"?baMa? Tse Dung" wrote in message
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Whenever the party that controls the White House does not also control
Capitol Hill, political pundits worry that there will be "gridlock" in
Washington, so that the government cannot solve the nation's problems.

Almost never is that fear based on what actually happens when there is
divided government, compared to what happens when one party has a
monopoly of both legislative and executive branches.

The last time the federal government had a budget surplus, instead of
its usual deficits, there was divided government. That was when the
Republicans controlled the House of Representatives, where all
spending bills originate, and Bill Clinton was in the White House. The
media called it "the Clinton surplus."

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Do you call it the St Reagan deficit?
Do you call it the HW Bush deficit?
Do you call it the bush,jr financial disaster, debt, deficit and unfunded
unfinished wars?

Hypocrite!