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Originally Posted by Joshua G
yes. in feb 1991, president george HW bush decided. after pushing Iraq out of Kuwait, not to push into iraq to topple saddam hussein, fearing getting entangled in a quagmire.
the republican congress in the late 90s, passed balanced budgets. never happened under 40 years of democrat congress back in the day.
In september 2005, president george W Bush allowed the state of louisiana & the city of new orleans to fend for themselves during a record hurricane. This exposed how liberals prepare & respond to natural disasters.
but one thing you libs would love...repubs passed a prescription drug benefit totally unpaid for. If you dont love that then your not a democrat.
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That's quite a list of accomplishments there. The first gulf war that gave us 9/11 and set the stage for the clusterfuck we have going on now and Katrina. Wow, I'd hate to hear your list of republican failures.
As far as balancing the budget in the 90's, that was done by Clinton and the dems which Gingrich tried to take credit for.
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Gingrich became speaker of the House in 1995, after Republicans won control of the chamber in the 1994 midterm elections, two years into Clinton??s presidency. In 1993, the Democratic majority in Congress passed ?? and Clinton signed ?? a budget bill that raised taxes on the wealthy, cut taxes for small businesses and for the poor, and required that future budgets balance and reduce the deficit. Not a single Republican voted for that bill.
After the 1993 bill, revenues shot up.
"Ninety percent of the budget was balanced before the Balanced Budget Act was ever passed,? Clinton said, referring to the 1997 bill that Gingrich touts as a signature achievement.
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Bill Clinton: Gingrich opposed bill that led to balanced budgets - latimes