Try #526.
"If you got seventy-five or eighty percent of what you were asking for", I say, "you take it and fight for the rest later", and that's what I told these radical conservatives who never got used to it.--Ronald Reagan
The big difference is that Reagan would get, through tough bargaining with the democrats, 75%-80% of what he wanted. Bush on the other hand seems content to give the democrats most everything they want...with a few exceptions here and there. Yeah, I know, we got a war going on but I don't remember Bush playing hard ball with the likes of Tom Dashole before 9/11 either. It's all this go along to get along stuff so as not to offend the socialists that want to destroy America as we know it. Perhaps where I fault Bush the most is his reluctance to go directly to the people like Reagan did to help get their support for a more conservative agenda. With Bush it’s the same photo op cr*p we had for 8 years with Clinton.
We have the luxury of looking back at Reagan and feeling good about his 75%-80%, but there were a lot of dissenting voices back then as well.