Just a correction: A bill Reagan never even asked for.
Lots of presidents give State of the Union addresses and ask for pie things they know they'll never get. But they ask anyway to let the American people know which issues they think are important enough to at least ask for.
And he would have gotten it from a Dem-controlled House?
You've spent the entire thread ripping into Reagan - I guess you think you can make Romney look better by making Reagan's legacy look worse.
Had the roles been reversed and this had been a speech by Bush, you would have savaged critics who tried to hijack the thread for their own political reasons as you have done here.