Pimping Reagan's Death -
Now Republicans want to put him on U.S. Currency
Ronald Reagan's enthusiastic supporters say the late president deserves a place on the nation's currency, even if it means a lesser or disappearing role for Franklin D. Roosevelt, Alexander Hamilton or Andrew Jackson. [more]
Campaign Cease Fire Fails
Republicans "cried foul" when a Democratic group was found to be running political advertisements despite the "presumed freeze on campaigning by the Bush and Kerry teams" during a week of mourning for Ronald Reagan, the New York Times reports. But when we noted that the Bush campaign sought political advantage by changing their campaign website into a Reagan tribute, they changed their tune. According to the Boston Globe , Republicans now say "it would be impossible to separate Reagan's death from the current presidential race, or to take politics out of his death and burial this week." [more]