Honoring The Father, The Son and the Senile One

Conservatives want Reagan to replace FDR on U.S. dimes

Goddamn it. I wish I could say I'm suprised by this new nonsense offense, but this kind of far-right tomfoolery has become very predictable. Replace Franklin Roosevelt with Reagan? The two men aren't even comparable! FDR led the United States through it two greatest crisis in the 20th Century, Ronald Reagan gave some good speeches, completey dropped the ball on domestic policy. Oh yeah, and he also WON THE COLD WAR WITHOUT FIRING A SHOT (and unnecessairly violated international law and human rights in the proccess), or something. The symbolism of replacing the political creator of the social safety net with the father of irresponsible corprate conservatism is truly ghastly. What is even worse is that the Republicans have already made so many taxpayer funded shrines to their partisan hero, already we have the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier and the Reagan Airport. Why don't these folks just stop wasting the money of average Americans (who their beloved leader screwed sideways) and just making pilgrmages to his hous and prostrate themselves before Nancy in the hopes of being granted the honor of giving the former President his daily sponge bath.

Ed Note: Normally, the B of P doesn't make fun of Reagan's terrible mental degeneration in the last few years as a result of alzheimers. That much. But the more the Republicans try to make Ronald Reagan the second coming of Christ, Washington, Lincoln and yes, FDR, the more severe this blog will get.