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- Mar 27, 2014
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RWR's relationship with Congress was complex and I don't feel like unwrapping that this evening. I'll just say that RWR's stature does not depend on tax cuts, but on the combination of Cold War victory and the foundation for a generation of prosperity.
I get that, there is little simple about politics and the interactions between Presidents and Congresses. "Control" of the House or Senate also doesn't necessarily imply that party could pass legislation that didn't meet some demands of the other side - especially back then the parties were less ideologically divided, e.g. many Southern democrats were conservatives, and many northern republicans more liberal. Now a POTUS needs 60 votes in the Senate to pass a renaming of a Post office, but even in 2010 the GOP ran on protecting Medicare from democrats wanting to take benefits from grandma. Bottom line is very few if any of the stereotypes are all that useful, which is pretty much all I was pushing back on.