Why Does Obama Want To Be Reagan?
I’m reading that Obama’s mouthpiece Robert Gibbs is telling reporters that Obama’s speech tonight is going to be “Reganesque.” Why has me wondering, why does Obama want to be Reagan?
Didn’t Reagan cut taxes for the rich (and a lot of other Americans too if we use non-liberal definitions)? Didn’t he say that government “is the problem” and not “the solution?” Don’t the liberals routinely tell us that Reagan’s economic success was exaggerated? How can Obama, fresh off signing into law the largest spending bill this country has ever seen and promising to end some of the most significant tax cuts ever put into law, invoke Reagan with a straight face?
He can’t. It’s absurd. I’m not sure why Obama and his people aren’t being laughed at and mocked for making such a comparison.
But what’s interesting is how Obama wants to invoke Reagan. Since the last election we conservatives had been told again and again that the Reagan era is dead. That fiscal conservatism and supply side economic theory is dead and that we proponents of it should go jump in a lake. And yet, here’s Obama invoking Reagan.
Maybe the news of fiscal conservatism’s demise has been exaggerated.
