don t really have much of a memory of reagan. and you know, you have to wonder if rand paul thought, maybe this was a good time to reintroduce the truth about reagan, to distinguish himself from the kind of old, tired brand of republicanism that s lost the last two presidential elections. but, then, you know, you see the statement this afternoon and i guess breaking up is hard to do with reagan. well, and to me that s what made this a much more interesting story. so see somebody who knows hard truths about the reagan legacy. things that are true about what happened in that era and will be willing to tell them until he wants to move up. and then it s just, you ve got to get in line on this issue or you re really not allowed to be taken seriously in republican politics. it makes me wonder, who enforces this? if this is a top-down thing in the republican party that everybody agrees, we re never going to speak ill of the king, or whether or not we ve actually created enough pseudo organi
another mountain, mt. reagan. mr. chair, i think this is a terrific amendment. in fact, if anything, i would go one step further. i think we may want to consider going big with this reagan naming enthusiasm and just naming the planet we ve already talked about a huge part of the ocean bigger than the united states itself and we re sort of piecemealing our way with mountains and other things. but i m beginning to see some possibility in this. if we went that natural next step and named the planet reagan, i think that might be the breakthrough we ve been looking for. congressman huffman was very dryly joking about renaming earth after ronald reagan. had he been a republican congressman, though, it might not have been so easy to tell that he was joking. if you go to the website of the ronald reagan legacy project, they have a clickable interactive map that shows you all of the things that they have
playing robin to first lady nancy reagan s batman. mrs. reagan s crime-fighting, drug demonizing just say no campaign studded with celebrities and all the rest, was one of the crucial cogs of the 80s-era war on drugs, a war that is still causing casualties on all-sized today. today the u.s. government decided to take that war in a radically new direction, and really, no one knows how this generation of republicans is going to react to this change. it is the rarest of all things. a legitimately open question in our national politics, and that story is ahead. stay with us. at your ford dealer think? they think about tires. and what they ve been through lately. polar vortexes, road construction, and gaping potholes. so with all that behind you, you might want to make sure you re safe and in control. ford technicians are ready to find the right tires for your vehicle. get up to $120 in mail-in rebates on four select tires
how did those did those politics survive into this generation of republican members of congress? for some of them, yes. i think some of the folks that are either older, just sort of age wise, or who fashion themselves after that sort of 1980s reagan-era kind of republican, they have sort of brought that along. i think most of the younger republicans and newer republicans in the house and the senate see this as a problem. you know, there are some that would say, well, that also coincided with the fact that there are now a lot of white people who are getting put in jail because of crystal meth or because of oxycontin and things like that. but there are some of these social factors that are causing this. but nevertheless, i think the parties are starting to come together on this notion that we sort of created this nightmare legal system, where people get put in jail, they do years and years and years for really things that aren t hurting society that much. and there are a lot of repub
laden. he invented lasers and talked rick perry into those new glasses that make him look so smart. he did it all. but ronald reagan did none of those things. and elected republicans have a problem, because they are not allowed to admit that. they re not allowed to admit what was bad or inconvenient about the real record of ronald reagan. senator rand paul wasn t an elected republican official when he said all of those impolitic things about reagan s real record being less than meets the eye. but now rand paul is an elected republican and he s one with national ambitions. and so now, rand paul has to go through the humiliation of taking it all back and saying he really didn t mean it. his response to david corn s reporting at mother jones today, and david corn posting all of this tape, senator paul had to release this statement today, which it just it shows what a problem republicans have created for themselves with this fake reagan history, that they have been selling themselves and