Bruce Bartlett on CBS now! Slamming Bush for "betraying....

[Media_Lies_Daily]

...the Reagan legacy".

Very interesting comments about Herr Busch.

[Canuckistanian]

1. Ooo, that's gonna sting

He's built his whole ideology on the continuation of Reagan's "revolution".

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. Bartlett is going to be on "Fresh Air" later today.

Should be a good interview. Of course, I hate the "Reagan legacy" as well -- tinkle-down economics.

[KittyWampus]

6. Then we should emphasize how Bush actually IS CONTINUING Reagan's

policies.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

9. Actually, Bartlett is contending that Herr Busch has screwed-up....

...what he believes to be the "Reagan Legacy". According to Bartlett, the massive national debt and massive growth of the Federal Government are two of the things that Reaganomics never embraced.

[Toots]

10. Maybe didn't embrace publicly but the proof is in the pudding

The National Debt grew substantially under Reagan and so did Government Growth. What Bush* is doing is exactly what Reagan did. Say one thing and do another...

[kenny blankenship]

13. Reaganomics never embraced it, it just caused it

and it persisted in generating massive deficits and actually INCREASING the share of GDP represented by federal spending (to 29 cents of every dollar spent by the time Reagan left office), despite warnings from economists of various ideological stripes that its economic and military policies would necessarily have these contradictory results.

Reaganomics and Reaganauts pursued his policies in denial of basic econ theory and math, and pretended welfare mothers and Democrats must be to blame for the bad things that resulted--whole categories of productive enterprise laid waste converting the world's greatest exporter into the world's biggest importer, the consequent burgeoning of un|der|employment, rampant unproductive speculative schemes and asset inflation which helped to widen a rift in American society into permanently separate social castes, exploding the national debt thereby converting the world's greatest creditor nation into the largest debtor and sowing the seeds of our coming indentured servitude to the People's Republic of China. Reagan and like minded thieves ruled in denial of the future as if it would never come to collect its debts, and fittingly he escaped his legacy in the amnesia of a rotted liquefying brain.

For those that survived him, the dance of denial goes on; but the jig will soon be up.

[warrens]

14. Should be the Clinton Legacy

Reagan tripled the national debt and only made token spending cuts (which went right back up the next year). Clinton slashed the national debt, created jobs and kept spending tightened down.

[ingac70]

3. Reagan was a POS just like *....

who are these people kidding... he's contiuing the ruin of the US so rudely interrupted in 1993.....

[KoKo]

4. I'm having a "brain fugue" ....who is Bruce Bartlett??? n/t

[wake.up.america]

7. Excerpted from TOWNHALL:

Bruce Bartlett is a former senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis of Dallas, Texas. Before joining the NCPA, he was deputy assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Treasury Department, where he served from September 1988 to January 1993. In 1987 and 1988, Bartlett was a senior policy analyst in the Office of Policy Development at the White House.

From 1985 through 1987, he was a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

Between 1976 and 1984, Bartlett held numerous positions on Capitol Hill. In 1976, he served on the staff of Rep. Ron Paul of Texas as a legislative assistant. In 1977, he joined the staff of Rep. Jack Kemp of New York as a special assistant and staff economist. While with Kemp, Bartlett helped draft the famous Kemp-Roth tax bill. Between 1979 and 1980, he worked for Sen. Roger Jepsen of Iowa as chief legislative assistant. In 1981, Bartlett joined the staff of the Joint Economic Committee of Congress as deputy director, becoming executive director in 1983. Bartlett is a prolific author, having published over 900 articles in national publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, as well as many prominent magazines such as Fortune. In 1996, one of his columns inspired Bob Dole's 15 percent tax reduction plan.

Bartlett has also written for important academic journals and published four books, including Reaganomics: Supply-Side Economics in Action, published in 1981.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

8. Bruce Bartlett bio from Wikipedia....

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bartlett>

[KoKo]

17. Thanks for the info...to both posters! n/t

[rodeodance]

5. tsk tsk.

[acmavm]

11. Reagan got elected because he was a mediocre actor and

could carry off the lines. For a while. Then he couldn't even remember them. I watched the Iran-Contra Hearings. 125 responses to 150 questions were the same. "I don't remember" or "I don't recall". Personally I think he was a nasty mean evil old duffer that the pukes hired for a front man (just like someone else we know).

[JHB]

16. True, but he also had a faction of true-belivers behind him...

...who seemed to think Jimmy Carter was just about to sign our complete capitulation to the Soviets when Ron stood up and saved the day. Peggy Noonan was one, just read some of here stuff...

They were convinced that RR was saving the nation from total ruin, bought the idea of "liberal media" hook line and sinker, and blinded themselves to all the corruption and abuse of power that went on. Hell, Lynn Nofzinger, ex-Reagan advisor, claimed that Democrats were lying for all those years of claiming the Republicans wanted to privatize and do away with it -- mere weeks before Chim-Chim launched his privatization campaign.

Is there such a thing as jelly-bean-flavored Kool Aide?

[sandnsea]

18. Been at the jelly beans again, hehehe

I liked that ALOT better than drinking the koolaid.

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. The Partyyyyy'ssss OOoooooverrrrrr. The GOP party that is.

Black gold is what done them in.

[JHB]

15. Bartlett is too busy worshipping at the alter of St. Ron to recognize...

...that Chim-Chim is "the Reagan Legacy" in full flower, not something alien to it.

Jeez, at least when I live in a fantasy land, it's through a good book, not by wearing such extra-thick blinders.