Tag Archive for Reagan

The Republicans’ Choice (Not Trump)

I don’t know who the Dems favor but it’s obvious who most of the Republicans want.  Actually, I think they should stop the debates and caucuses right now and admit who is foremost on their hearts and minds.

After all, who is mentioned most often (no, not Trump)?  Who has never done anything wrong in his political life?  Who could unify the Party 100%? Who is the only one never to have uttered a single negative comment against any of these candidates?  Who could straighten out our country and our world within a single term?  Who is always spoken of in reverential terms?  Who is…let’s call it what it is…PERFECT?

Ronald Reagan, of course.  Sure, he’s dead.  But now that we’ve had our first Black President and have come close to our first woman President, why not our first dead President? Besides, after listening to the Republicans speak about him often, I think he might just have the power to come back from the dead.

So why not just nominate the guy and be done with it?

 

 

A Powerful, Sunny White House

Solar panels on the White House roof 35+ years ago?  Yes, they were there.  President Jimmy Carter installed them in June of 1979 at a cost of a mere $28,000 (a very small amount in the governmental budget).  In addition to saving on utility bills, it was a symbol of our government’s attempt at getting our country away from depending so much on foreign oil.

President Ronald Reagan had the panels removed.  He wanted to get rid of solar tax credits.  Later, when it was suggested that they be put back up again, his press secretary Dale Petroskey said it would cost too much.

At least, though, in 2006 one panel found an appropriate home–at the Carter Library in Atlanta.

Happily, in 2013 President Obama had solar panels reinstalled.

No commentary from me…just a bit of sometimes-sunny American history.