RSS Feed MenuFrumForum reporter Tim Mak is currently attending the Americans For Prosperity (AFP) Defending the American Dream Summit and is tweeting his observations from the “Tribute to Ronald Reagan Dinner.” Read along as he reports on the speeches being made by Rep. Michele Bachmann, George Will, Tim Phillips, and others.
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Oldskool // Aug 27, 2010 at 9:00 pm
So Bachman is the next Reagan, eh. That sums up the Right pretty well, I’d say.
TerryF98 // Aug 27, 2010 at 9:17 pm
So sad you have to sit through this crap Tim. Guess someone had to do it and you drew the short straw.
jg bennet // Aug 27, 2010 at 10:56 pm
Bachmann: 70% of private industry owned/controlled by govt. 20 mos ago, 100% or private industry was private
how is it private industry if it is owned by the gov?
kind of like “gov keep your hands off my medicare”
smaaart
Nanotek // Aug 28, 2010 at 11:40 am
Reagan took us from being a creditor nation to a debtor nation and we’re still paying interest on the deficits run up on his watch.
Elvis Elvisberg // Aug 28, 2010 at 1:47 pm
The right worships this all-powerful “Reagan” deity who is only tangentially related to the actual historical figure, rather like the South Park kids do Brian Boitano. Real-world Ronald Reagan raised taxes to reduce the deficit, incurred the right’s ire by playing Neville Chamberlain to Gorbachev’s Hitler, and signed a bill liberalizing California’s abortion laws as governor.
He would be dismissed as a RINO by today’s Tea/Republican Party.
jg bennet // Aug 28, 2010 at 8:22 pm
Ronald Reagan is remembered as the tax-cutter in chief: the supply-side hero whose Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 slashed the top marginal tax rate by more than half.
But the truth is that after his first year in office, Reagan was actually willing (if not always happy) to compensate for gaps in the government’s revenue stream by raising rates. In 1982, for example, he agreed to restore a third of the previous year’s massive cut.
It was the largest tax increase in U.S. history. The Gipper also raised taxes in 1983. And 1984. And 1986. The party sainted him for his efforts.
Carney // Aug 30, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Once again, Reagan, net, cut taxes overall. Hyping the various tax increases to the exclusion of the overall picture is misleading.
Reagan also regretted his actions on abortion as governor and became a dedicated pro-lifer. Nor was this a matter of political calculation; long after his final election, when he might have decided to quietly drop the issue amid gauzy feel-goodism, he went out of his way to prominently mention abortion in his farewell address and in his memoirs as a major matter of unfinished business he wished to be resolved.