From: "Robert Comer" 

> 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.

Nope, not at all, look at the deficit graphs.

--
Bob Comer


"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
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> 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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