<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Two good political watchers (Whisky Bar & Ruy <FONT size=3>Teixeira) argue that there has (as yet) been no Reagan bounce. And it is unlikely to materialize. All the nostalgia for the good old days of the 1980s (however false such ideas may be) simply brings into relief the fact that we are now living in dark times. The mythic Reagan of media-created memory (all sunny and optimistic) reminds us of how Bush II is running on the politics of fear.</FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>See <A href="http://billmon.org/">http://billmon.org/</A>  and </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial><A href="http://www.emergingdemocraticmajorityweblog.com/donkeyrising/archives/000517.php">http://www.emergingdemocraticmajorityweblog.com/donkeyrising/archives/000517.php</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>