Lawrence O’Donnell: Do we have time for the truth?
Lawrence O’Donnell: Do we have time for the truth? Ok. So here is the thing, forget these deals that you are talking about. Talk about the deal that the Democrats did with the Democrats. With not one Republican vote, 1993, and it was one to one…. The tax increases went into effect and all the spending cuts went into effect; most of them in Medicare by the way. The first the Bill Clinton and the only thing Bill Clinton did with Medicare was cut it his first year. And those were all real cuts. And that is how we got the deficit down with additional cuts that Newt Gingrich forced on Clinton years later; got it down to the point where we actually had projected surpluses, handed over to George Bush which he threw away. So this is a lie that Republicans will never stop telling that we only do the tax increases and we never do the budget cuts….
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