[sinkspur]

You have on your rose-colored glasses regarding Ronald Reagan. You haven't refuted a single fact I've posted about Reagan, including the fact that he did not shrink the absolute size of government, though you try to mask that fact by couching it as a percentage of GDP, yet you stomp your feet and act as if I've committed some cardinal sin by posting them.

Ronald Reagan was a great president, and George Bush still has the plenty of time to be one, with his WOT firmly a part of a great legacy.

But, both are men, and both have made mistakes.

[MadIvan]

You have on your rose-colored glasses regarding Ronald Reagan. You haven't refuted a single fact I've posted about Reagan, including the fact that he did not shrink the absolute size of government, though you try to mask that fact by couching it as a percentage of GDP, yet you stomp your feet and act as if I've committed some cardinal sin by posting them.

I'm the one stamping my feet? I could just as easily say that you are the one by trying to dismiss Reagan's shrinkage of government's share of GDP, which had been rising over time - and this was in spite of a Democrat Congress holding the purse strings. You simply keep forgetting this, don't you - Reagan had to fight a pitched battle against Tip O'Neill for years just to hold down the rate of growth. Bush, in contrast, has a Republican Congress to work with. He should be able to get things done. But he can't even emulate this achievement.

Ronald Reagan was a great president, and George Bush still has the plenty of time to be one, with his WOT firmly a part of a great legacy.

I agree Bush has time to reverse course. He will have to remember Reagan's combination of uncompromising opposition to the totalitarian foe of the day and constant charm offensives to try and at least push government backwards as far as he can - NOT expand the Department of Education, for example.

Ivan