Posted on 08/31/2015 8:22:10 AM PDT by PROCON
House Speaker John Boehner said he is "deeply disappointed" in President Obama's plan to rename Alaska's Mount McKinley "Mt. Denali," joining a chorus of Republican lawmakers, even though the change has roots in the Republican Party.
The peak, which is the tallest in North America, was named after the nation's 25th president and former Ohio governor, William McKinley, in 1896.
Boehner, from Ohio, joined other lawmakers from his state in condemning the move, which Obama announced Sunday.
"There is a reason President McKinley's name has served atop the highest peak in North America for more than 100 years, and that is because it is a testament to his great legacy," Boehner said in a statement Monday. "McKinley served our country with distinction during the Civil War as a member of the Army. He made a difference for his constituents and his state as a member of the House of Representatives and as governor of the great state of Ohio. And he led this nation to prosperity and victory in the Spanish-American War as the 25th president of the United States. I'm deeply disappointed in this decision."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
I live in NJ; we have plenty of them. This is erasing a culture & history - an extension of eradicating southern white culture.
Whoopie!
Just say “No” to alcohol.
Look what it does to your brain!!
Thanks you Bonehead once again for your OPINION followed by NOTHING.
Yup, the naming was a campaign move by a prospector who supported McKinley and the gold standard over the Silver standard.
IOW BFD. The locals, including Conservatives, use Denali.
As I said on another thread, this is just noise and a distraction. Also most likely an attempt by Obama to bait Republicans into looking like a**es.
Just point out to the Proggies that the mountain now shares a name with one of the least fuel efficient passenger vehicles out there (and one designed to cater to the 1%), and walk away.
And I am shocked to think he’s sober long enough to pen a letter!
“Tan, drunk and stupid is no way to govern Mr. Speaker”
(credit to Dean Wormer for original quote)
Dinali is the name of the mountain to the locals... always has been. Alaska has been petitioning the Fed Gov for 40 years to change it back... even under Sarah Palin. McKinley has no connection to the state of Alaska.
Did he sob or was their just the suggestion of a tear?
Dittos! Just what I was thinking!
When Trump gets in, he can rename it again, maybe “Trump Hill.”
Maybe “Rush Limbaugh Nature Preserve.”
This is yet another example of widespread historical revisionism and erasure by Obama and the Left. If they thought it possible, they would surely rename the Jefferson Memorial (or demolish it) and either return the Louisiana Purchase to France or require Americans to pay substantial reparations (or other “social justice” equivalents, such as allowing France to relieve its own population pressures through the limitless admission of French immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa into the United States to be supported by public services). Nemico della patria.
Boner’s a joke.
Alaska can stop Obama is his tracks.
First of all, “national parks” are an unconstitutional federal land-grab from the states, regardless of how benign or benevolent such act may seem at the time. The only valid federal ownership of state land is described in Article I, Section 8, Clause 17 of the U.S. Constitution which says:
“[Congress shall have Power…] to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings;—”
National parks were not purchased upon consent by state legislatures for the use of “Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings”, so national parks are unconstitutional federal acts. The states can make state parks according to the consent of the people and legislature of that state.
Secondly, because national parks constitute unconstitutional federal commandeering of state land, the state may reject and nullify such an act. Unconstitutional federal acts are by definition acts of tyranny - it’s just that some acts of federal tyranny begin with a happy face. Sates have the right and the duty to stand against such acts.
Here, Alaska can stop Obama in his tracks. First, Alaska can declare, on sound constitutional principle, that Denali was not purchased upon consent by the Alaskan state legislature for the use of “Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings” and can therefore, take back this land. If Alaska actually paid money to the feds for this land originally (I doubt it) then Alaska can pay back the equivalent or reasonable amount now. Most likely, the feds didn’t pay for Denali in which case Alaska can simply assume control of the land upon notification to the feds (NOT permission from the feds).
Laying that groundwork would make the next step of throwing Obama’s act of renaming Mt. McKinley back in his face an easy one.
I’ll have to rethink my opposition to it.
Bitch McConnell, the Weeping Cheeto and Canned-Ham Rove will hold hands and repeat the GOPe refrain:
“Yes We Can’t”
Including Sarah Palin.
McKinley was murdered while in office.
Is Obama giving a hint at how he wants to be remembered?
Cry me a river Boner!
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