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RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... That’s how fast Ronald Reagan was spinning in his grave yesterday as The One delivered his speech on the economy. When President Reagan entered office in 1981, he was faced with an economic problem brought on by four years of Carter ineptitude. Did he call for massive government intervention? No. Let me refresh your memory, in case you need it: ...
A Speech Only A Democrat Would Give
Firedoglake —
... From Reagan's first inaugural:
Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.
It's truly the end of an era.
A speech only a Democrat would give.
INSTAPUTZ —
... From Reagan's first inaugural: Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem. It's truly the end of an era. (crossposted at FDL)
A Liberal Inaugural Address
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... In stressing the importance of what government "must do," Obama offered an implicit yet ringing denunciation of Reagan's Inaugural screed: "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." ...
REAGAN VERSUS OBAMA: IS GOVERNMENT THE PROBLEM OR THE SOLUTION?
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS —
... absolutely true that we can't depend on government alone to create jobs or economic growth," he said. "But at this particular moment, with the private sector so weakened by this recession, the federal government is the only entity left with the resources to jolt our economy back into life. It is only government that can break the vicious cycle where lost jobs lead to people spending less money which leads to even more layoffs."REAGAN - FIRST INAUGURAL: These United States are confronted with an ...
Fact-Checking TNR
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
... But, of course, the most famous invocation of this formula - in the 1981 Inaugural - specifically did have an exception and complication. In fact, it had more than a complication, it had a context: ...
We’re liberals and we run the show: we don’t need your steenking history
neo-neocon —
... Here’s the Reagan speech Wieseltier is referencing; notice the “exceptions” and “complications.” Reagan, appropriately enough, was speaking of the economic crisis he inherited from his liberal predecessor, Jimmy Carter. His words in their full context bear repeating—because, strangely enough, they fit today’s economic situation as well (fancy that): ...
Paul Jenkins: Worst Week Ever: Republicans Unhinged
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... past seven days have offered so many moments of breathtaking inanity by the GOP that our head spins at trying to organize them cohesively. With the country on the verge of being swallowed up in its entirety by the spiraling economy, Republicans obsessed over Obama's citizenship, gay people, pregnant women with HIV, helicopters, primary challenges to their own Senators from porn stars and Christian fundamentalists, registration forms, hopeless recounts, and assorted variations on the 1981 theme of Government Is The Problem. ...
