[SupplySider]

"...he gave us the largest tax cut in decades."

Unfortunately, that piddling focus group tax cut is the largest in decades only next to the massive (and nearly identical) tax increases of his father and Clinton. I guess he didn't go with Reagan style cuts because because he had to differentiate himself from Steve Forbes. Or maybe he actually bought the Demo talking point about "fiscal responsibility", aka don't let the taxpayers keep too much.

Bush will now take the blame for the bad economy caused by compromising with Democratic principles, just as his dad did. Maybe if Gore would have been elected, we could have had a real economic conservative in the next cycle. Of course with Gore, we might not have been around for another election cycle.

God bless you Pres. Reagan, I wish you were with us still...

[kayak]

"When I began entering into the give and take of legislative bargaining in Sacramento, a lot of the most radical conservatives who had supported me during the election didn't like it. "Compromise" was a dirty word to them and they wouldn't face the fact that we couldn't get all of what we wanted today. They wanted all or nothing and they wanted it all at once. If you don't get it all, some said, don't take anything. "I'd learned while negotiating union contracts that you seldom got everything you asked for. And I agreed with FDR, who said in 1933: 'I have no expectations of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average.'

"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, in his autobiography, An American Life

[FITZ]

I wish we could find another Reagan.