Bill Maher started his New Rule with a quote from a Bob Dole
interview. Dole said the repugican cabal had become a party of idea
free ideologues who obstructed too much. He also stated that Ronald
Reagan himself could not have made it as a repugican. Bill Maher took
exception to that statement. In fact Maher laid out a pretty detail
factual observation that would lead anyone to come to the conclusion
that in fact Reagan was pretty much the pre-incarnation of the tea party.
Bill Maher: Ronald
Reagan was an anti-government, union busting, race bating,
anti-abortion, anti-gay, anti-intellectual who cut rich people’s taxes
in half, had an incurable case of the military industrial complex, and
said Medicare was socialism that would destroy our freedom. It sounds to
me like he would fit in just fine. …
Even though Reagan did a few things today’s GOP would not like, he
wrote the playbook for them for every issue of consequence. Sure he
raised taxes a few times, but when you look at where he started with
taxes and where he ended, this is where our income inequality problems
began. He invented voodoo economics. …
On race his ideas could not be more ‘Tea Party’. He ran on states’
rights. He invented the notion that black people get all the breaks. …
He described the New Deal as Fascism, Medicare recipients as waiting
for handouts, unemployment insurance as prepaid vacation for
freeloaders. When they hold up signs that say no socialized medicine,
where do you think they got it from? … Ronald Reagan: And if you and I don’t do this, then you and I
may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s
children what it once was like in America when men were free. … Bill Maher: Worst of all Reagan inspired a whole generation of people who hate government to get into government. …
Stop agreeing he was a saint especially when his two miracles were turning water into polluted water and walking on the poor.
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