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.
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Sadly, everything you just said is the truth with regards to Trump and covid.
Trump’s treatment of Fauci and covid is a little like Eisenhower taking credit for the Holocaust and letting Hitler run rampant.
The original “fool me 19 times, shame on me” President.
Yer phunny, yer Good Ole Guy the Peanut Farmer attacked by the rabbit is Your Best President Evah.
Concha was probably in diapers during RR’s reign.
Back then, most Democrats were relatively sane liberals, and some were even moderate-to-conservative, like Senator Zell Miller of Georgia. Unfortunately, today, most Democrat politicians are Commies.
Do we really want to compromise with that?
TROLL
Moment of silence! The name Ronald Reagan has been mentioned!
I totally agree with you.
Teddy Roosevelt was the original RINO.
The reason why Reagan could be “bipartisan” is that there was a a huge throng of southern democrats who agreed with him on a lot of issues and the South was continuing its slow and steady transformation to the Republican Party.
Reagan admitted after leaving off that her had regrets in some of his decisions - the 1986 amnesty bill and Sandra Day O’Connor among them. He said he got taken by Kennedy on the former.
I’m actually not sure what Choncha was trying to get at here but of course Reagan could never be called a RINO because it was they he had to defeat to get the nomination and it was they fought against for eight years while in office.
The designations of RINO and Conservative are not interchangeable or comparative in any way, shape or form.
Reagan was the scourge of the former and defined the latter.
Democrats ALWAYS renege!
This diatribe is pure BS!
BS.
You only need consult my book, “Reagan: THE American President.”
I can’t stand Hannity
Reagan also compromised on illegals
... in 1986, Ronald Reagan signed a sweeping immigration reform bill into law. It was sold as a crackdown: There would be tighter security at the Mexican border, and employers would face strict penalties for hiring undocumented workers.
But the bill also made any immigrant who’d entered the country before 1982 eligible for amnesty — a word not usually associated with the father of modern conservatism.
As a result 3 million illegals got immediate citizenship.
Never make a deal with the devil
We’re all swells.
Touché. Great post. Said dwarf did indeed run a similar playbook this time around.
I don’t think, or rather, I’d hate to think that the Gipper would have allowed the nation to be put under house arrest because of the flu.
If I may, my own amateurish psychoanalysis of Trump and why I think he (and maybe the Gipper would have as well) lost control of the covid response:
While a ruthless businessman, I think at the core, he’s good guy who loves his country and wants what is best for it. He can’t imagine that other people, particularly those in government, don’t. This would also explain his horrible, no good, bad personnel decisions.
In any case, at least in the short term, we’re screwed.
Couldn’t be more in agreement with a Freeper whose FreepName is “Reagan Disciple”...:)
One has only to look at the source. I love it when Leftist POS sources try to tell conservatives what conservatives think, or what defines conservatism.
My estimation of those sources is lower than whale dung. And “The Hill” is clearly one of them.
It really gets old seeing the constant re-invention of Reagan.
They never have to do this with the Bushes, with Ford, or any of the others. That in/of itself speaks volumes.
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