Please Send Checks 
From Ronald Reagan’s Favorite Newspaper comes word of posthumous woes for the real estate legacy of the man he almost beat in 1976, Gerry Ford.
 Human Events reports that Ford’s former Arlington Virginia home, dead in the market since at least 2006, has had it’s sale price chopped again, to $800,000.
 And the economic meltdown haunts another storied Ford property, his Colorado ski home. Strenuous efforts to spread presidential pixie dust have come to naught. They’ve now knocked $2 million off the price, bringing it down to a low, low $13 million.
Where it lingers still.
Shape Up, Punks! 
Michael Reagan is taking a break from identyfying New Reagans in order to diss the post-catastropy Republican field.
” We are attaching ourselves to certain individuals, and as a result we have become a party of people and not a party of principles. We are Romney-ites, or Huckabee or Giuliani devotees, or McCain-ites, or supporters of Gov. Sarah Palin – when we need to be just plain Republicans…In the Balkans, warfare between factions was the status quo. As Republicans, if we continue to Balkanize and fail to unite, then fighting one another will be our party’s status quo.”
Stirring words from a man who upon his death compared Gerald Ford with Saddam Hussein.
Statuesque! Â 
Gerald Ford is another step closer to immortality in the United States Capitol, with the selection of the artist to create a larger than life statue.
Michigan is making room for No-Term Gerry by yanking the state’s statue of Zachary Chandler, a Civil War era Republican senator of real accomplishments.
The unfortunately named University of Missouri “Maneater” reports that professor J. Brett Grill will do the honors, although he seems a little shaky on his Ford facts. Gill says Ford “was one of our only unelected presidents,” but of course Ford was the only unelected president.
Whip Ignorance Now! 
Priced [Not] To Move   
Gerald Ford property speculator Kevin Hayes appears to be one of the silent victims of America’s unfolding banking tragedy, as Wall Street’s giant sucking sound diminishes the supply of marks willing to pay $15 million so they may walk the pool tiles where Gerry trod. 
Hayes has been trying to unload Ford’s former Colorado ski property since June. It’s only been shown to four qualified buyers, and he is trying increasingly desperate efforts to recapture that Ford Era magic.
With the materials at hand, Hayes paints a portrait of the great man in retirement, at work on his memoirs:
“Ford had a habit of rocking back and forth while writing, and so Hayes had the construction workers preserve a portion of the floor where the chair left grooves.”
Sadly, Ford published his autobiography in 1979, four years before the house was built.
Scratch This  
….The Howling Silence Here   
 Versus The Michigan Traffic Jams.
