« BACK  |  PRINT

RS

MEMBER DIARY

Petty Democrats want to remove Reagan’s name from airport

'But citizen, it has always been known as Obama National Airport'

By: Josh Painter (Diary)  |  July 2nd, 2009 at 06:31 PM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

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

Tags: , , ,

COMMENTS

POSTING RULES  |  LOGIN TO COMMENT  |  REGISTER TODAY
  • Lammo

    Maybe that will wake up the slumbering masses and finally get them mad as you know where.

    • Doc Holliday

      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.

      • Flagstaff

        That would be nice. Also would be a change we could live with.

  • http://www.RedState.com/ETCartman Kenny Solomon

    …..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 !

  • muffin

    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.

  • http://www.obandcompany.com daezy

    … for heaven’s sake!

  • nohone2

    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.

  • izoneguy

    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

    • jarrod21

      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.

      • swami7774

        Make my day.

      • swami7774

        Make my day.

      • http://www.scottbomb.com scottbomb

        But I always take pride in the “President George Bush Turnpike” (although I detest toll roads).

        • DONTREADONME
        • jarrod21

          Is it 43 or 41?

          • http://www.scottbomb.com scottbomb

            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.

      • izoneguy

        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.

    • olsmithie

      is just about the scariest mental picture I can possibly imagine.

      Reagan earned his honors. Leave ‘em alone.

      Regards

  • IJB

    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…

  • naraht

    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.

    • jddavid

      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?

      • naraht

        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

  • http://cannedjam.com cannedjam

    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?

    • rmullins

      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.

      • http://cannedjam.com cannedjam

        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.

    • Achance

      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.

      • http://cannedjam.com cannedjam

        it’s the same reason living people can’t be on a postage stamp, or currency.

  • Deskpilot

    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

  • mbecker908

    The Dr. George Tiller Memorial Airport.

    • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

      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

      • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

        t

      • DONTREADONME
  • http://www.conservative-compendium.com BrianGarst

    What can we start looking to remove FDR’s name from?

  • Achance

    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.

  • LibRick

    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.

    .

    • http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth
      • LibRick

        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.