghanistan, Iraq, Homeland Security) can be expensive, deficits can be driven by terrorist events.

Your response was willingly blind to federal receipts and expenditures (a knowing lie) or ignorant. Which was it?