“Yeah, clearly Ronald Reagan caused oil companies to drill that far offshore instead of at a closer and more shallow depth…..You’re really intelligent…”

Of all the buffoonery, listen, it should be obvious to anyone with even half a brain the reason they drilled there so deep is because that is where the oil is, the sheer amount of oil gushing is evidence of that. The shallow areas that have oil have already been drilled, Cantarell is way past peak, and the truly major fields with huge reserves are in deep waters, like at Jack2, which has an estimated reserves of between 3 and 15 Billion (that is Billion with a B) barrels of oil. But hey gmckee, why don’t you just drill in your backyard, that is on dry land, so I am sure you can be a billionaire in no time.
By the way, since you obviously know nothing, Jack2 is nearly twice the depth of the Deepwater blowout. And Jack2 has not had a leak, this is BP’s disaster facilitated by Cheney gutting regulations for safety. The smart companies acted as though the regulations were in effect, the idiotic ones didn’t.
But it would have been better if the regulations were in effect in reality, something Repubs don’t get.

…….btw Mercer…..I took a look at that C span poll……do you consider JFK the sixth greatest president? (he was ranked above Jefferson!)……no neither do I……..I withdraw the above comment about the cred of the C span poll……..of course jmckee considers Kennedy the sixth greatest president since he regards this list as holy writ

“The last three surveys conducted on the grid at your link have him in the top quartile. Considering that most historians are liberals that is impressive.”

…….Well one of them is a rigged poll from the WSJ ed page, another is a popular poll and these worthless (for example Kennedy frequently appears in the top five in such polls and he was only average too!)……the only one with any cred is the C span poll which has him at 10

“Reagan was a FANTASTIC president…..Reality does not seem to be a strong point of yours”

……..I gave you the entire list or surveys…..amongst the surveys of historians other than the ones of concocted by the WSJ ed page he was consistently in the 20’s (ie. the middle) …….that’s what I call reality not your bombastic rants

Historians on the other hand rank Ronald Reagan very favorably. I think I’ll stick with them and ignore the goofy partisan arguements from internet trolls.

Being the 10th best President while above average isn’t what I’d call ‘fantastic’. 9 Presidents ahead of him would of been governing for 80 years out of the 190 years before Reagan took office. Considering how terrible his policies have been shown to be historically it isn’t surprising many people don’t think he was great. The only think he did for conservatives in my estimation is change the political landscape of the United States without achieving many concrete achievements.

He screwed up his dealing with the AIDS epidemic.
He screwed up with Iran-Contra.
He screwed up with the War on Drugs.
He cut domestic spending on mental health services and lead to a generation of mentally ill homeless in cities.
He screwed up the budget by ballooning the national debt.
He cut taxes far too much and while he is remembered for his 1981 tax cuts he raised taxes nearly every year of his administration afterward.

He had some successes too but the good doesn’t outweigh the bad in my mind. the Soviet Union would of collapsed regardless of Reagan. Reading about the political, social and economic divisions within the USSR which was very evident with glasnost and perestroika in the mid 1980s.

No, moron. When are you going to quit spouting off Daily Kos talking points?

Reagan was a FANTASTIC president. C-SPANs ranking by historians of both left and right put him at #10….Even liberals such as Douglas Brinkley put him among the best.

Reality does not seem to be a strong point of yours…

One of Carter’s worse mistakes was re-authorizing registration for the draft. Liberal college students like me, who should have been his base, puked all over him for that.