The Tennessee Liberal

I'm coming to you live today from our nation's capital thanks to the good people of US Airways and someone in Dupont Circle who has an open wireless network!

And what should I find when I return to the land where I roamed for a few years, but yet another moronic attempt to rename something for Ronald Reagan. In this case, a Texas Congressman wants to rename 16th Street to Ronald Reagan Boulevard.

What dumb, dumb idea. They already renamed Washington National Airport after him, and the huge federal building in downtown Washington, clearly with no sense of irony for naming a big government building after someone who hated the government.

In an amazing fit of sanity, Rep. Tom Davis of Virginia has said he will block the effort, and wins the day with this comment:

Davis noted that Congress has renamed Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport and dedicated the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center on Pennsylvania Avenue NW. "If Congressman Bonilla wants to name anything else, he has to look at his own district in San Antonio," Davis said.

It would shame the memory of Pierre L'Enfant, who designed the city, but more importantly, it is just a silly thumbed nose at the people of Washington D.C. who rejected Reagan wholeheartedly.

More from D.C. through the weekend...