Republicans look to Reagan era for inspiration

[JI7]

when are these morons going to see the current mess is part of a long term deterioration in society largely started by Reagan. there was a small pause with the Clinton administration but didn't last long and was still tough with the Republican Congress.



<WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Looking to the future after their "seismic" loss of power in the U.S. Congress, some Republicans are turning to the past and the glory days of Ronald Reagan's presidency for inspiration.

"We are in the wilderness because we walked away from the limited government principles that minted the Republican Congress," Rep. Mike Pence wrote to colleagues after Democrats seized control of the House of Representatives and the Senate in this week's elections.

The Indiana Republican, a major voice of the conservative wing in the House who is seeking a leadership position in his party, described himself as dedicated to providing "a credible and persuasive voice for the Reagan agenda."

"Now is the time to return to the ideals that swept us into a governing majority," said John Shadegg of Arizona, quoting from the 1994 Contract with America, the manifesto of Reagan's ideological heirs. Shadegg also is seeking a leadership role.

As Pence, Shadegg and other figures maneuver for influence in the new Democratic-controlled Congress, the dominant Republican themes are fiscal discipline, tax cuts and conservative purity. They are not talking much about Iraq or foreign policy.>

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=politicsNews&storyID=2006-11-10T160630Z_01_N10243199_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-ELECTIONS-CONGRESS-REPUBLICANS.xml&WTmodLoc=NewsHome-C3-politicsNews-2

[muntrv]

1. You mean run up the national debt? That's what raygun did.

[valerief]

2. They want to ignore AIDS? nt

[struggle4progress]

10. They're nostalgic for the days when catsup was a vegetable!

[Old and In the Way]

3. Reagan increased the overall size of the government.

These people elected a person to play President. He was a creation of Big Business. Do they really think he did anything off script? Micheal Deaver was the real power in the Oval Office.

Yeah, dust off that "Contract on America" farce. Like they didn't shitcan that document as soon as the 94 Congress got sworn in.

[fooj]

4. Not talking much about Iraq or foriegn policy?

Right. Let's turn back to those "glory days" of Reagan's Iran/Contra "ideals". WTF?????

[struggle4progress]

9. Supporting Saddam! And the Afghani Mujihadeen! And Pol Pot!

Those were the days!

[davidinalameda]

13. he supported Pol Pot?

that's a new one

do you have a link to support this?

[rusty charly]

5. look to reagan? now?

those people have been running things since 2001.

[Eurobabe]

6. Quick, call Nancy's astrologer!

What a bunch'a maroons!?

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. Ah yes, the glory days, when they kicked mentally ill people out into the street.

Weren't they the best? :eyes:

[struggle4progress]

8. Death squads! Arms for hostages! CIA cocaine! Mining harbors!

An out-of-touch president!

Oh, those were the days ...

[daleo]

11. Reagan era = dementia

Perhaps unkind, but it fits.

[rodeodance]

12. Reagan ran up huge bills with taxpayer money (no diff this time --guess

that is one of their inspirations?)

[FrenchieCat]

14. Did someone tell the Morans that the Cold War is over?

I mean.....shouldn't someone break it to them that although Reagan was able to outspend the USSR in the Nuclear arms' race.......both countries wounded up in bankruptcy! :eyes:

[Raine]

15. Incivility, moral decline and the era of

non-responsibility in our society started with Raygun and his reTHUGS. x(