Obama invokes Reagan in pitch for Buffett tax that GOP dismisses as 'pathetic'

[JBond]

Really? Obama is a spineless coward. This is class warfare. All this crap is to possibly raise 9 hours worth of spending. The sheep lap this crap up.

The president also invoked the name of Reagan for the second straight day and the third time in weeks.

“I’m not the first president to call for this idea that everybody’s got to do their fair share,” he said. “If it will help convince folks in Congress to make the right choice, we could call it the ‘Reagan Rule’ instead of the 'Buffett rule.'"

Obama also said Reagan had said it was “crazy” that loopholes allowed millionaires to pay a lower tax rate than bus drivers.

“That wild-eyed socialist, tax-hiking class warrior was Ronald Reagan,” the president said. “He thought that in America the wealthiest should pay their fair share, and he said so.” Obama said. “I know that position might disqualify him from the Republican primaries these days, but what Ronald Reagan was calling for then is the same thing that we’re calling for now, a return to basic fairness and responsibility, everybody doing their part.”

The president also said Reagan thought “that in America the wealthiest should pay their fair share. And he said so. I know that position might disqualify him from the Republican primaries these days.”


Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012...#ixzz1sQhQmTxg

[iceberg]

when he can appoint a high ranking democrat to office who's paid their taxes recently, i'll listen.

til then, it's just another way to keep the wall in place.

[VTA]

He's been drawing mindless parallels between himself and Reagan throughout his Presidency and I can't imagine who, aside from the most ardent acolytes, he thinks he's suggesting any sort of comparison to. Attempting to re-write history from a mere 20-30 years ago, no wonder these people think they can relabel Lincoln as a homosexual.

[JBond]

He's been drawing mindless parallels between himself and Reagan throughout his Presidency and I can't imagine who, aside from the most ardent acolytes, he thinks he's suggesting any sort of comparison to. Attempting to re-write history from a mere 20-30 years ago, no wonder these people think they can relabel Lincoln as a homosexual.

To anyone under 40 they are not mindless comparisons. It is the truth to them. It is the same thing they teach in the schools now. The revisionists have completely rewritten history.