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| Now they want Reagan's name off the airport |
| 2009-07-03 |
| At Wednesday’s Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board meeting, chairman H.R. Crawford – a former District Council member and Marion Barry confidante – told fellow Board members that he has heard talk on Capitol Hill about yanking former President Ronald Reagan’s name off the local airport and returning it to its previous generic moniker: National Airport. “It was just a discussion. We’re not aware of anything specific,” MWAA spokeswoman Tara Hamilton later told The Examiner. It’s clear that the current crop of congressional leaders want no part of Reagan’s grand conservative vision for America, but erasing all trace of his memory from an airport that’s already been named in his honor is about as petty as you can get. Why would anybody on Capitol Hill even consider such a patently partisan move, which is guaranteed to make Democrats look small and ridiculous? Do they so fear the inevitable comparisons between the Great Communicator and his teleprompted successor in the White House? |
| Posted by:Beavis |
| #9 Seriously. I don't know if I would want my name to still be on anything around DC these days. As depression hell continues to develop, people will come to hate that place and the dumbest collection of politicians ever seen in DC.... |
| Posted by: Unatle Unavimp4834 2009-07-03 22:36 |
| #8 "National Airport" Hmmm. Maybe they'll add a word to the full name to bring it more into line with their thinking National 'Socialist' Airport Kewl! |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2009-07-03 21:17 |
| #7 ed, I would propose "the bitch set me up" airport |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2009-07-03 17:27 |
| #6 I read Marion Barry confidante and quit reading. Is this Marion "Cocaine" Barry or some other Marion Barry? The same Marion Barry that was potentate of Washington D.C. a few years ago. They try to remove Ronald Reagan's name from the airport and they are asking for a lot of trouble. Nothing like standing under a tree on top of a hill in an electrical storm. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-07-03 15:03 |
| #5 Stalin would be proud of them. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2009-07-03 13:49 |
| #4 To honor illustrious D.C. leaders of the recent past, Crack Pipe Airport has been mentioned. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-07-03 13:08 |
| #3 They are soo petty. |
| Posted by: newc 2009-07-03 12:26 |
| #2 "It was just a discussion. We're not aware of anything specific," MWAA spokeswoman Tara Hamilton later told The Examiner. .....but the unused Airport Code BHO did come up a few hundred times. Skyline Drive and the Wilson Bridge are also under consideration for renaming as are the city of Leesburg, VA and Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park in Eva, TN. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-07-03 12:13 |
| #1 Like the Egyptian Pharaohs did to their predecessors. Look how it turned out. Anonymity for most of them. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2009-07-03 09:49 |