Reagan's Legacy

This week, as you're listening to the conservatives make things up about their fallen messiah, Ronald Reagan, in their relentless attempts at revisionist history (most popular president? No), remember that not everyone thought well of the old man.

Edited: More links: Here, here, here, here, here

Representative John Dingall put it best (although you can't find it on his web site anymore):

"As someone who served with President Reagan, and in the interest of historical accuracy, please allow me to share with you some of my recollections of the Reagan years that I hope will make it into the final cut of the mini-series: $640 Pentagon toilets seats; ketchup as a vegetable; union busting; firing striking air traffic controllers; Iran-Contra; selling arms to terrorist nations; trading arms for hostages; retreating from terrorists in Beirut; lying to Congress; financing an illegal war in Nicaragua; visiting Bitburg cemetery; a cozy relationship with Saddam Hussein; shredding documents; Ed Meese; Fawn Hall; Oliver North; James Watt; apartheid apologia; the savings and loan scandal; voodoo economics; record budget deficits; double digit unemployment; farm bankruptcies; trade deficits; astrologers in the White House; Star Wars; and influence peddling."

Remember Orwell's admonition that, "Those who control the present control the past. Those who control the past control the future."