How do you explain this?
Clinton presided over the longest period of peacetime economic expansion in American history.
Easy. Tech bubble(business cycle trending upward in general). GOP congress. And, in retrospect(and just my opinion), a far more more centrist governing philosophy then I originally thought.
How do you explain the budget surplus that Bush inherited and blew?
Easy. Tech bubble bursting(1999). Unsustainable housing bubble. WAR ON TERROR. The 2005 hurricane season(claims to the national flood insurance program ALONE were $16 billion. How much was that Clinton surplus again?) A bunch of damn RINOs in congress for his first term, and the dem take over in 2007.