Remembering history the way they wished it had been
“…you must know he’s one serious smoothie.“
The Star of South Africa has revisited an old favorite, the rebirth of Ronald Reagan in the form of a former guerrilla fighter with Communists in his cabinet.
The claim seems to boil down to President Jacob Zuma’s charm, breezy patter, and performance skills surpassing the dour immediate predecessor.
Remember, Remember The Eleventh Of September 
The George W. Bush Presidential Library has no building yet, but in our up to the minute virtual world they’ve begun filling the Internets with thoughtful reminders of the glorious Bush Era.
The Library website has an exciting 9-11 look-back slide-show, 
  featuring our hero on the phone,
videoconferencing, 
and 
 staring urgently.
All of our old friends are there:
Tony Blair,
   Hamid Karzai,
even good old Pervez Musharraf. 
And never forget: we invaded for the children! 
I’d forgotten former New York Governor 
  George Pataki was with Bush on the rubble mound
in NYPD drag, anticipating the butch look 
Bush would sport the next seven years.
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……although in practice the Nixon Library & Birthplace Foundation likes to break little children’s hearts.
The cool kids will also be hanging this Nixonian wisdom on the tree. Â 
A statue expelled from the United States Capitol by Reagan cultists has come home to California.
Thomas Starr King mobilized Californians in the Civil War, squashing secessionist moves in Southern California. His statue graced the halls of Congress for decades, until an especially sleazy Congressman spotted opportunity.
Each state gets two Capitol statues, and there has not been a lot of turnover. But Congress amended the rules in 2003, allowing states to change out existing statues for other local greats.
By some coincidence, the only flips so far have brought us Eisenhower, Ford and Reagan.
Hey Look! It’s Folks In 19th Century Garb!  
California has now dedicated Reagan’s victim in a Sacramento ceremony marred by the now apparently mandatory presence of reenactors.
Better would have been a tableau featuring Representative Ken Calvert, sponsor of the Reagan insertion. Calvert’s colorful past includes police finding him in his car in a pants down situation, Laffer Curve exposed, with a woman not his wife.
Ken Calvert & His Prey 
