Pete and Repeat
I know I’ve mentioned it before, but in light of the passing of Ronald Reagan, that great communicator, that father of modern conservative politics, that champion of freedom (be the oppressed German or Iranian), things have gone from silly to downright ridiculous. According to CNN:
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist wants to rename the Pentagon the “Ronald Reagan National Defense Building.” Rep. Dana Rohrabacher wants to put Reagan’s face on the $20 bill, replacing Andrew Jackson. Sen. Mitch McConnell wants to put him on the $10, replacing Alexander Hamilton. Rep. Mark Souder wants to put Reagan on the dime. (source)
One day, I’ll live on the corner of Reagan 51st St. and Reagan 43rd Ave., I’ll get to make a living programming in RRASP.Net, and after work, I can drive my Ford Reagan XLT down Ronald Reagan Boulevard to the Ronald Reagan Memorial St. Pete Times Forum and watch the Stanley Cup™ winning Tampa Bay Lightning (in memory of The Gipper) play the Anaheim Mighty Gippers. And I can pay for the tickets with money printed with Ron’s great mug grinning back at me. On every single denomination.
Can we please, please, please not do this? PLEASE? Yes, he was quite possibly the most beloved president ever, but for the love of Thomas Jefferson, take a chill, people. You don’t see people running around slapping Bill Clinton’s name on everything…yet. I fear the day when that starts happening with a dread I cannot name. Put the man to his eternal rest, give the nation time to move on, and then start slipping in the Reagan tributes with the next revision of the Patriot Act - it seems nobody reads bills relating to national security anymore, so if you want to rename the Washington Monument the Ronald Reagan Giant Spike of Liberty, that’s probably a safe place to put it.
Jefe wrote:
Then there’s the aircraft carrier named after the elder President Bush that is under construction as we speak.
And also the current USS Ronald Reagan
Posted on 09-Jun-04 at 4:45 pm | Permalink
Kent wrote:
SO young, yet so angry. Can we have more kittens please? Much of that crap is ridiculous, but I think it might be neat to put his mug on some sort of currency. Maybe he could do what Sacagawea (sp?, I am too lazy to look it up? could not for the Golden Dollar.
Posted on 09-Jun-04 at 5:39 pm | Permalink
Addledone wrote:
Hey, I like the golden dollar. It kicked arse for tolls when I was in Houston. And it’s not that I’m totally opposed to Reagan’s appearance on currency - it’s that three different people are trying to get him on three different denominations. Perhaps they should have discussed it amongst themselves and made a decision before doing this?
Posted on 09-Jun-04 at 6:13 pm | Permalink
The One wrote:
What? You meant to tell me that the last-minute emergency federal holiday wasn’t good enough? They have to put Gipper’s face on my money now too? Why not just get him tattooed on Bush’s buttocks and get it over with?
PS: It is spelled Sacajawea.
Posted on 10-Jun-04 at 11:37 am | Permalink
Erky wrote:
Well, Sacajawea’s fiscal policy didn’t stand up to hindsight scrutiny so well either.
Posted on 10-Jun-04 at 12:13 pm | Permalink
kent wrote:
Thank you for the spelling help. I was a bit of a waste of time seeing as if I cared how to spell it I might have looked it up.
Posted on 10-Jun-04 at 3:43 pm | Permalink
Jefe wrote:
Ray Charles… dead.
Posted on 10-Jun-04 at 4:00 pm | Permalink
The One wrote:
Just trying to be helpful; got nothing better to do at work lately. Forward all your spelling and grammar questions to: gwenivere22@yahoo.com.
Ray Charles, really? Now that’s sad.
Posted on 10-Jun-04 at 4:14 pm | Permalink
The One wrote:
So…. How was California?
Posted on 14-Jun-04 at 2:37 pm | Permalink
Jefe wrote:
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Jefe wrote:
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Posted on 17-Jun-04 at 10:38 am | Permalink