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Another Ronald Reagan reality check for national conservative yackity yacks who don't know much about history -- or Ronald Reagan, this time from Jack Pitney, professor of government at Claremont McKenna College:

A lot of conservatives will reject the Reagan-Schwarzenegger comparison and say that Reagan was a man of principle and Schwarzenegger is a compromiser. [But in fact] Reagan was a compromiser .. Reagan was a pragmatist. Reagan's first big act as governor was to raise taxes, in fact the biggest tax increase in American state history up to that time. Reagan signed the most liberal abortion law in America.

More -- Lou Cannon interviewed in the NY Times on Reagan's gigantic tax increase.