NO WONDER THE RIGHT HATED HIM... (via Bryan Francouer):

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: January 6, 1983 (History Channel)

On this day in 1983, President Ronald Reagan gave the green light to one of his pet proposals, a gas tax hike designed to raise funds for the nation's roads and bridges. That the bill made it to the Oval Office was something of a minor miracle, as the nationÝs legislators spent a good part of the fall embroiled in a nasty partisan debate over the relative merits of the tax hike.