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SMS wrote:

On 5/28/2011 7:06 AM, Country wrote:

OK, so Regan cut taxes and ran the country into the highest debt than
ever before and is worshiped like a God by conservatives.

It was a great party while it lasted.

George H.W. Bush inherited a mess, just like Obama inherited a mess. He
raised taxes to try to reduce the deficit as well as to pay for the S&L
crisis caused by Reagan's deregulation. He acted responsibly. You saw
what happened to him.
Yeah he got mugged by the Dems. The Budget "Summit" would only be
attended by the Dems if GHW put tax increases on the table along with
spending cuts in a "bipartisan" manner. The increases the Dems insisted
on were passed (the cuts somehow never materialized) and the Dems then
proceeded to beat GHW about the face and head after he signed
essentially their tax increase.
I think this goes along way toward to explaining GW's distrust of
the theory of "bipartisanship."


Obama is headed to a one-term presidency. He just upset a key large
block of voters in Florida, a swing state that he can't afford to lose.
As long as the Republican presidential candidate is not someone who
signed onto the Paul Ryan Medicare fiasco, and not one of the lunatics
like Palin, Bachmann, or Gingrich, Obama will have a tough time.

A couple big "ifs" there (g)

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"Even I realized that money was to politicians what the ecalyptus tree is to koala bears: food, water, shelter and something to crap on."
---PJ O'Rourke