Comment Re: Let me clarify (Score 1) 222
there's no "giving Gingrich the credit", here.
there is no credit for the Arkansas balanced budget, as that is require by law (whether it works is a separate issue).
It is not *either* party that gets the credit for the balance; it came about by the competition to outdo the other. Left to themselves, *neither* party would do it--it's just that they'd spend on different things with borrowed money.
(actually, it's also hard to blame Gingrich for any budgets before '94, as his party had been in the minority nearly 50 years before he became speaker.)