| MontanaHatchet said: Reagan, Reagan...wasn't he that guy who multiplied our national debt several times in the course of a few years, thus setting a precedent for future presidents to make the problem even worse? Doesn't this massive debt hurt out relation with other countries, and won't it eventually hinder our economy as we are forced to pay it off, billion by billion? I'm not saying that Reagan is a horrible president, but I think democrats generally have their flaws far overblown compared to republicans. |
Exactly. Republicans have completely lost their high ground on fiscal responsibility. They have become Keynsians who don't believe in raising taxes when necessary, which is combining two completely different ideologies for an even worse result than either one of them could do on their own.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
