tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post7915904895942808337..comments2024-02-29T05:08:47.676-05:00Comments on Kids Prefer Cheese: Tea Party Hero: Bill ClintonMungowitzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02340064320347875601noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-19204132813050734092011-07-18T13:08:50.663-04:002011-07-18T13:08:50.663-04:00Clinton's terms were the only times in recent ...Clinton's terms were the only times in recent history up to that point when Republicans gained dominant legislative power. Clinton did compromise, but mainly because he was forced too. <br /><br />These years gave rise, though, not to Centrist democrats like Clinton, but rather to Republicans who pushed through the fiscal medicine. And it is very true that these Republicans squandered their reputation for fiscal probity rather quickly. <br /><br />So the fiscal mantel passed back to "Centrist" Democrats in 2008, and in an amazingly short period of time they showed how extraordinarily reckless they could be when they had the full keys to power. <br /><br />Ball is partially back in the chastised Republicans court. We'll see what they can do.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-37732262538846243692011-07-17T00:34:51.544-04:002011-07-17T00:34:51.544-04:00Bill Chafe is basically right that we should remem...Bill Chafe is basically right that we should remember history and the Clinton legacy, but he's basically wrong, as you point out, to point to the Clinton tax increase as the reason that we didn't have a deficit. It was, as you note, keeping overall spending increases low.<br /><br />He mentions the government shutdown, but fails to note that as a result of agreements from the government shutdown, spending was kept low.<br /><br />Domestic non-defense spending was increased, but paid for with defense spending cuts.<br /><br />Indeed, perhaps Tea Party people ought to praise Clinton and condemn GWB, but if so those who praise Clinton's policies, like Bill Chafe, ought to support the Tea Party's goals in the current budget dispute.<br /><br />I would love to have the policies we had during the Clinton years. Would Bill Chafe?John Thackerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15269867695937765049noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-57928859619417864082011-07-16T13:24:05.795-04:002011-07-16T13:24:05.795-04:00Did you mean 1990 or 1900?Did you mean 1990 or 1900?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-44582706260852343322011-07-16T12:55:18.596-04:002011-07-16T12:55:18.596-04:0090 years of fail90 years of failAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7464708.post-27061639703212109722011-07-16T08:57:35.910-04:002011-07-16T08:57:35.910-04:00What that data show is that during the period that...What that data show is that during the period that Clinton was president government spending per capita remained constant. It does not necessarily follow that Clinton was the reason it was so, or that he wanted it to be so or that if his ilk were to return it would be so again.Marchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11785461831011967542noreply@blogger.com