Charles Krauthammer: Obama Just Declared That The Era Of ‘Big Government Is Back’ And ‘Reaganism’ Is

[ashling]

Following President Obama’s second inaugural address, Fox News analyst Charles Krauthammer called the speech an “amazing” one which rebuked the limited government beliefs of the Reagan era and served as the president’s “ode to big government.”

“I thought it was an amazing speech, and historically very important,” Krauthammer began. “This this was really Obama unbound. And I think what’s most interesting is that Obama basically is declaring the end of Reaganism in this speech.”

During his 1981 inaugural speech, President Ronald Reagan famously declared that government is not the solution to our problems; government is the problem. “Today’s inaugural address was a rebuke to that entire idea,” Krauthammer said. “This speech today was an ode to big government. It was a hymn to big government.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/charles-krauthammer-obama-just-declared-that-the-era-of-big-government-is-back-and-reaganism-is-dead/

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Works for me!

[aquart]

1. Reagan didn't limit government. He limited its efficacy.

[Scuba]

2. Krauthammer is either very poorly informed or just stupid. Or both.

And by the way Charles, government IS the answer.

[JoeBlowToo]

12. It is a religion of the so-called conservatives...a matter of faith not facts...

The facts are that the Reagan trickle down, no regulation, massive military deficit spending government and econnomy has been a documented failure. Yet they refuse to recognize what is obvious. They know that their beliefs are true and pure.

[emulatorloo]

19. Makes shit up, and uses big words so FOXYs think he is smart.

[JHB]

3. "end of Reaganism"?

We can only hope.

[Xipe Totec]

4. So long, Chairman Reagan nt

[Scootaloo]

5. What say you, Tardar Sauce?

Me too

[quaker bill]

6. A simple acknoledgement that we invented government for a reason

That some things in fact require collective effort is far from a "hymn to big government". However I will grant that it may be the beginning of the end of Reaganism. It is a shame it took this long.

[ashling]

9. Love that first sentence

I am going to use that in my government class.

[2on2u]

7. I much rather a government that is so small that it contracts out most of its duties to

private friends for outrageously inflated prices. Much more efficient imho.

[cordelia]

8. "Reaganism". An evil visited upon this country that should never have existed,

let alone lasted this long.

I hope that piece of filth Krauthammer is right for once, and this does indeed mark the end of this blight.

[KharmaTrain]

10. It Ended March 20, 2003...

...when dubya waged his war for profit and began the process of alienating those under the age of 30...then helping tank the economy in '07. It showed a generation how selfish, short-sighted and greedy rushpublicans are and are the cause of many of this country's problems.

Sourkrautkammer lives in the bubble that burst long ago and still deifies a Raygun that never existed and the one who did supported failed policies that Democrats have had to fix and clean up. Here's hoping we're at the start of a new Progressive era...this country needs it bad!!!!

[baldguy]

11. It never really began.

In the 1980 campaign, Reagan/Bush ran on the idea that a $2 trillion budget with a $20 billion deficit was "too big". In 1993, they left us with a 6 trillion budget and a $220 billion deficit.

"Big Govt" never left, it just stopped helping people.

[ashling]

15. "Big Govt" never left, it just stopped helping people.

good point

[tanyev]

17. Their Reagan mythos is very different from what actually happened.

[Cosmocat]

13. Era that never existed

pretty much sums up 99% of what republicans go around patting themselves on the back about.

[Paladin]

14. Right-Wing Crybaby. (nt)

[HughBeaumont]

16. "declaring the end of Reaganism" . . . . where's the problem?

[reformist2]

18. What conservatives don't get is that government is usually good, only sometimes bad.

They obsess over corruption and projects that have failed, and declare that nothing good can come from our collective action, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Except for war, of course. So in addition to being unduly pessimistic, they are also hypocrites.

[Odin2005]

20. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[Arugula Latte]

21. Put a stake through Ronnie's shriveled heart.