Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Less than six weeks before the election and Danno still can't get away from the dummy thing. Attempts to look seriously at his record have been obscured by Murphy Brown, Doonesbury and a barrage of potato jokes. He's Ronald Reagan without the power; light relief for us drones in the newsroom...
...years ago, there was a Ronald Reagan burger served with a jelly bean. The Nancy Reagan Burger was served "on our best silver," says Bartley...
First promulgated by the Reagan administration in 1988, the gag rule was a not-so-disguised way for members of the religious right and other anti-abortion activists to inject their narrow views into government policies otherwise protected by Roe v. Wade. If family planning clinics can't even discuss abortion, gag rule proponents reason, fewer women will have abortions...
What's revealing about the politics of the gag rule is the extent to which the small religious right has come to influence the highest levels of government. Before joining Ronald Reagan on the 1980 ticket, Bush favored abortion rights...
Since then, Reagan and Bush appointees to the high court have protected the rule, and a politically beholden Bush has vowed to support the far right's position on every abortion measure--even to the length of spitting on the Constitution...