{"id":3648,"date":"2011-02-06T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/wishing-i-could-forget-ronnie-raygun\/"},"modified":"2011-02-06T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T17:34:00","slug":"wishing-i-could-forget-ronnie-raygun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/wishing-i-could-forget-ronnie-raygun\/","title":{"rendered":"Wishing I Could Forget Ronnie Raygun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/02\/05\/reagan-centennial\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb 10 Things Conservatives Don\u2019t Want You To Know About Ronald Reagan<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>But Reagan was not the man conservatives claim he was. This image of Reagan as a conservative superhero is myth, created to unite the various factions of the right behind a common leader. In reality, Reagan was no conservative ideologue or flawless commander-in-chief. Reagan regularly strayed from conservative dogma \u2014 he raised taxes eleven times as president while tripling the deficit \u2014 and he often ended up on the wrong side of history, like when he vetoed an Anti-Apartheid bill. ThinkProgress has compiled a list of the top 10 things conservatives rarely mention when talking about President Reagan [mjh: follow the link for supporting documentation for each item]:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>1. Reagan was a serial tax raiser.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Reagan nearly tripled the federal budget deficit.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Unemployment soared after Reagan\u2019s 1981 tax cuts.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>4. Reagan grew the size of the federal government tremendously.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Reagan did little to fight a woman\u2019s right to chose.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>6. Reagan was a \u201cbellicose peacenik.\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>7. Reagan gave amnesty to 3 million undocumented immigrants.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>8. Reagan illegally funneled weapons to Iran.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><strong>9. Reagan vetoed a comprehensive anti-Apartheid act.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><font style=\"background-color: #ffc000\"><strong>10. Reagan helped create the Taliban and Osama Bin Laden.<\/strong> <\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Conservatives seem to be in such denial about the less flattering aspects of Reagan; it sometimes appears as if they genuinely don\u2019t know the truth of his legacy. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2011\/02\/05\/reagan-centennial\/\">ThinkProgress \u00bb 10 Things Conservatives Don\u2019t Want You To Know About Ronald Reagan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ThinkProgress \u00bb 10 Things Conservatives Don\u2019t Want You To Know About Ronald Reagan But Reagan was not the man conservatives claim he was. This image of Reagan as a conservative superhero is myth, created to unite the various factions of the right behind a common leader. In reality, Reagan was no conservative ideologue or flawless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/wishing-i-could-forget-ronnie-raygun\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wishing I Could Forget Ronnie Raygun<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}