[Dane]

Reagan could actually articulate conservatism. Bush almost seems ashamed to be a conservative

Yeah Reagan really articulated conservatism by raising social security taxes, while Bush actually tried to reform the system.

[Always Right]

In a policy analysis for the Cato Institute, Veronique de Rugy and Tad DeHaven compared the two presidents' records on real non-defense discretionary spending. Bush outspent Reagan in nine of 11 categories. Where such spending fell 14 percent during Reagan's first term, it rose 18 percent in Bush's—"a whopping 32 percent difference between the two men," de Rugy and DeHaven noted.

[LibLieSlayer]

Bush will NEVER cut and run like in Lebanon. BTW, I love Reagan.

LLS

[Always Right]

Yeah Reagan really articulated conservatism by raising social security taxes, while Bush actually tried to reform the system.

And we can thank Bush for creating the largest entitlement program since Johnson's great society. Regan spent on defense, Bush has spent like a druken sailor on social programs.

[Always Right]

Yeah Reagan really articulated conservatism by raising social security taxes, while Bush actually tried to reform the system.

And Bush was real great at articulating that too.....

[jla]

Any taxes that Reagan cut? Or don't you like to mention those?

"...while Bush actually tried to reform the system."

Yes, superb effort. An (R) majority in both houses and his reformation fell flat on it's face.
You Hamiltonians can attempt to malign Reagan all you want in propping up GWB. It's only amongst your odd selves that this ludicrous notion is accepted as truth.

[Paul Ross]

Yeah Reagan really articulated conservatism by raising social security taxes, while Bush actually tried to reform the system.

No he didn't. Didn't spend one nickel of 'political capital.'

He didn't even back or sponsor a single piece of legislation. He just opined in general in a few stump speeches, and let it die.

And that is why Bruce Bartlett is "dead on".

Under GWB, policy-formulation has been 'broken'. Under Reagan they presented Congress two five hundred page volumes of impacts laid out for their tax proposals. Under Bush, they had, nothing. No projected impacts. No actual legislation. Nothing to vote on.

[jammer]

Yeah Reagan really articulated conservatism by raising social security taxes, while Bush actually tried to reform the system.

Only if "actually tr[ying]" is to make a few speeches, give the ignorant the idea that he even wanted to make a change, and then run for the hills.

Some of you folks go for the misdirection every time.