Not Quite

This AP article about the impending fight between President Bush and Congress over the funding bill has a strange twist to history.  Talking about the last time a President and Congress fought over a budget, the reporter says:

 

The looming showdown was reminiscent of the GOP-led fight with President Clinton over the 1996 budget, which caused a partial government shutdown that lasted 27 days. Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., the House speaker at the time, eventually relented but claimed victory because the bill represented a substantial savings over the previous year's spending.

That's the first time I have ever heard anyone say that the budget fight of 1996 was a victory for Congress.  Newt may have claimed victory, but it was widely acknowledged by everyone that Clinton was the victor in that fight.  I'm guessing that it's a bit of the ol' let's rewrite history and hope the public is stupid enough to buy it. 

Comments

[Anti-Whiner]

Liar Diggs is still the last idiot to get the joke. The Democrats will give Bush what he wants, i.e., the unrestricted funding. But they will have made their point, and made it in a highly visible way for all to see.

In doing so, they will force Republicans to declare where they stand on the most important question of the day to an electorate that is two-thirds against the Boy Liar's fiasco. But, at the same time, they'll be able to say that they never bugged out on funding for the troops in the field.

Net effect: "Hey America, behold the Boy Liar and his smashing defeat!"

Domenici
Warner
Allard
Chambliss
Coleman
Collins
Smith

Seven seats. Hmm, I wonder how the nutcases will feel when it's 58-42 Democratic there. And what will it be like when the Democrats pick up, say, another 35 seats in the House and make it 268-167. That ought to give Presidentrix Hillary Rodham Clinton some room to maneuver, don't you think?

Shoe's on the other foot, Liar Diggs. Tight, maybe?

[Anti-Whiner]

Oops, missed one. Sununu. The Boy Liar has a 17% approval rating in New Hampshire, but Sununu voted for his war. Thanks, John! Made my day.

http://tinyurl.com/3co5g8

And you never know about Elizabeth Dole in North Carolina. Word is that, Liar Diggs aside, the Boy Liar and his war and its brownshirt enablers have become somewhat less popular among the military families there. Something about all those coffins and wheelchairs.