Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board chairman H.R. Crawford told the panel at its Wednesday meeting that he heard some congresscritters talking about removing President Ronald Reagan’s name from DC’s airport.
MWAA spokeswoman Tara Hamilton tried to minimize the fallout that is already hitting the ground inside the Beltway:
“It was just a discussion. We’re not aware of anything specific.”
Why does the Left always preface its defense of the indefensible with “It was just…?” “It was just about sex.” “It was just talk.” “It was just a fetus.”
We all know the seething hatred liberals still harbor for Reagan, twenty years after he left the White House and five years after his death. This, despite the fact that he rebuilt our nation’s military, gave Americans reason to feel good about their country’s future again and helped to help free millions of Eastern Europeans from communist oppression, all after the misery of the Carter years.
Can they be so partisan and petty to want to rewrite history after an airport had already been renamed in our 40th president’s honor?
I know, I know. Rhetorical question.
- JP
I hope they try it.
Lammo Thursday, July 2nd at 6:38PM EDT (link)Maybe that will wake up the slumbering masses and finally get them mad as you know where.
ACORN: Association of Criminals Obama Represented in the Nineties. (jupitersuite)
Don’t be so open minded that your brains fall out. (Fr. John Corapi, SOLT)
Crime never takes a holiday. (Dennis J. O’Shea, R.I.P.)
Unlawful is against the law. Illegal is a sick bird. (Ooold joke)
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read. (Groucho Marx)
I agree, I hope they try it
Doc Holliday Thursday, July 2nd at 6:43PM EDT (link)we could make a nice commercial on this. Remember, the left pretended to respect Reagan in order to compare him favorably to Bush. They did this because Reagan was gone, that is how they like Republicans, dead. If they try to do something like this, something that is the ultimate dishonor, we can crush them.*
* we can only crush them if we pull our collective heads out and use someone like the guy that made Reagan’s “Morning in America”. Basically we can only make use of this if we get rid of everyone in charge of promoting Repubs today and find someone with talent and a clue.
Molon Labe!
"Talent and a clue"
Flagstaff Thursday, July 2nd at 7:35PM EDT (link)That would be nice. Also would be a change we could live with.
Pluto, the Ninth Planet - Forever!
Now that I think about this......
Kenny Solomon Thursday, July 2nd at 7:02PM EDT (link)…..I’m kind of surprised they didn’t go for it on the first day of the 111th Session.
{ /end serious section. }
{ begin semi-snark }
Maybe President Getting-A-New-Quran-From-CAIR just makes the “change” by Exec. Order and he leaves it to Press Secretary Cranky Pants to break the news gently and in ‘a completely straightforward manner’ to everyone.
{ /end semi-snark }
{ begin dangerous snark }
The mind wanders……… Ooooh, I got it…..
The Barack Hussein Obama Flying Leap Into Shari’a Airport
DHS facilities include……
The Cynthia McKinney Electronic “Wide-Eyed” Strip-Search-Booth.
(Used for DHS Certified Domestic Terrorism Suspects Only)
Customer amenities…..
The Patrick Kennedy “Get Ready To Fly” Express Bar and The Ted Kennedy “Get REALLY Ready To Fly Pub.
The Mark Sanford “Business Trip” Lounge & Untraceable Phone Call Executive Suite.
{ /end dangerous snark }
I’ll stop now.
Cheers !
Of course you can have my guns……. Bullets first.
I didn’t say rounds, shells or magazines……
I said bullets first.
Press Secretary Cranky Pants
muffin Thursday, July 2nd at 7:15PM EDT (link)You made me laugh. I sure needed that. Had a good laugh yesterday when a friend called BHO “His Royal Hiney”
We need to laugh to keep from crying.
Thanks.
Maybe we should take out JFK from Lincoln Center
daezy Thursday, July 2nd at 8:06PM EDT (link)… for heaven’s sake!
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. ~ Thomas Jefferson
http://uslibertyjournal.blogspot.com/
Tells where their priorities are
nohone2 Thursday, July 2nd at 8:14PM EDT (link)Remove Reagan’s name from an air port. A man whodid all those things mentioned in the OP, and so much more.
Then we have an airport in PA. A symbol of a complete waste of tax payer money,an airport no one wants to use, an airport to nowhere. And they want to leave the name Murtha attached to it.
Ok, let's rename these as well:
izoneguy Thursday, July 2nd at 8:23PM EDT (link)The Navy named its newest and most fearsome submarine the USS Jimmy Carter, honoring a former submariner who became the 39th president of the United States.
Lyndon B. Johnson Freeway, an Interstate freeway in Texas
LBJ Elementary School in California
Franklin D. Roosevelt East River Drive
John F. Kennedy International Airport
John F. Kennedy Space Center
John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway
“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
I think we should leave LBJ freeway as it is
jarrod21 Thursday, July 2nd at 8:49PM EDT (link)Speaking as someone who drives on that gigantic ill-conceived cluster f every single day…it’s emblematic of the LBJ presidency as a whole.
Go ahead, Dems.
swami7774 Thursday, July 2nd at 9:17PM EDT (link)Make my day.
Go ahead, Dems.
swami7774 Thursday, July 2nd at 9:17PM EDT (link)Make my day.
Since I can't stand Johnson, I just call it "635".
scottbomb Thursday, July 2nd at 9:40PM EDT (link)But I always take pride in the “President George Bush Turnpike” (although I detest toll roads).
http://www.HowObamaGotElected.com
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948
I say we remove Woodrow Wilson from the bridge-nt
DONTREADONME Thursday, July 2nd at 9:45PM EDT (link)“The UN is right? you can’t be any more “un”; Than you are right now, the UN is undone, Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun, The threat is real, the Locust King has come, Don’t tell me the truth; I don’t like what they’ve done, Just give me ammo for the United Abominations”-Megadeth
I was always confused about the George Bush Turnpike
jarrod21 Friday, July 3rd at 2:35PM EDT (link)Is it 43 or 41?
I think it's 41
scottbomb Monday, July 6th at 2:30PM EDT (link)If I’m not mistaken, highways aren’t normally named after presidents currently in office (as 190 was built during his term). Also, the DOT would have probably followed the common nomenclature and included the “W.” to distinguish the highway as honoring the 43.
http://www.HowObamaGotElected.com
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948
I try to use the George Bush instead of the LBJ
izoneguy Thursday, July 2nd at 10:06PM EDT (link)I live in Plano so I hardly drive on LBJ any longer - thank god.
121 is now open from Coit to 35 and the speed limit is 70. Hardly any traffic. I would not want to drive on LBJ if you paid me.
“When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”
Thomas Jefferson
Jimma' Carter in command of a nuclear sub
olsmithie Thursday, July 2nd at 11:22PM EDT (link)is just about the scariest mental picture I can possibly imagine.
Reagan earned his honors. Leave ‘em alone.
Regards
My Guess Is That They'll Pull Republican Names Off *Everything*
IJB Thursday, July 2nd at 9:46PM EDT (link)Even stuff named after Lincoln.
But any McKinley, Taft, Coolidge, Eisenhower, Reagan or Bush, etc. stuff will all get the name change.
This is how the New Left works - they really believe they can rewrite history a la “1984″.
Believe me - this is just their first shot. It won’t be anything close to their last. There won’t be evidence that there were ever Republicans at all when they’re done, if they get their way…
Probably call it local option.
naraht Thursday, July 2nd at 9:50PM EDT (link)My guess is that the Democrats won’t change the name, they’ll just declare that the county that the Airport is in will get to decide. The Airport isn’t in DC, its across the river in Arlington County, which is arguably the most liberal county in the State of Virginia. (Not just that the County Board has been 5 Dem, 0 GOP for the last decade, but honestly the population as well)
Probably the closest equivalent to this I’ve seen is probably Cape Kennedy. The Federal Government in 1963 changed the name of not just the space center, but the town from Cape Canaveral to Cape Kennedy. Ten years later, the locals got the Federal Government to let them change the name of their city back.
naraht, bless you
jddavid Friday, July 3rd at 2:26AM EDT (link)Cape Canaveral was my favourite in 1960 i was insulted when them wise guys changed it to that whatcha-call-it name.
can they change name of airport near New York that was changed too to that whatcha-call-it name?
Correction...
naraht Friday, July 3rd at 1:36PM EDT (link)It wasn’t the town that got its name changed, it was the geographical name of the cape itself, which is federally controlled. (The Federal government could change Long Island (in New York) to Obama Island. It wouldn’t change the name of anything on Long Island though…
But if Congress lets the locals vote on what it would be, it’s back to Washington National Airport. (By locals, I think anything out to about 20-25 miles from Ronald Reagan National Airport.) I have no idea if there exists a circle around the airport that would be large enough to get a conservative Majority. By the time the circle gets big enough to include a significant number of Virginia Republicans, the circle has started including the Baltimore Suburbs.
Randy
ha that's ridiculous
cannedjam Thursday, July 2nd at 10:10PM EDT (link)Slightly off topic but here in NYC they just changed the name of the Triboro Bridge to the RFK bridge in the middle of a recession costing tax payers millions of dollars, despite the fact that if you now ask for directions to the RFK bridge people will have no idea what the heck you are talking about. Also the irony of naming a bridge after a Kennedy kind of tickles the funny bone.
I think that if changing the name of a major structure or building requires millions of dollars worth of map/street sign revisions it is not worth even considering it regardless of motivation.
On a side note, I think it should be illegal for any sitting politician to have their name put on a project, just ask anyone who has ever been to West Va. Sen Byrd anyone?
http://cannedjam.com
Some politians thought it would be better to hold off on naming something after themseles
Richard Mullins Thursday, July 2nd at 11:35PM EDT (link)I think about the Late John Connally who didn’t want Loop 410 to be named after him while he was living. He had some decency in that regard, unlike other politions.
For more on my views, go my wordpress site:
http://rpmullins.wordpress.com
For more on Happy jet airlines, go here:
http://happyjetairlines.wordpress.com
For a good dose of satire go here:
http://thesquash.wordpress.com
For more of I like to do a lot:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/42008626@N03
well considering...
cannedjam Friday, July 3rd at 12:29AM EDT (link)corporations pay millions of dollars for naming rights to stadiums I find it crazy that sitting politician can slap their name on huge public projects, further perpetuating their “brand”. I really see no difference. They are just doing a job, and that should be reward enough, well that and the crazy pension and life long benefits.
I don’t have a wing named for me at work because I meet all my deadlines.
http://cannedjam.com
Dead at least 50 years before anything could be named
Achance Friday, July 3rd at 4:54AM EDT (link)for them would be a good rule. Even before Sen. Stevens’ troubles, I found it inappropriate that they’d named the Anchorage Airport for him and right across from the airport is the train station that foolishly allows arriving tourists to be whisked through Anchorage before they can spend any money named for Alaska Railroad former chairman and former Governor Bill Sheffield, also still very much alive. Sheffield is notable for being Alaska’s only governor to face impeachment. He hadn’t gotten the memo that said the old “If you can’t give a contract to a friend, who can you give one to?” rule was no longer in effect.
In Vino Veritas
agreed
cannedjam Friday, July 3rd at 11:27AM EDT (link)it’s the same reason living people can’t be on a postage stamp, or currency.
http://cannedjam.com
Even winners need some direction
Deskpilot Thursday, July 2nd at 11:01PM EDT (link)Some pre-printed business cards with GPS coordinates to be handed out to anyone with an “Obama / Obama/Bidne bumper sticker:
{QUOTE}
Because there are too many
turns and not enough gas station
landmarks in NYC, use thes for your GPS
to get you to the Kennedy bridge:
41°22′24.25″N
70°27′13.15″W
Have a safe drive
{UNQUOTE}
It’ll take you to the Kennedy Bridge
http://www.satellite-sightseer.com/id/1671
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you can still read it in English, You’re Welcome
Deskpilot, AM(H)1 (AW), USN (Ret)
Join the RedState Strike Force
New name...
mbecker908 Friday, July 3rd at 12:18AM EDT (link)The Dr. George Tiller Memorial Airport.
A naming for Tiller is coming, but not for an airport
civil_truth Friday, July 3rd at 12:34AM EDT (link)When the death camps get established, they will be named:
The George Tiller Education Center
or perhaps
The George Tiller Retirement Home
or perhaps
The George Tiller Release* Center
*Literary reference
And Rightly So!
loose tags correction
civil_truth Friday, July 3rd at 12:35AM EDT (link)t
And Rightly So!
Good Lord, I hope I do not end up in any of those place-nt
DONTREADONME Friday, July 3rd at 12:37AM EDT (link)“The UN is right? you can’t be any more “un”; Than you are right now, the UN is undone, Another mushroom cloud, another smoking gun, The threat is real, the Locust King has come, Don’t tell me the truth; I don’t like what they’ve done, Just give me ammo for the United Abominations”-Megadeth
So...
BrianGarst Friday, July 3rd at 2:59AM EDT (link)What can we start looking to remove FDR’s name from?
Conservative Compendium
Trouble is, we don't have the votes to name or rename anything
Achance Friday, July 3rd at 5:06AM EDT (link)or to stop them from doing so. If they want to rename it the Che Guevara National Airport, they can - and I suspect a lot of them would like to do just that so they could “reach out” to their Cuban soul mates.
In Vino Veritas
The article you linked
LibRick Friday, July 3rd at 6:24AM EDT (link)is an opinion column and sources heresay — H.R. Crawford saying “he heard talk on Capital Hill.” No mention of congressmen or political party.
However, it wouldn’t surprise me if a name change was attempted. It’s only a matter of time until the names of all public facilities are sold/rented to the highest bidder.
.
Or (more likely) sold to the highest campaign contributor -nt-
civil_truth Friday, July 3rd at 10:27AM EDT (link)And Rightly So!
That's one likely scenario
LibRick Friday, July 3rd at 1:39PM EDT (link)but I think it’s more likely that states and municipalities, in their never ending quest for addition revenue, will start putting the names of public works, monuments, parks, etc., up to corporate sponsorship. — Example: Golden Gate bridge becomes the Golden Google bridge, with a big Google billboard across the spans. Doubt the toll would go down, though.