Republican Culture Of Corruption: Reagan Administration Edition

12:41 pm EST March 26th, 2007 | Republicans | 8 Comments

DavidstockmanEx-Reagan Budget Director Charged

Federal prosecutors announced conspiracy and securities and bank fraud charges this morning against Reagan-era budget director David A. Stockman, accusing the former Republican lawmaker of misleading investors about the finances of a troubled Michigan auto parts company.

When Stockman was head of OMB under Reagan he said in an interview: “None of us really understands what’s going on with all these numbers.”

The more things change….

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8 Responses to “Republican Culture Of Corruption: Reagan Administration Edition”

  1. jimmmm says:
    March 26, 2007 at 1:06 pm

    But Reagan was a GOD.

  2. z adura says:
    March 26, 2007 at 1:30 pm

    Well, this pretty much puts a bow on it.

    I read Stockman’s book, Triumph of Politics, back when I was in high school, which was one of the main reasons that I became an avid Republican. In it, Stockman argues that Reagan Republicanism failed not because Reagan’s fiscal policies were too harsh but because they were not harsh enough.

    I readily admit to my errors and realize that most of the people talking about the glory of the Reagan years were either charlatans or liars. Stockman is just the latest snakeoil salesman to reach infamy.

  3. Swan says:
    March 26, 2007 at 1:41 pm

    What explains the failure of the mainstream media to cover the purge scandal for so long, and so many other scandals? Do you think somebody just set up newspaper editors to cheat on their wives, and threatened to tell if the editors wouldn’t play ball when they come back some day and ask for something?

    It wouldn’t be that hard to do, when you think about it. People wouldn’t talk about it.

  4. fd10801 says:
    March 26, 2007 at 2:26 pm

    This case goes back to 2005. Pres. Reagan was dead a year, and his administration had come to an end in JAN 1989. You may only be parroting WaPo, but calling this a “Reagan Administration scandal” is ridiculous.

  5. Oliver says:
    March 26, 2007 at 5:49 pm

    Stockman was or wasn’t a Reagan administration official? This is not a trick question.

  6. fd10801 says:
    March 26, 2007 at 9:50 pm

    Oliver: Do I really have to tell you that Stockman’s having been in the Reagan administration, doesn’t somehow retrofit the Reagan administration as corrupt?
    So, I repeat, calling this a “Reagan administration” scandal is ridiculous.

  7. merlallen says:
    March 27, 2007 at 8:54 am

    Iran Contra is the one that fits into party of corruption, right?

  8. fd10801 says:
    March 27, 2007 at 10:06 am

    merlallen: That’s up to you. I would say that since “no politicians were enriched in the making of that ‘scandal’” — no.

    See, I don’t define “scandal” as “upset liberals”.