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November 18, 2010

The Ronald Reagan "Smackdown"
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Trust, but verify. Trust, but verify. That idea, that approach not only reduced the number of nuclear weapons that we had pointing at each other on hair trigger alerts, it reduced that number by about 17,000 over the past 40 years. It did that through essentially political consensus in washington. When these kinds of treaties that we have with russia get voted on in the senate, they pass by margins like 93-6, by margins like 95-0. but this year, right now in washington, things are different.

This is the year that the republican plan on air pollution, that's called cap and trade became something that republicans are now against. This is the year that the republican plan is an individual mandate of health insurance became something that the republicans are against. This is the year that the republican plan for a bipartisan deficit commission became something the republicans are now against. This year in washington, under this president, there is no idea that is too republican for republicans to be against it. If they think that being against it will hurt barack obama.

 

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