Originally Posted by
Bluedriver
Ah, so it happened that one time with a D President and an R Senate.
So then I'm not sure why you said:
"Originally Posted by full of luv
Who would've thought in 2016 that we'd elect a "Republican" president, house for two years, and Senate for the next 4 yrs and, despite would could be described as one of the best economic times in the previous 50 yrs, would STILL be running a deficit of over $1Trillion PER YEAR!".
But, to answer your question, *I* would have thought.
What do you think would happen if we ever have an all D govt again? Fiscal responsibility?
Last time that happened in 2008 we almost nationalized 17% of our economy to help a few million more people get health insurance/care. That ushered in the Tea Party in quick fashion.
What's funny is that for a long time the R's seemed to focus more on the power that mattered on peoples daily lives at the state and legislative govt.
The D's seem innately focused on the President, giving that position in govt waaaayyyyy too much deference, power, and sway.
US Govt has gotten so large now, that party is almost irrelevant as the bureaucratic forces in DC are an industry amongst themselves.
There really isn't that much "public service" anymore in working in govt, it's really about making it a career.
The legislature writes the laws that the executive branch is to enforce (nothing more, nothing less). Over the last few decades we've allowed the legislative branch to hand over law making functions in the guise of rules/regulations/procedures to unelected, unanswerable (to the normal citizen), DC bureaucrats.
Activist judges who make up whole cloth rules/laws.
In case you missed it, Senator Ben Sasse gave a great explanation of it during a speech in the Kavenaugh hearings.
https://www.sasse.senate.gov/public/...tter-than-this
Like I said above, no party is willing to be fiscally responsible anymore. We used to have a ying and yang of spending/taxing, now we just have yang yang yang.....