There is a proposal going in front of the next Legislature here in Austin to name the loop around the Texas State Capitol Building as Ronald Reagan Circle. :mad: Is this something that is being considered near other Repug-controlled statehouses? This makes me want to puke!
The Bill

Those nutty red states.

Doesn't the Reagan family have to give permission? I think with the extreme lurch to the right might dissuade Nancy from saying yes.

I don't really get it. Ronald Reagan was elected as an anti-government (let's take the money out of their pocket and gie it back to the people) candidate. I would think he would be rolling over in his grave, if he knew about all the big government places that were named after him-the Ronald Reagan government office building, Ronald Reagan National Airport, and now this government paid for road-leave the dead man alone.

Ronald Reagan Legacy Project

"The mission of the Ronald Reagan Legacy Project is to honor the legacy of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. The Reagan Legacy Project aims to fulfill its mission by naming significant public landmarks after President Reagan in the 50 states and over 3,000 counties of the United States, as well as in formerly communist countries across the world."

Just make me violently ill, why don't you. He FINALLY died, let him go. (Wherever!)

I don't think he would like naming anything government related after him-unless it's something military.

As for naming something in a former Commie country after him-that would be more appropriate.

I think there should be a law that someone has to be dead at least 10 years before you go naming things after them. That way the emotion dies down.

Why not the United States of Ronald Raygun? You'd think we'd never had other successful Republican presidents! BTW, since George Herbert Walker Bush is nominally from Texas, why not name this "circle" after him? Or are his commissions confined only to Houston and Midland?

I agree with fantomas-USRR sounds AWSOME to me-at least rename the state of California after him. Oh wait, that was is going to be named after Schwarzenegger soon. hmmmmmm, the nation's capitol could be named Raygun, DC. Come on, our first president already has a state named after him.

Oh my stars, not California! I love that name! Maybe if the state split, northern California could return to being California, and southern California could be Raygun. The northern capital would be Sacramento, and the southern state's capital would be, let's say, Anaheim. That way we could admit Puerto Rico and have 52 states, an even number, and then we'd have two--possibly three, depending on how much inland and far southern Raygun balanced out Los Angeles--new blue states to balance out the red bloc. I mean, block.

If SoCal becomes Raygun...then, whichever city is the capital will be renamed Ronald...or Nancy. Sorta like George, Washington.