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You're comparing apples to oranges. Reagan was president roughly two decades ago. He was operating in a very different historical context.

You're comparing apples to oranges. Reagan was president roughly two decades ago. He was operating in a very different historical context

Let's see if you have any "historical context". What drove Reagan to push for his amnesty?

"You're comparing apples to oranges. Reagan was president roughly two decades ago. He was operating in a very different historical context."

No he wasn't -- he made deals to get other things he wanted. I followed and did a many of college papers on reagan when he was president and he did go along with alot that many people here would be screaming about. I wrote a 20 page paper one time on him in 1988 or 1989 and I remember how supprised I was at all the deals he made that went against what he said in running for President. He backtracked on probably 30-40 issues to get his defense budgets approved. If you study what he said in the 1996 primaries he was a different man in 1984. He made alot of these deals with Tip O'Neil at an Irish pub a few blocks from the whitehouse. When they met at the Pub for a few drinks there was always a deal made and it wasn't well known until Tip started talking after he announced his retirement. At the time I didn't think this was bad at all since the Senate and House were both democrat but thinking about this compared to Bush I think Bush is giving the dems a few cookies and the rest of us a bag of cookies.

I prefer to be happy with the bag of cookies and let the dems have their cookies and when they bitch too much give them a cookie here and there. I the end we end up with a lot more cookies then they did !