Anger Management

Little Rock - 

Walt and I left the building seething in anger. It’s an anger shared by any decent, thoughtful American who cares about this country.


The building was the Clinton Presidential Library here. Yes, Clinton failed us miserably by taking advantage of a young intern and lying about it under oath. Real bad stuff. 


And yet Clinton’s selfish, arrogant, and immoral betrayal would rank 200th on any fact-based list of the Top 100 horrible things done by the current Administration and its supplicants in Congress. The damage they will inflict on Americans over coming months and years will literally be incalculable. 


We too easily forget Clinton’s many, fact-based accomplishments domestically and as a statesman. Reminding ourselves of his record at the Library tragically underscores how far we are descending on  an express lane to Dante’s Inferno. Yet make no mistake; this is no “Divine Comedy.”


We are independent-minded voters who long for the days of a strong, two-party system. So there is no ideology just proven facts in pointing out here that Clinton’s economic and related accomplishments alone include:

  1. Erasing the monstrous, Reagan-Bush trickle-down national debt, the largest in US history,  and leaving us with a surplus. 
  2. Balancing the budget. 
  3. Enacting the lowest government spending in three decades after careful government streamlining. 
  4. Guiding the then-longest economic expansion is US history. 
  5. Adding more than 22 million jobs and achieving the lowest unemployment rate in 30 years.
  6. Bolstering the highest home ownership in US history, owing to fiscal discipline and concomitant low interest rates. 
  7. Producing the lowest federal tax burden in 35 years, not that this is always a good thing. 
  8. Realizing the lowest crime rate in 26 years, lowest poverty rate in 20 years, lowest teen-pregnancy rate in 60 years, and lowest infant-mortality rate in US history.

These are facts. May we return to the days of presidents who are intelligent, well-read, and fact-based leaders actually focused on making America and American lives better