Bush's Memorial

[RunInRed 16,454]

Sounds fitting...

Reagan has his highways. Lincoln has his memorial. Washington has the capital (and a state, too). But President Bush may soon be the sole president to have a memorial named after him that you can contribute to from the bathroom.

From the Department of Damned-With-Faint-Praise, a group going by the regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a prize-winning water treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

The plan, naturally hatched in a bar, would place a vote on the November ballot to provide “an appropriate honor for a truly unique president.”

Supporters say that they have plenty of signatures to qualify the initiative and that the renaming would fit in a long and proud American tradition of poking political figures in the eye.

“Most politicians tend to be narcissistic and egomaniacs,” said Brian McConnell, an organizer who regularly suits up as Uncle Sam to solicit signatures. “So it is important for satirists to help define their history rather than letting them define their own history.”

Not surprisingly, those Republicans in a city that voted 83 percent Democratic in 2004 are not thrilled with the idea. Howard Epstein, chairman of the ever-outnumbered San Francisco Republican Party, called the initiative “an abuse of process.”

“You got a bunch of guys drunk who came up with an idea,” Mr. Epstein said, “and want to put on the ballot as a big joke without regard to the city’s governance or cost.”

The renaming would take effect on Jan. 20, when the new president is sworn in. And regardless of the measure’s outcome, supporters plan to commemorate the inaugural with a synchronized flush of hundreds of thousands of San Francisco toilets, an action that would send a flood of water toward the plant, now called the Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant.

“It’s a way of doing something physical that’s mentally freeing,” said Stacey Reineccius, 45, a software consultant and entrepreneur who supports the plan. “It’s a weird thing, but it’s true.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/washingt...xprod=permalink

[AFTiger 282]

I guess it is appropriate since he has been crapped on so badly by those people.

Pardon me. I need to flush my Democrat.

[Ranger12 46]

Same crap (pun intended)...different day from you.

This thread really helps bring up something relevant to the upcoming election. It is a good thing you posted something that gave both sides of the "debate". Good job.

[RunInRed 16,454]

Same crap (pun intended)...different day from you.

This thread really helps bring up something relevant to the upcoming election. It is a good thing you posted something that gave both sides of the "debate". Good job.

Did I miss a rule somewhere that all topics on this Politics board have to be relevant to the upcoming election? I thought this was a board for all political discussion? Maybe it would make you happier if it was posted on the All Things Considered board? Probably not. You just don't like the article - just admit it. See that was not so hard.

As I've told your friend TM - if you have another side of the topic, it's pretty simple - post it.

[AUTiger1 0]

From the Department of Damned-With-Faint-Praise, a group going by the regal-sounding name of the Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is planning to ask voters here to change the name of a prize-winning water treatment plant on the shoreline to the George W. Bush Sewage Plant.

And that is all one needs to know.

[RunInRed 16,454]

So do you guys think the San Francisco voters will pass actually pass this?

[AUTiger1 0]

So do you guys think the San Francisco voters will pass actually pass this?

Yes, it's San Fran. Like I said earlier, that is all one needs to know.

[autiger4life 3]

Funny but inappropriate

[autigeremt 6,661]

I think it's disrespectful to the Office of the President. It's like we say in the military, you don't salute the person somtimes, but you better salute the rank!