It was . . . he was great at crafting legislation that back ended a lot of stuff, and living large off the vaporware of the .com "revolution" (soon bust) . . . I'd also point out that for much Clinton's presidency there were actually real conservatives running the show in Congress which moved Clinton well towards the Center.
dont present facts, dude... you'll confuse the donk'tards.
Facts? You mean like the fact that when Clinton left office, the United States was experiencing the largest budget surplus in US history?
It seems to me like all the right wing lunatics want to do is blame Clinton's success on everything but Clinton himself.
Surplus?
9/30/1987 Reagan/Democrat Congress
$2,350,276,890,953.00
9/30/1988 Reagan/Democrat Congress
$2,602,337,712,041.16 +$252,060,821,088.16
9/30/1989 Bush/Democrat Congress
$2,857,430,960,187.32 +$255,093,248146.16
9/30/1990 Bush/Democrat Congress
$3,233,313,451,777.25 +$375,882,491,589.93
9/30/1991 Bush/Democrat Congress
$3,665,303,351,697.03 +$431,989,899,919.78
9/30/1992 Bush/Democrat Congress
$4,064,620,655,521.66 +$399,317,303,824.63
9/30/1993 Clinton/Democrat Congress
$4,411,488,883,139.38 +$346,868,227,617.72
9/30/1994 Clinton/Democrat Congress
$4,692,749,910,013.32 +$281,261,026,873.94
9/30/1995 Clinton/Republican Congress
$4,973,982,900,709.39 +$281,232,990,696.07
9/30/1996 Clinton/Republican Congress
$5,224,810,939,135.73 +$250,828,038,426.34
9/30/1997 Clinton/Republican Congress
$5,413,146,011,397.34 +$188,335,072,261.61
9/30/1998 Clinton/Republican Congress
$5,526,193,008,897.62 +$113,046,997,500.28
9/30/1999 Clinton/Republican Congress
$5,656,270,901,615.43 +$130,077,892,717.81
9/30/2000 Clinton/Republican Congress
$5,674,178,209,886.86 +$17,907,308,271.43
9/30/2001 Bush/Republican Congress
$5,807,463,412,200.06 +$133,285,202,313.20
9/30/2002 Bush/Republican Congress
$6,228,235,965,597.16 +$420,772,553,397.10
9/30/2003 Bush/Republican Congress
$6,783,231,062,743.62 +$554,995,097,146.46
9/30/2004 Bush/Republican Congress
$7,379,052,696,330.32 +$595,821,633,586.70
3/08/2005 Bush/Republican Congress
$7,746,290,500,431.39 +$367,237,804,101.07
And....
"Over the past 25 years, the government has gotten used to the fact that Social Security is providing free money to make the rest of the deficit look smaller," said Andrew Biggs, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/31/politics/washingtonpost/main4906936.shtml