Are we going to start playing this game again?
You mean, the game where you make a point that I don't understand and so I ask you for clarification, but you jump up my ass about it? Yeah, I guess we're playing that now.
Pretty cool how that works, eh?
Yeah, that's pretty cool. But if he shares credit for budget success, doesn't he also share blame for budget failure? I presume you agree, but where you said this:
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What else, the budget deficit? The ones the democratic congresses kept passing? That's the argument I love the most. Blame the Chief Executive for federal spending. Sorry, the power of the purse belongs to the legislative branch alone. The President can propose all the budgets he wants, but Congress actually has to pass them in order to spend the money.
it doesn't sound like you do. So I'm a little confused. On one hand you seem pretty eager to insulate the President from any bad budgeting decisions - that's Congress's fault - but on the other, you're pretty quick to make sure we all know about his budget successes.
Maybe I'm an idiot, or you're just not being clear enough, but it sounds like you're trying to praise Reagan with faint damnation, if you catch my drift.
And moreover, the claim isn't that Reagan ignored AIDS - it's that he ignored AIDS at the time he really could have made a difference and stopped an epidemic - i.e. before 1984. What on earth do budget appropriations
after that time have anything to do with it?
It's in your neck of the woods and Ann Arbor is a fun little college town.
Um, yeah. Just like Vancouver is in
your neck of the woods. Christ, how dumb do you think we are here in Flyover Country?
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