The Economy: Does It Take a Clinton to Clean Up After a Bush?

Townhall.com ^ | November 29, 2007 | Larry Elder

[Signalman]

Bush, then Clinton...then Bush...and now, possibly again...Clinton.

Is this a Republic or a Monarchy?

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[VRWCmember]

Why do you say that?

Why not say that?

What is it about the column that you find to be a joke?

[LibLieSlayer]

I’ve just seen Townhall op eds that tout rootie winning... mitt winning... and then this. It just seems to be less Conservative than in the past. It may just be me fed up with bias everywhere you look and listen.

LLS

[MEGoody]

What she really means is “it takes a Clinton to clean out your wallet after a Bush tax cut”.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Good stuff from Larry Elder. A few other things he could have mentioned:

Clinton’s Tax Increases were back-dated to be effective prior to his inauguration. This was one of the contributors to the very slow recovery in 1993-4. It wasn’t until the GOP was voted into control of Congress in 1994 that the economy really picked up.

One of the major contributors to the improvement in the deficit from Bush I and into Clinton’s first term was the fact that the Resolution Trust Corp. went from bailing out failed S&L’s (the Clintons know all about those) and taking those losses on the books of the Feds, to spinning out newly cleaned up S&Ls which helped generate a very nice “swing” in favor of the Feds by mid-decade.

Of course, we also know how the Clintons squandered the peace dividend: cutting back the military by around 40% and decimating the budget for the CIA — but that didn’t hurt our military readiness, did it?????

Yeah, so I’ll look forward to Hillary’s “clean-up” efforts following GWB’s term in office. What blanking gall!

[EyeGuy]

Very educational post. Thank you. Now I will have to try to find a way to sleep tonight .

[LibLieSlayer]

Yes, but I am sick of these media titles and several biased op eds today... ALL from Townhall. Heck, I just heard ‘toon did an interview on CSPAN out Friday, where he says Ronald Reagan could and SHOULD have been impeached. I guess I am just boiling over today.

LLS

[LibLieSlayer]

Just read my last two posts at the end of this thread... the headline screams anti-Bush but the body of the article is actually good. Two other op eds from Townhall were bogus today... so I guess I just vented.

LLS

[Hot Tabasco]

As of 11/7/2000, I had lost over 1/3 of my retirement savings...........Thank you Bill!

As of today, I have not only recovered those losses but have realized a substantial increase in my investments.....Thank you GW!

[meyer]

"There seems to be a pattern here. It takes a Clinton to clean up after a Bush."

Bad mental image.

To the point, though - the economy was rolling along fairly smoothly since Bush took office, until the Republicans gave up the house and Senate. I think that the correct phrase might be "it takes a sane person to clean up after a group of whacky liberals".

[VRWCmember]

the headline screams anti-Bush but the body of the article is actually good.

Well, since I knew that the source of the line was hillary's one-liner, I read the question mark at the end of the headline as a challenge to hillary's quip -- even before I saw the source or read the article. Perhaps it would have been clearer if the title had been "The Economy: Does It REALLY Take a Clinton to Clean Up After a Bush?" but that's a bit of a nit-pick. Townhall is a collection of conservatives with very diverse views and opinions. It is not surprising to find diversity in the candidates they are supporting at this stage of the primary.

[VRWCmember]

If you go to the columnists page and view the titles of all columns highlighted today, you will find a few that appear to support Romney and/or Guiliani, and you'll also find several that appear to suggest that the GOP can and should do better than either of those. Like I said in my earlier post, the diversity of opinions on the conservative side of the spectrum is on display there.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/

[LibLieSlayer]

Thanks for the link and civility. I am going there to read now.

LLS

[napscoordinator]

Why mess with the economy that was totally good under the 7 years of President Bush?

People don’t think that the economy is good because they have to pay more for gas and milk. I hear it all the time. People are crazy!!!!

[Milhous]

The reality is that on a typical day you probably cannot remember anything in the newspaper from exactly 5 years ago. There is only so much going on that is actually important, and reported daily developments ordinarily are of no enduring significance.

Wise words. Bravo! Most of America's national conversation seems like much ado about absolutely nothing.

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Coral Ridge Ministries, proclaiming truths that transform the world.

[untrained skeptic]

I agree with you in regards to the misleading and irritating titles.

[rlmorel]

I am sure those weren’t the only stains.

[PGalt]

Bumping a lot of great posts (sorry I know I missed several).

[Jimmy Valentine]

A very good statement, if a little mild. Not to criticize, but it could be warmed up some more ;)