From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:25:42 -0500, Robert Comer
 wrote:

>> While I'm outraged by current GOP spending, it doesn't follow that
>> replacing them all with Dems is going to fix that problem.
>
> Just that I'd agree, but if you look at past history of the two parties,
> it's clear that the Democrats are very much closer to fiscal
> responsibility
> than the Republicans.  All you have to do is look at the graph for the
> deficit over the last 25 years...
>
>> If anything it  would be worse.  Mixed government with political
>> deadlock
>> would be far  better.
>
> Given a choice, I'd take deadlock 1st as the best option too, but
> republicans would be dead last in this decision.
>

No, if you're comparing histories you have to include the effort of
President Clinton and her husband to take over 1/7th of the US economy --
probably the single biggest reason they lost both houses of Congress.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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