Ronald Reagan statue unveiled in Capitol Rotunda

Source: AP

A blue cloth cover was pulled from the seven-foot statue of the 40th president Wednesday as Mrs. Reagan, 87, and a crowd packed with Reagan era-policymakers, looked on in the Capitol's Rotunda. The statue cast Reagan flashing his legendary ah-shucks grin, the expression that transformed his face whenever he was ready to deliver the punchline of a joke.



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Why not a statue of Herbert Hoover?

That'd make sense historically, be fair, etc.

Reagan's apotheosis in particular makes me kind of stabby, though. Ugh.

but when I went to Disneyworld in 1974, Nixon was included in the hall of presidents and I thought (and still think) that it was completely inappropriate at the same time it was appropriate. The same for bush, bush, and reagan. (I'm too tired to capitalize or make sense right now.)

These things need to be done in order.

The officials who caused this edifice to be erected know perfectly well that their hero is a divisive figure, hated by half of the population as much as he was adored by the other half. This came up before when they renamed Washington National Airport after their favorite bumbling idiot, over the vocal and voluble protests of the vast majority of the populations served by Washington National, most of whom are Democrats. Yet they bulldozed it through anyway, asserting that Washington National was a national treasure and therefore they could assert jurisdiction over it despite the protests of the people who owned, operated, supported, and used it.

This constant partisan effort on the part of Repukes to rewrite history in order to deify their warped fucktard and force him down the gagging throats of a resisting population deserves nothing but contempt and resistance. They want to misappropriate public monies and land to worship their evil god? Fine, then they can spend a few more bucks cleaning obscene graffiti off of him and explaining to the press why it is that, out of all of the monuments in DC, theirs is the only one that has to be guarded around the clock to keep it from being defaced.

Still deifying Ronny in D.C. after all the years.

He's from Tampico, Illinois.

Just don't let him be a Californian. We already have Nixon to answer for.

Idi Amin and Pinochet are feeling left out!

Like when Ashcroft covered the Statue of Justice because he thought that was obscene?

However, Reagan was more devoted to the destruction of the middle class and deregulation was one of his many tools. According to Thom Hartmann Reagan did his best to price the middle class out of the California college system.

Excuse me while I puke

It's BEDTIME baby! :P

...and I say "Bullshit! Countless individuals ended the Cold War. Like my dad, who was serving on a Navy ship off the coast of Korea the year Reagan was making 'Bedtime for Bonzo.'"

Usually shuts them up...

If any one person can be credited with THE major contribution in ending the cold war it is the now almost forgoten Gorbachev.

Gorbachev saw the folly of continuing the Cold War, so he peacefully dismantled the Soviet Union. And Reagan just happened to be there to grab the accolades of all his neo-con supporters.

Bonzo would have been proud...

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Or anything about Iran/Contra?

Like an action figure, you know.

Screw for screwing the poor
Ray-gun with holster
Teleprompter with optional Peggy Noonan figure (evil disposition not to scale)
Cabal of Nefarious Advisers Playset
Marionnette strings
Iran-Contra Earmuffs

So he never had to see the word "aids" or be able to speak it.
Republican Hero worship, it makes me wanna :puke:

Ronald Wilson Reagan was a colossal piece of shit.
Build a statue out of THAT.

CA has no money, but better approve and spend money for a statue, not to mention over something like a billion dollars to hold that special measures vote on May 19.

Keeping Hal Roach Studios safe from the Axis powers.

in the Armed Services than Bill Clinton or Barack Obama combined. Come to think of it so does the current Queen of England and the current Pope.

There they go putting their religious symbols on public land again.

and the four nuns who were murdered and raped by what Reagan called "freedom fighters" - the Contras who were nothing more than murderers for corporations.

Reagan was a loathsome man. He broke the power of unions. He was a treasonous bastard who violated the constitution in defiance of Congress' demand to stop funding Central American terrorists.

He looooved the Taliban and turned away as they destroyed the lives of females.

It's repulsive to hear Obama laud Reagan. I know Obama does this because he's a politician first, last and always, but, honestly, it is a lie to claim that Reagan brought this nation together.

Reagan began the destruction that we now have to overcome.

another good addition.

Then Nancy would have a threesome with them.

Reagan was such a piece of shit. We popped a bottle of champagne to celebrate when that fucker finally croaked. I'll have to avoid going into Statuary Hall next time I am at the Capitol to avoid choking on the stench.

but then I realized that they decided to wait until Bush43 gets his statue for that to happen ...

of one in Grosvenor Square London opposite the American Embassy.

What is the current obsession with statue of Reagan. I assume they're not telephone boxes as in "dis dat you ?"

Oh yeah; GACK!!!!!!!!!!!

that would have probably prevented all of this sanctimony. If Cheney isn't prosecuted and executed, Big Media will make him into a saint 20 years from now too.

take a piss on it!!!

Can we please have a moratorium on Reagan tributes?

Jesus, someone's going to propose a pyramid next, just watch.

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Congress should return the income tax rates to what they were during his administration.