Ep 992: Both Sides Don't Have A Budget Surplus

The Professional Left Podcast with Driftglass and Blue Gal

Driftglass and Blue Gal

News Commentary, Progressive, Liberal, Midterms, Resistance, Indivisible, Government, Democrat, Presidential, Debate, News, Election, Campaign, Politics

4.8 • 920 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 75 minutes

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In this episode of The Professional Left, Driftglass and Blue Gal trace how the Clinton-era budget surplus was dismantled piece by piece during the Bush years, setting the stage for the catastrophic financial collapse of 2008. While millions of Americans lost their jobs and homes, the mainstream media — led by Both Sides propagandists like David Brooks and the newly hired Bill Kristol — refused to lay the blame where it actually belonged: on the Republican Party. Driftglass and Blue Gal have ...

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0:17.6	62791. This is the podcast for the week of May 15, 2006. It's not safe for work.
0:25.6	Recorded live from the Cornfield Resistance, where I promised to try to keep my bitterness in check.
0:31.4	Now, now, Boris, watch your language.
0:33.7	Oh, purity.
0:36.2	Boris, please.
0:37.3	Innocence, honor, virtue. Boris, there is a lady, purity. Boris, please. Innocence, honor, virtue.
0:39.5	Boris, there is a lady present.
0:41.9	I can't help it, Natasha.
0:43.3	When I get mad, I'm liable to say anything.
0:45.6	As we sneak slowly up on the year 2008, the year the wheels finally came off of American democracy.
0:53.7	It's the professional left with
0:55.0	drip glass and blue gal. By 2007, a number of tectonic forces were in motion in American
1:07.3	politics and culture that were about to collide with each other and make everything
1:12.7	worse. But to get there, we need to take a running start. So we're going to begin our story of how
1:19.3	the year 2008 broke America in September of 1998, specifically September 30th, 1998. Now remember that date. That was the end of the fiscal year.
1:34.3	Yeah, write that down. And do you know why that date is significant, boys and girls? It's because
1:38.8	on that date, the Clinton administration accomplished something, neither the Reagan administration
1:43.7	nor the
1:44.6	George H.W. Bush administration ever came close to doing. That was the date. The Clinton
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