Reply #1: I think that's the core of the Republican failure to the country.

[pinto]

Think of it. Ronald Reagan became the manager of one the largest governments in the world largely on the premise that government itself was the problem. And immediately went about the business of trying to dismantle the very organization he was elected to lead. He and his 'revolution' deftly played an American wariness of big government, benign in and of itself, fueled racial, ethnic and class fears and staged it all in a stark 'us or them' cold war world view. We're still reaping the disastrous results this mismanagement fostered.

It boggles me at times.