White House claims new ally in debt limit fight: Ronald Reagan

steve2470

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Wed May-18-11 04:13 PM
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White House claims new ally in debt limit fight: Ronald Reagan

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2011/05/white-house-claims-new-ally-in-debt-limit-fight-ronald-reagan/1

The White House is enlisting the help of someone dear to its Republican opponents as it tries to win congressional support for raising the nation's $14.3 trillion debt limit.

Ronald Reagan.

Amid a sea of paper released today by the Treasury Department was a four-paragraph letter Reagan wrote in November 1983 to then-Senate majority leader Howard Baker, who later went on to serve as White House chief of staff.

"The full consequences of a default -- or even the serious prospect of default -- by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate," wrote The Gipper. He went on:

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Ozymanithrax

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Wed May-18-11 04:17 PM
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1. Zombie Reagan strikes again...

Why can't people leave his sorry dead ass in the ground.

Republicans will simply ignore what he says.

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