As True Now As It Was Then

4 Responses to As True Now As It Was Then

1. Quentin Colgan says:

   Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 5:21 pm

   Ah yes! The great Conservative!
   He cut and ran in Lebanon.
   He raised the debt ceiling eighteen times!
   He raised taxes eleven times–including the largest peacetime tax increase ever!
   He raised Capital Gains taxes 40%!
   He tripled the National Debt!
   Now you’re saying to yourself, “THAT isn’t what a conservative does.”
   BUT he told the Soviets to “tear down this wall!” So, that makes him a conservative!
   You just don’t understand conservatism!

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   Thank you, Poe!
   I mean, pie.

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2. Tina says:

   Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 6:38 pm

   Quentin we get it. You don’t like Reagan, or anyone else apparently.

   There’s a difference between what someone stands for and believes in and what someone, ANYONE…EVEN YOU, is able to accomplish in our checks and balances system.

   Presidents don’t write laws…Congress does. Presidents can propose but Congress, the representatives of THE PEOPLE, dispose. You can argue that he could veto but that supposes that a veto would miraculaously change what Congress could do…and we all know what happens when a shut down of government is even thought about much less done. Reagan did what he could.

   Quentin, there isn’t a person on the planet that could meet your expectations. (This is what makes you act like a jerk)

   Rapidly deteriorating conditions in Lebanon dictated Reagan’s decision. Given your recent comments on war I would think you would applaud the decision.

   Interested Post Scripters can read about Reagan’s decision on Lebanon here:

   http://eightiesclub.tripod.com/id413.htm

   He wasn’t King Reagan, he was President Reagan, a man of honor who loved America and served her well. I would trust myself and my family to Reagan’s leadership any day of the week…couldn’t say the same about you.

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3. Pie Guevara says:

   Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 7:07 pm

   True, Quentin, Reagan did allow the debt ceiling to be raised. You seem to think that (and the rest) was done in a political vacuum.

   In Reagan’s speech inaugural speech he said:

   “You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?

   We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow. And let there be no misunderstanding–we are going to begin to act, beginning today.”

   Reagan ultimately failed in the long run, despite the economic revolutionary turn around he and Thatcher created. But not because he was wrong. Rather because he could not stop the beast.

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4. Post Scripts says:

   Wednesday, August 17, 2011 at 7:57 pm

   That was very powerful Pie, thank you. Jack

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