Bullypulpit
Senior Member
href=http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-names11jun11,1,5871051,print.story?coll=la-headlines-nation>Most proposals to put his name and image on more national symbols will meet serious opposition.
<blockquote>By Richard Simon
Times Staff Writer
June 11, 2004
WASHINGTON As the nation eulogizes former President Reagan, proposals are multiplying to honor his name by putting it on important American institutions and symbols, including the Pentagon and the $10 bill.
But for all the kind words that have been said about the 40th president, his eight years in office were sufficiently tumultuous and are sufficiently fresh in his critics' memories that most proposals will encounter serious opposition.
"He was a very impressive guy," said Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), "but he was controversial."
Reagan's name already can be found on an airport, a freeway, an aircraft carrier, hospitals, schools, office buildings, post offices and even a New Hampshire mountain. But the process of naming things after Reagan has revived disputes that flared around him when he was president.</blockquote>
You know, little things like the Iran-Contra scandal, a trumped up invasion of Grenada, creating the monster we all know as Saddam Hussein, I could go on, but what's the point? Most everyone here is lost in their own ideologically pure conservative vision of the world, and there is no room for dissenting views. Ah well..s'beit
<blockquote>By Richard Simon
Times Staff Writer
June 11, 2004
WASHINGTON As the nation eulogizes former President Reagan, proposals are multiplying to honor his name by putting it on important American institutions and symbols, including the Pentagon and the $10 bill.
But for all the kind words that have been said about the 40th president, his eight years in office were sufficiently tumultuous and are sufficiently fresh in his critics' memories that most proposals will encounter serious opposition.
"He was a very impressive guy," said Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), "but he was controversial."
Reagan's name already can be found on an airport, a freeway, an aircraft carrier, hospitals, schools, office buildings, post offices and even a New Hampshire mountain. But the process of naming things after Reagan has revived disputes that flared around him when he was president.</blockquote>
You know, little things like the Iran-Contra scandal, a trumped up invasion of Grenada, creating the monster we all know as Saddam Hussein, I could go on, but what's the point? Most everyone here is lost in their own ideologically pure conservative vision of the world, and there is no room for dissenting views. Ah well..s'beit
