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To: Sam who wrote (110906)	5/7/2009 5:43:55 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541582

Republicans screamed bloody murder about the tax increases that Clinton and Democrats pushed through Did you actually read my post? I never claimed or implied that Republicans supported the tax increases. My point is that the tax increase was only one of many (and not the biggest) reason behind the deficit cuts of the time. Republicans helped keep non-military spending from increasing, and they would have done so to an even greater extent if it had not been for Clinton basically winning the "shut down the government" battle. (Since losing that battle Republicans have, at least when they have some degree of power, rather then being purely in the opposition, increasingly moved away from fiscal conservatism.) And if you still want to ascribe fiscal virtue to Republicans Generally I ascribe no such virtue to Republicans. There are always individuals (in both parties) that have it, and the Republican congresses in the Clinton/Gingrich era had that virtue collectively, but that virtue is usually rare in Washington. Usually both parties either openly work against it, or pay it lip service while really undermining it.