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Scuba

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Sun Apr 28, 2013, 11:49 AM Apr 2013

Former Reagan Budget Director Stockman Slams GOP as 'Coalition of Gangs' [View all]

sorry about the source ...

http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/reagan-budget-head-gop/2013/04/26/id/501620

The Republican Party is merely “a coalition of gangs,” David Stockman, the former congressman and Reagan-era budget director, tells Newsmax TV in an exclusive interview.

“The Republican Party is not really a party. It doesn’t stand for anything except re-electing itself,” Stockman, who directed the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan, tells Newsmax. “The neocons are only oriented to an aggressive, imperialistic foreign policy of big defense establishment and suppression of our civil liberties. That’s bad.

“The tax cons want to just cut taxes — any time, any day — regardless of the fiscal situation,” Stockman adds. “That has gone to an absurd length. The social cons, social policy people — the right-to-life issue and gay marriage and all of that — that’s irrelevant to governing a democracy in a free society.

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“The Republican Party is basically irrelevant to the economic crisis that faces the country.”
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