My LTTE about Rep. McHenry's attempt to fellate Reagan on the $50

[jmowreader]

Yesterday's Fayetteville Observer carries a piece about Representative Patrick Henry (Repuke of North Carolina) and his attempt to put Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill in place of Ulysses S. Grant. Says dumbass, Reagan consistently outpolls Grant in surveys of presidential scholars, so we should deify Reagan on our currency.

I just ginned-up a letter to the editor on this. Here it is:

Representative Patrick McHenry’s attempt to put Ronald Reagan on the $50 in place of Ulysses S. Grant should make anyone groan. Haven’t we done enough to honor Ronald Reagan? It’s not like he doesn’t have one of Washington, DC’s two airports, an aircraft carrier, and a series of roads, schools and bridges all across America.

The sad part about all this is, Ronald Reagan was the most corrupt president of the 20th Century. Not even Nixon was this bad. One hundred thirty-eight Reagan administration officials were convicted, indicted or investigated for official misconduct or criminal violations. Twenty-one of Reagan’s staffers had been convicted, compared to Nixon’s eight and Clinton’s one.

And what a record Reagan has! He turned a $1 trillion national debt into a $3 trillion national debt. He raised taxes four times—once in 1982 (the Tax Equity and Fiscal Responsibility Act, the biggest tax hike in history), again in 1983, a third time in 1984 and finally in 1986. He increased the size of the government by 61,000 bureaucrats. He armed Iran. He armed the Contra rebels in violation of a law he signed himself. He decided to billet the Marines and sailors serving in Lebanon in a building in Beirut against the better judgment of his military advisors, which made it easier for one man to kill 241 of them. And in September 1988, Reagan ran the United States Treasury completely out of money before the end of the year for the first time in history.

Rather than honoring Reagan, we should posthumously impeach him for malfeasance. It’s the right thing to do.

[Bolo Boffin]

1. How about a stamp? Would these folks be happy with a 3 cent stamp?

Then they could lick Reagan's ass all they want, 3 cents a pop.

[NewJeffCT]

2. How about a wooden nickel

or a 2 cent piece?

[jmowreader]

4. There's already a Reagan stamp

They could put Ronnie on International Postage stamps...at least he'd be better than putting Chester Nimitz on them. I wonder how many THOUSANDS of letters addressed to Japan went out with Nimitz stamps on them.

[FSogol]

3. How about naming a Ketchup after him? Or a sewage grinding plant?

Or a deliberating disease? Or a new type of wart, or a .....