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Another fact about the Reagan administration
For all the hype and accolades that conservatives like to heap on the Reagan administration there are chinks in the armor that can always be found. Besides the fact that he raised taxes at one point, there’s also the deficit issue. Of course Dick Cheney once said that Reagan proved that deficits don’t matter. Yet, is that really what conservative ideology has to say about deficits?
Describing himself as a "dark horse," Haig sought the Republican presidential nomination for the 1988 elections. On the campaign trail, he told supporters about his desire to "keep the Reagan revolution alive," but he also railed against the administration’s bulging federal deficit – calling it an embarrassment to the GOP.
It gets better..
And later, when he criticized Reagan’s "fiscal flabbiness," Haig asserted that the "ideological religiosity" of the administration’s economic policies were to blame for doubling the national debt to $2 trillion in 1987.
As Rachel Maddow on MSNBC has been pointing out on her show all week there is a lot of hypocrisy on that side.
