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In Reply to: Better than any movie posted by Victor Khomenko on December 7, 2010 at 05:43:09:
like Russia in a few decades.
His view of the US and the communists' of Russia have failed for the same reason: extremism. Government isn't the problem when it's freely elected by free people. A senile old man reading a script written by Scaife and his other masters.
"This is not to say that government is the answer to all our ills. It is only to note that if you think the answer is private enterprise, then push your car to the nearest gas station and see what happens.
The worst part of Reaganism was its political success. It left behind a coterie of panting acolytes who learned from Reagan himself that optimism, cheerfulness, an embrace of magical thinking and the avoidance of the painful truth was the formula for victory at the polls. For a time, it worked - the cost of gas went down - and Carter, that scold in the silly sweater, was banished. As they say in New Orleans, Laissez les bons temps rouler! (Let the good times roll!) Upbeat? You bet. But not a business plan.
In "The Age of Reagan," Princeton historian Sean Wilentz posits that Reagan was the transformative President of our times. I don't know about that. But I doknow that in the recent primary debates, Republican after Republican invoked Reagan the way Democrats once did Roosevelt and they vowed, knock on wood, to be a similar kind of President. If they meant what they said, that would mean no energy plan worth its name and, worse, chirpy assurances to the American people that all would bewell."
Richard Cohen
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Follow Ups
- Yeah, and thanks to this ass-clown, we're going to be exactly - tinear 07:53:22 12/07/10 (7)
- Hey, I still own (and treasure) my "Reagan Sucks!" pin from when he was Gov... - musetap 11:49:23 12/08/10 (0)
- You are simply pissed because no one liked your recommendation... - Victor Khomenko 08:15:12 12/07/10 (5)
- Ouch, that stung! (And it was an Iranian film, if memory serves....) nt - tinear 08:39:10 12/07/10 (4)
- Iran produces great insomnia remedy - Victor Khomenko 14:05:00 12/07/10 (3)
- I doubt you will, but you should give, "A Taste of Cherry" a try. No better film these past - tinear 14:58:01 12/07/10 (2)
- "A Taste of Cherry" An unknown Roman Polanski film? nt - Victor Khomenko 10:18:27 12/08/10 (1)
- You bad, bad man. nt - tinear 07:46:08 12/09/10 (0)
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