Thursday, August 09, 2007

Monuments to Conservative Ideology

The Ronald Reagan Memorial Bridge: Renaming America a Disaster at a Time

Peter Smith on Huffington Post

For a while there, back when the Republicans held the White House and both houses of Congress, they were naming things after Ronald Reagan everywhere. Airports. Aircraft carriers. Federal buildings. There was even talk of replacing Roosevelt with Reagan on the dime.

Now, with the national landscape cratered with reminders of the apocalypse their public policy has wrought since 1980, maybe it's time to revisit the concept and start naming American disasters after the people and policies that caused them.

Read the rest of a great idea here.

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