Either so batshit crazy that it scares even the mnoderators, or, and I think this is more likely, liberal and/or opposing viewpoints.

I had no love for the Southern Strategizing son-of-a-bitch… but he at least tried to do his best by our country, by his own lights. After the Beirut fiasco, he had the sense to have our boys ‘n’ girls pack up and go home!

That dumb son-of-a-bitch (and I use that term both literally and advisedly) currently shitting on the Oval Office? Not nearly so much.

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I wonder what the hell you’d need to say in that thread to have your post removed.

Probably “I liked Molly Ivins”.

…Spending was held in check because the GOP Congress … Jay

Let’s end the silly revisionist crap. Clinton’s policies made the economy good, his restraint was designed to lower the deficit and pay down the national debt. RepubliConTarians borrow and spend like they are the most privileged on the planet. All you have to do is remember the out-of-control spending and borrowing during the Reagan/Bush years and now the insane economic policies of the current resident.

We must push forcefully for a timely withdrawal of our troops from Iraq. We must stop the Bush administration from terrorizing Iran and from escalating this senseless war. In the memory of Molly Ivins, we must halt brutality, torture, and violence against Iraqis and other people who are completely blameless.

R.I.P. Molly. We love you.

now where can I get one of those Aqua Teen “devices?”

It is the spirit of America that makes it great. We can all disagree till the cows come home, but I’d still throw down a pint with anyone in this discussion!

Except for the Levitt thing (which is a laugher- Look up Levitt and Enron.) you pretty much agree.

SIGH.

RIP, Molly Ivins. I’m sure your heaven is full a good spellers and truthiness.

“No, my president made it great again, and your president ruined America!”

The size of government shrunk during the Clinton years. By working with the GOP Congress he took millions of tax takers (welfare recipients) and turned them to tax makers (employed, tax paying citizens). Of course he had to veto the first 2 versions before he got one that he thought would work.

The dot.com bubble and its bursting leads directly back to the Reagan years of deregulation. Levitt and Clinton tried to infuse some sanity into the system but were rebuffed by the same Congress you extol.

You are right that many bought into the system – it is called optimism, a factor that many economists would argue is a major part of any good economy. Little did the optimists know that they were speculators being led down a shyster’s path.

People like Terry McAiliff and Bush’s father who knew enough to cash out at the top paid a bit of those high tax revenues you mention. No worry though, they had plenty left over after they sent Uncle Sam his meager 20% cut.

Oh please. Enough with the revisionist history. The deficit went down during “the Clinton years” because of an economic windfall thanks to the dot-com bubble. It was record tax receipts thanks to record employment (companies like Govworks.com started with 8 people and had as many as 250 people working for them before they went under. And it all took just about 2 years to happen) thanks to a business model that everybody and their grandmother bought into.

Spending was held in check because the GOP Congress didn’t give Clinton all the money he requested, which goes to show the benefit of divided government more than anything.

Geesh Marty, Reagan’s building up of the MIC put is in debt so far that we’ll never get out. The Clinton years demonstrated how out country flourishes when we don’t overfeed the military beast.

Ask yourself a single question about those horrid Carter years – who controlled oil prices and who controlled interest rates at the time? Hint, it wasn’t a peanut farmer from Georgia.

So Marty, where is the peace dividend now? War without end, a near doubling of the national debt in 6 short years, and no end in sight.

You’re not missing anything.

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Look, I don’t like moral equivocations. It’s just wrong to celebrate a person’s death, especially one in which a person battled a horrible sickness like cancer. It doesn’t matter one bit if people said nasty things about Ronald Reagan. For the first time, I am seeing up close what cancer does to a person (my father in law) and it is not something I would wish on anybody.

Which country? Nicaragua? El Salvador? Guatemala?

Hah!

Wingnuts. Too stupid to breathe.