Posted on 12/10/2010 8:55:42 AM PST by Sub-Driver
GOP Young Gun: 'Reagan Revolution' is over By Michael O'Brien - 12/10/10 10:47 AM ET
The "Reagan Revolution" that spurred a GOP renaissance in Washington is dead, one of the party's new faces said Friday.
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), the incoming chairman of the House Budget Committee and one of the Republican "Young Guns," said that the movement sparked by President Reagan's election in 1980 fizzled out with Democrats' wins in the congressional elections of 2006.
"The Reagan Revolution ended in 2006 when Pelosi took the gavel — definitely in 2008," Ryan said in a video interview with The Wall Street Journal. "So a new era is beginning."
Republicans had long credited the resurgence of the party led by Reagan for their victories in the 1994 congressional elections, in which they won control of the House and Senate, as well as for the victory of George W. Bush in the 2000 presidential election.
But Republicans have also sought to recast the party as the GOP of a new generation that has broken from past leaders and learned from its mistakes. That sentiment had in part animated the new crop of "Young Guns" — a trio of Ryan, incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and incoming House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) — to promote themselves as new faces of the GOP.
The new Republicans coming to Washington, many of whom hail from a later generation than their predecessors, aren't interested in the kind of "small ball" that dominated political debate in the 1990s, Ryan said.
"No more school uniforms and prescription drugs — it's the big picture," he said. "And that's the kind of healthy conversation we've got to have in this country."
Dude, it was over when George HW became President.
Let the Palin Revolution begin!
If people want to associate this deteriorating economy, standard of living and social decline as post-Reagan Revolution then so be it.
2006 is as good a milestone for that decline as any.
hopefully the Young Guns won’t shoot themselves in the foot...
What does mean? Clear expression should be part of his new politics.
It’s now the Reagan Renaissanse
Bingo!
“This is not the beginning of the end. It is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” — Churchill
Then start a new Reagan Revolution, dammit!
Yes it was. I knew from his (solitary) inaugural address that George Herbert Walker Bush would discredit and dismantle the accomplishments of Ronald Reagan.
Reagan Revolution 2.0—GEN X takes charge!!
THIS -—> “Reagan Revolution 2.0—GEN X takes charge!!” <-— THIS
Make that ‘Young Duds’, the GoP still lacks the understanding of what is transpiring under their very noses.. jmo
We don’t need a revolution based on minimal knowledge and schizophrenic flip flops.
This guy might be a bean-counter par excellence, but he has little sense of history — which moves in broad sweeps rather than the saccades he finds influential.
Lower taxes, limited government, a strong military and adherence to the Constitution was the Reagan agenda. Running around dissing the most successful conservative agenda of the last 85 years serves no good purpose.
Frankly, its plain dumb.
As much as I appreciated Pres. Reagan, I think we need to relabel the revolution. The left has succeeded in demonizing the Reagan “lable” to the extent that even so-called moderate dems would recoil from that reference.
Better to rename the revolution. I’m thinking something like “Rebirth of America” Revolution.
Why make it look like you are disavowing what worked. Not smart at all and alienates unnecessarily.
The Reagan Revolution is held in spirit by many of us. We can help it evolve, like Sarah Palin who has embraced those like Rep. Paul Ryan. She like others are turning to Ryan’s economic “Roadmap” to take Reagan’s Revolution to new vistas.
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