It's less than a week since his death, but already plans are being hatched to memorialize Ronald Reagan in a multitude of ambitious ways. Reagan enemies balk.

This debate should take place when passions have cooled. Having it now puts opponents in the unenviable position of appearing as if they are attacking a dead man. Sure, it's winning politics for Republicans. But it's also base.

That said, carve Reagan's visage on Mount Rushmore, put him on U.S. currency, erect a monument to him on the Mall. Let's just wait and act on reason and not emotion.

Cable news goofball Keith Olberman bloviated on this subject last night on MSNBC. Olberman, in his usual condescending tone, mocked various ideas to honor Reagan. Reagan's face on a half-dollar coin? "Too small." How about a twenty-dollar bill? "Too big." The former SportsCenter anchor then read a long list of existing memorials to Reagan, as if to say enough already.

John F. Kennedy appears on the fifty-cent piece, while his name graces a space center, the school of government at Harvard, and an airport in New York. Martin Luther King has a whole day named for him, numerous grammar schools, and a street in just about every urban area in America.

How might Keith Uberliberal react if someone suggested that too many things were named in honor of Martin Luther King or John F. Kennedy?