Obama on Reagan: a ‘wild-eyed, socialist, tax-hiking class warrior’.....

[Bill USA]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/reagan-wild-eyed-socialist-tax-hiking-class-warrior-162033697.html


Today's Republicans might view Ronald Reagan as a "wild-eyed, socialist, tax-hiking class warrior," and the late conservative icon's views on taxes might have disqualified him from the party's nomination in 2012, President Barack Obama said Wednesday.

Obama, defending his "Buffett Rule" call for higher taxes on the very rich, said in a speech that he was "not the first president to call for this idea that everybody has got to do their fair share." He went on to say:

Some years ago, one of my predecessors traveled across the country pushing for the same concept. He gave a speech where he talked about a letter he had received from a wealthy executive who paid lower tax rates than his secretary, and wanted to come to Washington and tell Congress why that was wrong. So this president gave another speech where he said it was "crazy"—that's a quote—that certain tax loopholes make it possible for multimillionaires to pay nothing, while a bus driver was paying 10 percent of his salary. That wild-eyed, socialist, tax-hiking class warrior was Ronald Reagan.


He thought that, in America, the wealthiest should pay their fair share, and he said so. I know that position might disqualify him from the Republican primaries these days, but what Ronald Reagan was calling for then is the same thing that we're calling for now: a return to basic fairness and responsibility; everybody doing their part. And if it will help convince folks in Congress to make the right choice, we could call it the Reagan Rule instead of the Buffett Rule.

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[BeyondGeography]

1. I think this is very effective

I like that he's sticking with the Reagan comparisons. They've gone off an ideological cliff, and it's a good way letting the average voter know it.

[Bill USA]

3. If you are like me and think the Pres needs to do more direct, plain talking to people - rather than

his penchant for sounding like he is conducting a seminar at Harvard, please consider sending him your thoughts at:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/submit-questions-and-comments/old2


Last week he referred to GOP economic idiocy as "Trickle Down" economics. GREAT. That's what he needs to do! Critique these bastard conmen with both barrels. Remove the kidd gloves and start fighting back. People have wondered if he's really committed to getting something accomplished. THey are not going to vote for a dispassionate consultant president. They want a leader (and that means - with the current crop of Republican Destructors - someone who's not afraid of a fight). ... Anyway, that's how I see it.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

2. Bwahahahaa! Awesome.

I hope he keeps skewering them like this.

[Bill USA]

4. If you are like me and think the Pres needs to do more direct, plain talking to people

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101623983#post3