USA Today's interactive graph of presidential approval ratings over the decades is great fun. What you see is that the president whose early ratings most closely match Obama's is Reagan.
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Steve Chapman notices the stark difference: Who needs policy? In her world -- and the world of legions of conservatives who revere her -- the persona is the policy.
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A lees convincing version of Fox News? Greenwald continues the scrutiny: The Post today has two former Bush officials, one former Reagan official, two right-wing politicians, a Fox News neocon, the CEO of America's largest oil and gas producer, a.
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Ezra Klein ruminates on NY-23 and David Axelrod's argument that the "Limbaughs and Becks of the world are basically hanging a 'Moderates need not apply' sign outside the Republican National Committee headquarters" by running Dede out of the race: It's.
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Hope the champagne party at the White House was fun the other night. And now back to our regularly scheduled program.
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Here's the thing. It's not entirely clear if this is a bad thing. If Lieberman is doing this in order to debunk the attacks on Obama's czars, and the hearing is geared towards doing just that, then this could be a good way to finally put that issue to rest.
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The gay ambassadorPoliticoand Michael Goldfarb suggesting the same thing about the administration's nomination of a gay Ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa: Reagan's appointment of .
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We've been researching the history of Falcon Studios (now Falcon Entertainment) for a documentary on founder Chuck Holmes, and I have become fairly obsessed with the Falcon movies that I grew up with, before the internet.
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Reagan had bowls full of jelly beans; Obama, M&M's. If you were elected President, what would you choose as the official White House candy? See my answer below:
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The parallels on the economy are getting eerier. Will Obama ride forward on an unexpectedly strong recovery? Even AEI is beginning to wonder.
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David B. Rivkin Jr. and Lee A. Casey, who served in the Justice Department under Reagan and H.W. Bush, correct Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and other Republicans for claiming that Obama's "czars" are an unchecked, unconstitutional abuse of executive power:.
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When most Presidents speak to a joint session of Congress, it is in response to a personal tragedy (as was Reagan’s speech in 1981 after he recovered from being shot), a national crisis (as was George W.
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“There is no substitute for victory”
Ronald Reagan, quoting Douglas MacArthur
And to the Gipper’s successor, at least in terms of U.
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Will Powers, Adventures In Success, 1983. Photographer Lynn Goldsmith teamed up with Sting to create this parody of the self-help/get rich quick gurus that plagued the nation during the Reagan era.
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I can’t help but wonder how anybody could have been stupid enough to elect Schwarzenegger. Then again people elected Reagan and GWB–twice–so…
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Well, it seems a trip to the Oval Office is all openly gay congressman Barney Frank needs to stab his community in the back.
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A reader writes: In their desire for Ahmadinejad to succeed, today's neocons are in complete opposition to Reagan's attitude towards the Soviet Union.
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Thursday, The U.S. Justice Department moved to dismiss the first gay marriage case filed in a federal court, arguing that the specific legal questions raised by the couple do not belong in federal court.
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NOTE: Joe and I are still reading the 50 page brief, and are updating this post with new quotes every few minutes.
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Or at least, Reagan started the process that others - Democrats and Republicans - continued and extended.
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