North Carolina Congressman Wants To Be All About The Ronalds
A North Carolina congressman has announced new legislation that would put the smiling face of Ronald Reagan on the $50 bill, booting aside Ulysses S. Grant in favor of what Patrick McHenry calls "a modern-day statesman whose presidency transformed our nation's political and economic thinking." McHenry also points out that Reagan is much more popular than Grant in opinion polls! Democracy in action!
This is the third time that a legislator has tried to put Reagan's face on currency, and each incident has seen a bit of inflation; in 2004 people tried to bump FDR aside and get him on the dime, and in 2008 Grover Norquist made noise about getting him on the tenner. Both those campaigns failed, but given that the 100th anniversary of old Ronnie's birthday is about 11 months from now, we can probably expect a big push for this honor. Priorities!
For his part, McHenry's local Republican opponent said that while he was as much a fan of Reagan as the next guy looking to get GOP votes, he thought that McHenry should maybe focus on the important things, like the economy and, well, the economy. Of course, if things keep going the way they have been, a $50 bill will be a rare artifact anyway, and so most of us won't have to think about the silly legislative maneuvering designed to canonize Reagan! I mean, when was the last time you saw a Benjamin anyway?
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I kinda wish there was a 25 dollar bill
Bush is on the three dollar bill.
Why not put both of them on it?–Grant in the big portrait slot, looking blotto as usual, And a little Ronnie wandering around, lost, asking Nancy when Bonzo and Ron, Jr. are coming for dinner.
I'd rather we put someone like Frederick Douglass on a bill. "Transformed our nation's political… thinking" certainly. Reagan, meh.
Nothing too good for a guy who singlehandedly tore down the Berlin Wall and saved the Russians from…um…themselves. All this while transforming the U.S. economy and providing in-the-saddle photo ops.
We could bring back the old $10,000 bills and put Ronnie on them instead of Salmon P. Chase. I mean, who's going to say "it's all about the Salmons" anyway?
If anything, we should redesign the $1 bill so that as it becomes worn and crumpled, the visage of Regan is revealed. It would be a good way to memorialize his administration's part in flooding ghettos with crack cocaine.
Lil' Wayne predicted this.
"Transformed our nation's political and economic thinking" is a nice way of saying "kicked off a massive recession and helped polarize our nation by solidifying the role of religious wingnuts as a driving force of the conservative political movement."
Yeah, "transformed our nation's political and economic thinking" right into the ditch of insanity, paralysis, and ignorance we're currently "enjoying." But, hey, they all have a hard-on for Ronaldus Magnus (as the dipshits so Classically name him), so let's just put him on Mt. Rushmore and be done with it.
"The move comes as efforts are underway in California and Nevada to name mountains after Reagan and as planning gets underway for a yearlong observance in 2011 of the 100th anniversary of Reagan's birth."
Wasn't Ronaldus Magnus distantly related to Biggus Dickus?
More like Jellius Beanus.
I hate $50s because every time I use one, the cashier examines me and the bill for evidence of counterfeit. So fine, put the creep on the bill.
Aren't we thinking of getting rid of the penny, finally? Let's put Reagan on that.
North Carolina, after 145 years, still hasn't gotten over the war.
I'm fine with it, as long as Oliver North is peering over his shoulder.
Jesus H. Christ on a bicycle, will no one rid my state's Congresional delegation of this strutting nancy-boy? We have two barely-closeted gay Republican Congressmen, a Republican Congresswoman who is untreated manic-depressive and wears so much make-up she looks like a raccoon and another Republican Congresswoman who is a psychopathic Catholic wingnut. And a Blue Dog Democrat who couldn't complete a pass into the flat to save his life when he played for the Redskins. The whole pack reeks of failure!
Goddamnit! "Congressional."
If the debate over putting Reagan on a piece of currency postpones the inevitable debate over which one to put GWB on one, I'm all for it.
Can't the Ronnie worshippers just be happy with his $1 coin whenever it comes out?
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