Reagan’s Washington: Can We Stop Now?

   Enduring!      U.S. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) supports former ...

With the dedication of the Capitol’s Ronald Reagan statue, our nation’s capital now celebrates our most beloved deceased president at National Airport,

Reagan Sign

a trade center,   http://johnsonmatel.com/2009/February/Wilson/Reagan_profile.jpg and the “Ronald Reagan Republican Center,” command post for

 

present Senate clinging to power efforts.

The nation as a whole remains under threat.  Mrs. Reagan was not just in town for shroud tugging.

“She hosted a big get-together at the Capitol Hilton that constituted the kickoff of The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation’s $100 million fundraising effort to update the Reagan museum and host a variety of events in two years during the Reagan centennial.“

In order to add to their already obscene piles ‘o cash:

” The Reagan Library Foundation’s assets totaled more than two hundred million dollars in 2007 (the most recent year available). In that year alone, the Reagan Foundation’s income topped fifty-four million dollars; in comparison, the federal budget that year for all twelve presidential libraries combined was seventy-eight million dollars.“

Reagan Rerun

Nancy‘s Back! 

Presumably refreshed by her late night seances with Commander In Chief and departed husband Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan made a triumphant return to Our Nation’s Capital Tuesday.

She saw Reagan immortalized in stone at the Capitol, watched President Obama sign a bill creating a Reagan Centennial Commission, and lunched with Michelle Obama.

A ‘joyful‘ Reagan knocks out California’s statue honoring Thomas Starr King, credited with keeping California from seceding during the Civil War, replacing it with a memorial to the man who wrecked everything.

The Sculptor’s Pre-Joy Work Elsewhere reagan-statue-covington-head.jpg

Reagan’s placement in the hallowed halls is owed to Representative Ken Calvert, previously best known for consorting with prostitutes and jailed lobbyists,  so scurvy that even conservative organ Human Events runs best-of hit pieces on him.

Ken draws inspiration from the Gipper, but struggles to articulate just how:

“”Madam Speaker, there are too many accomplishments for me to name here, but it is clear that President Reagan was a Californian, an American, and a Patriot.“

As a bitter few have repeatedly complained, previous presidential centennial commissions have had broadly representative boards  This entity will be a creature of the Reagan Foundation, which will hold the majority of seats.  We can look forward to the Regan Centennialists federalising whatever crackpot schemes the Reagan Library cares to put across.

Let’s hope for more detail on Nancy’s dinners and dresses, possibly cross-referenced with  day-by-day time-lines drawn from his diaries and letters to Nancy.

Nancy Reagan: She Sees Dead Presidents

Happy Days Ahead!  Photo Courtesy Ronald Reagan Library

Nancy Reagan speaks to Vanity Fair‘s beloved Reagan conduit Bob Colacello, and we learn she communes with the deceased former chief executive.

“I see Ronnie. At nighttime, if I wake up, I think Ronnie’s there, and I start to talk to him. It’s not important what I say. But the fact is, I do think he’s there. And I see him.“

But these apparitions are apparently but a foretaste of the glorious communion to come, when Nancy and Ronnie are somehow reunited in death.

‘Cause Billy Graham told her it was so!

“I said to him, ‘Just tell me if I’m going to be with Ronnie again. Just tell me that and I’ll be O.K.’ He said, ‘You are.’ And I said, ‘O.K.“

No word on if the aged evangelist’s thinks Nixon or the Jews will be coming along.

To A Higher, Better Place   hosl03_reagan

Korea: Legends Of The Fall

  Making Waves?   

Gone but not forgotten, former Korean President Roh Moo-hyun’s self-defenestration has already been reduced to trivia in America, withmembers of  MSNBC’s online beloved community invited to sort out his death details, multiple choice style!

MSNBC asks, “Are you smart?”

How much do you remember about the week in news? Take msnbc.com’s weekly quiz and find out what you can recall.

6. In South Korea, meanwhile, the nation was shocked when a former president, Roh Moo-hyun, disgraced in a corruption scandal, committed suicide. How did he end his life?

By throwing himself off a cliff in the mountains near his home
By shooting himself at his party’s headquarters
By asphyxiating himself in his car
By hanging himself

Bill Clinton’s Selfless Service To America Continues!

Friday In A Hall With George              A poster advertising a joint conversation by Presidents Clinton and Bush

 


Former President Bill Clinton’s joint appearance with his despised [ if not quite as much as before] successor has not gone unnoticed.

Times Online

Bill and George Show helps rehabilitate Bush

And:

Democratic Underground

Bill Clinton: A Disgraceful George W Bush Enabler

A thoughtful George W. Bush once said his successor “deserves my silence.” Would that his predecessor felt the same.