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AUDIO: Secret Service Audio From Reagan Assassination Attempt

10:14 am EST March 11th, 2011 | History | 2 Comments

The Secret Service has released audio of the Secret Service command post during the attempted assassination of President Reagan.

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VIDEO: How Republicans Screw The Religious Right

11:43 am EST January 3rd, 2011 | Conservative, History, Republicans | 24 Comments

I recommend the entire series of God In America for a great look at how religion has affected American history. But I particularly recommend the final hour of the series as the religious right themselves explain the way in which Republican presidents like Reagan and George W. Bush totally used them without actually enacting the core of their agenda.

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Party Of The Future? Not As Long As They Keep Yelling “Reagan!”

12:36 am EST March 23rd, 2010 | Republicans | 22 Comments

Almost all of the commentary I saw from the right on Monday, at least the bits that weren’t completely hysterical and flesh-rending (Glenn Beck, this means you) invoked Ronald Reagan. Particularly they invoked Ronald Reagan and speeches he gave in support of Goldwater (who went on to get crushed in a landslide election).

Now, both parties invoke past presidents that are viewed as successes, but the right’s fetish for Reagan seems to have no equal. At least when Democrats invoke FDR it’s about a successful president elected to office an unprecedented four times. And he happened to defeat fascism and depression in that time!

On the other hand the right has elevated Reagan to a deity, and instead of looking forward and cleaning up their party and the larger conservative movement, they play audio of him railing against the creation of medicare and act as if this is relevant to 2010.

As Keith Olbermann noted: Reagan is dead and he was a lousy president.

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Obama Vs. Reagan

3:45 pm EST March 5th, 2009 | News | 5 Comments

In a Fox News poll — repeat Fox News – people say we need Obanomics over Reaganomics by 49%-40%.

UPDATE: No matter how hard Fox News tries they can’t get anti-Obama results from their polls. Its like the president is popular and has the respects of the citizens. Fox seems to be fighting with Scott Rasmussen to be the Limbaugh of Republican pollsters.

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