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Setting the Record Straight on the Gipper


If you liked Bill Clinton, then you should love Ronald Reagan. More than 100 indictments of Reagan administration personnel seem to have gotten lost in the current media swoon over the Gipper's passing. It wasn't all that long ago, but everyone seems to have forgotten the names.
Michael Deaver, Cap Weinberger, William Casey, Oliver North, Rita Lavelle, Sam Pierce.
The White House, Defense, the CIA, National Securty...it made no difference. The corruption knew no limits nor was it impressed with rank. Put into proper context, the Monica Lewinsky "scandal" was laughable.
Even the Budget Director for Reagan, David Stockman admitted to cooking the numbers to sell supply side economics to his boss. The economy would grow itself out of debt so the story went. Painless. Have your cake and eat it too. Lower taxes and a trillion dollars would just materialize to balance the budget. Of course, the debt ballooned from under 1 trillion to 4 trillion on Reagan's watch. So much for the "Voodoo economics" coined by Reagan's very own vice president George Bush.

Reagan was the first of the "Knucklehead" presidents. He would pass around a jar of jelly beans to cabinet staffers at meetings and wax nostalgic about his filmaking days when policy details became thorny. Some details didn't have to be thorny. Like the time the Gipper mistook one of his own appointees for a governor. Wife Nancy hired a White House astrologer to plan her husbands itinerary. Pure knucklehead.

The gipper's VP picked another kuncklehead for his own VP, Dan Quayle.
And now we have the knucklehead of all knuckleheads holding the highest office in the world. A president who treats visting dignitaries to babecues and spends every minute he can get on vacation in Crawford Texas.

The scary part is...Americans are seriously considering electing this knucklehead to another 4 years of vacation.
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