Ronald Reagan National Monument

[gottaB]

Poll question: Ronald Reagan National Monument

What material should be used to construct the Ronald Reagan National Monument in Washington, D.C.?

[Uroboros]

1. Ketchup

Cause it's not just a vegetable; it's also a building material.

:)

[gottaB]

5. The * administration would probably agree

After all, they wanted to classify making a hamburger as a manufacturing job.

http://schumer.senate.gov/SchumerWebsite/pressroom/press_releases/PR02454.html

[AntiCoup2K4]

21. Can't be Heinz ketchup though.

Republicans would have a problem with that one ;)

[Comicstripper]

37. Ketchup

...and none of that FANCY Ketchup neither. Too good for 'im!

[baldguy]

42. Like this?

[Qanisqineq]

2. he already has a building in DC, what does he need a monument for?

jelly beans

[Lou_C]

3. Dirty Toilet Paper

Kind of like a paper mache type of sculpture.

[No Mandate Here.]

4. Tony Auth's Idea...

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[MallRat]

27. Sorry. That would make too much sense.

n/t

[Warpy]

6. Bounced checks and defaulted loans

[paulie5]

7. Raygun monument

I'm all for it. As long as it's not in the United States and somebody else pays for it.

[newyawker99]

20. Hi paulie5!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[xchrom]

8. a photo montage of some

of some dead central american priests and nuns.
there's your legacy ronnie.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

9. The National Debt

something Reagan built mightily.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. Other!

A HUGE Cheese Box! When RayGoon was snoozing in the WH for 8 LONG years, you could not take a group photo anywhere here in West By Gawd Virginia, because every time you said "Cheese", everyone in the state would run and get it a big line expecting the next RayGoon Cheese give away! A crushed beer can might also be apropos, because the only jobs in the state under RayGoon was picking up beer cans along our pothole infested highways!

[gottaB]

11. ah, government cheese

who could forget?

[Ganja Ninja]

12. Yes! A giant figure of Ronnie carved out of government cheese!

What could be more fitting for a man who forced so many people to go on welfare. One big nasty stinking piece of Velveeta carved in the image of the Gipper is perfect.

[Hubert Flottz]

19. We ate so much Reagan Cheeze here in WV that:

we had to wear screens over our asses, to keep the rats out! Possums almost became extinct and there were only two mating pairs of ground hogs left in the entire state do to acute hunger! The only thing they were teaching the kids in school, was the 33 nonpoisonous weeds, so the kids had things to eat with their ketchup and cheeze! I put a turnip and cheeze sandwich, 4 hickory nuts and a ball peen hammer in my kids lunch every day and the other kids at school always tried to beat him up and steal his lunch! Of course we saved a bundle of dough on toilet paper, because of the mass Cheeze ingestion! I never Shat for almost 8 SOLID years!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

13. CRACK COCAINE VIALS AND PIPES should make an apporiate monument

[Butterflies]

17. Yes, that's it

ahhh . . . the 80's

[gottaB]

14. Why steam grates is emerging as the popular choice?

"You can't help those who simply will not be helped. One problem that we've had, even in the best of times, is people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless who are homeless, you might say, by choice." -- President Reagan, 1/31/84, on Good Morning America, defending his administration against charges of callousness.

[Octafish]

15. These people are homeless by choice, as it were.

Did she cash her welfare check and spend it on vodka already?

[pezcore64]

16. im not particular

on what its made out of...so long as they play that awesome genesis video 24/7!
haha

[noonwitch]

18. A homeless shelter-why waste money on protests?

Do something good in his name.

[gottaB]

25. Some people will not want to hear this, but since you put it that way

Why squander public utility and goodness on a memorial to Reagan?

If we built a city on the hill, or even made it so that people didn't die of exposure every year on the streets of the nation's capital, to make that accomplishment a memorial to the Presidency of Ronald Reagan would be grossly dishonest, unjust, and a disservice to the people.

[PATRICK]

22. Name the post offices

after him. Or something else that in the future will all close down and the whole idea just melt away, biographicaldegadable without a fuss.

[PATRICK]

23. Let's not forget the Nixon stamps

Time to pick the favorite pose.

[cmf]

24. I like the cardboard boxes idea

zero permanence.

[gottaB]

33. not exactly granite, is it?

Would it be a good thing if everybody accepted their impermanence with dignity? Is it others who make it difficult, who inflict pain and humiliation? Or do we bring it upon ourselves?

In the spirit of truly reaching across the aisle to our Republican opponents (who really do make things difficult, you know), I propose memorializing President Reagen by actively forgetting Reagan.

You can't remember those who simply will not be remembered. One problem that we've had, even in the best of times, is people who can't be remembered, the forgotten who are forgotten, you might say, by choice.

[Hubert Flottz]

26. So where are we gonna' dig the :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

worlds largest Cesspool?

[KamaAina]

28. Nuclear waste

takes care of the Yucca Mountain problem, too. :-)

[RetroLounge]

29. How about a urinal somewhere so I can piss on his name?

RL

[Kilroy003]

30. He was a popular president

and deserves a memorial just like any other president. I say a phalis similar to Washington's would be in order. Perhaps a gigantic "anus" portraying sodomy with the phalis would be funny, but innapropriate. (Apparently, Mr. Reagan knew nothing of AIDS until his buddy, Rock, died form it. That's kind of sad.) But hey, he was a "watershed" president, just because he was a repub doesn't mean he is undeserving of a memorial. Afterall, we all have our flaws.

[maveric]

31. Steer Manure. Commonly known as Bullshit.

Thats what he stood for and thats what we've been hearing the past couple days.

[Dying Eagle]

32. 40 used toilet

All stacked up as high as the debt he created. 1 toilet=$55000000 dollars of Reagan Debt!! 40th president gets 40 toilets.

[Shopaholic]

34. The AIDS Quilt

since his administration did absolutely nothing to try to halt the spread of AIDS

[Vitruvius]

35. Or just carve Raygun's face on the side of Mt. Trashmore (theNYC city dump

instead.

[Delano]

36. All of the above - in a giant tower of freedom!

And it could have a statue of the prototypical top-hatted robber-baron on top, pissing on statues of the peons below.

Of course it would be titled "trickle-down".

[gottaB]

38. I can see that

I wonder how many Reaganites see his legacy that way too?

[gottaB]

39. Are you factoring in the cost of the materials?

Americans for Tax Reform is all about fiscal responsibility, you know. That and the legacy of President Reagan.

[gottaB]

40. one last kick

:kick:

[leftofthedial]

41. a row of porta potties on the Mall in DC

for the freepers to use

when they get hungry or thirsty or are just in need of communion

[onethatcares]

43. dog shit and steam vents.

that's what.