Here's another piece of Republican illogic: Conservatives deny that Clinton's 1993 tax bill deserves any credit in the economic recovery we saw in those years. And why is that? Because according to them the economy was well on its way to recovery before Clinton took office. Yet what was it that so angered Republicans with the first President Bush? The answer is simple: he broke his "read my lips, no new taxes" pledge. So apparently the economy began to recover after Bush raised taxes but it was somehow not a factor when Clinton did so.

I challenge anybody to go back and see what the Republicans were saying in 1993 about Clinton's tax proposal. Then compare those claims to what Clinton claimed the bill would do for both the economy and the deficit. After that, please come back here and tell us which prediction proved to be correct.