April 28, 2004
Ronald Reagan U. - Go Contras!
By now, most people have heard that some idiot wants to build a Reagan university in Colorado.
I still don't know why Reagan boosters don't get the irony and hypocrisy of naming anything they can find after him all over the country in much the same way communists did for Lennin and Stalin.
Of course, the longer you fight an enemy, the more you begin resemble them.
But anyway, it's probably worth trotting out the same old Reagan jokes to belittle this new endeavor to churn out a new generation of Republo-bots. Below is some suggested late-light fodder:
1) "I hear they have an all-condiment salad bar at the student cafeteria."
2) "To reduce pollution, there will be no trees on campus."
3) "The finals are easy. You get points for not remembering facts."
4) "During spring break, the RRU chapter of Habitat for Humanity goes to Nicaragua to tear down houses."
5) "School motto: 'Leadership is never having to say you're sorry.'"
6) "If I ever go back to college and somehow become an athlete, I want to play and defeat RRU just to say I did it to impress Jodie Foster."
Posted by rj3 at April 28, 2004 10:29 AM
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Via DCSOB In the on going push to name just about anything they can find after him, Ronald Reagan's supporters now want to found Ronald Reagan University. On the silver screen, he was a college football hero and a cheerleader. [Read More]
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You left out a few:
"It was my policies and direction that led directly to the fall of Communism."
and
"My economic policies led to the lowering of the marginal tax rate which led to the greatest peacetime expansion of the economy since World War II."
and
"I won re-election by 530 electoral votes over what's his name."
Maybe if more people volunteered to name stuff after Clinton and Carter we'd have some more Demo-blot late night chatter. Oh wait; that's what the cigar and malaise jokes are for.
Can I get the check please?
Posted by: Chris at April 28, 2004 3:35 PM
Not quite yet.
How about:
"The Soviets led directly to the fall of the Soviet Union because the communist system is by nature unsustainable and inefficient and all I did was destroy third-world nations in proxy fights and arm Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein."
or
"I was around when Paul Volkler's disinflation helped the economy rationalize and I also used good old-fashioned Keynesian pump-priming gussied up as trickle down economics and justified by the widely discredited (then and now) Laffer Curve to increase economic growth at the cost of deficits we still haven't paid off."
You can go now. And don't come back.
Posted by: Randolph at April 28, 2004 4:15 PM
What's amazing is your firm belief that lower taxes don't increase revenues to the treasury. And its pretty fair to say that our economic growth in the 1980s showed we could outspend the Soviets in defense and ultimately defeat them.
So much for free speech, eh, Randolph? Don't get all speech code-y on me. I promise not to sell brownies in your Student Activity Center.
Posted by: Chris at April 29, 2004 10:52 AM
By the way, love your blog. It's fun read everyday, even though we don't necessarily agree politically. Cheers!
Posted by: Chris at April 29, 2004 10:57 AM
Did I get "all speech code-y" on you. I didn't even delete your post. There's nothing more amusing than people with a political group that controls all branches of the federal government and a sizeable chunk of the national wealth always running around claiming persecution. And yes, the left does it too, but after decades of J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy and Mitchell Palmer, we've been conditioned to expect it.
Posted by: Randolph at April 29, 2004 3:13 PM