The Republicans love to take the credit for it curbing spending and shrinking government, but when a GOP president got in the white house all pretense went out the window. The pork barrel spending as careened madly.

The difference between the Dems and the Repubs is that the Repubs “claim” to be about something, but do the opposite. The Dems make no claims, but have been far more fiscally responsible.

In the entire history of the US, the deficit is about $9 trillion – half of which was incurred with a Bush in the white house. Add Reagan, and fully 70 percent of that $9 trillion was incurred by Republicans.

That’s since 1776!

Those numbers are staggering and scream to the lie of GOP fiscal responsibility. Please explain to me how you can continue to believe the fantasy that it was only the GOP forcing Clinton to reduce spending, when the GOP at every opportunity has spent like drunken sailors on shore leave whenever they could.

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gerryf, please. Bill Clinton downsized some things, but only after the ‘94 routing which brought the GOP Congress to town. If you want to argue that only divided govt has any fiscal restraint, then you’d be absolutely correct, but trying to claim that a Democratic president took it upon himself to reduce spending is laughable.

Kind of biased language, don’t you think?

Handouts? Coming on the heels of eight years of Republican leadership that saw endless “handouts” to the rich, corporations, and assorted friends of Bush, that kind of statement elicits a chuckle.

It really is time to put the laughable GOP myths of small government, fiscal conservatism, and staying out of individual’s lives to bed. Since 1980, Republicans have been all about spending, bigger government, meddling, constitutional flaunting…

The only President to even attempt to do these things was Clinton, a democrat. How about we vote in a Democratic majority large enough to undo all the madness and nonsense of the last 8 years?