Official: ex-Reagan aide investigated - David Stockman

AP on Yahoo ^ | 12/12/06 | Pat Milton - ap

[NormsRevenge]

On the Net:

http://www.collinsaikman.com

[lilylangtree]

Stockman, ole boy, you're toast.

[Brilliant]

Stockman is and always was an idiot. He was lyonized by the media after he turned on Reagan.

[Enchante]

Stockman was the worst appointment ever made by the great President Reagan. Anyone remember all that crapola with Stockman spilling his guts over many months to leftist "journalist" Wm. Greider who then published a big attack-piece on the Reagan administration in Atlantic Monthly?

Stockman was "taken to the woodshed" for his role in Greider-gate but he should have been canned immediately. It was pure egotism and "I'm better than anyone else here" that caused huge problems for the early Reagan presidency and the country.

[bagman]

One of my good friends from high school was CFO of the company when I last saw him in 1996. I hope he got out before the manipulations and indictable actions took place.

[oceanview]

take him down hard.

[Plutarch]

Stockman got the Strange New Respect from the MSM when he turned on Reagan. Now that he is in trouble they forget that, and rebrand him as "Reagan official".

[PGalt]

BUMP

[Eric in the Ozarks]

He's a non-person in my book. Ten years in the graybar hotel would be a good start at rehabilitation.

[Albion Wilde]

Stockman, also a former congressman, was Reagan's budget director from 1981 to 1985. He created a storm early in his tenure when he told an interviewer that he thought Reaganomics were a "Trojan horse" for the rich, and predicted huge budget deficits. He said later he was summoned to the White House "woodshed." Stockman apologized and kept his job until 1985, when he resigned and wrote a book of scathing criticism of Reagan and his top aides.

And the press wonders why we accuse them of bias? The man was a Reagan appointee more than 20 years ago, he repudiated Reagan's policy while in office, wrote a scathing book about it, and his theory was wrong -- yet the headline reads "Ex-Reagan Aide Investigated."

[Albion Wilde]

Stockman got the Strange New Respect from the MSM when he turned on Reagan. Now that he is in trouble they forget that, and rebrand him as "Reagan official".

Word. See post 11.

[Brilliant]

He was portrayed by the media as a boy genius when he blasted Reagan's budget proposal. Of course, they also thought he was an idiot until he did that.

[Moonman62]

Isn't Stockman the one who came up with the "trickle down" phrase?

[BerniesFriend]

Stockman was the worst appointment ever made by the great President Reagan.

Close..but this was the worst..

[middie]

Stokman was not a wizard. In fact, he caused economic harm with his moronic theories.

[x]

O! The irony!

Here's Tim Noah's worshipful liberal look at "David Stockman, Working Class Hero" from a few years back.

[StAnDeliver]

Schadenfreude!

[Enchante]

Right, you got me there!! OK, "Stockman was the 2nd-worst appointment ever made by the otherwise great President Reagan....."

[Theodore R.]

Did he join MI and switch officially to the Democrats. The whole state is perpetually Democrat because of Detroit.