REJOICE! THE REAGAN ERA IS FINALLY OVER

[kpete]

Obama backs Republicans into a corner
By JOE SCARBOROUGH | 1/22/13 11:25 AM EST

Barack Obama’s second inaugural address was a declaration to Washington and the world that Age of Reagan is over. No hand was extended to a battered Republican Party by Mr. Obama. Instead, the liberal president pushed his left-leaning agenda to a divided America.

As disappointing as his speech was to me, it made perfect political sense that the president would look at the political roadmap in front of him and step on the gas. Polling shows that more than 70 percent of Americans like Obama, 52 percent approve of his performance as president, only 26 percent support the GOP’s performance, only 18 percent approve of how Republican Speaker John Boehner does his job, and only 9 percent still have nice things to say about the tea party.

If that is not bad enough news for my party, the National Review’s Ramesh Ponnuru noted in a column following the 2012 election that even the GOP’s house majority is a bit of a political mirage. Republicans maintained control of the lower chamber this session not because they won the popular vote nationwide, but because of aggressive gerrymandering following the 2010 elections. That is standard practice in modern American politics but no Republican should mistake that reality with any positive long-term trend.



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from Politico no less....
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No, YOU Shut Up Ronnie, I am still ALIVE, kpete

[AndyA]

1. Thank goodness! Only it's 33 years too late.

How many decades will it take to undo the damage Reagan and those who came after him caused?

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. The Reagan Era Is Really Not Over In The Private Sector.

Many Reagan inspired policies in the private sector will survive for at least a generation. What Reagan started pretty much trashed any sense of social contract in the business sector. And a push for privatization will continue for the foreseeable future.

I wish his revolution were as dead as he is, but when you look at the details I cannot see it that way.

I do believe that we are seeing the first severe wound, but it will take a long tome before Reaganism is totally dead. Until there is a major mind set change in the business community, the damage Reagan has done to the labor market will continue.

[apnu]

6. So long as state and local governments need money, the privatization racketeers will exist.

Here in Chicago we sold off one bridge (and now the toll is $3.50 and going up very soon) and our parking meters (losing the city over a Trillion dollars in revenues) for the next 100 years. The money we got for those sales are gone down the rabbit hole and the city still bleeds cash. This puts the city in the position to listen and consider the privatization con-men out of desperation. These shucksters will exist like parasites on any municipality so long as those governments are on shaky financial ground.

Its sad but true.

[Raffi Ella]

3. Hallelujah!

I was saying yesterday to someone how absolutely AWFUL it must have been for those engaged on the left during the nightmare that was Ronald Reagan.

The dread and anger must have been overwhelming! I felt it during bUsh's appointments by the Supreme Court/election fraud. I was livid most of the time and felt so helpless-

The relief I feel today after the second inauguration of Barack Obama makes up for it. Well, somewhat anyway. But knowing that the demographics are building in our favor, AMERICA'S favor, is truly inspiring.

[leftstreet]

4. Meh. Clinton cut more social programs than Reagan

The Reagan era isn't 'over' - it's just part of policy now

[CrispyQ]

16. This. ^^^ -nt

[Boomerproud]

5. Consider the source

I don't believe anything that Joe Scarborough writes. I'll believe it when the "Reagan era" doesn't affect my life anymore.

[Dawgs]

7. We'll see. n/t

[rhett o rick]

8. We need to fix our election process to stop the damage from Republicans.

Fix the gerrymandering problem. I cant believe it is Constitutional. We need to have tough laws to prevent voter suppression and outlaw voting machines that cant be verified. We won in 2012 because we were reelecting a very popular president. We wont have that advantage in 2014, which is right around the corner, or in 2016.

[fadedrose]

9. I just wish the Reps would stop praising Tip O'Neill

because as Speaker, he worked so well with their president. No one can compare Tip with O'Connell or Boener. O'Connell has too much power in his party and Boener not enough. And Reagon didn't have a stupid tea party to deal with.

Tip O'Neill was an American first, then a Democrat.

The Supreme Court making corporations be people is the worse thing that could have happened. It's a miracle that the people pulled off this election with contributions under $20 plus some huge ones.

Hope the Prez gets the chance to name some new ones very soon...and not just replace our "old" ones ready to retire.

[libtodeath]

10. Too much of the evil that motherfucker did is now built into the system.

[Blanks]

11. Did they raise the top marginal rate back to 70%?

I didn't think so.

As long as people still think you can stimulate the economy by cutting taxes on the wealthy; we are still in the 'Reagan Era'.

We've still got a ways to go.

[Initech]

12. The Reagan era is over and I say good riddance!!!

[kestrel91316]

13. Almost my entire adult life has been under the Reagan Revolution. For over 30 years the life

that looked so promising to me as a teen was denied by RW freaks hell bent on sending us back to the Dark Ages.

I really hope you're right. I don't have a lot of decades left to enjoy the improvements.

[deutsey]

14. Same here

It's really difficult trying to explain to people born in the late '70s, '80s and beyond what it was like back in the days before Reagan came to power. It wasn't a golden age, but there was just a different (and, for the most part) better cultural vibe back then.

[LeftInTX]

15. Not with our current Supreme Court

Along with a bunch of Republican gerrymandered states.

[Iggo]

17. "...I am still ALIVE..."

BURN!