June 11, 2004

Reagan vs. the Left -- the war goes on. "Next to Abraham Lincoln, Ronald Reagan was perhaps the most divisive president in the nation's history. Lincoln ended a way of life for the American South. Reagan said that he was ending a way of life for [the] American [Left] .. On hearing the Reagan inaugural in January 1981 -- a radical's blunt challenge to establishment Washington orthodoxy -- the [left] mounted a counteroffensive. To any who were there, the first Reagan term was bloody .. The air burned with political antipathy. I recall in 1985 attending a confirmation hearing .. for Edwin Meese to be attorney general. The confirmation was a long ordeal whose details are forgotten. But on this day Sen. Joe Biden ended a long, dramatic denunciation of Mr. Meese by intoning, twice, that the nominee was "beneath contempt." There was a sound in the silent room. It was Mr. Meese's wife seated behind him, sobbing violently .. ". MORE "Ronald Reagan Started a War That Rages Today". Posted by Greg Ransom | TrackBack