The death ritual is over? Good
This idea is on the money
By Grover Norquist
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the greatest American president of the 20th century.
[P6: Please pass whatever it is you're smoking. Not to me, I NEVER get THAT wasted.]
…Is it too soon to judge Reagan's legacy? [P6: No] He left office 15 years ago and public life 10 years ago with his 1994 letter announcing he suffered from Alzheimer's. The Berlin Wall is not coming back. The Soviet empire is not coming back. America is the richest and most powerful nation on Earth. "Malaise" is not coming back.
There is a growing consensus in Congress that Reagan should be on the $10 bill, but is it too soon to act? [P6: How about respecting his widow's wishes? But this IS Norquist.] Franklin Roosevelt was put on the dime within a year of his death, John Kennedy on the 50-cent piece within a year of his death, and Dwight Eisenhower, who died in 1969, was placed on the dollar coin in 1970.
Are there too many things named after Reagan? Today there are 62: Ronald Reagan (news - web sites) Washington National Airport, Mount Reagan in New Hampshire. The USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier and government buildings and roads. Too many? There are more than 600 memorials named after John F. Kennedy and more than 800 for Martin Luther King Jr. [P6; Two reasons for that: we've had time to build them, and they didn't suck]
When we honor President Ronald Wilson Reagan we honor the best America is and the best America can become.
