That may at first seem a great irony, but the balance of left/right politics was very different then. That complaint could as much be a congressional one. I would respect President Regan most for his role in international politics.

The Republicans in the House and Senate of today have little of Reagan's backbone and have had little backbone, as a group, since Gingrich. They are cowed by the various pressures they face from their staff, from the media, and with their ideas of their constituency.