Comments on: The poisoned chalice and a tiny ray of hope

By: Uncle Kvetch

Uncle Kvetch — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 21:41:49 +0000

One problem though is that they dont live in the reality-based community (has that become a cliche yet?), so no matter how bad things will get under Bushs’ second term – they’re not gonna notice. Oh, they’ll notice—they’ll just tell themselves that it’s all the fault of George Soros, Hillary Clinton, and Michael Moore. And they’ll believe it, too.

By: LamontCranston

LamontCranston — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 20:06:17 +0000

By: Rick Taylor

Rick Taylor — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:06:31 +0000

When Reagan was President, it wasn’t on the eve of the baby boomers coming of age. This time there won’t be time to undo the damage. —Rick Taylor

By: Rick Taylor

Rick Taylor — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:03:26 +0000

When Reagan was President, it wasn’t on the eve of the baby boomers coming of age. This time there won’t be time to undo the damage. —Rick Taylor

By: Rick Taylor

Rick Taylor — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 19:01:28 +0000

When Reagan was President, it wasn’t on the eve of the baby boomers coming of age. This time there won’t be time to undo the damage. —Rick Taylor

By: nobody

nobody — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 18:12:54 +0000

You forget that Reagan was forced back into compromising—no Republican Senate, a House that survived the prospect of possible Republican takeover and where more liberal Democrats were much more confident to assert themselves. Bush has the whole of Congress, filled increasingly with shrill partisan hacks, on his side. No one will stop him from himself.

By: h. e. baber

h. e. baber — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 17:47:32 +0000

Let’s hope that the Democratic party doesn’t take this defeat as a signal to move even further to the right. We cooked our own goose. We lampooned middle Americans as gun-toting yahoos living in little boxes made of ticky-tacky. We politicized “lifestyle issues,” ignored policies that benefitted the working class economically, and made “liberalism” a dirty word by creating the public perception that it’s chief tenets were secularism, support for abortion on demand and gay marriage, cultural sensitivity, tree-hugging and gun control. After 30 years of this crap, how was a Francophile, billionaire Brahmin supposed to persuade Americans that he was a friend of “working families”?

By: h. e. baber

h. e. baber — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 17:45:13 +0000

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h. e. baber — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 17:43:44 +0000

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h. e. baber — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 17:42:04 +0000

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h. e. baber — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 17:40:14 +0000

By: Ted Barlow

Ted Barlow — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 17:00:28 +0000

No problem, Jet. I didn’t interpret it as flippant.

By: jet

jet — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 16:24:00 +0000

Ted, in case my previous comment came off too flippant, I really meant it when I said “thanks”. That’s what I like about this site, you are certainly kept honest. If I’m going to praise Regan’s economy, I’m certainly obligated to delve into the gray world of defense spending, social cuts, tax cuts, de-regulation, etc etc ad nausea.

By: Ted Barlow

Ted Barlow — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:54:46 +0000

Jet, You’ll forgive me if I don’t have a lot of energy for debate this morning, but quite a lot of credit has to go to Paul Volcker, the Fed chairman appointed by Carter. Personally, I’d give the credit to Reagan for getting out of his way (which is no small thing; it took a lot of political courage as Volcker pursued a painful program of tight money), and for an aggressive program of deregulation. The chocolate thing is just a product of getting older. It happened to me, too.

By: Dubious

Dubious — Wed, 03 Nov 2004 15:45:54 +0000

Unless all sorts of wonderful things happen, by 2006 the American people will be feeling disgruntled with one party controlling so much of the govt. They’ll vote the Republicans out of one of the houses of congress, I think.