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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Mostly the Republican controlled and hostile congress forced him to kill the deficit. the past few years show what happens when its all controlled by one side.
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Because the Republican controlled and hostile congress was so eager to raise taxes?
The "we're just too powerful now to control ourselves" argument fails to account for the other Repub presidencies, when the Repubs didn't control congress, and yet the deficits were at -- well, at Repub-presidency levels.