What is the Tea Party?

Read post #107.Period.

Oh dear, now you've forced me to break out Excel. It's easy to change the results of those averages by chosing different time frames. For example, we could go all the way back to WWII and extend it through to Obama. How well do you think democrats record will be then? We shall find out. Although I'm more interested in the balance of power vs. who was sitting in the White House, because I'm convinced mixed party control is a better fiscal scenario. Also, the trends are very important but get ignored in an averages study. I don't think republicans will fair well, but neither will the democrats.

This will take a bit, I'll post back when I finish the work.

The old saying figures never lie and liars always figure or something like that comes to mind. I am a firm believer that you can always make statistics and figures say what you want to, if you know how to do it.

The old saying figures never lie and liars always figure or something like that comes to mind. I am a firm believer that you can always make statistics and figures say what you want to, if you know how to do it.

I was about to say the same thing. The apparent beauty of the above mentioned Post #107 is that it was a period in recent history when there were an equal number of Republican and Democratic administrations and defense spending was deleted. This seems to be a great way of comparing apples to apples. Shopper wants to change the time periods, which could be difficult as best, and could result in fruit salad, if you know what I mean. Wouldn't it just be easier for him to believe his own propaganda?

percentages, not dollars gb

this country is run by a few thousand people, a few dozen large corporations, and your vote is usually meaningless. coulumn a or column b? you get fortune cookie with lime sherbert for desert.

I was about to say the same thing. The apparent beauty of the above mentioned Post #107 is that it was a period in recent history when there were an equal number of Republican and Democratic administrations and defense spending was deleted. This seems to be a great way of comparing apples to apples. Shopper wants to change the time periods, which could be difficult as best, and could result in fruit salad, if you know what I mean. Wouldn't it just be easier for him to believe his own propaganda?

The results posted are based on averages - the less data you have in a study like that the less accurate the results are. Adding more data points improves the results. Hand picking a set of data points within a data set is very questionable.

As I said though, I'm not so much interested in results based on who was president, I'm more interested in results and the balance of power. The presidency is one of three centers of power in the budgeting process, to look at one and ignore the other two makes no sense.

I was about to say the same thing. The apparent beauty of the above mentioned Post #107 is that it was a period in recent history when there were an equal number of Republican and Democratic administrations and defense spending was deleted. This seems to be a great way of comparing apples to apples. Shopper wants to change the time periods, which could be difficult as best, and could result in fruit salad, if you know what I mean. Wouldn't it just be easier for him to believe his own propaganda?

We get it, you are a shill for the democrats and think they do no wrong. I have no interest in scoring partisan political points because I think both parties are equally at fault. You criticized conservatives for concentrating on social issues and then claimed I side stepped them when I stated that the fiscal issues are what we must concentrate on. Which do you want? Other than everyone to praise the Chosen One and his band of democrats.

Hey that's how you get elected, you get chosen. Maybe if the Republicans would have chosen more viable candidates in the last election, they might have been chosen to be President. I think you're just all butt hurt because your choices won't stand a chance, and deep down you know it.

Hey that's how you get elected, you get chosen. Maybe if the Republicans would have chosen more viable candidates in the last election, they might have been chosen to be President. I think you're just all butt hurt because your choices won't stand a chance, and deep down you know it.

Honest candidates have trouble fighting through the empty promises and BS.