Why are today's Neocons Saying Reagan was a good president?

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Has anyone noticed how when left and right's get into the "bush sucks, well clinton sucked too" debate, that the right almost always brings up Reagan as being a good president?

Why is this? Either these people are young, misinformed, or jackasses.


Dude seriously, Your a complete dumbass. Reaganomics worked!

'nuff said..

[Vashner]

Fuck it.. no one person is all being..
Just like Clinton didn't invent Windows.. Bill Gates and TCP IP fuled the 90's economy.. no Bill getting head from a girl the age of his daughter during working hours at the nations top Federal building...

No.. Ronny was bad ass execept he didn't act too well against Islamic Terrorists. He was too tied up beating down commies.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

i especially liked the part about Reagan increasing hte national deficit at unprecedented rates, and until i was enlightened by Gtownspur i always thought reaganomics was bunk, but apparently it saved the country!

[mookie2001]

My sons name is Reagan you a-hole!

[exstatic]

Actually, Reagan was a pussy. When the Marines were killed in Lebanon, he refused to just leave the rest of them there and STAY THE COURSE, and he brought them home.

[mookie2001]

and then he got altzheimers (sp?)
thus making it cruel to scoff him

[mugatu]

When you really take a good look at Bush? even Hitler looks ok.

[mookie2001]

^the liberal republicandestino

[Aunt Ester]

Bush fucked up plain and simple............

[Oscar DeLa]

I don't know what it is but Bush...
seemed to handle the hurricane poorly

[Vashner]

Those last 2 posts are SO weak... so weak.. for one we have plenty of good threads where people posts some thinking on the issue.

First response is not a Federal issue.. it's a state issue idiots...

The mayor and governer STOPPED water and food from getting to the convention ctr.

THIS CAME FROM THE DIRECTOR OF RED CROSS who had food. water and personal hygene kits just a couple MILES away from both places. But where stopped by LOCALS from going to the scene..

SO SHUT THE FUCK UP

[Cant_Be_Faded]

Please stick to the topic, don't focus on those who did not stick to the topic. Its tantamount to Conservative talk shows focusing on how Liberals are politicizing and doing wrong things.

so why do you think neoultracons and ultraneocons are popping up all over the place and making it sound like Reagan was a godsend, almost like a pre-Bush.

[Vashner]

Dude you already Hate Reagan so no amount of posting or explaining will help.

What makes you better than Ronald Reagan?

Compare your public service to his.

Please I am curious...

[hussker]

Dead Thread...like most of the poli threads here. very little subsatnce but tons of rhetoric and emotion. Emotions are liars

[RandomGuy]

Reagan was a nice guy. That didn't make him a good president.

He ballooned our federal debt tho'

http://mwhodges.home.att.net/federal-debt-dollars.gif



NOTE:
Notice the leveling off in the Clinton era. That was one of the few things that the GOP majority in the house pushed him into that I liked. Too bad when the GOP got the white house they went on to balloon the debt to dangerous levels.

[The Ressurrected One]

http://www.geoinvestor.com/charts/ReaganDebt1.gif
Revenues went from 50 Trillion to 85 Trillion per year, under Reagan. That made the debt insignificant.

Oh, yeah, notice the Reagan tax cuts also resulted in income tax revenues going from 25 to over 38 Trillion dollars? Wow, how'd we get that debt, anyway? Oh, yeah...A Democratic Congress.

[The Ressurrected One]

eh billion
Ooops, my bad. Still his tax policies raised revenue...and, still, it is Congress that spends money.

[The Ressurrected One]

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[The Ressurrected One]

Reagan was a nice guy. That didn't make him a good president.

He ballooned our federal debt tho'

http://mwhodges.home.att.net/federal-debt-dollars.gif



NOTE:
Notice the leveling off in the Clinton era. That was one of the few things that the GOP majority in the house pushed him into that I liked. Too bad when the GOP got the white house they went on to balloon the debt to dangerous levels.

Hmmm...leveled off about 1995...when a Republican Congress took over. Proves my point, I'd say, about Congress holding the purse strings. And, all bets are off after 2001 with war costs and all.

[Marcus Bryant]

Recent US history has shown that the most desirable situation for federal fiscal responsibility is a Congress controlled by the GOP and a Democratic president. One would have thought that GOP control of the WH and Congress would have led to some serious fiscal restraint but apparently GOP congressmen have a problem saying no to a GOP president. Put a Demo in the WH and they seem to understand their alleged ideology.

Reagan's tax cuts did ultimately help lead to a significant increase in tax receipts, but unfortunately a Demo Congress spent it all and then some, though Reagan went along with a lot of the domestic spending increases to get his agenda passed.

To turn a blind eye to the Demo's role in ballooning the federal deficit in the 1980s is the act of boorish partisans, of which we seem to have plenty in this forum.