Obama urges Republicans to follow Reagan example

[IDemo]

Source: Agence France-Presse

President Barack Obama urged Republicans to draw inspiration from the hero of fiscal conservatives, Ronald Reagan, who had agreed to revenue increases to cut the US deficit.

"Ronald Reagan repeatedly took steps that included revenue, in order for him to accomplish some of these larger goals," Obama told CBS in an interview.

"And the question is if Ronald Reagan could compromise -- why wouldn't folks who idolize Ronald Reagan be willing to engage in those same kinds of compromises."

Reagan was a staunch Republican, who led the United States for two terms from 1981 to 1989, and was in power when Congress was controlled by the Democrats.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/07/13/obama-urges-republicans-to-follow-reagan-example/

[onehandle]

1. Reagan raised taxes and spent, spent, spent.

Damned hippie.

[Vinca]

2. This is how bad it's gotten - Reagan is starting to look good.

:banghead:

[elleng]

3. GOOD one!

:rofl:

But of course, he began as a Democrat, union-organizer wasn't it???

[Bluenorthwest]

6. Ronald Reagan was not an 'organizer' he was elected

President of the Screen Actor's Guild, the Union of which he was a member. The powerful people that pushed him into office were his own agents at MCA, Lew Wasserman etc, who wanted changes to rules and regulations which would allow MCA-a talent agency- to purchase Universal-a producing studio. This merger was seen as and was a conflict of interest, and Ronny was put in place to sign the papers that changed the rules to let that merger happen, MCA/Universal.
Organizer or Rat Fucker? I say Rat Fucker.

[elleng]

8. Thanks for facts.

[Javaman]

7. yeah, then he tossed his friends over the side by ratting on them during the commie hearings.

he was dead to the Dems from that point forward. he soon after switched parties because the Dems could no longer stomach his cheerleading for mccarthy.

[cosmicone]

5. hahahahaha bizarro world !! n/t

[Lucky Luciano]

12. Yep....Reagan is a modern day centrist.

Nixon is a tree hugging liberal...and Eisenhower is an outright fucking commie. Strange days.

[Ian David]

4. Reagan is probably spinning in his grave.

He can do that, because he's probably much thinner by now.

[Demeter]

9. Get Alzheimers and Die?

Yeah, that would be a good thing for the nation....

[Beacool]

10. Here he goes again with Ronnie.

Reagan must be one of his heroes.

:eyes:

[Richardo]

11. We had eight years of Karl Rove turning strengths into weaknesses.

I for one am happy to see the tables turned.

[Beacool]

13. He couldn't pick a better president to use for comparison?

He has expressed more than once his admiration for Reagan.

:(

[Richardo]

16. Who is the GOP's god?

No, he could not have picked a better President to use against them.

[Octafish]

14. Red Ink Ronnie

Pruneface doubled the debt and all we got to show for it is a busted America.

[fascisthunter]

15. no kidding... not exactly the President we want to hear about

[Octafish]

18. Whole lot more FDR and JFK...

...and a lot less Pruneface.



Obama’s favorite CEO gets GE out from paying any US taxes

[Zorra]

17. WWRD?

"What Would Reagan Do?"

Probably more effective for swaying a conservative"s opinion than "What Would Jesus Do?", cuz Reagan was a hard core fascist and Jesus was a peacenik socialist hippie freak.

[harun]

19. Dem's today are to the right of Ronnie.

[fascisthunter]

20. yup... and people can't seem to link our current problems with this truth

a big DUH for those who still can't grasp it.

[Kolesar]

21. Slow day in paradise, harun? eom

[eridani]

22. I wish Obama would implement the Reagan tax rates for higher incomes n/t