[SoConPubbie]

Why don’t we just accept the actual fact that both Reagan and Bush rarely vetoed any spending bills? My respect for Reagan would be 100 times greater if he had vetoed many more spending bills, and then let the Rats override his vetoes.

I'll let you in on a little secret.

That same Reagan who you say didn't exercise his veto enough, was able to get major tax cuts through and destroy the Soviet Union by massively building up the Military and without firing a shot and at the same time, decrease the overall size of several of the large government agencies.

He did this all while not having a Republican Led Congress.

[SoConPubbie]

Oh, and those large budgets he had, in large part were a result of the horse-trading he had to do with a Democrat led congress in order to build up the military at the same time.

The Tea-Party is completely proud of President Reagan’s record.

[entropy12]

Sum total of tax cuts + Increased spending = Tripling of net spending. Flunks my test of a fiscal conservative on every count. Like I said, TEA Party would not be proud.