prosperity in the 1990s and which led to record surpluses were all fights that gingrich lost and clinton won. it never would have happened without a republican led congress sfwhx the press pulls that string there is a problem though, isn t there? with the great historian. he is something of a revisionist on just about everything, isn t he? no, he s not, martin. and i think that just saying it, having the of two you say it over and over again doesn t make it so. sorry, it s not me just saying that. we never would have had balanced budgets or welfare reform had it been been for a republican majority congress in the 90s. it was newt gingrich that brought us that. in many of the cases we had to have bill clinton kicking and screaming and coming to the table. then he took credit for it because he had the big mega phone. i was there. i remember it. i m wondering why my party wasn t doing a better job taking credit for these surpluses. it was because bill clinton was a master at