[Post Toasties]

I also use Congress to argue that the surplus was not due to Clinton's policies except in that the revenues that caused the surplus were originally intended by Democrats to pay for Hilliarycare, but that Republicans refused to spend them.

All in all, Republicans, while hardly perfect, have been consistently far better stewards of the Federal Budget than Democrats have been over the last 30 years, at least.

[TwelveOfTwenty]

I also use Congress to argue that the surplus was not due to Clinton's policies except in that the revenues that caused the surplus

Those revenues were due largely to Ecommerce and the techs needed to set all of those servers up, and Y2K. Both created plenty of jobs/tax payers while they lasted, and both would have happened regardless of who was in the White House.