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Originally Posted by djplong
Bush didn't have the mess to clean up that Obama did. Remember, under Clinton, we ran a surplus. Obama inherited a record-breaking deficit that was poised to get worse because of TARP and the prescription drug giveaway cost increases (among other things) and aggravated further by the worst recession in 70 years.
Reagan got away with over 4 years of blaming previous administrations and especially the Democrat-controlled Congress for the mess we were in back then. Quite frankly I agreed with him.
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Give us a break. Clinton was forced to go to the right when his extreme left-wing agenda was torpedoed. There was a thing in 1994 called The Contract with America that was lead by Newt Gingrich and Republicans.
Your memory is very selective, huh?