But He also had the Powerful Tip O'Neil to deal with.
Ok, Two out of three branches don't make law.
The House Democrats FEARED REAGAN.
Nobody Fears Bush.
Reagan went directly to the people and thats why the Democrats Feared him.
And by the way, it was Reagan who helped sweep in a GOP Senate in 1980.
They rode his coat-tails and if he had a greater majority than Bush, it was because of reagan himself.
In Reagan's time people still respected the Office of the President, and the media wouldn't have had the nerve to deny the President air time, like it routinely does now.
Abortion advocates.
Gay marriage proponents
The NEA
The anti-American left
Military haters
The ACLU
TERRORISTS!!
That's right off the top of my head, ten.
You obviously haven't thought this through very thoroughly.
Didn't you just contradict yourself at least 3 times in your post at #344?! [Example: In earlier posts, you indicated that Tip O'Neil's House DOMINATED Reagan; at post #344, you assert that O'Neil's House FEARED Reagan ????]
BTW: If it was to Reagan's credit that he had a larger Senate majority than GWB, was it also to his discredit that the GOP suffered one of its worst loses EVER in 1986, returning the Senate to the Democrats? I suppose the 1986 election debacle was simply an example of Reagan going "directly to the people"?! . . . Stop trying to make Reagan a demigod -- he was a pragmatic politician, albeit a GREAT one, as is George W Bush!