Posted on 02/27/2023 9:49:21 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
What President Ronald Reagan and House Speaker Tip O’Neill (D-Mass.) “deplored more than each other’s political philosophy was stalemate, and a country that was so polarized by ideology and party politics that it could not move forward. There were tough words and important disagreements. . . yet a stronger commitment to getting things done.”
That observation came from O’Neill’s oldest son, Thomas P. O’Neill, in a 2012 New York Times column entitled, “Frenemies: A Love Story” regarding his Democratic father’s relationship with the Republican president.
O’Neill and Reagan were both of Irish descent. And when disagreements got heated between the two parties, the two men would often meet in a sign of respect with an eye toward (relative) civility.
“I’m going to cook you some Boston corned beef and I’m going to have an Irish storyteller there,” the Speaker told the president in 1983 during a joint celebration after the House passed a bipartisan Social Security package.
”I’ll have to polish up some new Irish jokes,” Reagan mused in return.
Despite Democrats controlling the House and Senate at the time, some important things got done through this foreign concept called compromise, which most Americans embrace.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Reagan bitterly complained that O’Neill reneged on the tax deal. Reagan agreed to raise one dollar of taxes for $3 in spending cuts. Spending cuts never happened.
Nothing more the The Hill trying to make republicans do what democrats want, there is no compromising with evil.
Concha’s on Hannity a lot, isn’t he? Hannity advertises himself as a “Reagan Republican”, so how is he going to feel about Concha calling his titular POTUS a “RINO”?
On a side note-
“Did you get all of that? 55 percent of journalists say equal coverage should not exist”
The preceding paragraph and this one to show a majority opinion of one kind was the same tool used by Scott Adams-
A very standard way to look at surveys.
He noted that in a survey, a majority had an opinion- Then he drew a simple conclusion, and plan of action.
He also noted that that plan of action would be in direct CONTRAST to how he had lved his life for the last 50 years.
And in his counter-punch satirical way, showed the first part, The Survey Respondents, were THE PROBLEM, not his response.
But most folks, even here, just missed all that.
And that resulted in his Cartoon being pulled from nearly all newpapers published.
Reagan was overrated. The original “fool me 19 times, shame on me” President.
“Reagan was overrated.”
You, the commies and Democrats are all in agreement.
Shame on Joe Concha for writing this after four years of the worst House ever.
Tucker? Is that you?
I am being generous here in that I assume this is an honest mistake and not a purposeful deception on Concha's part, but I can't understand how someone of his caliber can claim the ideological rift between today's kleptocratic, racist, globalist, anti-Western civilization, anti-capitalist, anti-Federalism Democrat oligarchs and our Nation's founding principles is not an irreconcilable political red line.
Quite possibly one of the dumbest posts to ever make it to FR.
I could not be more in disagreement with your post.
However, it is your opinion, and to that, you are entitled.
I preface this comment by noting that I am an admirer of Presidents Reagan and Trump, both great men; I couldn’t walk an hour in their shoes.
However, whatever chicanery Reagan let the Dems get away with, pales in comparison to Trump’s handling of covid.
He essentially ceded control of the country to the malevolent dwarf, scarf lady and the rest of the covid cabal - he compounded that mistake by touting ‘his’ vaccines (and still does I believe).
Fauxi et al. should have been sent packing after two weeks to flatten the curve became indefinite house arrest. There is no excuse for this lapse in judgment. If I eventually figured out the whole covid thing was a sham of epic proportions, so should have Trump.
It probably cost Trump the election -fraud aside- and perhaps doomed the republic. We’ll see.
Oh for Pete’s sake, Joe.
The ‘rats reneged on every deal they made with Reagan.
The difference is actual RINOs go into negotiations expecting to be screwed.
Ronald Reagan was the greatest president in my lifetime, by far, proud to have served under him.
Totally fake, phony and false!
Yes, let’s listen to some blowhard who talks and looks like Ron Burgundy.
Reagan wasn’t perfect. But then again, who is...right? He made mistakes in the handling of certain national security and military related issues. I never thought he should have signed off on the 1986 Immigration Bill, because the other side (and apparently, some of “our” side) had no intention of living up to the restrictions in it.
But he was no RINO and to say so is a complete disregard of history.
He believed in eliminating the corrosive power of government intrusion and regulation where it was not needed.
He believed in cutting taxes.
He understood and believed in strong national security and military strength.
He believed in God and the influence of religion on maintaining a positive character of the nation.
I could go on, but I think we see it the same way.
To say Reagan was a “RINO” is a misinterpretation of the record at best, and a deliberate mal-interpretation at worst.
Ronald Reagan created a conservative movement when America was all liberal, the entire atmosphere and media were democrat/moderate, democrats had controlled Congress for decades, there was no Rush Limbaugh or FOX News, no 1994 Newt Gingrich, no internet voices and blogs, Reagan was alone except for tiny bits and pieces of conservatism such as William F. Buckley’s niche icebergs (and powerful little icebergs they were).
Reagan changed the world and moved the nation, winning New York, Massachusetts, Maine, Oregon, California, Hawaii, New Jersey, and every other state except the opponent’s state of Minnesota where Reagan refused to campaign out of courtesy and lost by 3,761 votes and winning 67 of that state’s 87 counties.
Reagan had to thread a lot of needles, and he still managed to move mountains.
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