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Uh huh. More revisionist history.

President Clinton happens to be in office at the same time as the greatest expansion of the equity markets in human financial history, and you guys:

1) Claim credit for it, which is like an astronomer claiming credit for the Lunar eclipse; and

2) Have the audacity to suggest that the party that gave us both the persistent economic problems of the New Deal (for those of you in Washington State, the Social Security system was created by FDR) and the Great Society (created by LBJ, and responsible for the perpetuation of a permanent povertied underclass in the USA) is the party of fiscal conservatism.

Let me refresh your memories: the "Surplus" was the result of a dramatic expansion of the economy during the late 1990's. This expansion was caused by the technology boom. Government policy has NOTHING to do with it, unless you consider Al Gore's "invention" of the Internet to be the fundamental catalyst for that growth period.

One more time: the Democratic party has a consistent history of enacting expansions of the federal budget whenever the opportunity presents itself. This is also entirely consistent with the "big government" approach, that is premised on the assumption that academic elites, because they are "smarter" than the rest of Americans, have a monopoly on political judgment and therefore are entitled to impose their views on the majority. And this is also behind the principles of judicial activism, using unelected, undemocratic methods to advance their political agenda. Does this sound familiar?

Superman, what kind of political naïveté leads you to suggest that we have the ability to put the genie back in the bottle once entitlement programs are expanded? SOP on Capitol Hill is to perceive "a decrease in the rate of increase" as a cut. Once a dependency is created, it's pretty difficult to roll it back.

But I'm glad to see your rising concern over the expansion of federal spending. That's one thing we have in common.