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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: RMF who wrote (40174)1/4/2010 12:33:59 PM
From: Peter Dierks1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 71588
 
You have a difficult time blaming democrats but find it easy to blame Republicans. I don't need revisionist history to praise President Reagan for winning the Cold War. I don't need revisionist history to see the fingerprints of President Bush's Middle East strategy all over the destabilization of Iran.

I am not always intellectually honest with myself, but I fancy my batting average higher than yours.

Carter did battle over spending with the same democrats who controlled Congress during President Reagan's Presidency. President Reagan had an end game in mind and had to submit to Tip O'Neil's spending excesses to get anything through the House of Representatives.

If you recall while President Reagan inspired the reclaiming of the US Senate to Republican control, democrats remained in control of the House.

I have previously stated that once President Bush 41 was in office democrats piled on huge spending increases in an attempt to force him to recant his "No new taxes" pledge. They succeeded in running up quite a deficit.

Just to remind you that I was a huge critic of President Bush 43's failure to control spending.

Clinton had two gimmicks that allowed him to claim to balance the budget despite the huge spending increases on discretionary items. First Payroll taxes were increased in 1993. Second the Roth IRA caused millions of Americans to prepay taxes on the promise they wouldn't be taxed on the money again later.

Without both of those gimmicks he would be recorded as the spendthrift he was.

In additional in a reaction to the tax increases and Healthcare takeover fiasco Republicans retook Congress in 1994. Even you should agree that the battles between Republicans and Clinton resulted in far less spending increases than would have if tax and spend democrats had retained control.
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