So the GOP decides to obstruct, and it's the Democrats who are partisan? Just listen to yourself. You repeat the tired nonsense you hear on Faux News. And we KNOW you watch Faux, because you admitted it yesterday, after denying it for months.

The Republicans shut down the government and were totally taken by surprise when it backfired on them BIG TIME! Clinton ran circles around Newt and Bob Dole, and easily won reelection. The economy was doing great long before 1997, that's why Clinton trounced Dole in 1996. 

Your attempts a revisionist history are laughable. Perhaps you should go to work for the Kremlin.