...and a Republican Congress and DOMA and "Don't ask ,Don't tell" and Hillarycare. Does Hillary get credit for all of those things too?
God the 1990s were awful.
The 1990's were great, but pretending that Clinton had anything to do with the dot com bubble that fueled the economic growth of the 1990's is naive. BC was an incredible Politician but he stumbled quite a bit too. DOMA is a disgraceful example of such a stumble. As was his impeachment.
which was a large part of the economy back then. The dot-com was everything agrument is right out of the RNC talking points book. Ending the deficit like Clinton was extremely important, so much that Alan Greenspan endorsed his 1993 budget with a passion, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.ht ml?res=9F0CE0DC163EF935A25751C0A96595826 0 The Clinton adminstration also promoted the internet with much funding, and free trade that they supported may have played an important role. DOMA was a smart move too, it was not only veto proof, but Clinton wasn't gonna lose re-election by being against it. Gay marriage cost Kerry 2004. Impeachment wasn't his fault either, it was the GOP positioning themselves for 2000.
Deficit reduction was a good thing and he deserves credit for it, but if you think the government budget drives the economy then you are wrong. It is the opposite.
We will never agree about DOMA.
Impeachment was his fault. He did something wrong and lied about it when he got caught. Let's not pretend he bears no responsibility for his decisions.
