bill718
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Dear Democrats - As an Independent, I'm shaking my head at what you've become in the last 3 decades.
Bill Clinton left office in 2000 as one of the most popular Presidents in history, and he did so despite his womanizing ways with Monica Lewinski, a hostile Republican Congress for several years, and a government shutdown. So, how did he do this? That I can explain in 4 words: It's The Economy Stupid! President Clinton didn't spend much time sniveling about his political opponents, fussing over the rights of every racial and sexual minority on the planet, and making the working-class white man the poster boy for all of America's problems. President Clinton put forth a platform of fiscal responsibility, closing the tax loopholes so billionaires must pay at least something in taxes (Michael Bloomberg, Carl Icahn, George Soros, Jeff Bezos and many other billionaires have paid nothing at all for years) he beefed-up the law enforcement arm of the IRS to crack down on deadbeats who simply don't file at all, and to use every weapon in his Presidential arsenal to help the working class; and it worked! When Clinton left office, America had a federal surplus for the 1st time in nearly a century, and a robust economy.
- - and then, things began to go wrong - did they not? 8 years of "W" and his war with Iraq (we're still looking for those weapons of mass destruction that was supposed to justify that war) and W's deregulation mania that allowed the sale of mortgage packages with little or no value that ultimately crashed the economy and blessed us with the great recession. Yet, when I watch MSNBC or CNN today (not much anymore) All I hear is lots of sniveling about Donald Trump, fussing over the rights of every racial and sexual minority on the planet, and making the working-class white man the poster boy for all of America's problems - and there you sit Democrats, scratching your collective backsides, wondering why you lost. You have a blueprint for success; you might consider following it!
President Clinton was right when he said: "Getting Democrats to agree on a course of action is like herding cats!"
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Bill Clinton left office in 2000 as one of the most popular Presidents in history, and he did so despite his womanizing ways with Monica Lewinski, a hostile Republican Congress for several years, and a government shutdown. So, how did he do this? That I can explain in 4 words: It's The Economy Stupid! President Clinton didn't spend much time sniveling about his political opponents, fussing over the rights of every racial and sexual minority on the planet, and making the working-class white man the poster boy for all of America's problems. President Clinton put forth a platform of fiscal responsibility, closing the tax loopholes so billionaires must pay at least something in taxes (Michael Bloomberg, Carl Icahn, George Soros, Jeff Bezos and many other billionaires have paid nothing at all for years) he beefed-up the law enforcement arm of the IRS to crack down on deadbeats who simply don't file at all, and to use every weapon in his Presidential arsenal to help the working class; and it worked! When Clinton left office, America had a federal surplus for the 1st time in nearly a century, and a robust economy.
- - and then, things began to go wrong - did they not? 8 years of "W" and his war with Iraq (we're still looking for those weapons of mass destruction that was supposed to justify that war) and W's deregulation mania that allowed the sale of mortgage packages with little or no value that ultimately crashed the economy and blessed us with the great recession. Yet, when I watch MSNBC or CNN today (not much anymore) All I hear is lots of sniveling about Donald Trump, fussing over the rights of every racial and sexual minority on the planet, and making the working-class white man the poster boy for all of America's problems - and there you sit Democrats, scratching your collective backsides, wondering why you lost. You have a blueprint for success; you might consider following it!
President Clinton was right when he said: "Getting Democrats to agree on a course of action is like herding cats!"


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