Yank any and every chairmanship and committee appointment this lying phony jive turkey has, or hopes to ever get!
Forget the Reagan Revolution ... what we’re looking at now is the end of GHW’s “New World Order”.
“Young gun,” Paul Davis Ryan, Jr. (born January 29, 1970) might want to check his holster.
President Reagan’s movement is alive and undergoing a revival in the form of Sarah Palin. It’s hardly President Reagan’s fault that RINOS went off the conservative reservation, but it’s up to these “young guns” to do their part to bring the Grand Old Party back to the glory of President Reagan. Sarah Palin is trying.
The progressives may have started the fire, but until they completely control the media and internet, now we know who the arsonists are.
From the ashes, this generation's "Reagans" will either do what Reagan couldn't do or it's truly over. The revolution is here. obama wasn't kidding when he said "We are the ones we've been waiting for."
I really try to like Paul Ryan — and then he goes and says something stupid like this...
Still, the Reagan Revolution has been dead for quite a long time. It was dead, in my opinion, in 1995, when Bill Clinton managed to shut down the Federal Government and blame it on the Republican Congress. And Newt Gingrich — all hot and bothered at the time in an illicit affair with his now wife — remained strangely silent and cowered before the Slick One. From that point on, Slick Willie got credit for everything that was accomplished, even if he coopted Republican ideas.
Even when Bush was elected — his tax cuts most certainly were Reagan-inspired policies — even Bush himself went along with Congress, both Democrats AND “Big Government Republicans,” on a spending spree that would have made Tip O’Neill blush.
The Reagan Revolution had been on life support, really, since the whole Bush 41 “Read My Lips, No New Taxes” debacle. the 1995 Government Shutdown KILLED it. But in 2006, the Democrats finally finished burying the corpse, retaking Congress, throwing dirt in the face of the few Conservatives left in Washington. 2008 made it even worse. The American People voted in Socialism. Now that they’ve got it, they have voter’s remorse — but Marxist’s and Progressives NEVER surrender the power given them, not without a fight.
So, today, we need a Reagan Renaissance. Ryan is wrong if he thinks the failures of Republicans are due to the failures of Reagan’s PRINCIPLES. No! Reagan’s principles were Constitutional, sound, true to the vision of our Founders, and sensible considering the threats our nation faced both internally and externally in the time that Reagan lived and governed. Reagan’s principles did not “fail,” at least, not insofar as they were tried!
Remember, Reagan’s principles were never fully implemented. He had to work with a predominantly Democrat Congress during most of his presidency. That he accomplished as much as he did is miraculous. Reagan once stated that the only thing he regretted was not using the veto and shutting down the government over the continued overspending of the Democrat Congress. Hindsight is 20/20. We can learn from the Master’s mistakes.
A Reagan Renaissance can take Reagan’s principles — and then go BEYOND what Reagan accomplished. Take it to it’s logical, CONSTITUTIONAL ends. That was what Ronald Reagan ultimately envisioned. His greatest speech, “Rendevous with Destiny,” outlined his goals, which were only partially fulfilled in his lifetime. Their complete fulfillment still remains before US. We should take his vision as our goal.
Perhaps Mr. Ryan is right. Maybe the Reagan Revolution is “dead.” But if he is saying that with the slightest bit of disdain for or dismissiveness of the principles of Ronald Reagan, the Congressman need an attitude adjustment. We need to look back TO the vision of Ronald Reagan, remember the “shining city on a hill, “ and say, with him, that we can still get there, though the battle is going to be much harder than we had ever imagined. It will indeed, take a Reagan Renaissance — but we can honor the Gipper with one more victory.
We need a movement far more serious than the Reagan Revolution. Cutting taxes is a must but tax reform and elimination of whole programs are called for. All areas of government needs top to bottom review on the federal, state and local level. Serious cuts need to be made. Government employees need to be cut loose. Military also needs to trim the fat. No stone should be left unturned.
Now we have a tax “deal” that is fast becoming TARP2
He’s right. Washington has become incapable of change from within. It will come from without.