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."
He’s right. It was ended at that time; but it’s back anew.
Ryan does have a point, but now it is the Tea Party Revolution and a new Conservative Revolution that will change the current decade much like Reagan did in the 80s.
Same thing they said about Reagan.
That it was.
With all do respect to Reagan, he did not shrink government. We need something far more conservative.
Yup. I still give the Bushes credit for judges though and don't regret voting for them over the Dems.
God help us...and I say that as an Xer myself.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Young fellar steppin’ up to the chalkboard with eraser in hand, wants to put his mark on the board.
We don’t need that. We need to add to what’s on the board under the heading of Reagan. Reagan was the start. He wasn’t the end of something.
What does she know about geo-politics. Prior to McCain snatching her from Alaska, her only known foray into international affairs is the ill-informed letter she worte to Murky and Co. begging them to pass LOST.
The “Democrats” now remaining in Congress are straight up marxists and members of the marxist “Congressional Progressive Caucus”
The right needs to institute a policy of ZERO TOLERANCE FOR MARXISTS IN CONGRESS.
CPC members need to be hunted down like the degenerate communist animals they are and jailed for subversion and grand theft.
Letting these people walk around as if they are ordinary Americans is a serious mistake, they are robbing the productive class via the legislative process.
They want to steal more of our money, let them do it the old fashioned way, at gunpoint.
The Reagan revolution will never be over... and neither will the American revolution. Anyone stating that it is, does not deserve my support.
LLS
I actually think it was when Bush I rolled over and played dead when he had a target-rich opponent in Clintons. I’d have gone after the SOB no holds barred.
LLS
[ Dude, it was over when George HW became President. ]
Mister NWO, No New Taxes, RINO-Elite, Rockefeller wanna be, I didn’t like HW one bit. He sold out his conservative values to “play nice” and gave the wrong blueprint to the republican party reating a breeding ground for RINOs.
I agree and I do not support this man’s contention. Reagan may be dead but his REVOLUTION will never die. Screw this neophyte.
LLS
Reagan is best appreciated when viewed in relation to what happened before, from FDR onward.
As bad as things seem now, at least there is a ghost of a chance for a government rollback.
No way... you just remember Reagan’s funeral and you will see that Reagan is MORE popular in death than he was in life and in life... he was the most popular President of our lifetimes.
LLS
I’m not interested in “small ball” either. Let’s start by eliminating the Department of Education, the National Endowment for the Arts, and fire a warning shot across the FCC’s bow by cutting their budget 15%.
Yeah but the effects lasted for about 25 years.
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