Posted on 06/06/2004 1:08:42 PM PDT by chambley1
Per Rosenberg campaign.
And Moran seeks to do this now? Now that Reagan is dead? What a POS.
Ah yes, Moran the wife-beating, child-shoving scumbag. Why am I not surprised :-(
Err...ah...Care to elaborate?
Dream on - Jim MORON!
What a POS! Where is his e-mail???????
is this for real?
Is it time to hit the "Reset Button?"
I assumed I must be reading something from The Onion. Of course, when it comes to some Democrats, truth is stranger than fiction...
Link? Citation? Anything?
And while we're at it let's put the name Idlewild back on JFK Airport and Cape Canaaveral back on Cape Kennedy.
I have to assume this whole thing is a joke.
How about this scenario...
This guy Rosenberg is running against Jim Moran. It's an open primary, so Rosenberg can win if a lot of Republicans come to the polls. Most of the Republicans in the eight district, including myself, consider Moran to be a complete and total embarrassment.
So how does the campaign increase Republican turnout? One thing they could do is spread nasty rumors just before the campaign that will get the Republican base really made at Moran. They can't do it openly, of course, but they can whisper stuff to Republican activists.
In short, much as I can't stand Moran, I don't believe a word of this.
Somebody tell the drunken bum to go back to sleep.
I'm with you. No surprise there.
OT: Is the wildfire under control yet?
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Nope, not that drunk or stupid.
Here's a wild guess at the year . . . . 2001.
Try this link. I think this explains what is going on.
http://www.house.gov/moran/20010802.htm
Betrayal of the Reagan Legacy
by Congressman Jim Moran
August 2, 2001
"We've lost a sense of which problems require national solutions and which are best handled at the local level."
President Ronald Reagan 7/13/82
Almost two decades after former President Ronal Reagan spoke these words, some of his most devoted disciples in the Congress have jettisoned the Reagan legacy of deference to state and local government, and in their actions have epitomized what he most opposed.
They have embraced instead what could well be termed the federalism of convenience. It is a selective approach in maintaining the delicate balance between Washington and the rest of the nation. To paraphrase the former president, they want to get the "feds off the backs of state and local governments" only when it suits their narrow political or ideological goals.
Nothing better illustrates this hypocrisy than their recent strong-arm tactics in forcing Arlington County and our regional transit authority to rename the transit stop at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport after -you guessed it- Ronald Reagan.
Three years ago, Republicans in Congress forced our region to rename National Airport over the strong objections of Arlington County, the City of Alexandria, and our local business community. It was a legislative body-slam, and a slap in the face to the Washington region. In a full story of ironies, their renaming bill completely contradicted a law President Reagan signed in 1986 granting autonomy over Dulles and National Airports to a local airport authority. He did so in order to return governmental decision making to the people who can best represent their community's interests.
Unsatisfied with their success in that battle, they now want to force METRO to make a corresponding name change to the subway stop at the airport. Never mind that the METRO board has elected -- for good, practical reasons -- not to make this change, estimated to cost more than $400,000. And never mind that only a space alien could possibly be confused by the way the airport is currently designated along the subway system.
The simple fact is that Congress ought to have more important things to worry about than how a local transit authority designates its subway stops. One can only imagine President Reagan shaking his head and making a wisecrack about all this foolishness in Washington. Out of the public eye, he would surely be furious at the embarrassing immodesty of these misguided zealots.
Ignoring the Reagan legacy in order to honor Reagan the President is not the only example of how some Republicans have encroached on state and local control. Two years ago, Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia included a provision in the District of Columbia Appropriations Bill preventing the District government from counting its own ballots in a referendum the city held on the medicinal use of marijuana. Last year, Congressman Tiahart of Kansas tried to stop the District of Columbia from engaging in a needle exchange program designed to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS among the District's intravenous drug users. Good people can surely disagree about the merits of both programs, but it's hard to argue with the fact that it is District officials - and not members of Congress - who are in the best position to deal with these issues.
Historians will long debate the merits of the Reagan Presidency. But one thing is for sure: President Reagan always portrayed himself as a man of modesty, firmly determined to put an end to the arrogance of an all-powerful federal government. If he could counsel Congress today, I suspect he would urge us to worry about more important things than a transit stop in Arlington County. He would focus instead on things like shoring up Social Security and Medicare, providing a strong national defense, paying off the national debt, and providing needed investments to sustain economic growth.
Protect the prerogatives of local government, and President Reagan's legacy will speak for itself.
Is this a current statement from Moran, or an old one?
What's your source?
It's on his home page. He says the Reagan name was "crammed down our throats."
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