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Carville: A History Lesson for Rush Limbaugh

Posted by Bob Wood aka TrekTek on Monday, February 02, 2009 12:24:23 AM
President Bill Clinton's Chief Political Advisor James Carville weighs in on Rush Limbaugh's "bipartisan" economic stimulus plan.  And, although Rush certainly does not need me to intercede on his behalf, I just can not help myself.  After all, I have been absent for some six weeks...

Carville: A history lesson for Rush Limbaugh

Carville seems to be rewriting history:
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Why surely it seems like just yesterday that Al Gore won the national popular vote in 2000 (and arguably won the popular vote in Florida too).

Arguably, maybe. But the facts don't back you up, James.

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I'm sure President Bush and the Republicans in Congress graciously accepted their 49.5 percent share of everything. (Note: We would be much better off right now had this actually happened.)

Wasn't it Trent Lott, R-MS, who wanted to share the Senate leadership with Democrats? As for being better off, that IS arguable.

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With 50 percent of the federal government during President Bush's term, Democrats might have reduced the deficit (a truly Clintonista idea).

Wasn't it Clinton who kept saying "We could balance the budget in ten years. Six years. Eight years." The Republican Congress did it in four years. Too bad it didn't last...

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Wall Street might have been more heavily regulated and K Street's lobbyists might not have been running the Capitol.

Regulation, or the lack thereof, is not strictly a partisan thing. The Democrats effectively turned their back on regulating Fannie and Freddie, and, in fact, blocked any reforms there while their friends made millions.

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Democrats might have invested money into infrastructure improvements so that bridges didn't collapse or entire cities flood.

That would have required responsibility from an elected official. So, no, it would not have happened.

And floods happen. It was Louisiana (your home state, James) Democrats who wasted all of the federal money that had been allocated for levee improvements on pork schemes.

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Heck, had Democrats been able to control 50 percent of the government from 2000 to 2004, we wouldn't have even gone into Iraq in the first place. There might have been more spending on education and a fully funded No Child Left Behind Act.

It was President Clinton who established the national policy of "regime change in Iraq", and then left it to the next President to effect it.  And millions of Iraqis would not have gone to the polls this past week to elect over 450 representatives to run their government.  And some 200 of the people running for election were women, which would have never happened had our troops not overthrown Saddam Hussein.  
 
More spending on education? Bush allowed Ted Kennedy, D-MA, to write his first education bill. And what has all of the prior spending on education bought us? Lower results by every measurement and high school graduates who can not read the diplomas they have been awarded.  (Notice, I did not say earned...)

Yeah, I think it is Carville who is rewriting history...
 
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