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Well the fact is that today their is somewhat of a deadlock in political discourse.
Republicans traditionally favor 'smaller' government, meaning a rollback in entitlements (social security, medicare, welfare, et cetera) and other programs which they feel are wasteful. However, they are paralyzed by the fact that these programs are immensely popular and that speaking against them would not be in their political interests. But to offset this, they speak of lowering taxes.
Democrats are seen as 'big spenders' and this has generally been borne out by reality. But, while the programs they champion are popular, the method which is used to pay for them, raising taxes, is usually a non-starter. You see the dilemma. Both parties are locked in an endless dance to convince the electorate that it can have have its cake and eat it too.
The system works best when the executive is controlled by one party and the Congress by another - as in your Clinton example.
The bias that exists, then, is one largely sustained by rhetoric; both sides today are too entrenched to advocate systemic change regarding these issues.
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