thinkprogress.org - 1/7/2009
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Appearing on CSPAN’s Washington Journal this morning, Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN), the third ranking Republican in the House, repeatedly claimed that the solution to the economic crisis was to “ do what Ronald Reagan did ” and implement “across-the-board permanent marginal ...
debatableland.com - 1/9/2009
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debatableland.com —
At a recent debate, every single one of
the candidates hoping to be the nest chairman of...
the Republican National Committee named Ronald Reagan as their favourite Republican president. In one sense this is hardly surprising, given the extent to which ...
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The Limits of Reaganism
delong.typepad.com - 1/11/2009
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delong.typepad.com —
People who have endorsed the Republican House caucus's
objections to the stimulus package: Donald Luskin, Chief Investment...
Officer, Trend Macrolytics LLC, Stupidest Man Alive Emeritus TM : "Government spending does not create incentives for ...
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Stupidest Party AliveTM
firedoglake.com - 1/9/2009
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firedoglake.com —
How can you tell a Democrat is about
to move into the White House? When Nooners writes...
something like this: The Founders, who were awed by the presidency and who made it a point, the early ones, to speak in their inaugural addresses of how ...
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Peggy Noonan Suddenly Decides That Hero-Worshipping ...
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When William F. Buckley died in February 2008, it was widely
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firedoglake.com 2/2/2009 — Today on Stephanopolous, Jim DeMint repeated the mantra that we never spent our way out of a recession. As he said when defending his "stimulus" bill , which had nothing other than permanent tax cuts:
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The Reagan Myth and the Iraq War
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/21/2009 — Understanding Ronald Reagan's presidential record is important -- but what's critical in 2009 is undoing the mythology that caused America to pursue even worse policies and justify them in the name of the Gipper. In the early 2000s, then-President ...
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rasmussenreports.com 12/28/2008 — It’s a showdown between the two most influential presidents of the 20th Century. Franklin D. Roosevelt versus Ronald W. Reagan. Forty-five percent (45%) of U.S. voters say FDR, the Democratic father of the big government New Deal who led the country ...
Feds drop case against fmr. Reagan aide —
First Read 1/9/2009
From NBC's Pete WilliamsFederal prosecutors have decided to drop their case against David Stockman, the former Reagan budget aide.
Stockman and three others were accused of securities fraud last year in connection with the bankruptcy of one of North ...
Pat Buchanan: Obama's choice — FDR or Reagan —
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