Patience, Doug, patience. I was doing a bit of research. I highly recommend reading widely rather that limiting yourself to material that supports your viewpoint..

The first article I encountered in searching "Clinton recession" was by a contributing editor to "The National Review," the Conservative organ of the late William F. Buckley. Buckley was one of the few people who was able to give an intellectual spin to some of the principles of the conservative movement. Some years ago, there were some great debates on television between Buckley and Liberal advocate Gore Vidal. Would that we could hear intelligent debates like those these days, instead of self-styled conservative television personalities whose idea of an intelligent debate is to tell their liberal guests or anyone else who doesn't share their prejudices to "SHUT UP!!"

But how low the mighty have fallen! I don't know who's running the store at "The National Review" these days, but Buckley would never have allowed a story as patently refutable as THIS to be published in his magazine. One of the points about Buckley that I appreciated was that he considered his readers to be intelligent, not fools. The NR article linked to is put in more measured terms, but it's the same sort of revisionist history that someone like Rush Limbaugh might come up with if he had the necessary verbal skills and emotional restraint.

This tells the real story:   CLICKY.   And before you start, I don't really believe that "Business Week" can be accused of being a member of the "liberal media."

Here's another on the same subject:   CLICKY #2

And there are heaps more where that came from. Revisionist history is quite easy to blow to bits.

Don Firth