If we had a Republican, or an asshole, or an asshole Republican for the last 8 years - would you still write off ten trillion dollars as smart, or necessary, or unavoidable - or all of the above?
If he'd done the same things for the same reasons, or probably if he had done the same things for different reasons even, with the same outcome... yes. But we have to go back to Nixon for a Republican with that much economic and civic sense, and he was pretty damn dodgy in other ways too, as we know. But WJC failed in that regard too, though he and the voters didn't know it as the economy was behaving differently during his tenure and it took a few years more to unravel properly.
Gods, I can't believe I'm praising Tricky Dicky with faint damns.
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Date: 24/12/17 13:04 (UTC)If he'd done the same things for the same reasons, or probably if he had done the same things for different reasons even, with the same outcome... yes. But we have to go back to Nixon for a Republican with that much economic and civic sense, and he was pretty damn dodgy in other ways too, as we know. But WJC failed in that regard too, though he and the voters didn't know it as the economy was behaving differently during his tenure and it took a few years more to unravel properly.
Gods, I can't believe I'm praising Tricky Dicky with faint damns.