Politburo Mulls Airbrushing Reagan
Barbara Hollingsworth, Washington Examiner:
At Wednesday’s Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board meeting, chairman H.R. Crawford – a former District Council member and Marion Barry confidante – told fellow Board members that he has heard talk on Capitol Hill about yanking former President Ronald Reagan’s name off the local airport and returning it to its previous generic moniker: National Airport.
“It was just a discussion. We’re not aware of anything specific,” MWAA spokeswoman Tara Hamilton later told The Examiner.
The right-wing nutcases keep saying we’ve been saddled with a socialist government. But I dunno, that’s more Soviet.
The Memeorandum aggregator seems worried. The above Sovietism is meme’d along with the following about socialists and socialism:
Apt-monikered lefty blogger Crooks and Liars approvingly channels a Senate socialist who thinks, with Franken on board, the time is right to brush aside the kulaks and other reactionary elements, and advance the socialist agenda.
The White House blog exults about the triumphs of social engineering through energy policy. It’s got a quaint Soviet Realist, five-year planny kind of feel to it.
Meanwhile, Jammie Wearing Fool suggests the Dems quit pussyfooting around and just name it after Obama. Red State: “But citizen, it has always been known as Obama National Airport.”
G’day Instapundit, etal, always good to see you. You know about Obama’s Whiskey Tango Foxtrot strategy, right? That’s the one where commanders in the field say, “We need more troops,” and POTUS says “WTF?” … We’re also mulling whether the time is right to Whack Now, plus Rule Of Law By Military Coup. And please feel free to browse around Crittenden’s Right-Wing Warmonger Bookshop and General Store.
Topics: commies, moronocy, pols
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:05 am on Friday, July 3, 2009
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July 3rd, 2009 at 9:22 am
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July 3rd, 2009 at 9:53 am
I am a retired airline pilot, and it always amused me how upset the tower was when you called them “Reagan tower” as you should. No doubt a result of the controller firings. So of course I did so at every opportunity, even pointing out that my airline required the use of the correct name for clarity and safety. Heh!
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:14 am
It was the custom of pharaohs, after all, to chisel away any image or mention of their rivals and predecessors. I’ve been noticing that same ancient impulse at work ever since Obama got elected.
July 3rd, 2009 at 11:39 am
Wasn’t the Soviet practice to airbrush “improper” persons from photos of the people on the reviewing stand atop the Kremlin during Soviet ’shows-of-force parades’ so widely derided as history denying… even amongst the European “intelligentsia,” so widely derided that even the Obamabots should realize you can’t re-write history unless you kill everyone who was actually there… and especially in this day, will come off as trying to Thug Life their vision of Reality?
Changing the DC airport’s name will come off as nothing but a churlish, juvenile move.
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Certainly the Chicoms used airbrushing that way, TC. No doubt they learned the trick from the Soviets.
And one might say that Obama and his cronies have picked up on the technique, after that lousy Photoshopping of Air Farce One over New York. Clearly, they’re trying to rewrite history in their favor, so Obama has taken more than one page from the USSR’s handbook on progressing towards totalitarianism.
July 3rd, 2009 at 12:11 pm
PS: I should note, Obama and his cronies are pretty clumsy about it. Maybe they should have read the adult version of the handbook, and not the comic book edition.
July 3rd, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Actually, I would have no problem with removing Reagan’s name from the airport, if it were part of a package deal that included banning naming government buildings for politicians until a safe period, like a century, had passed since their death.
July 3rd, 2009 at 2:29 pm
Building monuments to politicians is about the worst thing we can do. They are egotists to begin with, flattering their vanity can only make them more destructive to the commonweal.
Further, there is no reason to devote ever scarcer public funds to the marketing of partisan heroes. I know that many Republicans hold Reagan to be a hero, but principle is more important. If we can name things after Reagan, what is to stop them from naming things after Jimmy Carter.
My proposal would require the government to not name things, or activities after former office holders, for at least 100 years after their death, with the sole exception of Medal of Honor awardees.
July 3rd, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Excellent suggestion, Robert. I wish it would hold true. Just contemplate how many schools in the US in ten years will be called Barack Obama Middle School.
July 3rd, 2009 at 4:32 pm
So, Obama really thinks he can create job growth by artificially raising the cost of energy and subsidizing less efficient sources? Seriously?
You know what’s sad? McCain was hammered for admitting that he was no expert in economic matters, but he’s an Adam f’ing Smith in comparison to Obama.
July 4th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Robert,
Sadly, vis-a-vis Jimmy carter, you are too late:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter_(SSN-23)
I nearly puked when they named such a marvelous piece of engineering after such a scuzzball of a human being. This country will spend generations trying to wash away the stain of the Carter and Obama years, to no avail.