Because priorities.
In the wake of President Obama’s renaming of Mount McKinley to Denali, progressives see an opportunity to remove the name of conservative icon Ronald Reagan from the National Airport in Washington, D.C., reports Fox News.
The influential leftist political action committee CREDO Action is backing a petition demanding that “right-wing extremists in the Republican party, including House Speaker Rep. John Boehner,” who complained when Obama changed the name, be consistent and “rename Ronald Reagan National Airport back to its original name honoring America’s first president, George Washington.”
Republicans voted to rename Washington National Airport after Ronald Reagan in 1998.
The petition reads, in part,
President Obama just took a small but important step for recognizing the history, culture, and human rights of America’s Native Americans when he decided to rename America’s tallest mountain, Mount McKinley in Alaska, to its original name of Denali…
The honoring of this mountain’s original name, and the native people who have inhabited that land for generations, was long overdue. But that hasn’t stopped John Boehner and fellow Republican members of Congress from staging political outrage and fomenting right-wing anger.
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