re: #51 rwmofo

Clinton balanced the budget? Oh, right. I can’t remember what the Republican-controlled congress was doing then. Maybe they were at a baseball game that day.

Yes - Wasn’t it the Republicans who insisted on a balanced budget? Who were tired of 30 years of spiralling deficits and said the deficit could be erased in 7 years? (And who did it in 4?) Didn’t Clinton have to submit 4 or 5 budgets before he submitted a balanced one Congress could work with?

Clinton just gets the credit because he happened to be President then.