[backhoe]

As I recall, you don't care much for Rubin...

[dirtboy]

She then countered: "One small problem: He didn't. 'Blaming Clinton is absolutely ridiculous,' ex-Treasury Secretary Bob Rubin told me."

You mean, the same Bob Rubin now ensnared in the the Citigroup assistance to the Enron fiasco? Gloria, it's a bitch being over-taken by events.

[Texas_Jarhead]

"[In the 1990s] "Productivity was up," says Rubin. "Unemployment was way down." So what happened? "Corporate debt was up and so was the stock market. There had to be a period of adjustment." Who gets the blame? No one in particular, says Rubin. But, he adds, the trillion-dollar tax cut has only made it worse...."

what in the hell does an income tax cut have to do with corporate debt and a falling stock market. HOW FRICKIN RIDICULOUS!