You don't earn the moniker Teflon President as a result of taking the bull by the horns: you earn such by being disengaged, asleep at the switch and more than willing to let your subordinates take the fall. This clown treated the most important job on the planet like it was a 9-to-5 gig, and had a difficult time staying awake during both Cabinet and state meetings. His flawed foreign policies caused more crises than they solved, as figured in the Beirut Marine barracks disaster, the totally unnecessary attack on Grenada which underlined grave problems with U.S. military deployment capabilities despite Reagan's overspending trillions of dollars on national defense, the Gander disaster, which was treated by Reagan as a mere accident (Why were our troops being transported on a Puerto Rican charter plane instead of a military transport?), the totally unmerited bombing of Libya in order to get Khadaffi, which failed to hit its target, the USS Vincennes incident, where an American warship blew a commercial jetliner out of the sky, etc. Reagan's solution to the economic crisis of the early 1980s was the old Conservative mantra, i.e., cut taxes, thereby tripling the Federal debt, which took 200 prior years to accumulate, during his term of office. This contribution to the debt still hasn't been paid off 16 years after Bozo left office, and the cost to the taxpayers to service that debt amount has run into the trillions of dollars. Furthermore, the so-called recovery was particularly narrow, in that only a few economic sectors experienced significant growth (defense contractors, real estate speculation, junk bonds, hostile takeovers) while entire industries that were struggling went down the toilet altogether. It wasn't surprising that in 1987 when the stock market had its greatest crash since 1929 and the bubble burst in the U.S. economy, there weren't sufficient supporting structures in place to keep the country fiscally afloat. Reagan's stewardship of the economy relied exclusively on quarterly profits and shortchanged strategic, long-term planning, and the result was a persistent recession caused by gross mismanagement of resources during The Crapper's, er, The Gipper's tenure. The most salient aspect of this dildo's ineffectiveness in the face of peril was that dreadful Iran-Contra scandal, an insult to the American way of life that made the fabricated and shallow scandals of the Clinton years look like the insignificant nonsense they actually were. With Ollie North running clandestine operations in the basement of the White House, thereby defrauding the taxpayers to the tune of $150 billion, knowingly defying Congress and breaking the law, arming a bona fide enemy for the sake of fighting Communism in Central America, Reagan's inattentiveness caused not only a major geoplitical crisis and a crisis regarding the workings of our government, but a crisis of accountability and the Administration's credibility also ensued. Again, Reagan's hands off style caused crises of a major scale, and the leadership he displayed in the wake was evident: he cut and ran in his typical cowardly fashion. Interesting that no one went to jail as a result of this, despite the fact that North, Poindexter, Secor, Weinberger, et. al should still be breaking rocks in the prison yard to this present day. And isn't it interesting that this twerp made a concerted effort to scare the American public into believing that the leftists there were out to topple Our Values, Freedom and Way of Life (turns out, he was successful since Americans are gullible hicks, dopes and clods), yet despite the passage of time, there's been no spread of Communism in Central America, no threat to our nation from those quarters in the past 17 years? Rectum went on TV with these maps showing that if we didn't destroy the leftists immediately, they'd be in Texas within no time at all. Well, as the old Douchebag is taking his dirt nap it doesn't appear that they're presently singing the Internationale in Houston. Finally, when the greatest threat to public health since the Great Plagues appeared early in Douche's, er, Dutch's tenure, the Great Fornicator, er, Communicator turned a deaf ear and blind eye to the crisis. It wasn't until four months before this doddering, senile idiot left office that he finally got around to mentioning something in public about AIDS. Perhaps if the Rectum had shown some leadership in this regard early on, had met the crisis vigorously, the dread disease might have been contained to a certain extent. Ronald Reagan as Crisis Manager? What a joke. More like Conservative Blowhard and Shill for General Electric.