[07055]

who knew that the Transportation Secretary would end up being such an important player in the scheme of things? And Mineta's background as being in the Japanese camps during WWII have played a big part in what is going on right now, he doesn't want to be mean to anyone or hurt anyone's feelings.

You are exactly correct. Whoever heard of a Transportation Secretary before 9/11?

It's Bush's bad luck (and the country's) to have exactly the wrong person in that job at this critical time. Someone who was so traumatized by having his baseball bat taken away from him as a kid during WWII that he is willing to let Arab terrorists hijack planes because "profiling them is wrong."

If Bush wants to be bipartisan, let him fire Mineta the Moron and name a RAT to a less important cabinet position---like Secretary of the Treasury, perhaps.

[Don Joe]

"If Bush wants to be bipartisan, let him fire Mineta the Moron and name a RAT to a less important cabinet position---like Secretary of the Treasury, perhaps."

I'd think a more appropriate appointment might be something like Third Assistant Secretary to the Second Deputy Assistant to the Third Assistant Adminstrative Advisor to the Vice-Ambassador to Yemen.