Obama Press Conference Review

[DiveCon]

Start with Reagan's 1981 budget, which passed the House on a 253-176 vote. It was regarded as a stunning feat, given that Democrats owned a 244-191 majority in the chamber. Sixty-five Democrats ended up crossing over to support the Reagan budget, with no Republican defections the other way.

This is regarded as perhaps the most vivid display of a presidential mandate at work in the modern era. There's something to this claim. As the vote neared and O'Neill frantically tried to keep his caucus united, Reagan, elected in a 44-state landslide and only a few weeks removed from an assassination attempt that only bolstered his popularity, appealed to the public in a national television address. O'Neill didn't stand a chance.

"They say they're voting for it because they're afraid," was how Connecticut Representative Toby Moffett explained the defections.

But look closer. Forty-four of those 65 Democrats were conservatives, generally from the South, who today would simply be Republicans (just as the liberal Yankee Republicans of that era are now Democrats). Today's clear and sharp ideological divide between the parties was still taking shape. By current standards, Reagan's popularity was only good enough for about 20 true crossover votes, if that. Otherwise, everyone stuck to the script.

Stop the Presses: Republican Lawmakers Oppose Democratic President | The New York Observer

ok chrissypoo, how m,any republicans voted against it?

 

[Charles_Main]

chris, you're a lying sack of shit as well as an idiot.
at no time during reagan's presidency did the dems hold less than 55% of the house of representatives.

i knew you were stupid; i didn't think you were a liar as well.
live and learn.

Reagan's budgets were passed by Republicans and a few Dixiecrats.

repeating the lie doesn't make it true. why don't you toddle off and post some more glacier pix?
liar.

Actually as the Nazis showed us it actually does. Repeat a lie enough it becomes the truth.

Wasting your time with Chris is futile. He is a fully programed Leftoid who will never admit being wrong, or that his side has ever done anything wrong.

Every bad thing will always be the fault of Conservatives, or Republicans, and Every good thing will always be because of Democrats or Liberals. That is just the way his mind works. He thinks History started when he became self aware, and every thing that sounds like a good Idea is one.

he is in a word a simpleton.

 

[Chris]

Start with Reagan's 1981 budget, which passed the House on a 253-176 vote. It was regarded as a stunning feat, given that Democrats owned a 244-191 majority in the chamber. Sixty-five Democrats ended up crossing over to support the Reagan budget, with no Republican defections the other way.

This is regarded as perhaps the most vivid display of a presidential mandate at work in the modern era. There's something to this claim. As the vote neared and O'Neill frantically tried to keep his caucus united, Reagan, elected in a 44-state landslide and only a few weeks removed from an assassination attempt that only bolstered his popularity, appealed to the public in a national television address. O'Neill didn't stand a chance.

"They say they're voting for it because they're afraid," was how Connecticut Representative Toby Moffett explained the defections.

But look closer. Forty-four of those 65 Democrats were conservatives, generally from the South, who today would simply be Republicans (just as the liberal Yankee Republicans of that era are now Democrats). Today's clear and sharp ideological divide between the parties was still taking shape. By current standards, Reagan's popularity was only good enough for about 20 true crossover votes, if that. Otherwise, everyone stuck to the script.

Stop the Presses: Republican Lawmakers Oppose Democratic President | The New York Observer

ok chrissypoo, how m,any republicans voted against it?

None, zero, nada.....

 

[Chris]

Reagan's budgets were passed by Republicans and a few Dixiecrats.

repeating the lie doesn't make it true. why don't you toddle off and post some more glacier pix?
liar.

Actually as the Nazis showed us it actually does. Repeat a lie enough it becomes the truth.

Wasting your time with Chris is futile. He is a fully programed Leftoid who will never admit being wrong, or that his side has ever done anything wrong.

Every bad thing will always be the fault of Conservatives, or Republicans, and Every good thing will always be because of Democrats or Liberals. That is just the way his mind works. He thinks History started when he became self aware, and every thing that sounds like a good Idea is one.

he is in a word a simpleton.

Wrong.

Reagan wasn't a conservative. In fact, we haven't had a conservative president since Gerald Ford. Gerald Ford vetoed more bills than any other president before him, because he wanted to hold down spending. The Republicans would do much better if they were truely conservative like Gerald Ford.

 

[Munin]

Reagan's budgets were passed by Republicans and a few Dixiecrats.

repeating the lie doesn't make it true. why don't you toddle off and post some more glacier pix?
liar.

Actually as the Nazis showed us it actually does. Repeat a lie enough it becomes the truth.

It has a name, you know: BRAINWASHING

live and learn

 

[DiveCon]

repeating the lie doesn't make it true. why don't you toddle off and post some more glacier pix?
liar.

Actually as the Nazis showed us it actually does. Repeat a lie enough it becomes the truth.

It has a name, you know: BRAINWASHING

live and learn

yeah, and chris is totally brainwashed

 

[Chris]

Start with Reagan's 1981 budget, which passed the House on a 253-176 vote. It was regarded as a stunning feat, given that Democrats owned a 244-191 majority in the chamber. Sixty-five Democrats ended up crossing over to support the Reagan budget, with no Republican defections the other way.

This is regarded as perhaps the most vivid display of a presidential mandate at work in the modern era. There's something to this claim. As the vote neared and O'Neill frantically tried to keep his caucus united, Reagan, elected in a 44-state landslide and only a few weeks removed from an assassination attempt that only bolstered his popularity, appealed to the public in a national television address. O'Neill didn't stand a chance.

"They say they're voting for it because they're afraid," was how Connecticut Representative Toby Moffett explained the defections.

But look closer. Forty-four of those 65 Democrats were conservatives, generally from the South, who today would simply be Republicans (just as the liberal Yankee Republicans of that era are now Democrats). Today's clear and sharp ideological divide between the parties was still taking shape. By current standards, Reagan's popularity was only good enough for about 20 true crossover votes, if that. Otherwise, everyone stuck to the script.

Stop the Presses: Republican Lawmakers Oppose Democratic President | The New York Observer

 

[Sinatra]

Start with Reagan's 1981 budget, which passed the House on a 253-176 vote. It was regarded as a stunning feat, given that Democrats owned a 244-191 majority in the chamber. Sixty-five Democrats ended up crossing over to support the Reagan budget, with no Republican defections the other way.

This is regarded as perhaps the most vivid display of a presidential mandate at work in the modern era. There's something to this claim. As the vote neared and O'Neill frantically tried to keep his caucus united, Reagan, elected in a 44-state landslide and only a few weeks removed from an assassination attempt that only bolstered his popularity, appealed to the public in a national television address. O'Neill didn't stand a chance.

"They say they're voting for it because they're afraid," was how Connecticut Representative Toby Moffett explained the defections.

But look closer. Forty-four of those 65 Democrats were conservatives, generally from the South, who today would simply be Republicans (just as the liberal Yankee Republicans of that era are now Democrats). Today's clear and sharp ideological divide between the parties was still taking shape. By current standards, Reagan's popularity was only good enough for about 20 true crossover votes, if that. Otherwise, everyone stuck to the script.

Stop the Presses: Republican Lawmakers Oppose Democratic President | The New York Observer