[Mr. Jeeves]

“This is the end of favoring motorized transportation at the expense of non-motorized,” he wrote in his government blog.

That line is straight out of "Atlas Shrugged" - sounds like Ma Chalmers and her soybeans getting government subsidized rail service while Minnesota's wheat rots in the granaries. LaHood exemplifies today's Republican - a go-along-to-get-along statist who can never quite surrender enough to earn the trust he craves from his masters.

[saganite]

So much of what is in Atlas Shrugged is now evident that I refer to Ayn Rand as a prophetess, not a philosopher. Of course, she had seen it all first hand as a child.