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      <![CDATA[and i don't think it can be pointed out enough, but "red" states are the primary beneficiaries of Federal tax dollars. TX is the only one that pays more than it gets back.
        
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      <![CDATA[Dissenter, the government is US. There are some things the Fed is always going to have to do, and we can have honest philosophical discussions/ disagreements about where the line is, but to simply demonize the govt or attempt to "starve the beast"  doesn't really serve anybody but filthy rich talk radio hosts, pundits and politicians stumping on a typically bs "anti-establishment" platform.
        
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      <![CDATA[The problem with your argument dissenter is that with the Reagan disciples that followed in his wake, we got less government where it needed to be (big pharma, oil, etc) and more where we didn't need it (think Patriot Act and obtuse unmanageable ideas like No Child Left Behind).<br>
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As for personal responsibility, that's all well and good for folks like us that have to work for a living, but where is the responsibility and accountability for the banks, Wall St, and the auto industry?
        
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      <![CDATA[I see we have a moron writing "The Rant", I guess to go along with the moron who is in the White House. How you morons on the left can continually champion more government and less individual freedom is beyond me.
        
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      <![CDATA[That statue doesn't even look like him. It was hard, but I tried my best just to ignore the government while he sat on it.
        
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      <![CDATA[rdoug, call Nancy, she's always in touch with the Gipp through their medium.
        
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      <![CDATA[I know where you can find him.
        
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      <![CDATA[We need Reagan today more than ever.
        
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      <![CDATA[One of the greatest presidents ever. Leadership beyond anything we have seen since he left office.
        
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      <![CDATA[Randy: Raygun's best role was the one in which he managed to persuade much of the American public that he was, in fact, in control of his faculties, when, in fact, he was a doddering fool, as was confirmed for us once he left office.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[mayfield]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Hope history will do likewise and give Reagan this most deserved "rant."
        
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      <![CDATA[David Palmer doesn't get near the credit he deserves. He is followed closely by Josiah Bartlet.
        
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      <![CDATA[Packrat and Mickey, my money is on H.R. Pufnstuf, he was probably our best politico (and most trusted) in the last 40 years. He was the Mayor of Living Island and friend to Jimmy and the talking flute named Freddy.
        
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      <![CDATA[<a href="http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/misc/1854-pvm.htm" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/misc/1854-p&hellip;</a>
        
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      <![CDATA[Franklin Pierce
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:46:15 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[The primary American national interest in Vietnam was rubber.
        
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      <![CDATA[The evidence continues to mount that this nation was at its best under the leadership of Millard Fillmore. Had it not been for him many of us would never have had the chance to see Hot Tuna and The Elvin Bishop Group on the same night.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 12:23:47 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[President Jeff Davis, he's the only one who got it right, merc.
        
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      <![CDATA[Hey Mickey, is there any President that got it right?
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:59:35 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[MickeyWhite]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Reagan sold us out on Taxes, Education, and Amnesty. Oh, and he gave us Bush the 1st.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:46:50 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[It's funny how "law and order" as a right wing campaign issue only surfaced when inner city black people started rioting in the 60's. White people had violated law and order and rioted and murdered black people for 100 years after the Civil War and there was no call for "law and order" when all that criminality was going on.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[wvfii]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[neither is a "war on drugs" -- funny how those two correlate, in a sense. i.e. Reagan's concern for "inner cities" seemed relegated to how many people could be incarcerated (many on non-violent charges) via his admin's unconstitutional policies
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:16:02 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[CHG]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The Vietnam war was not a defensive war as required by the Constitution. it is an act of treaty trumping the constitution, which is wrong.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:07:40 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[B]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The worst thing the Prematurely Orange One did was to institutionalize greed through deregulation. His administration made greed a virtue.
        
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      <![CDATA[Maybe because it was an obviously stupid war, an extension of a French colonial attempt to retain its pre-WWII colonial empire, with virtually no true American national interests at stake. Wouldn't that be reason enough?
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 10:20:10 -0500</pubDate>
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