Democrats in Washington have discussed the removal of President Ronald Reagan’s name from Reagan National Airport, the Washington Examiner reports. Apparently they wish to return the airport to its previous name, National Airport.

At Wednesday’s Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Board meeting, chairman H.R. Crawford – a former District Council member and Marion Barry confidante – told fellow Board members that he has heard talk on Capitol Hill about yanking former President Ronald Reagan’s name off the local airport and returning it to its previous generic moniker: National Airport.

“It was just a discussion. We’re not aware of anything specific,” MWAA spokeswoman Tara Hamilton later told The Examiner.

It’s clear that the current crop of congressional leaders want no part of Reagan’s grand conservative vision for America, but erasing all trace of his memory from an airport that’s already been named in his honor is about as petty as you can get.

Why would anybody on Capitol Hill even consider such a patently partisan move, which is guaranteed to make Democrats look small and ridiculous? Do they so fear the inevitable comparisons between the Great Communicator and his teleprompted successor in the White House?

Sure they would. Nothing from the Democratic Party would surprise me anymore, including a push to rename the airport after Barack Obama. Many in the party would love nothing more than to wipe away the successful two terms of the small government, strong-defense president.

H/t Hot Air Headlines.