May222012
reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
A British company, PFC Auctions, is currently entertaining bids for a vial of the late president’s blood; the bidding closes on Thursday and, as of writing, was approaching $12,000. The blood was collected in 1981, when deranged would-be assassin John Hinckley shot the president in Washington, D.C. The sale has elicited predictable disgust and outrage, both in the public and on the part of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.
“If indeed this story is true, it’s a craven act and we will use every legal means to stop its sale or purchase,” John Heubusch, the foundation’s executive director, said in a statement. (It has also elicited equally predictable jokes: “Is it too late for the vial of Reagan blood to run for the GOP nomination?” “The appropriate thing to do with the Reagan blood would be to trickle it down on some poor people.”)
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May22012
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Ronald Reagan, now lauded as the great Republican demigod, is largely responsible for the GOP’s misguided obsession with framing African Americans as the predominant poor and welfare-dependent. In his 1976 race for the White House, Reagan repeated hyperbolic stories of a woman on the South Side of Chicago who was the quintessential “welfare queen.”
Reagan claimed, “She has 80 names, 30 addresses, 12 Social Security cards and is collecting veteran’s benefits on four nonexisting deceased husbands. And she is collecting Social Security on her cards. She’s got Medicaid, getting food stamps, and she is collecting welfare under each of her names. Her tax-free cash income is over $150,000.”
Reagan never named the actual woman, but his statement, including the reference to the South Side of Chicago, said it all.
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The Root: The Food Stamp Fallacy: When will Republicans be honest about who really gets the most out of welfare programs? (via newwavefeminism)
And as a black woman who is from the south side of Chicago, Reagan and all the other assholes who believed this bullshit story can KISS MY ASS.
(via sourcedumal)
(via stfuconservatives)
March82012
“But that swaggering tale of Reagan’s toughness is not supported by the historical record. Not only does the overwhelming evidence now show that Reagan’s campaign team negotiated secretly behind President Carter’s back to undercut his efforts to free the hostages, but Reagan then followed up their release by authorizing secret shipments of weapons to Iran via Israel. In other words, instead of bullying the Iranians over their hostage-taking, Reagan rewarded them. And those shipments did not begin in 1985, with the Iran-Contra arms-for-hostage deals, but rather almost immediately after Reagan took office in 1981, according to a number of Israeli and U.S. government officials.”
Romney’s Made-up History on Iran (via azspot)(via azspot)
