Of course Clinton was the best economic president. He signed in the Republican tax cuts and then got to hand-tied by scandal that his administration couldn’t bugger with the free market economy
I must have missed those Republican tax cuts. I did see some spending cuts but I only remember the largest tax increase in the history of the world during Clintons tenure. That did help the bond market and make Greenspans job a little easier. Clintons job was made easier by one: The Republican spending cuts, two: The passing of the line item veto. (It was later struck down but the Toon got to use it for a short time.)And finally: The unabashed cheerleading of the economy by the whole of the mainstream press. Remember "The New Economy"? The "Dot Com Boom"? How the Internet was gonna drive out the brick and mortar dinosaurs?