Posted on 03/05/2009 5:24:53 AM PST by KeyLargo
Has Obama Buried Reagan?
The GOP is faltering in its defense of Republican ideals.
The Democratic idea bank of Robert & Robert says it's safe to unload on Ronald Reagan.
Robert Reich: "It is the boldest budget we have seen since the Reagan administration, and drives a nail in the coffin of Reaganomics. We can basically say goodbye to the philosophy espoused by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher."
President Ronald Reagan compares Republican and Democratic economic policies on taxes and spending at the White House.
Robert Shrum: "Obama is not only unwinding Reagan's policies, he is offering a Rooseveltian paradigm that justifies government pragmatically."
Hmmm. Let us consider an alternative universe.
The stock market has been in a free-fall (with a bounce off a ledge yesterday), dismantling the saved wealth of millions of individual Americans who must feel they are living through the exploding rubble of some Hollywood disaster movie.
In reaction, Republicans, true to form, set sail for a deserted island to ponder a dispute between Rush Limbaugh and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele. At issue: Who's captain of the GOP Titanic.
Americans are ready for a message of economic growth, but who will deliver it?
Someone said, "A crisis is a terrible thing to waste." Why are the Republicans wasting it?
If the Democrats are willing to bet the entire U.S. economy on a 1931 theory known as the Keynesian multiplier, surely Republicans can excavate and relearn the core idea handed down to them by Ronald Reagan. That idea was known as economic growth.....
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Obama is not fit to carry Reagan’s jock strap.
They can only wish he did, the Reagan Revelution is far from over, Obama has merely given the troops a cause to fight!
Jeez, how I miss The Gip.
Why doe the media glorify FDR...don’t they realize that a major part of “the new deal” money went to unions that would not hire blacks! I guess all these “brilliant” reporters and historians ALL missed that...
If the GOP is faltering in it’s defense, it’s only because the GOP is not conservative. You have to believe in something to defend it.
I just wish our Supreme Court would believe in the constitution and defend it.
Has Obama The GOP Buried Reagan?
There--fixed it.
Coffin? The book on Reaganomics has already been written. It worked. It will take a business cycle to determine if 0bamanomics is effective.
Robert Reich: “It is the boldest budget we have seen since the Reagan administration, and drives a nail in the coffin of Reaganomics. We can basically say goodbye to the philosophy espoused by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher.”
Let’s talk again in say, 2-3-4 years.
Look, the bottom line is right now in this country the “Right” is at war with the Government as an institution.
We (the Right) simply cannot compete with deep and apparently never emptying pockets of the Nanny State and I am personally holding the parents that coddle their kids as the prime suspect for the mess we are in right now for not being tougher on their kids and encouraging their little darlings to be more self reliant — IMO and this is just my opinion, until we hit rock bottom again like we did in the days of Carter and unemployment is back up 10% and interest rates to buy a home are back into the teens and some people are made to suffer and feel the sting of what it is like to live in country based solely upon the principles of welfare — we are stuck with this.
At least 52% of the country wants “a free lunch.” It is the easier softer way that they are after and we on the right do not offer the easier softer way, we are offering personal responsibility and accountability for individual actions, service, sacrifice, and commitment — how do you package that and sell it to a bunch of spoiled rotten children.
Sooner or later, the cold hand of reality will catch up with Mr. Reich, like it or not.
Ain't that the truth and if they could they'd love to ride along with these fools...
Newsmax.com
GOP Leaders Among Top 20 Earmarkers
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 7:09 PM
By: David A. Patten
Who are the top offenders when it comes to requesting the most earmarks? You may be surprised to learn that three of the top five, and eight of the top 20, are Republicans — including GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who ranks ninth with $51.19 million in earmark requests.
Here are the top 20 earmarks solicitors in the Senate, based on dollar amount of individual earmark requests in the omnibus spending bill:
1. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. — $122.80 million.
2. Richard Shelby, R-Ala. — $114.48 million.
3. Kit Bond, R-Mo. — $85.69 million.
4. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. — $77.90 million.
5. Thad Cochran, R-Miss. — $75.91 million.
6. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska — $74 million.
7. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa — $66.86 million.
8. James Inhofe, R-Okla. — $53.13 million.
9. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. — $51.19 million.
10. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii — $46.38 million.
11. Patty Murray, D-Wash. — $39.22 million.
12. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. — $36.55 million.
13. Pat Leahy, D-Vt. — $36.16 million.
14. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. — $35.58 million.
15. Robert Casey, D-Pa. — $27.17 million.
16. Harry Reid, D-Nev. — $26.63 million.
17. Arlen Specter, R-Pa. — $25.32 million.
18. Herb Kohl, D-Wis. — $23.83 million.
19. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. — $21.96 million.
20. Pete Domenici, R-N.M. (Retired) — $19.56 million.
Source: Taxpayers for Common Sense. GOP in bold text.
Fixed it.
No, the GOP pretty much did that on its own.
The GOP needs a courageous MODERATE leader to sweep away the last vestiges of Ronald Reagan.
Oh well. At least they could search for a man like George Bush Sr.
The GOP has been faltering in its defense of conservative ideals for quite some time now. That's why we now have Obambi in the White House.
With the theme that "A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have."
This can be accomplished with stark, black-and white commercials with grim music showing real-life cases of Americans being sued, taxed, regulated, jailed, and abused by government and ending with real-life quotes from Obama and his minions.
Of course, this will have to be done by a political party that is actually dedicated to liberty and small government, and not one like today's GOP that has no problem with the suing, taxing, regulating, jailing and abusing as long as it is being done to people or groups they don't like.
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