In final stretch, Bush is no Reagan

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Source: csm



In final stretch, Bush is no Reagan By Linda Feldmann
Wed Nov 14, 3:00 AM ET



WASHINGTON - When the Republican Party lost control of both houses of Congress last November, George W. Bush knew he had his work cut out for him going into the final quarter of his presidency. If he was to get anything done that involved Congress's approval, he would have to work with the Democrats.


If he wanted a role model, he needed look no further than President Ronald Reagan, who also faced a new Democratic majority in his final quarter, after the Democrats retook the Senate in 1986.

Mr. Reagan, like Mr. Bush, had gone through his share of second-term blues, including scandal (Iran-contra) and a hit to his job approval. But Reagan rebounded in his final year-plus in office – in part by cutting deals with Congress (and the Soviet Union) – and ended his presidency with job-approval ratings above 60 percent. Perhaps not coincidentally, he pulled off a rare feat: He was succeeded by his vice president, George H.W. Bush.

The current President Bush has shown no such inclination to compromise with the Democrats lately, instead using or threatening to use the veto pen early and often, particularly on spending bills. On Tuesday, Bush signed one, Defense appropriations, and vetoed one, the Labor-Health-Education appropriations bill, on the grounds that it was $10 billion over budget and funded 2,000 special projects.


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[Rabo Karabekian]

1. Bush the Radical

Wow, when some one proposes Reagan as a good thing, you know you're talking about some one who's scary.

[SoFlaJet]

2. he has been THE absolute

worst excuse for a president that I,in my 52 years on this planet have ever seen

[MasonJar]

3. Why not? After all they both exhibit(ed) braindead leadership.

[pattmarty]

4. Oooh, oooh, St Ronnie of Reagan!!!!!!!!!

[phantom power]

5. Reagan was no Reagan.

He skated on $10/barrel oil, and not incidentally running up the first half of our $9 trillion debt, which is now coming home to roost.

[ixion]

6. special projects: you know, like keeping poor people from freezing to death

and we all know how much Bush despises the poor and the working class.

[april]

7. Geo and his family Lie ,Cheat & Steal he is a Moron

[rcsl1998]

8. With All the Money Dem's & Progressives Have Raised...

...and considering that getting the main$tream media to do anything but play (over & over & over...) the quote that the Democratic congress is a teenager with a new credit card, where are the ad buys to frame the debate from our side - Yeah, I hate forking over funds unnecessarily, but let's not hoard the money like the Kerry campaign and miss all the opportunities just sitting there like a T-Ball - I saw the 'Progressive' ads (great start) - Will we actually see them on the TV screen (as a certain faux cowboy/rancher/ex-governor phrases it) - Issue ads? Calling out the opposition with the facts that seem to be missing from so-called 'news reports'? Well???

[sam sarrha]

9. even with the lobotomy Poppy gave Reagan to prevent him from testifying at Iran Contra, Reagan was

was still twice the man and intellect of Bu$h:rofl:

[VWolf]

10. There's a problem with the first sentence in the article

It contains both "George W Bush" and "work"

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. Hell, Reagan was no "Reagan."