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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/14/opinion/the-gipper-and-the-deep-blue-sea.html?_r=0<snip>
Of all the more than 3,000 landmarks named for President Ronald Reagan from scores of schools and highways to an aircraft carrier and a mountain nothing comes close to this: designating 3.4 million square nautical miles of ocean as the biggest, wettest and most ambitious Reagan memorial yet imagined.
House Republicans have taken committee action approving floor debate on just such an expanse of The Deep the Ronald Wilson Reagan Exclusive Economic Zone, a sovereignty-protected resources and development area bigger than that of the 50 states land mass. It encompasses all ocean areas up to 200 nautical miles out from the nations 13,000 miles of coastline. The zone already exists under a directive President Reagan signed in 1983.
We dont live in the United States of Coolidge, or fly through the Warren G. Harding airspace, Representative Alan Lowenthal, an exasperated Democrat, noted in committee debate in July. Why should we steam or sail on the Reagan ocean? An impassioned Republican, Representative Tom McClintock, shot back that President Obama is getting credit for one-sixth of the economy under Obamacare. (Such is Congressional debate on the rare day it happens.)
Representative Darrell Issas proposal to dub the rolling seas with the Reagan name might offer some consolation for Reagan loyalists who havent forgotten the slight suffered 17 years ago when more than 700 historians and scholars ranked Mr. Reagan merely 25th among the first 40 presidents in the Presidential Greatness Index.
In response, Grover Norquist, the tax-cutting zealot who seems to exercise nearly total power over conservative Republicans, created the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project, dedicated to sponsoring separate memorials in each of the 50 states and 3,140 counties of the nation. When National Airport outside Washington was renamed for Ronald Reagan, Mr. Norquist declared that Mr. Reagan deserves a monument like the Jefferson or the F.D.R. or the Colossus at Rhodes! The very idea of a vast Reagan ocean (even if its deep-sixed by the Senate Democrats) seems to be on that scale
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It was ReTHUGs who dubbed it Obamacare in their attempt to denigrate the law - poor fucking stupid ReTHUGs - this is more madness.
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)Then we can just keep pointing out that all those good jobs were sent floating away across the Reagan Ocean.
malaise
(269,182 posts)I still say no fucking way will this ever pass.
Their Reagan is a cartoon character - ReTHUGs are clueless.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)Response to Jackpine Radical (Reply #1)
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gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)in Tacoma, WA named after him but the city council was too chicken to do it!
malaise
(269,182 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)and Drainage Field on our rural property. I named it when we put it in in 2001.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)too bed you can't get a large sign so people can see it then take a picture of it and put it on facebook or something so it goes viral
Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)that's a really good idea.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,044 posts)I don't like their stupid idea. However, it is true that Republicans put the economy deep under water starting with Reagan deficits.
Notice how, despite Republican rhetoric (lies), Reagan and Bush and Bush grew spending more than Clinton and Obama:
malaise
(269,182 posts)sabotage