Wow....Do We Need Him Now

[PoliticalChic]

That would be the finest President in at least a century.


1. On this very day, in 1984: U.S. President Ronald Reagan won reelection in a landslide victory over Democratic candidate Walter F. Mondale.
Incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate, in a landslide victory, winning 525 electoral votes and 58.8 percent of the popular vote. No other candidate in United States history has ever matched Reagan's electoral vote total in a single election.
1984 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

Mondale was the stereotypical Democrat:
"Dan Rostenkowski, standing next to the candidate in front of the cameras and the cheering crowd at the convention after the fateful speech, whispered to Mondale, "You've got a lot of balls, pal." According to Rostenkowski, Mondale whispered back, "Look at 'em, we're going to tax their ass off." ("Showdown At Gucci Gulch," Jeffrey H. Birnbaum And Alan S. Murray, page 35)




2. When he entered office in 1980, Reagan believed that the United States had grown weak militarily and had lost the respect it once commanded in world affairs. Aiming to restore the country to a position of moral as well as military preeminence in the world, he called for massive increases in the defense budget to expand and modernize the military and urged a more aggressive approach to combating communism and related forms of leftist totalitarianism.

3. At his first press conference as president, Reagan audaciously questioned the legitimacy of the Soviet government; two years later, in a memorable speech in Florida, he denounced the Soviet Union as “an evil empire” and “the focus of evil in the modern world.”
Britannica.com



4. "Ronald Reagan came to the presidency in 1981 having declared that his strategy regarding the Cold War was 'We win, they lose.'

It was seen as a foolish and dangerous position by everyone from academic Sovietologists to Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. Presidents since the end of World War II had pledged themselves to no more than containing communism and, latterly, reaching detente with the Soviet Union. None had said anything remotely like 'We win, they lose.'

Ten years later the Soviet Union had ceased to exist.



5. ...it is clear that Reagan poked a shaky Soviet system in some vulnerable places- by arming the mujahedeen in Afghanistan with Stinger missiles; starting a technological arms race that the Soviet leadership knew it could not match; and assaulting the Soviet Union's pride rhetorically, from his 'Evil Empire' speech (surprisingly dismaying to the Soviets, we have since learned) to his 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall' speech in Berlin. "
Charles Murray, "By The People," p. 247-248.


Now.....we have this:

 

[Moonglow]

Reagan defends arms sales to Iran, Nov. 13, 1986​

Reagan defends arms sales to Iran, Nov. 13, 1986

The president was mired in a scandal related to an arms-for-hostages deal.

www.politico.com

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

Reagan defends arms sales to Iran, Nov. 13, 1986​

Reagan defends arms sales to Iran, Nov. 13, 1986

The president was mired in a scandal related to an arms-for-hostages deal.

www.politico.com

There you are 2nd to post on your fantasy poster...lolol

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

That would be the finest President in at least a century.


1. On this very day, in 1984: U.S. President Ronald Reagan won reelection in a landslide victory over Democratic candidate Walter F. Mondale.
Incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate, in a landslide victory, winning 525 electoral votes and 58.8 percent of the popular vote. No other candidate in United States history has ever matched Reagan's electoral vote total in a single election.
1984 United States presidential election - Wikipedia

Mondale was the stereotypical Democrat:
"Dan Rostenkowski, standing next to the candidate in front of the cameras and the cheering crowd at the convention after the fateful speech, whispered to Mondale, "You've got a lot of balls, pal." According to Rostenkowski, Mondale whispered back, "Look at 'em, we're going to tax their ass off." ("Showdown At Gucci Gulch," Jeffrey H. Birnbaum And Alan S. Murray, page 35)




2. When he entered office in 1980, Reagan believed that the United States had grown weak militarily and had lost the respect it once commanded in world affairs. Aiming to restore the country to a position of moral as well as military preeminence in the world, he called for massive increases in the defense budget to expand and modernize the military and urged a more aggressive approach to combating communism and related forms of leftist totalitarianism.

3. At his first press conference as president, Reagan audaciously questioned the legitimacy of the Soviet government; two years later, in a memorable speech in Florida, he denounced the Soviet Union as “an evil empire” and “the focus of evil in the modern world.”
Britannica.com



4. "Ronald Reagan came to the presidency in 1981 having declared that his strategy regarding the Cold War was 'We win, they lose.'

It was seen as a foolish and dangerous position by everyone from academic Sovietologists to Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon. Presidents since the end of World War II had pledged themselves to no more than containing communism and, latterly, reaching detente with the Soviet Union. None had said anything remotely like 'We win, they lose.'

Ten years later the Soviet Union had ceased to exist.



5. ...it is clear that Reagan poked a shaky Soviet system in some vulnerable places- by arming the mujahedeen in Afghanistan with Stinger missiles; starting a technological arms race that the Soviet leadership knew it could not match; and assaulting the Soviet Union's pride rhetorically, from his 'Evil Empire' speech (surprisingly dismaying to the Soviets, we have since learned) to his 'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall' speech in Berlin. "
Charles Murray, "By The People," p. 247-248.


Now.....we have this:

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Well he's dead. Will this be a good sub?

 

[Dogmaphobe]

I wouldn't mind Teddy Roosevelt, myself.

He busted up the robber barons and it is today's robber barons like Gates and Zuckerberg who are doing so much to destroy this country for their own greed.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Yep, we need someone to increase the debt by another 180% over 8 years!

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Well he's dead. Will this be a good sub?
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The worship is strong in this one

 

[Moonglow]

Department of Housing and Urban Development grant rigging[edit]​

The HUD rigging scandal occurred when Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Samuel Pierce and his associates rigged low income housing bids to favor Republican contributors to Reagan's campaign as well as rewarding Republican lobbyists such as James G. Watt Secretary of the Interior.[11] Sixteen convictions were eventually handed down,[12] including the following:

1. James Watt, Reagan's Secretary of the Interior was indicted on 24 felony counts and pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor. He was sentenced to five years' probation, and ordered to pay a $5000 fine.[13]
2. Phillip D. Winn – Assistant HUD Secretary. Pleaded guilty to one count of scheming to give illegal gratuities;[14] pardoned by President Bill Clinton, November, 2000[15]
3. Thomas Demery – Assistant HUD Secretary – pleaded guilty to steering HUD subsidies to politically connected donors. Found guilty of bribery and obstruction of justice[14]
4. Deborah Gore Dean – executive assistant to Secretary Pierce – indicted on thirteen counts, three counts of conspiracy, one count of accepting an illegal gratuity, four counts of perjury, and five counts of concealing articles. She was convicted on twelve. She appealed and prevailed on several counts but the convictions for conspiracy remained.[14]
5. Joseph A. Strauss, Special Assistant to the Secretary of HUD, convicted for accepting payments to favor Puerto Rican land developers in receiving HUD funding.[16]
6. Silvio D. DeBartolomeis convicted of perjury and bribery.[14]
7. Catalina Vasquez Villalpando, the Treasurer of the United States from 1989 to 1993[17]

Secretary Pierce, the "central person" in the scandal, was not charged because he made "full and public written acceptance of responsibility."[17]

Retired Federal Judge Arlin Adams served as independent counsel in the first five years of the prosecution, through 1995.[14] and Larry Thompson completed the work 1995–98.[17]

Scandals of the Ronald Reagan administration - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Moonglow]

Lobbying scandals[edit]​

When an administration staff member leaves office, federal law governs how quickly one can begin a lobbying career.

• Michael Deaver, Reagan’s Chief of Staff, was convicted of lying to both a congressional committee and to a federal grand jury about his lobbying activities after he left the government. He received three years' probation and was fined $100,000 after being convicted for lying to a congressional subcommittee.[18]
• Lyn Nofziger Reagan's Press Secretary was convicted on charges of illegal lobbying after leaving government service in Wedtech scandal. His conviction was later overturned.[19]
• Reagan administration scandals - Wikipedia

 

[harmonica]

Reagan defends arms sales to Iran, Nov. 13, 1986​

Reagan defends arms sales to Iran, Nov. 13, 1986

The president was mired in a scandal related to an arms-for-hostages deal.

www.politico.com

that was good!! it kept Iran and Iraq fighting--with no winner --made both weaker

 

[Moonglow]

EPA scandals[edit]​

A number of scandals occurred at the Environmental Protection Agency under the Reagan administration. Over twenty high-level EPA employees were removed from office during Reagan's first three years as president.[20] Additionally, several Agency officials resigned amidst a variety of charges, ranging from being unduly influenced by industry groups to rewarding or punishing employees based on their political beliefs.[21] Sewergate, the most prominent EPA scandal during this period, involved the targeted release of Superfund grants to enhance the election prospects of local officials aligned with the Republican Party.

1. Rita Lavelle, an administrator at the EPA, misused Superfund monies and was convicted of perjury. She served three months in prison, was fined $10,000 and given five years' probation.[22]
2. Anne Gorsuch Burford, the controversial head of the EPA. Burford, citing "Executive Privilege," refused to turn over Superfund records to Congress.[23] She was found in Contempt, whereupon she resigned.

Savings & loan crisis[edit]​

Savings and loan crisis in which 747 institutions failed and had to be rescued with $160 billion in taxpayer dollars.[24] Reagan's "elimination of loopholes" in the tax code included the elimination of the "passive loss" provisions that subsidized rental housing. Because this was removed retroactively, it bankrupted many real estate developments which used this tax break as a premise, which in turn bankrupted 747 Savings and Loans, many of whom were operating more or less as banks, thus requiring the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to cover their debts and losses with taxpayer money. This with some other "deregulation" policies, ultimately led to the largest political and financial scandal in U.S. history to that date, the savings and loan crisis. The ultimate cost of the crisis is estimated to have totaled around $150 billion, about $125 billion of which was directly subsidized by the U.S. government, which further increased the large budget deficits of the early 1990s. See Keating Five.

As an indication of this scandal's size, Martin Mayer wrote at the time, "The theft from the taxpayer by the community that fattened on the growth of the savings and loan (S&L) industry in the 1980s is the worst public scandal in American history. Teapot Dome in the Harding administration and the Credit Mobilier in the times of Ulysses S. Grant have been taken as the ultimate horror stories of capitalist democracy gone to seed. Measuring by money, [or] by the misallocation of national resources ... the S&L outrage makes Teapot Dome and Credit Mobilier seem minor episodes."[25]

Economist John Kenneth Galbraith called it "the largest and costliest venture in public misfeasance, malfeasance and larceny of all time."[26]

Operation Ill Wind[edit]​

• Operation Ill Wind was a three-year investigation launched in 1986 by the FBI into corruption by U.S. government and military officials, and private defense contractors.

1. Melvyn Paisley, appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1981 by Republican President Ronald Reagan,[27] was found to have accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. He pleaded guilty to bribery and served four years in prison.[28]
2. James E. Gaines, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy, took over when Paisley resigned his office.[29] Gaines was convicted of accepting an illegal gratuity and theft and conversion of government property. He was sentenced to six months in prison.[30]
3. Victor D. Cohen, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force, was the 50th conviction obtained under the Ill Wind probe when he pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and conspiring to defraud the government.[31]

Wedtech Scandal[edit]​

• Wedtech scandal; Wedtech Corporation convicted of bribery for Defense Department contracts

1. Edwin Meese Attorney General, resigned but never convicted.[32]
2. Lyn Nofziger White House Press Secretary, whose conviction of lobbying was overturned.[33]
3. Mario Biaggi sentenced to 2½ years.[34]
4. Robert García sentenced to 2½ years.[35]

Debategate[edit]​

Main article: Debategate
Debategate involved the final days of the 1980 presidential election and briefing papers that were to have been used by President Jimmy Carter in preparation for the October 28, 1980, debate with Reagan had somehow been acquired by Reagan's team. This fact was not divulged to the public until late June 1983, after Laurence Barrett published Gambling With History: Reagan in the White House, an in-depth account of the Reagan administration's first two years.

James Baker swore under oath that he had received the briefing book from William Casey, Reagan's campaign manager, but Casey vehemently denied this. The matter was never resolved as both the FBI and a congressional subcommittee failed to determine how or through whom the briefing book came to the Reagan campaign.[36]

Scandals of the Ronald Reagan administration - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Moonglow]

that was good!! it kept Iran and Iraq fighting--with no winner --made both weaker

It was just illegal per law.

 

[Moonglow]

Yeah, we sure do need Reagan to declare another war on it's citizens and their rights...

 

[Moonglow]

There you are 2nd to post on your fantasy poster...lolol

I can't help it if yer old and slow.

 

[BrokeLoser]

Yeah, we sure do need Reagan to declare another war on it's citizens and their rights...

Hmmm…and just like that Mexicrats hate a totalitarian POTUS

 

[PoliticalChic]

There you are 2nd to post on your fantasy poster...lolol

I had a professor who used a certain phrase about folks he wanted nothing to do with..
...."He sticks to me like manure to a wet blanket."


Now I know what he meant.

 

[Moonglow]

Hmmm…and just like that Mexicrats hate a totalitarian POTUS

And just like that Brokenabuser has a brain-fart that he thinks is meaningful to the thread.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Well he's dead. Will this be a good sub?
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There were many who compared the two, positively.


I kinda agreed.

 

[Moonglow]

I had a professor who used a certain phrase about folks he wanted nothing to do with..
...."He sticks to me like manure to a wet blanket."


Now I know what he meant.

As long as you propagate lies it means nothing.

 

[PoliticalChic]

I wouldn't mind Teddy Roosevelt, myself.

He busted up the robber barons and it is today's robber barons like Gates and Zuckerberg who are doing so much to destroy this country for their own greed.

I'm not a fan of either Roosevelts.

Neither supported the Constitution.


Teddy Roosevelt gave a speech, “Who is a Progressive,” in 1912. This, from the speech: “…stand for the forward movement, the men who stand for the uplift and betterment of mankind,… We of to-day who stand for the Progressive movement here in the United States are not wedded to any particular kind of machinery, save solely as means to the end desired.”
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a. Does this sound like one who values the Constitution, which enumerates the way things are to be done, rather than what is to be done? And Teddy explains that Progressives care not about the means, as long as his ‘ends’ are accomplished.

b. And along those lines, his “New Nationalism” speech explained that individual rights take a backseat to the common good. And in the same speech, the famous Progressive avowed that folks would be allowed to earn a living as long as the collective agreed: “We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is honorably obtained and well used. It is not even enough that it should have been gained without doing damage to the community. We should permit it to be gained only so long as the gaining represents benefit to the community.”

c. And his view of the Constitution? ‘Well known is TR's outburst, when told the Constitution did not permit the confiscation of private property: "To hell with the Constitution when the people want coal!"

Less well known is that at one point TR summoned General John M. Schofield, instructing him: "I bid you pay no heed to any other authority, no heed to a writ from a judge, or anything else except my commands."’ 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask. By Thomas E. Woods, Jr. (p. 139) see 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask, by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. | David Gordon