Commentary: A history lesson for Rush Limbaugh - CNN.com
Gee, commander Q-Ball comes back to defend partisanship. So, on the Iraq war, the DEMOCRATS in the Senate were over 50% in favor of the war resolution. The Democrats in the House of course new it was going to pass with 215 Republicans voting for it, but 82 of them still joined the Republicans. So, **IF** we followed the "proportional popular vote idea", we would have STILL gone to war!
How about "regulation"? Well, it was REPUBLICANS that wanted to increase regulation on Freddy and Fannie to head off the sub-prime crisis, and it was DEMOCRATS like Charlie Ranglel and Barney Frank that defened the program because it allowed poorer people to get homes.
Slick WIllie would have never had a surplus without the combination of the Republcian Congress and the Internet Bubble -- the "surplus" was a function of Republicans cutting the rate of growth in medicare (and taking a lot of heat for it) and taxes on captial gains taken during the bubble. As we see now, when Democrats control congress, they are good at MUCH larger deficits! 2x -- 3x ... I don't think we even know. It is and was CONGRESS that sets the budget! The President just signs it.
So Carville needs a bit of history study before he does his responses.
Gee, commander Q-Ball comes back to defend partisanship. So, on the Iraq war, the DEMOCRATS in the Senate were over 50% in favor of the war resolution. The Democrats in the House of course new it was going to pass with 215 Republicans voting for it, but 82 of them still joined the Republicans. So, **IF** we followed the "proportional popular vote idea", we would have STILL gone to war!
How about "regulation"? Well, it was REPUBLICANS that wanted to increase regulation on Freddy and Fannie to head off the sub-prime crisis, and it was DEMOCRATS like Charlie Ranglel and Barney Frank that defened the program because it allowed poorer people to get homes.
Slick WIllie would have never had a surplus without the combination of the Republcian Congress and the Internet Bubble -- the "surplus" was a function of Republicans cutting the rate of growth in medicare (and taking a lot of heat for it) and taxes on captial gains taken during the bubble. As we see now, when Democrats control congress, they are good at MUCH larger deficits! 2x -- 3x ... I don't think we even know. It is and was CONGRESS that sets the budget! The President just signs it.
So Carville needs a bit of history study before he does his responses.
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