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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (26933)10/4/2004 8:38:52 AM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
The Republican Congress and the Contract with America was responsible for the decline during Clinton's years.

You don't recall Clinton's showdown with Newt over the budget? Newt lost. Look at the chart again before the Repulicans took control of Congress; expenditures were going down. When the Republicans came in, expenditures went up.

Ford vetoed more laws than any President before him.

A laughable statement. Ford came no where near FDR. No one has come close to FDR.

Reagan browbeat Democrats into funding miltary increases, and Star Wars. As wth all political discussions, concession came at a cost. Democrats reaped a windfall.

Republicans controlled the Senate for 6 of the 8 years. Reagan wasn't chinchy on vetoes either, he was the 8th most frequent. He never vetoed an appropriations bill.

Democrats knew they had Bush 41 after the "Read My Lips" quote and sent him lard on top of pork.

After 40 years of Democratic control of the House the entire Federal budget had 2,000 pork projects. After 6 years of Republican control the Federal budget had 10,000 pork projects.

Pan through the other charts at Heritage. There is no correlation between who controls Congress and budget expenditures. There is a correlation with which party controls the White House. "Fiscally conservative" left the GOP decades ago.

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