From: Lopen | #035
I'm still curious what Clinton's mess was that W had to clean up. Claim he was lucky to be in office at the right time if you want, not sure I buy it, but for the sake of argument claim that was the only reason the guy ran a surplus-- what did he actually do that became seriously problematic to the point that it needed to be "cleaned up"
Look at how crappy the economy was when Bush was in office. Since someone can't just change the economy over night, you have to assume the guy who was making the budgets before him had to have screwed up somewhere and left a huge mess for the new unfortunate guy.