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The Reagan Sea? Rep. Darrell Issa Proposes Renaming U.S. Waters After the 40th President

Jul. 22, 2012 4:42pm Erica Ritz

Representative Darrell Issa of California Proposes Legislation to Rename U.S. Coastal Waters After Former President Ronald Reagan

(Photo: AP)

On Wednesday, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) introduced legislation to rename nearly all U.S. Coastal waters after the country’s 40th president.

Politico relates:

Ronald Reagan already serves as the namesake for an airport, two federal courthouses, a state office building in his native California, a Colorado highway, a mountain in New Hampshire, a nuclear-powered aircraft career and a missile defense test site in the Marshall Islands.

But Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) wants to name something else after the 40th president: nearly all U.S. coastal waters.

Issa introduced legislation Wednesday to rename the United States’ exclusive economic zone — the area off the American coast where the U.S. has the right to use natural resources, create artificial islands and preserve the environment — the Ronald Wilson Reagan Exclusive Economic Zone. The zone extends up to 200 miles off the shoreline.

Representative Darrell Issa of California (Photo: AP)

“The Reagan Sea” arguably has a better ring to it than “the Ronald Wilson Reagan Exclusive Economic Zone,” but for supporters of the former president, it’s a step in the right direction.

According to The Hill, Rep. Issa has introduced the bill numerous times in past sessions of Congress, but on each occasion it died before making much progress.

Comedy Central’s “Indecision” political blog sarcastically adds: “All those embarrassing stories about American schoolkids unable to point to the Pacific Ocean on a geography quiz? Problem solved, when all bodies of water are named after Reagan.”

The former president would almost certainly get a chuckle out of it. Watch the clip below, which has more than one million views on YouTube, for a compilation of Reagan’s wittiest moments:

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wordweaver
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 8:12pm
Goofy. This makes about as much sense as an ash tray on a motorcycle. You name bodies of water in accordance with the land that confines them, not by economic zones.

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- encinom
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 9:22pm
  So instead of working of a jobs bill or tax breaks for the middle class, the GOP leadership is wasting time with this BS. Reagan was a senile old fool that cut a deal with the Iranians to arm South American terrorists.
  
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- routnom23
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 10:01pm
  Where are the land masses called Atlantic, Pacific, Barants, or Caspian?
  
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- db321
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 10:02pm
  I name my Toilet after Obama.
  
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- jzs
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 10:20pm
  Republicans say their focus is jobs, but they filibuster every attempt to create jobs or give companies incentives to bring jobs back to the US. No, there nothing doing on jobs. The Republicans will block anything that might improve the economy, at least until after the election. They really aren’t to into you, the American public. They’re into them, the Representatives who stand a better chance of getting reelected if the country continues to suffer.
  
  Because jobs really isn’t their focus, they mostly want to focus on regulating women’s private parts and creating new laws to address problems that don’t exist but that also give them a better chance of being reelected, like voter ID laws.
  
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- mr.goodvibe
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 10:32pm
  So encinom, the bills are already written and passed the house, call dingy harry reid, he is the one holding up everything, dumbass.
  
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- Chuck Stein
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 11:00pm
  @ Routnom23
  They must be near the land masses named “Red”, “Black”, “Chuchi”, and “Lincoln”
  Still, Wordweaver’s point is well taken: seas are often named after associated land.
  
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- Chrono_Sleuth
  Posted on July 23, 2012 at 1:27am
  I’ll give Encinom one point, despite that he’s a reject of the Socialist Academy for Useful Idiots. This is one of the most ridiculous items I’ve seen put through. This is a ridiculous bill.
  
  The values of this country are Judeo-Christian. There is no moral or ethical conscious in making a man a god-like figure. His words and actions are profound and touch many to this day and many years to come (personally I like Reagan, though many of the bills he signed and some of his actions as Governor of California I call into question regarding his true values…however he was like Kennedy in that he united us under the flag of national consciousness, though unlike Kennedy, with a greater tinge of personal individual responsibility as entrepreneurs). The values I was brought up to believe, and the values I was taught this country adhered to was worship of the individual. Not one many, but the ability of any man to rise above, be his own enterprise and make his own legacy. Socialists name things after figures, and create cults of personality. Reagan was by all accounts a humble man, yet stalwart and strong. Let’s not tarnish that image.
  
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aquinasreigns
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:34pm
lol The fagellas are gonna loves this.

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4xeverything
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:18pm
Hey Blaze, you’ve forgotten the Ronald Reagan Cross County Highway in Hamilton County, Ohio just north of Cincinnati. Just sayin’. :0)

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p51d007
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:13pm
Nothing like annoying a liberal LOL. Won’t go anywhere, but still funny.

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title_of_liberty
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:00pm
Reagan was a good president, but this is stupid.

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65Mustang
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 6:17pm
I like and respect Issa, but NO to renaming the waters. Obama, the dictator, will want to name the United States after him some day..when hell freezes over.

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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 6:37pm
  SCREW THAT
  
  What about Eric Holder’s Contempt of the House and Issa’s Fast and Furious DOJ gun running crime?
  
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- MCDAVE
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:24pm
  We can rename the waters at the waste water treatment plant after Obama…seems fitting
  
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- MCDAVE
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:30pm
  Eric Holder may well go unpunished for his crimes,same as his boss..
  
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LeadNotFollow
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 6:14pm
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God help us in November. We sure need another Ronald Reagan.
Wish Romney would wake up, and pick Michael Reagan as VP.
Romney-Reagan 2012.

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- muffythetuffy
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 6:38pm
  The Gulf of Mexico must be renamed the Reagan Gulf. It does not belong to Mexico.
  
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- quarando
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:43pm
  I’ve always said we ought to name Reagan’s most significant legacy after him… The Ronald Reagan Federal Debt. He managed to take the US from the world’s biggest creditor nation to the world’s largest debtor (by far) in a mere 8 years.
  
  I’ve never understood these “conservatives” who say the federal deficit is one of the country’s biggest problems and then in the next breath claim we need another Reagan. I don’t know if its double think or just plain ignorance.
  
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- Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:50pm
  Personally I look at it this way; name the oceanic area after Reagan, and along the way, name the most savage industrial wasteland in the world after Obama/Reid/Pelosi.
  
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- clist
  Posted on July 23, 2012 at 12:50am
  @Muffy, you’re an idiot.
  
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GaeilgeTrodai
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 6:12pm
I love Reagan, but some of these people won’t be happy until the country is named after him. Just think what Reagan would say about this idea.

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RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 6:07pm
Loved Reagan, and my favorite president of my lifetime so far. And, Eisenhower was the first that I remember. But, this is just as much as a waste of time, effort, and money as it was when the Dems rushed to rename Cape Canaveral to Cape Kennedy. Much to the chagrin of the citizens in the surrounding area. Fine, name the government installation, but don’t take away the name of the entire geographical location. Same goes for the ‘sea.’

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- The-Monk
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:16pm
  Hi RJJ,
  
  Yep, big waste of time and energy. But here’s the bad part. Now that Obama has gotten wind of this his next Executive Order will be to rename those waters The Frank Marshall Davis Sea. : (
  
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PMLmass
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 6:07pm
Great President. This idea is beyond dumb and a total waste of time. It sounds more like something a Democrat would come up with just to waste time and get attention. I am also shocked that Issa is the one to come up with this. I guess I was wrong again in giving a politician to much credit on the subject of intellegence

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scuba13
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 6:05pm
I renamed my toilet bowl, Obama Falls so I don’t care one way or the other.

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- 4xeverything
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:06pm
  Now that’s just a smack in the face to John Crapper.
  
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RAMJR
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 6:00pm
We don’t need to waste time and money to keep renaming things! We don’t need any more of these money games in Congress and bogus committees.
If we can’t even get the fraud, lies and liars out of jobs and positions in government, the last thing they should be concerned is changed the name of water. Maybe the drilling would be more of a concern than a name.

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- Stoic one
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 6:19pm
  Here here!
  
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historyguy48
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 5:55pm
Comrades we have a communist, Dear Leader, in the white house surrounded by his good communist friends that are running this country! Perhaps we need more nonsense like this instead of what we should be getting, an impeachment of the President, a re-alignment of the DOJ, and treason trials!
Don’t look here, there is nothing to see.

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momrules
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 5:43pm
A great man, a great President. I miss him but I feel no need to rename the waters after him.

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- swamp_donkey
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 6:18pm
  why do you wingnuts love reagan so much , he raised taxes 11 times and expanded entitlements and campaigned on compromise.
  
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- momrules
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 6:37pm
  Wingnuts Swampdonkey? Really, wingnuts?….How cute….LOL
  
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- Benjamin Abruzzo
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 6:48pm
  @swamp_donkey
  
  I love the “raised taxes 11 times” bit. It never reflects the truth, but is just gray enough to be true and yet a lie.
  
  Yes, President raised taxes 11 times… after cutting them deeply for everybody… and he still ended up with a net lower tax rate.
  
  it’s like turning on extremely hot water, adding cold water until it was too cold, then slowly raising the temperature until it is war. Yes, you raised the temperature, but it’s stil colder.
  
  I’d support President Obama cutting taxes to 10% for everybody, then inching up the taxes slowly until they were at 25% or less for everything. That type of tax raise is a net cut.
  
  As was Reagan’s.
  
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xyfbx
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 5:40pm
What a stupid idea. It just opens up the future to political people renaming things that should be left alone. I’ll up your GOP sea with two DEM mountains, a DEM desert and a DEM river.

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brickmoon
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 5:29pm
Right after we rename the deepest abyss in the ocean Obama’s Trench.

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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 5:44pm
  We kinda’ have that now… Obama’s Trench Mouth. Severely infected and if left untreated… get’s a second term.
  
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- Rayblue
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 6:02pm
  The Great African Rift.
  
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- chips1
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:37pm
  I think it should be left up to the muslims to change the name of the Black Sea.
  
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TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 5:19pm
I think we should keep the waters as they are now and rename the “GOP” the Party of Reagan if we’re going to re-name things… officially the “POR.”

Using Reagan’s name will keep any number of “fringe” insurgents out as they would NEVER want to be associated with that moniker…

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- Scottsman
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 6:07pm
  Maybe we should rename the Gulf Of Mexico to the Gulf of Texas.
  
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- riseandshine
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:05pm
  Perhaps renaming the GOP the Party of Bush would be more appropriate.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:14pm
  SCOTTSMAN. Hmmmm, then invade them as they’re a failed states anyways and more of a problem to the U.S than they’re worth.
  
  You on board? Like Pluto said… “’cause when the goin’ get’s tough… the tough get goin’…..who’s with me…LET’S GOOOOOOOO!”
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:35pm
  RISE. Naw, I’ll stick with being a Reagan-Republican (you know, the guy you also love to hate) and pushing for my POR idea.
  
  We could of course name it in honor of your man Paul. It would be Party of Paul… “POP”…
  
  as in… POP goes the weasel…
  
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- riseandshine
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 8:39pm
  @Time……I’ve always thought highly of President Reagan. Sorry.
  
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- TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 9:32pm
  RISE. Excuse me then, I should have stated.. “the guy your “guy” loves to hate.” This hatred for Reagan was fueled by Murray Rothbard (Ron Paul’s mentor) in an essay entitled: Ronald Reagan an autopsy… which btw, was gleefully posted by Lew Rockwell (Paul’s friend and business partner/Mises Inst/Newsletter ghostwriter possibility) on LewRockwell.com.
  
  Just a taste…
  
  “In our age of High Tech, I’m sure that his mere physical death could easily have been overcome by his handlers and media mavens. Ronald Reagan will be suitably mummified, trotted out in front of a giant American flag, and some puppet master would have gotten him to give his winsome headshake and some ventriloquist would have imitated the golden tones: “We-e-ell…” (Why not? After all, the living reality of the last four years has not been a helluva lot different.)
  
  Perhaps, after all, Ronald Reagan and almost all the rest of us will finally get our fondest wish: the election forever and ever of the mummified con King Ronnie.
  
  Now there is a legacy for our descendants!”
  
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marcus_arealius
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 5:13pm
While he’s at it, let’s rename the Chicago Sanitary Canal ‘Obama Sewer Canal’. Now that’s a perfect title.

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Lloyd Drako
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 5:11pm
In CCCP for a time we had Stalingrad, Stalino, Stalinabad, Stalinsk, Mt. Stalin, Lake Stalin, Stalin Streets and Stalin Avenues, Stalin Stadiums and Stalin Airports and Stalin Busstops up the–how you say?–yingyang. Then we wised up and threw them into dustbin of history. Be careful you not overdo Reagan, or later take him down like Joe Paterno.

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- Altair
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 5:43pm
  The difference is, after an honored person is deceased, the danger of aberrant behavior is usually nil.
  
  Paterno’s statue, etcetera, was dedicated before the Sandusky affair happened. I believe it’s a Hebrew custom not to name a newborn after a living person, for the same reason.
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 9:10pm
  No, he makes a good point.
  
  Naming or renaming old things for the hero of the week makes us seem like a petty dictatorship. New stuff named for heroes, fine; but do not rename stuff!
  
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KickinBack
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 5:01pm
The vid is worth seeing. I miss the gipper.

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- Elena2010
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 5:11pm
  I miss him, too.
  
  But I also disagree w/the whole renaming thing.
  
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- 4xeverything
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 7:15pm
  I was two when he took office. I was ten when he left. I remember crying when we watched his farewell address and asking my mom, “What are we going to do now?”. I always thought of him as the grandpa type. We could sure use him around today, that’s for sure.
  
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Blacktooth
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 4:58pm
I thought the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico already had names.

Oh well, who cares anymore?

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- NHwinter
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 5:32pm
  I think renaming the Gulf of Mexico to The Reagan Gulf would be great. Enough of Mexico.
  
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- Blazebanned
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 5:49pm
  @Nhwinter.
  I agree, we alredy have enough of mexico here as it is…..
  
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politicianssuck
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 4:57pm
Hmm… What should we today? We know the country is going bankrupt should we address that?
“mmmmm… Naw”
Okay should we address our freedom and liberty being stripped from the american people?
“mmmm….naw”
Okay how about the current move towards socialism, should we address that?
“mmmmm…naw”
Oh, Oh, Oh I know. Lets rename the sea!!!!!
“YEAHHHHHHHHHHH”
Okay great! Then after that we can give ourselves a raise!!!!!

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Ron Staiger
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 4:56pm
I think it’s a great idea but let’s follow up with an appropriate renaming of something for obama. How about renaming the strip in Vegas after him and call it Obama Way considering all of the money that gets wasted there.

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NHwinter
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 4:55pm
I love President Reagan, but I think we should keep the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean’s names as there are now.

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MrButcher
Posted on July 22, 2012 at 4:47pm
No.

This is a stupid waste of time.

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- swamp_donkey
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 6:22pm
  the republican do nothing congress specializes in wasting time on things that will never pass the senate , 33 votes to repeal the aca , numerous votes to eliminate contraception and abortion and the ryan pay the rich budget , thats what they do
  
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- mr.goodvibe
  Posted on July 22, 2012 at 10:36pm
  Yes Mr. Butcher, Swamp Donkey is a stupid waste of time.
  
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