The two previous Republican administrations created more red ink than all previous administrations combined, but the GOP still will not credit Clinton with putting the federal budget dramatically in the black. Nor can they, even now, admit that Newt Gingrich's reckless road map known as the "contract with America" was a divisive prescription for disaster. By stopping Gingrich in his tracks, Clinton at least temporarily stalled the right-wing lurch that the new Bush administration seems hellbent on reviving. Clinton leaves office with unprecedented high approval ratings because he demonstrated that it's possible to have a progressive federal government that cares ...