I had my whole cabinet over to the residence for dinner, talked about what we were gonna do, how we were gonna do it. It was kind of the last hurrah before we dropped the bomb and I stood up and I pulled out a picture of Ronald Reagan and I said “You know, this may seem a bit melodramatic but 30 years ago, Ronald Reagan… had one of the most defining moments of his political career, not just his Presidency, when he fired the Air Traffic Controllers.” And I said “To me, that moment was more important, not just for labor relations or the federal budget, that was the first crack in the Berlin Wall and the fall of Communism because from that point forward the Soviets and the Communists knew that Ronald Reagan wasn’t a pushover.
Governor Scott Walker’s liberal interpretation of history.
I didn’t know he was a qualified historian, but I am intrigued by his statement that Regan’s union busting was the real reason for the fall of the Berlin wall. Perhaps Walker’s own union busting can defeat the Taliban? Or in an act of equal grandiosity, bring Osama Bin Laden to justice? You just know that he fancies himself a true statesman.
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