Hillary, your false face is showing

[Shamus]

Ya I remember the peace dividend talked about a lot back then, maybe the military didn't need to be as big after the U.S.S.R fell apart, and before all you guys jump on me about 9/11, that was an intelligence failure not a military one.

I do remember Clinton signing welfare reform, that was a huge savings to the budget and still is.

The guy we got in there now really poured huge money into social programs ie: the convoluted senior drug program, one of the biggest boondoggles I have seen.

Nope, we have anything but a conservative occupying 1600 now.

shamus

[midnight Target]

Plus I think it is unseemly for ya'll to be talking about our next president in such a fashion.

[Shamus]

Do you think the omnipotent power for the executive branch is going to be be touted by the same folks then?

shamus

[midnight Target]

I expect there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

[Holden McGroin]

Originally posted by midnight Target

Clinton was the most fiscally conservative President since Kennedy.

Originally posted by Shamus
Thats the part that blows my mind to this day.

I goofed and voted for GW the first time, about two years into his first term I said to myself "my god we are getting the worst of both words with this guy"

I would compare his fiscal policies to a drunken sailors, but I don't want to disparage drunken sailors.

shamus

Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;  

Why is it that if Congress controls the taxation, borrowing and bill paying that the President is the one who gets credit or blame for the budget deficit?

[midnight Target]

Because unless there is a veto level majority, the president has a huge amount of control over the budget. And it is the executive branch that presents the budget every year.

[Holden McGroin]

When the President presents his budget, does he ask for the bridges to nowhere and federally funded pottery museums too?  

Vote out congress and we can maybe get change.

[midnight Target]

You mean the republican controlled congress that has been in power since 94 and was just "voted out" last year... that congress?

[Holden McGroin]

No, I mean the 96% of congress that gets re-elected each time regardless of party.

Make a 5th term the exception in the house and a 3rd term in the Senate a rare occurance and we may change the status quo

[AKIron]

Originally posted by midnight Target
I expect there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Indeed. Idaho may get crowded.

[Arlo]

Originally posted by Dago
Wow Arlo, you could not have illustrated your left bent better if you tried.  You followed exactly the example of the moronic little leftie college kids who would yell and disrupt a conservative trying to give a speech at a college because they didn't agree.

You follow the example: Don't let someone have a say because you don't agree with them.  You just instead change my words to what you want to hear, you can't risk another persons opinion being stated, you would rather restrict their right to free speech.

Oh geez. You're actually whining about having your "freedom of speech" restricted?

[Dago]

Originally posted by Arlo
Oh geez. You're actually whining about having your "freedom of speech" restricted?

No, not at all, but since you are appearing more and more dense, I can spell it out for you if need be.  Just let me know if you need help with your basic comprehension skills, they certainly appear lacking.

[Arlo]

Originally posted by Dago
No, not at all, but since you are appearing more and more dense, I can spell it out for you if need be.  Just let me know if you need help with your basic comprehension skills, they certainly appear lacking.

Thanks for the offer. Let me reply, in kind, with an offer to help you get over your projection and insecurity issues. Repeat after me:

Mongo ... errr .... Dago read more better and not feel threatened.

[AWMac]

*shivers*

[Arlo]

Not the scariest photoshop I've seen. *ShruG*

Now this ...




 ..... that's downright disturbing.