Sentences with phrase «about reagan»

Thanks for the reminder about Reagan's comments.

But said lead author Kristofer Covey, a Ph.D. candidate who admitted his friends have been needling him about the Reagan connection, the methane isn't completely negating the benefit trees, even diseased ones.

The book about the Reagan years and the press, «On Bended Knee» by Mark Hertsgaard, could well have been written about the G.W. Bush years.

[394][395] While the debate about Reagan's legacy is ongoing, the 2009 Annual C - SPAN Survey of Presidential Leaders ranked Reagan the 10th greatest president.

HW Bush wasn't speaking in a vacuum, many others in the republican party had doubts about Reagan.

The Obama people are apparently thinking in terms of 1980, when the majority had turned against Carter but weren't sure about Reagan — the polls were close only a week before the election, but the public shifted at the last moment as they came to see Reagan as a reasonable alternative.

Jones's assertion is borne out by my own conversations with clergy and executives about the Reagan administrations economic performance.

All you need is a gun, your God delusion, and some beer while you listen to AM Talk Radio and fantasize about Reagan and how he was so clever and smart and so much more intelligent than you.

Not exact matches

In working in these three directions, the U.S. policy community would be employing the best sense of Ronald Reagan's «trust but verify» strategy regarding new information about the nuclear deal.

«We've gotten about as much money as we can out of the personal income tax,» says Rudolph Penner, director of the CBO during the Reagan administration and now a fellow at the Urban Institute.

Outgoing Kohl's CEO Kevin Mansell speaks to CNBC's Courtney Reagan about the retailer's quarterly earnings, his tenure and legacy, and what he sees for the future of retail.

In 2016, Schwarzenegger's site has only added a few posts: a statement about Nancy Reagan's death, a judicial endorsement, and a bunch of plugs for a T - shirt that says, «Come With Me if You Want to Lift.»

I saw the story in the Wall Street Journal Mansion section about Moraga and realized that I had met the owner 20 or 25 years ago with President Reagan at a social party, although he wasn't a very political person.

CNBC's Eamon Javers sits down with Rajesh De the Former General Counsel for the National Security Agency; Michele Reagan the Secretary of State of Arizona; and Mark Testoni the President and CEO of SAP National Security Services to talk about the concern of foreign interference in this year's presidential election.

The history of government welfare programs is overwhelmingly biased towards expansion; hence, President Reagan's quote about a government program being the closest thing to eternal life we will see on earth.

Bannon's language goes beyond Reagan - era Republican talking points about cutting regulations and lowering taxes.

The envisioned Trump tax cut is about the same size relative to the economy as the 1981 Reagan tax cut.

It is worth remembering that Reagan, hardly a fan of reversing course or raising taxes, found it necessary to propose significant tax increases in 1982 and 1984 (the equivalent in today's economy of $ 3.5 tn over a decade) due to concerns about federal debt.

US steel output has slumped by about 35 % since Reagan took office in 1980, and steel industry employment has fallen by two thirds.

Ronald Reagan Since inflation has been tame in recent years, it's easy to forget about it's violent impact.

We'll talk about the alleged twilight of the Reagan coalition and all that later.

Rubio has gone from being hailed as a Hispanic Ronald Reagan, to getting caught misleading conservatives about and triangulating against his own immigration plan.

All they can offer is nostalgia for simpler days, some deprecatory remarks about our 24 - hour news cycle, and a forlorn endorsement of shorter memos for the President (the demand for which was, as I recall, widely regarded by critics as a symptom of intellectual vacuity in the Reagan Adminstration).

When in the 1970s there began to be much discussion about «mediating structures» and voluntarism, when Ronald Reagan urged us to rely on government less and on ourselves more, when George Bush talked about a «thousand points of light,» those of a statist mind - set groused that it was all a scheme to cut back on government social services.

Weigel writes: «Avoiding the really hard questions, O'Brien's Massey Lectures are replete with what cigar - makers call «filler»: ill - informed cracks about American presidential politics; typically dismissive liberal cliches about a somnambulant Ronald Reagan; a strange obsession with the Clinton Administration's «Operation Restore Democracy» in Haiti.

As for Romney — he does seem a little too polished, I does seem to have some political inconsistency... but can't you say the same about Ronald Reagan?

He is not above taking a stealthy swipe at Ronald Reagan from time to time but he reserves his most scathing remarks for those who, as he puts it, «saw nothing strange about being against both abortion and contraception.»

The Reagan Presidency as it is talked about now, is a fantasy, (unless you were very well off at the start of his term).

Reagan did nothing about abortion.

To young voters, Reagan seemed to be talking about the problems that actually existed all around them.

They, Reagan, and GW brought this economic decline about int he first place.

It isn't the «liberals» who are so confused about claims made for Ronald Reagan.

When Ronald Reagan became President in 1980, he brought about an almost complete deregulation of radio and TV.

It's like the GOP pretending to be worried about our national debt, knowing full well they were responsible for the record deficits under Reagan and Bush II, and gleefully raised the debt ceiling 13 times under the Former and 7 times under the latter.

It may thus be that Castro's battle fatigues, Reagan's World War II bomber jacket and cowboy boots, and the operatic uniforms favored by Latin American dictators tell us more about each man's political views than any number of speeches.

Podhoretz has his own twinges of pride: He writes as if the neoconservatives, those Family members who reacted to the late «60s by moving right rather than left, supplied Ronald Reagan with everything he needed to think about communism, although Reagan often said that the writer who most influenced him was Whittaker Chambers.»

President Reagan in a telephone conversation with Thomas Dine, Executive Director of the American - Israeli Public Affairs Committee, on October 18, 1983, mused about Armageddon, the final battle on earth: `... and I find myself wondering if — if we're the generation that's going to see that come about» (quoted in AG.

The American right wants to return to the 1980s, the Reagan era of economic dynamism brought about by the liberalization of the quasi-monopolistic postwar system.

Governments do properly wage war, however, so Reagan had no qualms about diverting funds from treatment to interdiction.

Reagan was a master communicator — his effectiveness on television rivaled FDR's mastery of radio — but his charm tended to obscure the fact that he was not teaching about reality.

First, they both write as if Reagan's tax cut appeal was entirely about the economic benefits of cutting marginal tax rates on high - earners.

Listen to Republican candidates talk, and you'll hear a lot about Ronald Reagan.

Despite complaints about «cutbacks» during the Reagan and Bush years, welfare budgets have in fact grown and grown during the same time that» and this by liberal accounts» poverty has gotten worse and worse.

Reagan is no theocrat and Walter Mondale no secularist, despite what each has implied about the other.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

But I thought of Bush's idealism as being like Reagan's affinity for the Thomas Paine quote about how we can start the world again.

[«In the evangelical Christian subculture, there are three people a girl's got to know about before she gets her period: 1) Jesus, 2) Ronald Reagan, and 3) the Proverbs 31 woman.

Hey Joe Sardina... sorry I mean Giardina... what about all governmets in the business of killing kids, women and supporting dictatorships??? Remember Reagan??? Does Bush ring a bell?

When the astronauts died on launch, Democrats did not attack Reagan when he spoke about the tragedy.

In sheer numbers, it reduced the overseas presence to about 60 % of what it was when Ronald Reagan took office.