Does anyone here remember Reaganomics and Supply Side? And the GOP agenda?

[Armstead]

It's beginning to feel like a state of collective amnesia has set in.

Clinton glosses it over with professions of how much she "cares." And her surrogates talk about how "Of course we want universal health care, fair wages, access to education and a better life for the poor and middle class."

So why in the Name of All that is Holy do they immediately follow that with conservative claptrap that could have easily come out of the mouth of the Gipper?

The GOP has been dismantling the social safety net, skewing taxes to favor the rich, and engaging in Grover Norquist "shrinking of government" and bashing "socialist" liberalism -- and they've been doing a damn good job of it. We''re in their stadium now.

So why oh why do Democrats feel the need to help them with their dirty work by echoing the same crap?

Why are they using the GOP definition of "realism" as the yardstick of what we can and should work for?

[Bjornsdotter]

1. Oh I do....

....trickle down economics. Get your pith helmets out.

[BarbaRosa]

2. Yup, the 'conservative revolution'.

Doesn't seem to be working out all that well.

[Armstead]

4. Working out well for the conservatives -- or at least the well-heeled ones

the rest of us, not so much

[immoderate]

3. Every president since the late 70s has been a Reaganite. All of 'em.

Bernie would break that stream.

--imm

[Le Taz Hot]

5. Remember it?

The Democratic Party adopted it.

[Punkingal]

6. I remember...and I am so thoroughly disgusted that Reagan is still winning the argument.

But it's because our democratic leaders are too stupid and corrupt to frame the discussion our way.

[Gregorian]

7. You capture the sentiment of it. There was a lot of frustration.

And a lot of things that should have been done did not get done. Burning the country from both ends. Thanks for rekindling the memory.

[Armstead]

8. Yep..."Move on. Nothing to see here" as the country's structure was ripped apart