Crying John Boehner cries again: At the unveiling of the Ronald Reagan Statue
By John Amato Thursday Jun 04, 2009 2:00pm
Rep. John Boehner was crying again.
Avid crier, John Boehner, was at it again: sobbing when the statue-- or, in his case, idol-- of Ronald Reagan was unveiled in Statuary Hall this morning. Or maybe his mind was just wandering towards what today's Politico termed the stealth war to keep moving the GOP along the road to oblivion as a serious national party.
It's not so much that the wing-nuts will miss John McHugh (R-NY) or even the likelihood of being embarrassed again when they lose a seat-- after a costly battle they can't afford-- with a tremendous GOP registration advantage (120,887 Democrats to 167,272 Republicans). Obama won the district 52-47% last November.
I did an interview with the great Will Bunch on his new book: "Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future," and I'll be posting the video shortly.
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I know how you feel, Orange John. I cry whenever I see likenesses of Reagan, too. What an asshole he was.
By the way--you're looking kind of...orange. You really ought to have that checked out.
Reagan had the most corrupted administration until Bush/Cheney...
Reagan was the person which started this Global Empire taken over our country..
Reagan struck the first major blow against unions and it has gotten worst on a daily basis ever since..
Reagan was the one that brought Bin Laden and Saddan into power and the republicans fail to let this fact be known..
How Reagan Armed Saddam with Chemical Weapons
http://www.counterpunch.org/dixon06172004.html
Reagan Played Decisive Role in Saddam Hussein's Survival in Iran-Iraq War
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0609-...
Shaking Hands with Saddam Hussein:
The U.S. Tilts toward Iraq, 1980-1984
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/
In fact Rumsfeld was a go-between for Reagan to carry the torch to Saddam. Reagan even got Rumsfeld to give Saddam a pair of cowboy boots>
On the subject of our economy destruction our government has promoted it by given our tax money to their friend and their friends going overseas and not paying taxes.. While we give their our tax money with a open ended contracts..;
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For the reasons you've mentioned and more.
He laid the groundwork for the huge swing to the Right of America.
He empowered the Religious Right.
He fostered the instability in Afghanistan and the Middle East (by building bases in Saudi Arabia and arming and training the Mujahideen.
He began the gutting of social services, which led directly to higher crime and the homelessness of mentally ill people.
Bad, evil, nasty man. Far from a hero.
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/060309.html
I weep when I think about what Ronnie Raygun did to the workers of this country. And when I realize that if I hadn't left Miami County, John Oompa-Loompa would be my Congress-critter.
When I think about the fact the Reagan is dead. It is just too bad that he has only been dead for what five or six years?
I cry because I wish it was 45 years ago that he died.
Fuck him.
make the tan run down his cheeks?
for an inanimate object, like I dunno... a f*cking bronze statue!
I wonder if republicans do like old Catholic ladies in the old world, whose favourite pastime is to go to random funerals and engage in an arms race of wailing and despair with a nice side order of screams and cries (even when they don't even know the deceased in question).
So true, Tyler!
Those roving funeral gangs are everywhere ... checking out the newest additions to the singles scene, no doubt ...
He is crying because he wants to fuck it.
lol
lol
...when Reagan was elected.
And I almost cried when I realized I had just lost 6 and a half minutes of my life watching this. Some fore warning on the length would have been nice.
will have to be when someone finally builds a larger than life replica of Bill Clinton's penis so all the wingnuts can stand and stare at the power they applied to it.
don't be fooled. John weeps for his legacy lost.
The idea of someone devoting so much time and energy to creating a statue of one of the worst leaders in our history depresses the hell out of me.
At the risk of adding to your depression, I can't wait for the first statue/street/airport named after Bush 43.
I went to see the WW2 monument in Washington right after it opened. As I approached, the first thing I saw was the name of George W. Bush, etched in granite forever. It was so depressing, I turned around and left.
The nicest think to say about Ronald Reagan is that after Bush 43, Reagan is no longer the dumbest and worst president in history. Republicans have a talent for dumb, horrible politicians. Reagan's bound to fall back into the pack in the decades ahead.
His daddy, who never even knew there were poor people in America... got a fricking aircraft carrier.
I will personally fly back home to the USA, go to whatever city it is in, find the nearest Mexican joint or curry house, order the hottest thing I can stand, drink about 6 cans of Guiness, eat a can of peanuts, and commence to shitting all over it.
There is going to be a statue of Regan near Parliament Square. They are giving him special treatment because he and Maggie Thatcher built up the "special relationship", and the old bitch is bitch is banging down Death's door so they are hurrying up so she can unveil it. I plan to bare my ass in front soon after.
When I think of all the Americans who died on Reagan's watch during AIDSgate I wanted to cry too. But I didn't. I channelled the anger to let it motivate me to work towards getting Democrats elected.
I keep skipping through it but missing it. I ried to listen but the bullshit was unbearable.
to break a little and his eyes getting glassy right when he starts talking about how Ronnie cut taxes for the rich by 70%!!
He was crying over all the money he's going to lose when the tax cuts lapse...
From what I saw, Mrs Reagan didn't cry. Was Boner closer to the gipper than his wife was?
How the fu*k does a grown man cry over a statue of a man that I doubt if he even knew well?
me to tears too:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/30/97556417_9a...
....Nancy and Ronald Reagan's adopted son Michael was spewing right-wing hate messages in Anchorage Alaska.
He was enthusiastically introduced (along with her usual nonsensical "rebukes" towards anything and everything President Obama has done -- jealous, you twit?) by her Royal Narcissity, Sarah Palin.
I take that back; Palin was enthusiastic in delivering her own message which would have been appropriate had she been the keynote speaker. But she was only up there to introduce Michael Reagan.
It's no wonder that he tiptoed to the other end of the stage behind the curtain and approached the podium from one direction as Palin finished her speech....er, introduction and left the podium going the other direction -- never the twain to meet.
More telling, he never even acknowledged her in HIS speech, which was pretty pathetic in its hate directed toward the rest of his family, among other issues.
Watching rampant alcoholism in action is a pathetic sight.
They are usually depressed and will cry at anything that is emotional.
When my dad died there were five old ladies at his funeral that no one knew. They kept crying and crying. We called them professional mourners. Maybe that's what John is today.
This confirms my theory that republicans are wimpy pussies. Crying for someone who brought us the bankster heist that's rich.
His "makeup" is going to run. Did anybody get a look at the color of his face after he wiped away the tears?
Orangeman Boehner tells a 2 whoppers of a Reagan myth:
"Greatest peace time expansion" Lie. Reagan left record deficits for Clinton to clean up. Clinton went on oversee the greatest peace time expansion.
Lie #2. Soviet Union collapsed on its own runaway military spending. If anything Reagan almost pushed us a nuclear confrontation with the soviets.
I remember Bill Cosby used to talk about a kid he grew up with called Crying Charlie. could he have grown up and changed his name to Crying Boehner?
Remember when Hillary cried? Not only did the republicans get all stupid...folk on these forums got all stupid too. Boo.
I remember that too, I thought it was pretty weak to go after someone tearing up, especialy since it wasn't a regular thing with her. For Boehner this guy crys just to cry I think. And maybe I'm being a hypocrit but I don't think it's wrong to razz a guy for crying for no good reason. If anything he is crying because he knows what the repugs are truely doing to this country...that would make anyone cry
of Reagan's long-awaited, and sorely longed-for, demise. Remember why you hated him?
I hope the turds who think this country's worst president was its best fade away, before they lead any more money wasting charges to change the name of every goddammed federal property to 'Ronald Reagan.'
The turds in this country elected Bush2 so that when history starts to judge Regean most historians will say "well, he's not as bad as Dubya"
The turds in this country
electedinstalled Bush2 so that when history starts to judge Reagen most historians will say "well, he's not as bad as Dubya"It's fine for guys to cry when they are moved to, but this just looks like theater to me.
In this case it's not. Orangeman cries at the drop of a hat.
will pass across my asshols before it goes BACK into circulation...
I remember his nation wide tour of a funeral and wondering if his body was really in that casket as they flew it around for what seemed to be a week or longer.
Can somebody please find a clip/quote of him commenting (most likely negative, of course) on Hillary Clinton crying during her campaign? That be a neat little "coming full circle" clip, John Boner and Glenn Beck bashing Hillary for crying during her campaign then crying over something as dumb as this (and Beck crying over....i don't know what that was, it was just awkward)
n/c
When he "cries", it looks like his big orange face is melting. Creepy.
a woman who weeps is weak.
Just so's yunno...
I know if a republican is involved first it is a lie.
Second it is either an attempt to change the facts or just an effort to steal something from anyone they can.
republicans are the worst enemy we have.
They are cowardly terrorists that deserve a trip to gitmo for some recreational waterboarding.
reagan was the begining of the end of America.
I still cannot believe I was stupid enough to vote for him. But I guess thats how it is when you are young and stupid. I wonder what is wrong with people that lived through the reagan bush insanity and think it was good?
My best guess is they never grew up, or they are just plain stupid.
boehner doing an act job for the gipper. wow get a grip john.
I did an interview with the great Will Bunch on his new book: "Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future," and I'll be posting the video shortly.
I've had a conversation with Will over at the lake and through email, quite an excellany work he published;
reagain did not lower taxes he raised them, for 6 of his 8 years and more then any peace time president before him
he didn't shrink government he grew government
his policies brougth on a depression that and redistribution of middle class assets from those of us who produce, putting that wealth into the pockets of people so wealthy they can never ever spend that money
from the greatest lender to the greatest debtor, from a growing middle class to a shrinking midddle class
how they re-wrote the legacy of reagan is a mystery beyond my capacity to understand
I have to produce a few of the quotes during his presidency to shine the light of what this country really thought of the man;
"He knows less about the budget than any president in my lifetime. He can't even carry on a conversation about the budget. It's an absolute and utter disgrace."
--House Speaker Tip O'Neill, after a meeting with Reagan, November 23, 1981
"For the last 30 years he's been in a dream world.... I think he actually believes that giving more to rich people will make them work harder, whereas the only way to make poor people work is to tax their unemployment benefits."
--NAACP executive director Benjamin Hooks commenting on Reagan's economic policies, January 25, 1983
"Reagan, who more than any president in history railed against government benefits and spending, set the standard for all members of his administraion. In addition to his presidential pension of $99,500 a year for life and his annual pension as a former governor of California of $30,800...he received Secret Service protection from forty full-time agents and other security at a cost to the government estimated at $10 million annually, more than double that of other living presidents. A suite of offices atop a new thirty-four-story office building twenty minutes from his home, commanding a view that extended from the Pacific Ocean to the towers of downtown Los Angeles, cost the government $173,000 a year to lease."
--Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years
"At his seventh press conference, President Reagan...responds to a question about the 17% black unemployment rate by pointing out that 'in this time of great unemployment,' Sunday's paper had '24 full pages of...employers looking for employees,' though most of the jobs available--computer operator, for example, or cellular immunologist--require special training, for which his administration has cut funds by over 30%."
--Paul Slansky, The Clothes have no Emperor
"What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice."
--President Reagan, defending himself against charges of callousness on Good Morning America, January 31, 1984
"The Agriculture Department [under Reagan proposes] cutting the size of school lunches.... In addition, condiments such as ketchup and pickle relish would be reclassified as vegetables."
--Paul Slansky, The Clothes have no Emperor
"Bob Cratchit was paid 10 shillings a week, which was a very good wage at the time.... Bob, in fact, had good cause to be happy with his situation. He lived in a house, not a tenement. His wife didn't have to work.... He was able to afford the traditional Christmas dinner of roast goose and plum pudding.... So let's be fair to Scrooge. He had his faults, but he wasn't unfair to anyone."
--Ed Meese (Reagan's attorney general) telling the National Press Club that Dickens' Ebenezer Scrooge suffered from "bad press in his time," December 15, 1983
"The epitaph of the Reagan presidency will be: 'When Ronald Reagan became President, the United States was the largest creditor nation. When he left the presidency, we were the world's largest debtor nation.'"
--Lester Thurow, MIT professor of economics
"[A] lapse into fiscal indiscipline on a scale never before experienced in peacetime."
--David Stockman (Reagan's budget director) describing the 1980's, The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed
"In the Reagan years, more federal debt was added than in the entire prior history of the United States."
--Richard Darman (Reagan advisor), Who's in Control? Polar Politics and the Sensible Center
"Reagan's theory was really 'trickle down' economics borrowed from the Republican 1920s (Harding-Coolidge-Hoover) and renamed 'supply side.' Cut tax rates for the wealthy; everyone else will benefit. As Reagan's budget director David Stockman confided to me at the time, the supply-side rhetoric 'was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.' Many middle-class and poor citizens figured it out, even if reporters did not."
--William Greider, magazine article, "The Gipper's Economy"
The Reagan Legacy -- Debt and Deficits
Two years into Reagan's presidency, the United States experienced its worst recession since the Great Depression, with unemployment peaking at 10.8 percent. Rather than take responsibility, Reagan attempted to blame the 1982 recession on his predecessor, Jimmy Carter. (for details click here)
Likewise, Reagan would blame the explosion in red ink (debt and deficits) that occurred during his years in office on the U.S. Congress. Regarding federal deficits, Reagan's shirking of responsibility was especially egregious. This can be seen from Reagan's statements during his 1980 campaign and the early days of his presidency:
"Mr. Carter is acting as if he hasn't been in charge for the past three and a half years; as if someone else was responsible for the largest deficit in American history."
--Ronald Reagan, nationally televised campaign speech, October 24, 1980. (Federal deficits totaled $252 billion under Mr. Carter. By the end of Mr. Reagan's presidency, federal deficits would total over 1.4 trillion.)
"For decades we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals. You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but only for a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we're not bound by that same limitation? We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow. And let there be no misunderstanding: We are going to begin to act, beginning today."
--President Reagan, in his inaugural address, January 20, 1981
"A trillion dollars would be a stack of $1,000 bills 67 miles high."
--President Reagan warning in February 1981 that the national debt, accumulated over the United States' 200 year history, is approaching $1 trillion. (Under Reagan, the national debt would nearly triple to $2.9 trillion.)
from this excellant site
How to rewrite a legacy.
St. Ronnie is his Sanjaya Malakar.
Although while he was CA governor St. Ronnie slandered the UFW, which included my grandfather and his brother, so yeah I would cry too!
Obama thinks that Reagan was just fine.
He thinks that the biggest part of the job is being a salesman.
I'm tired of it.
That was ridiculous. It amusing to see Repubs get all wet and mooshy when they remember Ronnie. Anyone recall Ollie North and Contragate? The Savings and Loans scandal?
For those who do, here is treat Spitting Image - Bumbledown: The Life & Times of Ronald Reagan Pt. 1/5
How much you wanna bet we find this guy taking a wide stance in an airport mens room?
What did Reagan do that was so great...please don't start with he ended the cold, because he didn't end it single hand idly the soviet union was already on the verge of collapsing from it's own iron leaded feet!! No wonder they can't win an election or make any sense on foreign policy or other wise they keep holding on to the ideas of a over glorified dead man.
You can't feel for Boner.He works his idiot crowd. He cries because of his alchohal intake and subtle use of oxycotin. It comes after years of alchohalism. The weeping. The whimpering. Nixon had it too. The "Checkers " issue was really all about alchohal.Not a dog. Nobody cries over a molten-statue. That's absurd. These idiot "leaders" are drunks. Scotch,whiskey and pills. It does it to them. As a musician I see it all the time. Don't feel sorry for this. The GOP is just dead and whimpering away. Boo-hoo...Rondald666WilsonReagan is their satan. He's dead too.......Why would anybody,but a drunk, cry to a dog named "Checkers"(who wasn't even checkered)? Drunks, I tell ya.Follow me! Take another hit......of fresh air.
Joe the Bartender
years, once cried over a "C" on my report card while he was drunk.
Boehner does remind me of an alcoholic! I hadn't thought of the Checkers incident in that light however, but now that you mention it....
Proof positive that graduates from the Glenn Beck School of Acting can cry on cue.
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I suggest that Boehner and Beck have a weeping contest, the loser agreeing to pay $10,000 to the other's favorite charity.
Here are the rules: Both guys stand on stage. On an agreed-upon signal, each will start weeping. An independent, disinterested judge will collect the tears and measure them.
Side bets are allowed. Where's your money?
...in the US after Reagan, I dubbed my toilet seat the Ronald Reagan Memorial Poop Throne. To this day, every time I sit down, I'm reminded of Reagan and the appropriateness of having a toilet seat named after him. The experience is so "moving" it's all I can do to keep myself from openly weeping.
Note: the original throne has been retired, but each replacement will always be dedicated to Reagan's memory. In a move, to further honor the former president, I've also named the toilet itself after him -- it feels more respectful to have the more permanent porcelain bowl be part of the monument. In these difficult economic times I wonder if I should open the RR Memorial Poop Throne to tourists. If I charged a modest admission price, I might be able to get enough money to afford health insurance -- something I think the Gipper would have wanted me to have. Then again, he probably wouldn't have given a shit. So to speak.
In 1998, the FL Repub Legistlature forced through a law changing the Florida Turnpike to the Ronald Reagan Turnpike. It wasn't very popular with most Floridians and the name has never stuck. It was like renaming Disney World or Epcot. Nobody asks for directions for the Ronald Reagan Turnpike. If you do, you'll end up in Tampa. You see, the Repubs wanted to piss off the Democratics; yet, they didn't want to fund the project adequately being the fiscal conservatives that they were.
Now, Florida Turnpike signs are massive green signs that can be easily read at 80 mph and were never replaced, thank god. The newer Ronnie signs are little larger than a no-parking sign, which can only be seen while in the slow lane at 50 mph or slower.
Funny thing is, the Ronnie signs also seem to be disappearing. The rumor and the joke is that the DOT's grass mowers keep knocking them down and the signs are never reinstalled due to funding.
If the price of oil hadn't tanked, St Ronnie would have been a one term wonder.
Boner is an embarrassment to himself and to the people he represents.
...of getting pink neck ties and orange skin too close together.
Rayguns statue signifies to me the begginning of the end for the middle class. Every American that voted for that shit stain deserves everything they have coming to them, unfortunately, there is the rest of us who do not.
The new Reagan statue has the most disgruntled pigeons shitting on it.
Jeff Sessions doesn't like it when a 12 year old cries about his mother possibly being deported. Is he as impatient with Boehner's crying jags?
http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/crying-j...
Sorry, wrong link. I meant this one:
http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/arch...
I sure hope he's wearing waterproof bronzer ...
I think it's only a matter of time before that works its way into the myth.
Reagan's image should be etched at the bottom of every urinal. That would improve the aim of the patrons and save some work for the janitors. And be a more fitting tribute to the man most responsible for the wreck of a nation we have today.
as the day RFK won the CA primary... and you see where that got him. Ronald Reagan fronted for evil f*ckers who will never see the light of day. Hopefully, most of them are dead now. good riddance.
Paul Krugman cites Reagan era Garn-St Germain Depository Institutions Act of 1982 for causing the S&L failure.
The republicans tried to make the center of the failure on Clinton's Whitewater alone, even though the boosh's themselves were connected to Silverado S&L debacle through Neil Bush, shrubya's brother.
Doesn't all this crying make us look weak on the world stage, moron.
..before I get too choked up remembering Reagan, I remember that the "Great Communicator" started his 1980 Presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where three civil rights workers were murdered in 1964. What was Ronnie's speech about? States Rights!
Wait until we name the COUNTRY after him.
When Republicans remember Reagan, they get a
Boehnerboner.Everyone else remembers dementia, deficit spending, and Iran-Contra.
Have another Rob-Roy Boehner.
dominatrixes go on diaper duty.
Hey, is Orangeman related to Glenn Beck?
an' I'll drink (hiccup) to that!!
(hiccup)
Now let's go have a li'l drinky-poo!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8L-ZZSc8JU
These clowns actually seem to believe Reagan's economics were good for the country.
In order to curb inflation(one of the biggest threats to the wealthy), Reagan slashed taxes for the rich and increased spending, mainly military, causing the largest deficits to date despite being warned by the Federal Reserve. He and Volcker singlehandedly caused a severe recession. Interest rates soared to over 20%. The "deregulation" Boehner brags about led to the S&L scandal, which could only be outdone by the boneheaded deregulation promoted and achieved by conservatives and financial institutions over the past 10 years, leading to near collapse of the world economy and the biggest theft in the history of the US in the form of bailouts and still unknown Fed monetary injection, trillions upon trillions literally given away to people who gambled with our own money and lost.
Reaganomics was praised by conservatives then for the same reasons conservatives praise it now. It rewards the wealthy at the expense of everyone else. It is irresponsible in nearly every conceivable way.
Reagan was the happy face and everyday guy fronting for corporations and the elite. He was the worst thing to happen to American politics because of the lasting effects of his policies and the worship the right wing still has for this man.
Trickle down didn't work then and it doesn't work now. Glorifying Reagan is a crock of shit I can't stand.
Voodoo Economics---how true.
I remember Reagan cutting funding to the mentally ill, sending them helpless onto the streets of NYC. Quite often, you'd see desperate homeless people doing desperate things:
pushing commuters in front of trains
slashing people on the Staten Island Ferry with rusty scabbards
smashing old priests on the head
stabbing pedestrians with gurkha knives
His economic policies created the conditions for hell on Earth.
"These clowns actually seem to believe Reagan's economics were good for theM.
>country</p>His financial shenanigans were very good for the rich....
Reagan's presidency, but everything I've studied about him (I was a political science major) just paints him at best as mediocre. I fail to see why he is constantly praised by conservatives, or anyone for that matter.
He did not bring down the Soviet Union. The USSR started it downward spiral when the command economy was reintroduced after Khrushchev was ousted.
"Reaganomics" did not work, Bush Mk.I had to raise taxes because of it.
The man had personality I'll give him that, but as a leader, I fail to see what is so special.
If you were a Republican what are your options?
The Bushes? Both disasters. Nixon? Resigning in disgrace is not likely to get you on Mt. Rushmore. Ford? A couple of years as a laughing stock. You'd have to go back to Eisenhower to find anybody worthy although I'm pretty sure Eisenhower wouldn't have anything to do with the brand of Republicans we're plagued with. That leaves the Gipper...
...in my opinion must have compounded all of the problematic wall street busting and bubble economics that have caused huge financial problems today. He didn't start the cycle but he piled on the privatized indulgence and corruption that has screwed the current generation. Short term profiteering for long term suffering.
Somebody suggested that Magic Reagan brought down the Soviet Union, the old conservative canard. He said that Reagan was the real "Worst President Ever," and that the reason that Nixon, Ford and Carter were trying for detente was because it was becoming increasingly apparent to the CIA that the USSR was getting more and more financially unstable. So we wanted a partnership, in a sense, to reduce the nuclear footprint that they'd have if and when some psycho general took over, and increase the odds of finding a partner in Russia, like, uh, Gorbachev. In the Cold War sense, and in the financial nuttiness of the '80s, he was reckless and stupid, and his greatest "achievement" was a straight line to our financial problems today.
So Sunburn Pete can just sob away. Cry for the Beloved Country we were, and for the hope for our rebirth, when Reagan will be a bad memory.
it was brilliant...and right on
every ill that has befallen both the state of cali and the united states goes right back to reagan
an evil sob
and a shitty actor
cant wait to watch all the wingnut christians bow to their true god
What a tool!
I second that! Reagan was one of the worst, and these pukes hold him up like some kind of God or something. The prince of deregulation, lowering taxes for the upper class, anti-union, interventions all over the world-either covert or with our military forces-Latin America, South Africa, Asia, you name it the guy was horrible. When someone proudly says: "I'm a Reagan Republican, run for your life.
Don't forget AIDSgate, Iran Contra, the Beirut bombing, the Air Traffic control firings and the biggest deficit ever left a successor in US history before W came along and bested him.
was crying because his orange skin spray was recalled by the FDA.
Well, the pigeons always can use a new place to take a dump.
... that John Hinckley didn't have a 357 instead of a 22! Reagan's popularity is a shinning testimony of the
stupidityignorance of the American people.Voodootrickle down Reagan's economics was the start of the class war and the demise of the middle class. How in gods name could people vote for a president who says give me all the money and I'll trickle some of it down to you? Stupidity is being kind!If that's not enough when he fired 11,000 air controllers every union in the country should have gone on strike until he hired the controllers back. But the
stupidignorant people did nothing.It's too bad he got Alzheimer... I would prefer he knew he was dying!
Sssshhh...do you want to get sued by Groundskeeper Willy?
Does boner cry when he gets a boner?
Where's Glen Beck? They can cry together.
Cryin?
Over a goddamn reagan statue?
WTF?
Wasn't he like the origin of our current clusterfuck of an economy?
Fuck reagan!
Boner. boner. BONER. boner, is all I have to say.
On second thought, what kind of f#cking tool is he? He needs a good smack in the head. Snap out of it-- gawd.
Just proves my point that Reslugs are certainly bedwetting, crybabies even over their terrible presidents.
Is Boehner fresh squeezed or from concentrate?
Let me just mention a few things:
Iran-Contra, 14 Convictions
Hud Scandal 16 Convictions
Saving & Loan , over $1 Trillon cost to taxpayers
Record deficits
7.5% average unemployment
Voodoo Economics
10s of Billions wasted on StarWars defense
B1 Bomber
64 Billion a year in LBOs destroyed thousands of jobs
Destruction of Labor
130 separate investigations against Defense contractors
Mourning in America
Good Riddance to that Son of a bitch Reagan. He buthered South America and some of those countries are permanantly fucked. War criminal in my book worthy of the Fletcher Memorial Home.
now i was only 4 years old when Ronnie took over but I do recall an attitude change amongst people, because those types of things take time. I live in Lansing Michigan and I remember a time when people's attitudes about unions and things like government assistance weren't so looked down upon. I was discussing with my girlfriend about how people in our region of the state have this me, mine attitude; that they care about nothing except that which affects them. people seem to feel that the sum of a man in our area is one who bucks education, works with his hands, doesn't bathe and doesn't dress metrosexual, one who pays for everything himself (i.e. health care, retirement, all those things that are rights, not luxuries). A person who is a small business, mostly in construction or some other form of subcontracting (this extends to those who do wear suits to work as well). We used to have an attitude in Lansing that everybody worked hard at their job and no one was "a lazy UAW employee" or "lazy state worker". But Reagan brought this about. So that those who did work those jobs were overpaid and underworked. this is now being extended to those in the teaching profession.If you didn't want to work in those industries, you were more than fully capable of taking employment in many other fields and that financial backbone that the union wages gave to the community insured that others would pay well and have financial rewards. What do all these jobs have in common? UNIONS. You all prolly know what a wasteland detroit, flint, and now lansing are. If we look at some of these small businesses in Lansing, I think we could easily see something very common in their financial stability. For example, landscaping is a popular startup. I ask though where do these companies have room to cut costs, find efficiencies, increase profits? The only place they can find savings is through wages. So these small businesses will cut their prices to fight for work in an overcrowded market and what ends up happening is we have a wage war. As consumers shop for the lowest prices, they are effectively shopping for the lowest wages. Because since we operate in a service economy, the lack of a product eliminates a floor for prices. Now I state my theory with the idea that this doesn't exist solely by itself. There are other factors. And i am getting long-winded.
So I think there's a lot more to change than just creating jobs or passing laws/regulations. People have to change their attitudes about each other. Please if all of you out there can continue to pray (or whatever it is you do) for us here in Michigan we really need it and we appreciate it when we know there are others out there who do care about us and that we are always willing to extend our helping hands when you all are in need. Last nite it was announced 147 road construction projects had to be cancelled because our state didn't have the matching funds to fund these projects.
Thanks Ronnie
In 1986, the railroad I work for went out on strike. Under the Railway Labor Act, Reagan could have signed a Presidential Order putting us back to work and forcing the company to sit down and negotiate with an arbitrator.
Reagan refused to do this and two and one half months later, we were still out on strike. It was only when the unions threatened to enlarge the strike to include Conrail that numbnuts Ronnie signed the back to work order. I lost $20,000 in wages for this turd to suck up to a corporation. There was no love lost on my part when the old fart kicked the bucket.
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