Word: reaganism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Peterson in the author of LegislatingTogether: The White House and Capitol Hill fromEisenhower to Reagan, published in 1990. Hehas also written article and chapters in otherpublications, and is currently working on twobooks, he said...
This is an old technique refined by Ronald Reagan and his budget director David Stockman: Spend enough money elsewhere, and you'll be able to resist calls for spending on programs you don't like. "We simply don't have the money. We spent it all on guns...
Cuomo called such tactics "diversionary" and said the Republicans are trying to cover up the "political weaknesses" of the Bush and Reagan administrations...
...error and pledging to correct it--are deflecting the blame from themselves to the powerless: to the poor, to the child who just had a child, to the new immigrants," he said. Cuomoalso urged his audience to take action in thecoming election and to leave "the legacy of theBush-Reagan era" behind...
...affable manner and eloquent story telling make her a pleasure to listen to even when she discusses unpleasant subjects such as suicides of Vietnam veterans, the war in the Gulf and issues of control and power surrounding women in America. Her use of an electronically deepened voice to imitate Reagan is at once funny and disturbing--like Reagan himself. A comic video interlude in which she appears as a freaky video dwarf reveals her light-heartedness and willingness to have fun. Anderson is not afraid to laugh at herself, but she maintains a serious impassioned monologue...