Republicans are doing anything to get Ronald Reagan’s name anywhere they can. As if displaying the name or face of a Republican who wasn’t hated by everybody might make them feel better about themselves. Or something. Who can explain a jackass like Grover Norquist, head of The Reagan Lunacy Legacy Foundation and his life quest to build a monument to Reagan in every county in America?
Unfortunately for the self-esteem of Mr. Norquist, the idea of a new Reagan Memorial in DC is out for now, since Ronald Reagan himself signed the law that requires a person be dead for 25 years before such a non-military commemorative work can be built. Then there’s the other law signed by George W. Bush recently that declared the Mall “complete”, and thus, no more memorials there period. Darn the luck.
Then there’s the idea of, ironically, putting Reagan’s mug on money!
Perhaps a new $3 bill to commemorate all of Reagan’s fine work in battling AIDS?
No, Norquist, with an assist from Senator Mitch McConnell, is working to replace Alexandar Hamilton on the $10 bill. That lame Revolutionary War hero, Founding Father, signer of the US Constitution, author of the Federalist Papers, founder of the US Marines, the US Navy and the US Naval Academy and — still more irony — the first Secretary of the Treasury (among many other contributions).
On Norquist’s very own website to promote this “most honorable cause”, you’ll find this in the archives:
Oh, yes, they will look petty, Mr. Norquist.
Though not nearly as petty and stupid as you looked last night when The Daily Show showed a clip of him of you on CNN informing us that “Hamilton was a nice guy and all, but he’s the only non-President featured on US currency.”
To which The Daily’s Lewis Black set the record straight:
This too shall pass.
Ben Frankiln? What did he ever do to fight Communism? Did he singlehandedly defeat Communism like Reagan? I think not.
Benjamin Franklin was a President, wasn’t he? I’m sure of it, But that wasn’t his whole name, was it?
President Pierce, right? Benjamin Franklin Pierce, right?
I know that!
> Perhaps a new $3 bill to commemorate all of Reagan’s fine work in battling AIDS?
You stole that from a stupid editorial.
As a numismatist, I’d love to see Reagan on money like a $10 bill – at least for a time. Maybe on the 2005 gold dollar! Reagan is in our hearts and therefore, no need for another memorial, although it would be fine. Let the people decide!
The people have decided. Every known poll that I’ve been able to find is strongly against adding replacing Hamilton with Reagan on the $10 bill.
Have a feeling, however, that won’t keep the yutzes from your side of the aisle to keep on trying.
Actually, there is already a monument to Reagan; it has just not been named. i suggest going to the debt clock and renaming it the Ronald Reagan Memorial Debt, because, as so many conservatives have suggested, we owe Reagan a debt we can never repay.
"we owe Reagan a debt we can never repay"
Brilliant! Doubled over laughing at that one. Kicking myself for not having come up with it on my own! 🙂
Brad,
thanks but thats an actual quote from Limbaugh. Of course he was referring to the benefits afforded the überwealthy due to the economic alchemy of Reaganomics. Naked greed is ugly.
Perhaps I need to start pitching a new book to my publisher: "The Accidental Irony of Rush Limbaugh" Amazing. (Of course, such a book would make no sense to the fake conservatives, since "irony" is not really a concept within their lexicon of understanding apparently).