Originally posted by midnight Target
[Bimplemented this and Clinton balanced the budget when he was in office.)
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History is so inconvenient.
AS I pointed out in another thread:
During Bill Clinton's Presidency there was an overall steady downward trend in spending for both terms considering Bush 1's spending. Democrats controlled both houses of Congress for the first 2 years of Clinton's first term. Republicans took control of both houses of Congress for the last 6 years of the Clinton presidency. So the last 75% of those declining years the Congress was totally under Republican control.
You might remember that the Republican takeover of Congress in 1994 led to a push for a balanced budget as part of the Republican Contract with America campaign.
The historical fact is that a Republican Congress balanced the budget and Clinton was forced to go along with it. No way he could have not accepted a balanced budget sent to him by both houses of Congress.
Sorry for injecting a little reality into that stroll down memory lane.