Earlier this year when I was taking my economics class I thought I was perhaps the first person to think of the term "Bushanomics". Well it was just too obvious to have remained outside the anti-Bush Zeitgeist for that long. However it turns out that the GOP is now deliberately trying to remold Bush into some ghastly image of Reagan in other ways.

Alternet has an article on this, but there is of course one fly in the ointment for them - for the most part the Reagan family currently wants nothing to do with Bush. Only their adopted son has deemed to stand proud on the GOP platform, while his other son is campaigning with the Democrats, and Nancy is holding the GOPs feet to the fire on Bush's ban of stem-cell research which is widely believed could hold an answer to curing Alzheimer's.

Former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan has apparently been involved in the Bush as Reagan makeover. When asked about the lack Reagans at the RNC she said:

Michael was there to speak with love and admiration of his father. He did it. Appropriate and right. Ron Reagan showed up at Dem convention not to laud his dad but to use his dad's memory to make political points with his like-minded liberals and leftists. Fair? Sure. Classy? No.

That's pretty funny. It reminds me of the old joke about the Russian media putting a 180 spin on the Olympic Hockey final results (they lost to the USA team). According to the joke the Russians reported it like this: "In today's hockey final Russia were runners up, while the Americans came second to last".

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