Some good examples of the kind of thing today’s Republicans love to attack the President about are President Obama’s 2009 meeting with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez & his use of a teleprompter for speeches. But to put these absurd attacks into some kind of reasonable context we must consider that Ronald Reagan used a teleprompter [...]

Just Kidding: This is actually “Saint Ronnie” using a teleprompter at the 1988 Republican National Convention: For some strange reason the fact that Barack Obama uses a teleprompter for most of his speeches makes some Tea Party types go absolutely crazy (or, more accurately, even more crazy.) This is so strange because there is absolutely [...]

In this Washington Post article which compares the economic records of President Reagan & President Obama it is noted that taxes under Obama are significantly lower than they were under Reagan. In 1983 taxes were 17.5% of GDP, in 2010 they were only 14.9% percent of GDP. This fact makes it clear that the argument [...]

If Ronald Reagan were still alive today he would be on the side of the 73% of Americans who support President Obama’s Buffett Rule proposal which would make sure that millionaires & billionaires pay at least as much in taxes as those in the middle class. ThinkProgress.com

This chart clearly illustrates the massive failure that “trickle down economics” has been for the “other 99%.” When Ronald Reagan cut taxes for the rich as President in the 1980s he claimed that the extra money going to the rich would “trickle down” from the rich down to everyone else. Obviously that has not worked [...]

This is what President Ronald Reagan said about what would happen if the debt ceiling were not raised in 1983: “The full consequences of a default — or even the serious prospect of default — by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of [...]

Something to remember when you hear Republicans talk about the debt/deficit: Dick Cheney in 2002: “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.”

Take a look at Ronald Reagan’s birth certificate. Notice anything interesting about it? #1 It says “Certificate of Live Birth” much like President Obama’s “Certification of Live Birth”. Of course birther lunatics use the fact that Obama’s official birth certificate (first released in 2008 during the campaign) says something other than “birth certificate” at the [...]

Ronald Reagan said “Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.” (Source.) In 2011 Republicans in Wisconsin (lead by Gov. Scott Walker) have taken away the freedom of average working people by taking away their collective bargaining rights.

Republicans like to make a lot of noise about President Obama’s not so hot approval ratings (He’s at 46%.) Some even like to claim that this means that Obama has little shot of winning reelection in 2012. But a quick look back through history shows that this is not even close to true. At this [...]