Darrell Issa's absurd lengths

Until I read the article below, I didn't know that Rep. Darrell Issa, who regularly appears to walk the borderline between nutty and deranged, had tried to do this twice before.  It's ABSURD.   Are there any other regions of the country (and it would even be stretching things to call the EEZ a region of the country, rather than an extension of the country's coastal zone) that are named after people, even Presidents, that died just a short while ago? 

It's all part of the Republican obsession with the revering and deifying the name and memory of Reagan, partly to codify all that they think he represented in American history (even though he didn't).  They want him to be the Chief Saint of Conservatism - and when we remember that David Stockman admitted that the strategy of tax-cutting was to STARVE the budget of money so that programs would get cut, we really appreciate the Grover Norquist agenda pledge.  I'm not stretching things, Norquist has admitted as much.  And George W. Bush was able to ram through the budget cuts which still bedevil us today, and which added to the deficits that Reagan started (because starving the budget didn't work).  So Reaganism should not be memorialized, it should be condemned, but not by the true-believers on the hard Republican right.

Which leads me back to Issa's absurd idea to name the Exclusive Economic Zone the "Ronald Wilson Reagan" Exclusive Economic Zone." Fortunately his bill/idea has never even received a vote in committee.  While Reagan still has his followers in politics, he will still be revered.  When they are finally eradicated from the public service, then his deification will slowly decline, and history will judge him more harshly, able (by half luck) to end the USSR, but otherwise an out-of-touch figurehead with ideas that made him look good, but which were ultimately bad for the country.  And which made more believers following his wrong ideas that have made the country even worse off.

If Romney, a rich Republican in the Reagan mold, gets elected, the idiots like Issa will be able to force him to starve the beast, truly, damaging our public investments irreparably, because they realized that to reduce the size of government you can't just cut taxes and hope that Congress meekly tries to keep up with mounting deficits, you actually have to cut government.  And what they are trying to cut is the 1/3 or so that is discretionary, unless you are Paul Ryan and you are actually trying to cut Medicare and Social Security.  That's where the reforms need to be -- but not if you want to be rich and pay a 15% tax rate like Mittens.  And naming everything possible after Reagan makes him look much better in the public eye than he deserves.   So, Darrell, why not try and actually find something to do that's good for the country, eh?