Behind the rhetoric of "evil empire" (aka self-described intolerance), Reagan and Thatcher were both fully on-board with the cold war status quo.
We still haven't paid off the enormous sums that Reagan spent chasing faulty intelligence about the Soviets' imminent collapse, yet AS's readers are fretting over health care costs.
Let's have the GOP suggest ways to raise the taxes to pay off all of the last three Republican Presidents' collective debts, and then we'll worry about Democratic 'entitlements', deal?
Friday, September 11, 2009
"War" = Good Politics for the Right
