Posted on 05/04/2021 7:47:08 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Hi. Welcome to On Politics, your wrap-up of the week in national politics. I’m Lisa Lerer, your host.
Forty years ago, a new president stood before a joint session of Congress and delivered a simple message: “Our government is too big, and it spends too much.”
Sitting in the audience, the junior senator from Delaware — a young Joseph R. Biden Jr. — couldn’t possibly have predicted how President Ronald Reagan’s words would come to define politics for generations. But for the decades that followed, Mr. Biden, along with most of his party, would operate in the shadow of Mr. Reagan, believing that an outright embrace of big government would be politically detrimental. Like so many Democrats, he joined efforts to curb deficits, fretted about government spending and generally favored more incremental kinds of policies that could attract bipartisan support.
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Well...yeah... (reaction to title)
What would Satan Do?
“Joe Biden, the Reverse Ronald Reagan”
Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump were both Presidents of “We the People” which is why both the R & D parties hated them.
I am from the government and I am here to help you!
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