On Reagan

Reagan's death has had one positive consequence: A week in which congress will do nothing. It's a great blessing upon the nation, really.

Those of you who are condemning the media for rewriting history just because he's dead forget that this revision of the Reagan years has been well under way for over a decade.

I'm not going to say much about his administration, except to say that with Bush II in office, Reagan and Nixon are tied for second place on my personal list of worst presidents. And Reagan may be just a nose ahead of Nixon. It was with Reagan's presidency, it seems, that conservationism and conservatism became mutually exclusive.

I will also say that this flying of his corpse across the country so people can gawk at it is just a wee bit creepy.

Ah, and one other thing to remember: The arms race that ended the cold war was a race to see who could force whom to exhaust their credit first. We won, but we are still paying the bills, and now we're racking up new ones.

There's another phrase for "Tax and Spend" - it's called "Depositing the money before you write the check."