You see it's the party that's failed, not the philosophy

Bruce reminds me a bit of American Marxists in the post-Stalin era, who insisted that it wasn't that Marxism was wrong, but that the Russian implementation of it wasn't real Marxism. And if only we had Reagan, the six years of Republican one-party rule wouldn't have been a disaster.

Because, after all, Reagan would have been busy sending arms to Iran to support illegal wars in Central America, running up a debt that we're still paying off, and pandering to the religious right without actually giving them anything.

The fact of the matter is that conservatism as a philosophy gives us exactly what we got under Bush, and it will take a generation of forgetting for people to start voting for them en masse again

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Who's a good president

Sure, the duck is entitled to have a favorite president, even if he can't draw him very well (I'm assuming that it's supposed to be the right wing's minor deity, Ronald Reagan). Not much very funny there though.

I suppose that I could point out that the reason no mail came today is because this is the federal holiday called Washington's Birthday (no matter what cartoon ducks or matress salesmen will tell you). I am, after all, here to educate.

Or better still, I can point out the reason why Reagan is such a demigod among the right wingers. It's because he managed in his second term (but not his first) to have the first Republican administration since Harding-Coolidge to manage to have job growth exceed population growth. I mean sure, every single democratic administration (except for one term of Roosevelt, when the country was in the grips of the Great Depression and Europe was sliding into World War II) managed the feet, even Jimmy Carter's administration. So I suppose I could educate people a bit more by pointing out that on every measure of economic well-being and controlling for anything you want Democratic presidencies do a better job of managing the economy than Republican presidencies do, but then I'd have to provide a disclaimer:
Update: Speaking of blown opportunities, Prickly City reminds us that it's two weeks since the astronaut story and Candorville adds that it's two weeks since Anna Nicole Smith. Mallard Fillmore squanders his short lead time by reminding us that it's been one-hundred and forty-two weeks since Ronald Reagan died. And 932 weeks since he left office.

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