It's the Control of Congress — Stupid!

SEE HERE One of the comments to the Red State observation about unemployment this morning nails it: "...the strongest correlation to prosperity is actually GOP control of the Senate; in the past three decades that gives us the economies of 1981-86, 1995-2000, & 2003-06."

Whenever I talk to Demon-crats they are forever talking about how Republicans increase deficits and are really the bad spenders. How anyone can believe this is beyond me. It's important to not that the president can only spend money that the legislature approves. The Congress controls the budget. So when you see bad economic stuff look and see who controls Congress. The answer will almost always be Demon-crats if the economic news is bad. That's just the way it is. Their cover is that it was under Republican presidents, but there is a tendency on the part of the electorate to give the opposing party control of Congress. It's fairly rare for a president to have a solid majority in both houses of Congress. I think that the Democrats currently have this rare condition is due to their very successful program of demonizing the younger Bush after castrating his father with the "Read my lips no new taxes" deal that they cheated on. Never trust a leftist or Democrat to live up to their end of a bargain.