I wonder how many readers received a letter from Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee, beginning: “Dear Friend, Your immediate attention is required.” It followed closely the format of another letter I received from Sen. John Cornyn, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee. He also addressed me as a dear friend, telling me that I had been selected as a representative of all Republicans living in my voting district. I felt honored. Both letters repeatedly requested me to generously contribute money to their war chest. I declined to do that, but I did respond to their opinion surveys. My answers, I suppose, will dismay the chairmen. Our party admires the Reagan administration, which had practiced profligate deficit spending, but it pours scorn upon our current president’s spending priorities. The Reagan administration outspent the preceding administration, increasing the average annual federal deficit from Carter’s $50 billion to more that $200 billion. Was that conservative? Survey question No. 7 particularly bothered me: “Do you believe that Barack Obama’s nominees for federal courts should be immediately and unquestionably approved for their lifetime appointments by the U.S. Senate?” Any defender of the Constitution would have to answer “no”; however, I wanted to add my comment, “on the other hand, we should not unduly delay the appointments.” The letter from Texas Sen. Cornyn asked about the war against Islamic jihadists. Perhaps he refers to the descendants of the mujahedeen, whom President Reagan proclaimed were defending the principles of independence and freedom in Afghanistan, forming the basis of global security and stability (Proclamation #4908, March 10, 1982). Afghans have always felt deep antipathy toward foreigners who occupy their land. They believe in homeland security, just as we do, but they are Islamic, non-Christian. What can we make of these subtle letters from the Republican chairmen? Did they seek our opinions, or our money; or, perhaps, to ignite our bigotry?
The Reagan administration outspent the preceding administration, increasing the average annual federal deficit from Carter’s $50 billion to more that $200 billion. Was that conservative?
Kernan....Reagan dumped a ton of money into our defense system.
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At the beginning of my first term, Pentagon leaders told me appalling stories of how the Soviets were gaining on us militarily, both in nuclear and conventional forces. The Soviets were spending fifty percent more each year on weapons than we were; meanwhile, in our armed forces, the paychecks were so small that some married enlisted men and women were eligible for welfare benefits. Many military personnel were so ashamed of being in the service that as soon as they left their posts, they put on civilian clothes.
I knew reversing the effects of years of neglect would be expensive and difficult. But during the campaign, the people of America had told me nothing mattered more to them than national security. Time and again, when I went around the country calling for a balanced budget, I'd get this question: "What if it comes down to a choice between national security and the deficit?" Every time, I answered: "I'd have to come down on the side of national defense." And every time I did, the audience roared. Nobody wanted a second-class army, navy, or air force defending our country. I wanted a balanced budget. But I also wanted peace through strength.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Some people just act like idiots. Every year Reagan proposed so many "draconian" cuts in spending they virtually assaulted him over it, with the democrats in congress tacking more and more spending into the budgets, bloating them with pork. Then like the good little bolshevik liars they then rewrote the history after the fact when they realized they could hurt Republicans by calling Reagan a "deficit spender!" Yeah, when democrats CUT ANYTHING EVER, it will be a cold day in hell.
Power, and control. power and control, that is all they ever give two damns about. Of course, the phone calls teh GOP makes, and the letters the GOP sends out and the invitations and such from the GOP are all "offensive." I am sick of that pansy term. Remember the morons who wrote the letters saying that they voted against Tedisco because he called them from a phone bank on election day? BOTH PARTIES DO THAT!!!!!!!!!!All the calls and letters, and solicitations the democrats are written and the hand of Jesus and the Virgin Mary licked the stamps RIGHT? Moses mans the robodials for the democrats but the republicans 'get out the vote' effort is a disgrace and borders on evil. I am sick of these assinine opinion pieces the liberal government-ordered media prints from these hacks with patronage jobs who never once saw an opportunity to lob off go by. The democrats who write those letters want the republicans to be ashamed and afraid to do get out the vote and run fundraising efforts. So they have their little elves with acne (the types that picked on all their lives) send thse stupid letters and they ask their butt pals at the papers to run them
Need anymore truth? It hurts, doesn't it?
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
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