After watching the Republican 'hopefuls' vie to be the most Reagan-like candidate, I can only wonder why? I understand his PERCEIVED approval ratings were high, but the truth is, they were about average for his whole term. Far behind Kennedy and Eisenhower, and short of Clinton's marks as well as Bushco's father's!
This is NOT made clear by glowing reports of his "Unprecedented Popularity" & "The most popular president Ever to leave office" in the MSM - clearly bullshit - to anyone who cares to look - just google reagan approval.  

Having watched the back and forth between the NYT Eds (and RW blogs - "No one thinks of Reagan as a  racist")  lately over the "Reagan Legacy" I was amazed that anyone would try such a transparent attempt at whitewashing (interesting term, that) the history of Reagan's actions.
 The Reagan presidency was seen AT THE TIME to be racist in no uncertain terms, by friend and foe alike.  Of course, friends of this policy were spinning it as something other than what it clearly was, even as it was being put in place, but I don't remember many being fooled at the time.
 One of the first Reagan vetoes to be overridden (by a Republican controlled senate!) illustrates just where Ronny stood on the issue.

I ran into this quote on the TPM site this evening. It is from John Dean and he should know!  He goes on to talk about Nixonian parallels and such relating to the current AG nominee, but it got me to thinking, when did the chill first go down MY (and YOUR) spine?  

This seems to be a good time to discuss the current administration’s  (and our nation’s) period of "Peak failure" will happen.   I know that The "CYA moment" pre 9/11, Tora Bora, the initial Iraqi rioting, the looting of the weapons caches and the Abu Garaib fiasco (along with many other instances) have brought in to question just how much failure sustainability we can manage as a nation.  
My question is just where will (with apologies to NOLA) the high water mark of these failures be?  

 When you see the title of this diary I can guess what the first thoughts that will pop into most people’s heads are going to be!  Let me explain why I see the term " Global warming" as a myth, or at best a politically correct misnomer.
 Global warming is a symptom, not the disease.
The real problem is rampant overpopulation, coupled with a bill of goods sold by the forces promoting globalization. Given the state of the technology available to us, it is not possible for a large percentage of the current world population to live as Americans did (and do) from the mid 1950s.
 Something unusual is happening...