Has the United States had a more prosperous era than the 1994-2000 years?
Have Republicans committment to reasonable austerity made more reasonable by the Veto threat of a Democrat President the greatest possibility for domestic policy success?
often happens that way
Her own supporters say they won’t vote for her as President and her candidates allowed Democrats to hold control of the Senate when if she had stayed out of those races Republicans would be in control of both houses of Congress with a Democrat President and the last time we had that we balanced the budget and grew the economy.
Palin ruined that already what can she do for the Republican party. Reload their guns at their circular firing squads.
Palin is awesome OMG!!! She will stop the black people invading our borders or Spanish or whoever. She bring guns to shcools shell stop guns from mating with gay poople and well have a war for the HOLYLAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!! POALIN!
The lastest polls show the republicans at 40% approval and they haven’t even started yet. How long until the people wake up?
People are disillusioned with both parties; Republicans got re-elected because most liberals and democrats were either dissatisfied or apathetic in regards to the Democratic party.
Where did it all go? Obama’s so-called transparent web site doesn’t disclose where most of it went?
No, There is and was no scam.
Simple really. The debt began to rise after 9/11 because of the war. Democrats gain control in 2006 and bail out companies along with passing the stimulus package. This causes the debt to skyrocket. It is possible that Republicans would have done the same though.
There was no budget surplus. Just the raiding of social security to make it look like there was one
Isn’t current unemployment creating the same problem?
One of the reasons that I will always have respect for President Clinton but would leave the room if Carter or Obama walked in, rather than be disrespectful in public.
The number of households receiving "welfare" declined from 5.0 million in 1994 to 1.8 million in 2006 however with the recession it has probably increased somewhat. About 4.5 million people are getting unemployment benefits and the number of people getting food stamps has increased to 44 million. Many of the unemployed who not get benefits have been in school, and live with their parents and others are second earners in families so they still have some income.
I guess liberals don’t read the constitution, because if they did they would realize it’s Congress, not the President, who holds the purse strings.
Cons seem to believe that if you repeat something over and over it becomes true.
The president proposes a budget in the State of the Union Speech. Congress comes up with the budget, then the president signs or vetoes it. Reagan and both Bushes, none of them ever proposed a balanced budget. None of them ever refused to sign a budget because it was too big. Clinton did.
In fact Clinton went head-to-head against the Republican Congress and allowed the govt. to shut down because he refused to sign a budget with too much deficit spending in it. Newt Gingrich tried to blame Clinton, but polls showed that most Americans blamed the Repubs. in Congress.
During Reagan’s 8 years, I think the Democratic Congress delivered a smaller budget than Reagan proposed every one of those years. I could be wrong, but I think so. Look it up!
Since Reagan, Republicans only care about debt and deficits when there’s a Democrat in the White House. Republican presidents run as budget hawks–Reagan and both Bushes ran on promises to balance the budget. But once in office they behave as if debt simply doesn’t matter. It’s just incredibly hypocritical for them to get all outraged at Obama’s deficits. And it’s dishonest to say they are the biggest in history. But then it’s only dishonest to lie if you know you’re lying, and how would you know if you only listen to Fox News? 8^P
in 1999? Because I’m pretty sure it’s typically congress that passes most bills and not the President.
Republicans take credit for all the great things that happened between 92-00, but blame Clinton for the bad things!
Zillionaires? You got what you wanted middle class and low income republicans. Rich people who care nothing about you at all will get their tax breaks. Meanwhile you will continue to wish you were rich like them. I’m kinda glad it happened..I’m a liberal but it certainly won’t effect me because I’m a professional. Enjoy your 20 dollar tax cut.
Are coffeeboxers sad that Osama is disagreeing with the democrats house of representatives to disallow the clinton taxes continue for hundredairs? You didn’t get what you wanted upper class and high income demoocrats. Poor animals who care about all of us won’t get their tax increased. Meanwhile we won’t continue to wish we were poor like you. I’m not glad it didn’t happen.. I’m not a conservative but it certainly will affect you because you’re not an amateur. Suffer my 800 peso income increase.
Clinton was forced to sign these budgets. If he had it his way, he would have spent like drunken sailor before the republican sweep in 94
Revisionist history. Liberals believe anything MSNBC or CNN or CBS tells them