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September 19, 2005

Reaganmas Present to the Nation

Congressman John Kline has proposed putting Reagan on the $50 bill.

It probably says something about my personal financial habits that I had to Google who was on the $50 today, but I digress.

Ronald Reagan has an airport, an aircraft carrier and buildings around the nation named for him, but his admirers aren't through. As the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the Reagan Revolution approaches, Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., is proposing legislation to put the late president on the $50 bill.

"Not all of America uses Ronald Reagan airport, but all of America uses our currency," Kline said. "We have used currency to commemorate great leaders in our past. It seemed to me this was a good way to do it."

Naturally, the local DFL contingent - they of the "Don't Park the Bus" bent - are ironically, comically tone-deaf:
But Rep. Jim Oberstar, D.-Minn., calls Kline's proposal "a fatuous idea."

"We could, as I proposed during the debate about adding 'Reagan' to Washington National Airport, name the unnamed Bureau of the Public Debt for Ronald Reagan," Oberstar said, because Reagan did more to expand the national debt than any previous president.

No, Representative Oberstar: "fatuous" would be more like this:
Memorializing Reagan has been a largely partisan issue, and Minnesota -- the only state Reagan never carried -- is no exception. State Senate DFLers amended the language of a Ronald Reagan Day resolution in February, adding "not paralleled until the Clinton presidency" to the resolution's praise for "unprecedented economic expansion" under Reagan.
Do you non-Minnesotans ever wonder why Minnesota Republicans are so short-tempered and crabby?

It's like having Felix Unger for a roommate.

Posted by Mitch at September 19, 2005 03:18 AM | TrackBack
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