Quote from: quiller on October 21, 2010, 08:08:49 AM
Turn the UN Plaza complex into an immigrant deportation center. Starting with the UN.

Nah, make it housing for the indigenous.

At least when we went to bed at night, we could fall asleep thinking America would still be there in the morning. Under the Obamatrauma, all bets are off.

Jeez, with all this talk of cutting government let's not forget tariffs and other trade barriers. Matter of fact, let's not forget the entire agricultural sector with their price supports, land banks and numerous other government-based interferences in the market. Cutting the sturdy American farmer loose from the federal tit would help in a bunch of ways.

Quote from: Shooterman on October 21, 2010, 08:21:51 AM
How did that work out? Pretty well not, as I remember. Ronnie talked a big game; after all, he was a sportscaster at one time.

The fact that Reagan was able to get ANYTHING done is a miracle.  He dealt with a deadlocked Congress for eight years. 

But let's not let FACTS get in the way of your anti-Reagan rhetoric.

Quote from: AmericanFlyer on October 21, 2010, 12:24:14 PM
The fact that Reagan was able to get ANYTHING done is a miracle.  He dealt with a deadlocked Congress for eight years. 

But let's not let FACTS get in the way of your anti-Reagan rhetoric.

Oh my! I've stepped on toes. I voted for Ronnie twice. He was probably the best in the last 90 to 100 years, but he wasn't a god. He had been a sportscaster. He had been a liberal FDR DIM. He promised much and actually delivered quite a bit less. If that hurts your feelings, Zesty Levis as Great Grandpap Simeon may have said.

Quote from: Shooterman on October 21, 2010, 01:08:42 PM
Oh my! I've stepped on toes. I voted for Ronnie twice. He was probably the best in the last 90 to 100 years, but he wasn't a god. He had been a sportscaster. He had been a liberal FDR DIM. He promised much and actually delivered quite a bit less. If that hurts your feelings, Zesty Levis as Great Grandpap Simeon may have said.

You've said this many times, elsewhere. Acting with chimpanzees really helped him hone his foreign diplomacy skills, as well.

He was, first in my mind, the Feel Good About America President. We needed a whole deep dose of that after that bungling smug fool Carter. We needed Dutch as the symbol of hope for what America was intended to be.

He understood the media as very few others had done before him. He gave America back its optimism. And then we got Bubba Dropdrawers. The ultimate Bonzo in the White House.

Quote from: Shooterman on October 21, 2010, 08:23:21 AM
Nah, make it housing for the indigenous.

Which ones? The rats, the cockroaches, or the bedbugs?

Quote from: quiller on October 21, 2010, 01:20:27 PM
You've said this many times, elsewhere. Acting with chimpanzees really helped him hone his foreign diplomacy skills, as well.

He was, first in my mind, the Feel Good About America President. We needed a whole deep dose of that after that bungling smug fool Carter. We needed Dutch as the symbol of hope for what America was intended to be.

He understood the media as very few others had done before him. He gave America back its optimism. And then we got Bubba Dropdrawers. The ultimate Bonzo in the White House.

No doubt he made America feel good- that was a given. Carter, as inept as he was, had the checks of LBJ and Tricky Dicky come due and be cashed. BTW, we also had the Bush One before we had The Cigar Kid.

Quote from: Shooterman on October 21, 2010, 01:25:49 PM
No doubt he made America feel good- that was a given. Carter, as inept as he was, had the checks of LBJ and Tricky Dicky come due and be cashed. BTW, we also had the Bush One before we had The Cigar Kid.

Funny how my mind went completely blank after he said, "Read my lips."

Quote from: quiller on October 21, 2010, 01:41:31 PM
Funny how my mind went completely blank after he said, "Read my lips."

That and his grocery store check out gaffe gave us Slick.

Quote from: Shooterman on October 21, 2010, 01:08:42 PM
Oh my! I've stepped on toes. I voted for Ronnie twice. He was probably the best in the last 90 to 100 years, but he wasn't a god. He had been a sportscaster. He had been a liberal FDR DIM. He promised much and actually delivered quite a bit less. If that hurts your feelings, Zesty Levis as Great Grandpap Simeon may have said.

Never said Reagan was a God.  He was only human.  WHO CARES that he was an FDR Democrat (until he came to his senses).  WHO CARES that he was a sportscaster.  He was also an actor.  He was also a lifeguard.  He was also a Governor of a very large state.  So what's your point?  Maybe that he was gainfully employed throughout his life?

I don't see where Reagan "promised much".  He was a well-spoken man who told the American people what his vision of America was.  He had to deal with a bunch of idiot Democrats for 8 years. 

I guess that ending the Cold War and bringing the U.S. economy out of it's worst crisis since the Great Depression (just to name two of his accomplishments) qualifies as "delivering quite a bit less" in your book.  That's fine.  You are certainly entitled to your opinion.  My toes are pain-free. 

Quote from: Shooterman on October 21, 2010, 01:43:50 PM
That and his grocery store check out gaffe gave us Slick.

Forgot that one. Today, it'd be like watching John Kerry in self-serve checkout. At Wal-Mart.