Posted on 09/06/2015 5:26:51 PM PDT by kcvl
Now that Mount McKinley is no more, liberals are turning their eyes toward Washington, D.C., and Ronald Reagan National Airport.
The influential liberal political action committee CREDO Action is behind the effort with a petition drive.
The petition says that because John Boehner and congressional Republicans complained when President Barack Obama restored Alaska's Mount McKinley name to Denali, they should stay consistent and change Ronald Reagan National Airport back to its original name honoring America’s first president, George Washington.
Republicans, led by Boehner, voted to rename Washington National Airport after Ronald Reagan in 1998.
"Given Speaker Boehner’s current outrage and disappointment at President Obama’s decision to rename Mount McKinley, it’s time to give him the opportunity to make up for his own past mistakes," the petition reads. "Sign the petition and tell John Boehner he needs to be consistent when it comes to naming America’s landmarks."
CREDO Action had more than 59,000 signatures on the petition as of Sunday afternoon, toward its goal of 75,000.
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Yeah, the Triborough Bridge and the East River Drive.
But then, New Yorkers still call Avenue of the Americas Sixth Avenue.
On the DC Beltway, there is the Woodrow Wilson Bridge. We should rename it.
Yep. JFK Airport should be Idlewild; Thurgood Marshall back to BWI.
Or we could just rename every monument, airport, federal building in the US after Robt Byrd.
Don’t tell them.......
Let’s change all the Martin Luther King street names back to their original names while we’re at it.
Ronald "The Gipper" Reagan National Airport
>> Liberals want to name a major airport after a slave owner? <<
Not only that. They obviously approve of naming our capital city after him, plus an entire state. Those names MUST be changed, the sooner the better.
(And while we’re at it, we gotta hurry and change all the names of cities, counties, streets and schools that contain the words Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Davis and Lee. Time’s a-wastin!)
>> no one there calls it Reagan National—always Washington National or just National <<
Actually, long before DCA was renamed for Pres. Reagan, everybody I knew just called it “National Airport” — liberals and conservatives alike. Not a nefarious leftwing plot. So not to worry.
And BTW, I first came to the area in 1966. I can’t remember over those 49 years that anybody other than radio and TV announcers would regularly go to the trouble of using the full six-syllable name “Washington National” when one word would do. Just a matter of convenience.
>> Thurgood Marshall airport near Baltimore until recently, was known only as Baltimore Washington International <<
And 99% of the locals still call it just “BWI” without further ado.
>> I thought Cape Kennedy WAS changed back to Cape Canaveral <<
Correct. Welcome to FR!
>> That mountain was McKinley’s only claim to fame <<
Incorrect. There’s a McKinley Street just a few blocks from my home. It’s a very nice neighborhood.
(Not, however, that anybody who lives on the street knows or cares whom it was named for!)
Whites cowed by sticks and stones were hapless and hopeless to stop the constant assault against them.
“Actually, long before DCA was renamed for Pres. Reagan, everybody I knew just called it “National Airport” — liberals and conservatives alike. Not a nefarious leftwing plot. So not to worry.”
Oh, I know that it was called National long before it was renamed, and that much of the resistance to calling it Reagan is just typical resistance to renaming things (like the RFK/Triboro bridge in NYC). But I did hear numerous times, from DC natives, that the resistance was at least boosted by dislike for Reagan.
>> I did hear numerous times, from DC natives, that the resistance was at least boosted by dislike for Reagan <<
Sure. I expect them to say things like that. But then, since when should we give great credibility to leftists? If they didn’t have the airport “issue” to complain about, they’d just find some other convenient way to bash Reagan and other conservatives.
These idiots don’t have any concept how much it costs to rename things. Signage, letterheads, logos, publicity, and all the way down to employee ID cards cost $$$$$$$$. But, hey, if the liberals want to foot the bill then go for it.
True. In most inner cities the streets named after King are the most dangerous. I don’t think he would be proud.
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