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By the architect of modern gop's anti-tax pledge norquist and argued reagan would embrace gop's points telling "talking points memo, "he didn't have a republican house committed to not raising taxes as president and had a pre-reagan senate. this is the republican party that reagan created. that he envisioned." let's turn to joan walsh, editor at large for salon.com. welcome to the show, joan. >> thanks, michael. >> is grover norquist engaging in some revisionist history here, joan, that really misses the point of what we clearly saw reagan doing? >> well, yeah, of course he is. of course he wa...

By the character of modern gop's anti-tax pledge norquist and argued reagan would embrace gop's points telling "talking points memo, "he didn't have a republican house committed to not raising taxes as president and had a pre-reagan senate. this is the republican party that reagan created. that he envisioned." let's turn to joan walsh, editor at large for salon.com. welcome to the show, joan. >> thanks, michael. >> is grover norquist engaging in some revisionist history here, joan, that really misses the point of what we clearly saw reagan doing? >> well, yeah, of course he is. of course he wa...

Today's republican party or room for his successor, president george herbert walker bush. president bush's son, former florida governor jeb bush, told a group of journalists today, "ronald reagan would have based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some tree of common ground, as would my dad, they would have had a hard time if you define the republican party, and i don't say as having an orthodoxy that doesn't allow for disagreement. doesn't allow for finding some common ground." bush went on to say, "back to my dad's time or ronald reagan's time, they got a lot of stuff done with ...