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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
Yes, let's all conclude that President Clinton was secretly against the federal government having a balanced budget, and that his public stance favoring fiscal restraint was a mere facade for the stereotypic pathological desire to spend in excess of revenue, which of course he had to hide from the electorate in 1992, him being a knee-jerk liar and all. Let's also conclude that the Republican majority heroically rammed a balanced budget down Clinton's throat,
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Your confusing political slogans with hard political choices; to illustrate. Clinton would favor becoming slimmer, sure. He was not, however, willing to skip the occasional Egg McMuffin.
What happened in the early Clinton 1 term is that the Republicans drove the balanced concept. Clinton was forced to sign on, and choices he otherwise would not have made were made. So while he might have said he "favored" balanced budgets, they would not have happened without Newt's guys.
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but concluded in 2001 that, while it should have credit for all balanced budgets between 1993 and 2000, this was now considered a Very Bad Idea by some Very Smart Economists, and the perspective of time allowed us to see that it's Very Wise to spend more than one has, because one's children will be richer and will have nothing better to do with the public fisc than service debt incurred in 2004.
Because that is the most plausible way to reconcile then and now.
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some of what drove the Republicans in early Clinton times was a desire to fuck with Billy, sure, but I think there was a legitimate desire to not allow the wild Dem's to spend. What's going on now is there is no one calling bullshit on the Republicans. We need the Dems to take back the Senate. this is why some of us keep trying to teach you how to see the world; we're hopeful you'll convey some strategies in your party meetings and you'll win a few seats back.
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Having login problems? I thought you reserved dumb partisan statements for your other socks.
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You know, it wasn't until I'd read this three times that I realized it was a compliment. On Fashion, I'm supposed to be the dumb sock, now here I'm the smart one. All y'all are wrong. I don't post as anyone else here. This whole sock thing confounds me, and I'm going to take a more aggressive approach when accused from now on. I will start a sock rumor back.....
Hey, everyone, you know its Atticus psoting as F. Supplestein on infirm, don't you?
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Edited to add: I just realized you were "having me on," as the British say. Clinton being unwilling to do something that polling showed was overwhelmingly popular, and would get him reelected with the margin that he ultimately experienced in 1996?Clinton's will was indistinguishable from whatever the most advanced polling technology showed was a foregone conclusion.
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see answer to your first part, oh and I Shit bigger'n you.
contidential to AG: you were really cranky yesterday, gosh.
