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Still full of shit.

Tumulty is, I am sorry to say, so very full of shit, and she knows it — or should. The Republicans did not "abandon" Reagan's — or Nixon's — principles. On the contrary. The policies of Bush are the full flowering of the anti-tax, anti-poor-people, big-business-is-God, trash-the-public-trust, authoritarian mindset that is Republicanism at its core. In fact, the Bush Junta, from stem to stern, is stuffed chock-full of people who used to work for Reagan, Nixon, or (in the case of Cheney and Rumsfeld) both.

Tumulty writes sorrowfully that Bush and his fellow current Republicans have embraced big government — but admits that so did Reagan, as David Stockman kept lamenting. (Speaking of David Stockman, guess who's in trouble for committing a little investment-related fraud? What was that about 'fiscal responsibility' again, David?)

In fact, the differences between Bush, Reagan and Nixon are not ones of kind, but merely of degree. When I read her lamenting the growth of deficits under the Self-Alleged 'Party of Fiscal Responsibility', I have to ask: Has Tumulty never heard of Grover Norquist? Of course she has. He gleefully preaches the running up of huge deficits in order to force cuts in the kind of government spending that doesn't readily profit big corporations: Namely, social spending. Meanwhile, the military budget — and the money spent on corporate welfare in the form of defense contracts — soars along with the deficit.

There's really nothing more to say. The incompetent and either cowardly or completely clueless media enables this Republican friendly myth-making, and it makes me physically ill.

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