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Some leftist talking head advocates Obama break Republicans over the budget battle, but he should learn some recent history first.

"A prominent Democrat once stated: "The budget is a profoundly moral document." That statement referred to the last truly titanic budget battle, the government shutdown of the mid-1990s, one in which a Democratic president stood firm, and a chastened Republican majority backed down."

That's baloney. Bill Clinton vetoed four balanced budgets, but he finally backed down and signed the fifth. Sure, he gained politically. The public blamed Republicans for shutting down a small portion of the government, as if that was a bad thing, but Republicans got their spending cuts that balanced the budget, and that was good for the country. The budget is a profoundly immoral document since it is funded by theft.