End Times for Reaganism

But now McCain is learning the hard way, even if he won’t yet admit it, that the Reagan playbook’s time has come and gone. The old Republican trick was to lie about taxes: Democrats would raise everybody’s and Republicans would cut everybody’s. (In reality, Republican largesse meant the millionaire reaped a windfall while the waitress got pennies and the public debt soared.) McCain has resuscitated that canard, making the case against Obama’s ... Full Story »

Posted by Chris Finnie
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Subjects: U.S., Politics
Topics: Presidential Election 2008, Republicans, John McCain
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Posted by: Posted by Chris Finnie - Oct 27, 2008 - 9:12 PM PDT
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Edited by: Adam Florin - Oct 27, 2008 - 11:31 PM PDT

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Chris Finnie
4.2
by Chris Finnie - Oct. 27, 2008

Political observers have long wondered why voters supported policies that hurt them economically. Here Shrum advances the opinion that those days are over. People have finally realized that tax cuts don't create jobs. And that trickle down moved wealth up, not down. We'll know if he's right in just 8 days.

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Valliappa Lakshmanan
2.2
by Valliappa Lakshmanan - Oct. 28, 2008

Claims the Republican playbook is dead, but does not say why this is not just a temporary setback in a center-right nation

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